Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!

Not like I was going back anyways….

It’s a good week for brown dwarf science and #blackinastro #blackandstem! Congrats to @bemiles.bsky.social on the new faculty job!!!! Congrats to @capricephillips.bsky.social on the Hubble Fellowship!!!!

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Fascinating that no one has enumerated the list of felonies that Apartheid Clyde and his non-government friends may be guilty of, simply based on his public confessions over the last week

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

The flames in his eyes as I hit that streak……..

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

Had a final exam stress dream last night. A new experience from the professor side where I dreamt none of my students had pencils for their scantrons. Of course when I got up today I couldn’t find extra pencils at home. Luckily for the few who didn’t have pencils some students had extras.

Keeping that bird appeasement streak alive!

I hate when the bus straight ignores you and drives past at the stop. So sick of this

We are tired of writing a zillion letters of recommendation that aren’t helping our amazing students get into grad schools, or our colleagues select good candidates! Thank You to the authors for this… 🔭🧪📖 arxiv.org/abs/2412.08715

Taught my last class of the semester! Now on to grading those finals and projects!

@blackinphysics.bsky.social is now up and running !

Counting down to the end of the semester while drowning in grading. One and a half more weeks till finals. Getting covid two weeks ago sure did ruin so many things. #academicsky #blackacademics

My new teapot of W1935 from @amyraehill.bsky.social is incredible!

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #682,174!

Caprice an amazing astronomer is in a very difficult spot right now after her mother suddenly passed. Please consider helping out and spreading the word.

Going to Trader Joe’s to grab lunch is dangerous for random acts of plant buying

🚨🚨 PhD Position in Extrasolar Atmospheres 🚨🚨 I'm looking for a PhD student to join my group at Trinity College Dublin to investigate weather on imaged worlds beyond our solar system ⚡☁️🪐 ⏰ Deadline: Feb 20th 📝 Job Ad: tinyurl.com/2jfycpfx Please share widely!

Flights purchased and hotel booked for #ExSSV! Now just to plan what I’ll doing during my vacation days after the conference! Excited to chat science in a new place!

Semester 1 down as new faculty! Grades submitted and finally taking a break!!!

Last day of classes for my first semester as a faculty member. I’m exhausted and not just cause today I reprinted my final exam for 70 students 4 times and on the last try hand corrected 35 of them.

Off to Denver for the AAPT FTI workshop! Flight to dos: write next week’s midterm

I knew the fog seemed off today…. Not fog but instead smoke. Not good.

#profadventures So yesterday I went to open the window my office and an edge of the frame broke off. Hoping once it’s fixed I can still see out of it.