DCA Report: the gates are absolutely slammed, but South pre-check had zero line and jolly staff. Good luck out there, spring breakers!

Hey NE GSA, I’m here on my first NSF-related trip in over a year! Come say hi and tell me what you’ve been working on!

I want to know everything about the women of 1930’s Feminine Flying Fleet

This appears to be video from a meteor that tens of thousands of people heard in Northeast Ohio and Pennsylvania (DrJimLloyd/X) www.cleveland19.com/2026/03/17/m...

Sound on, if you don’t mind some justifiably coarse exclamations 😂

It’s truly amazing how much life-saving science we’ve learned since this horrific event.

Love (for me) that I already have tickets to my first Mariners game, this is happening

Turn the sound on! 🔊 The USGS V1 camera at Kilauea now has *audio* and tephra is falling on it right now - www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

@oconnell.bsky.social This whole thread. He gets it!

I will miss Gogol Bordello with @josephfray.bsky.social for this so I expect some great science.

US GEO folks: A few NSF POs are traveling again (!!) & several are hitting the regional GSAs. @drrocks1982.bsky.social + @llautz.bsky.social are headed to the Triple-Joint meeting in Memphis, I'll be in Hartford for the Northeastern. We are hype to see the community! Reach out if you'll be there!

Thanks @scifri.bsky.social for having me on to talk about federal research budgets. TLDL: Congress voted to reject the president's big science cuts, but the White House is slow to release those approved funds. 🧪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Motion to have the pump station be one of the reward items you can build in your waterfront park. (This is a genuinely great game.)

1:20am and I’m closing the Traffic & Parking Board zoom is not a thing I ever expected to type

@mroduf.bsky.social high five!!

@josephfray.bsky.social DIFFUSE BENEFITS you kick ass

@wdncnu.bsky.social Tim! You’re amazing.

That blue bull’s eye is… directly on top of my mom’s house

What a week / Lemon it’s Wednesday GIF forever

A year ago today, 168 of my NSF colleagues were fired suddenly & illegally. Half got their jobs back after an intense legal fight, but none of this is over for our small/mighty agency. Even while there are so many things happening everywhere all at once & it’s exhausting, I’m glad to keep pushing.

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

Another Tuesday, another election in ALX. Lots of knitting being accomplished at my polling place, get out there!

I don’t think there’s anyone left who hasn’t seen this thread but in case you’d like to relive the joy of last night’s Benito performance, I give you my friend’s brilliant study. Honored to have been present for the live (screaming) version. tbsky.app/profile/beck...

Singing about Puerto Rican independence while Pedro Pascal dances in a casita and the field is covered in native plants and also there’s a wedding is exactly the vibe I needed tonight

Days like this I love having the weather station. 26+ mph winds sometime this morning, even in our semi-sheltered yard!

Today's 4 minutes of halftime show prep My money is on this song being the closer

Oh hello new career, thank you for coming directly to my neighborhood

US NSF/GEO folks: if you/your students had GRFP applications that were returned without review, please send a note to [email protected] - they are logging and handling inquiries.

This is a terrible hit in a series of terrible hits to journalism. And as others have noted, for those of us in/around DC this is our local. It’s amazing to see how many (really phenomenal) local news outlets are growing in its absence, but this sucks nonetheless.

“The legal work behind detentions has largely been an overlooked battlefield that will likely rage on years after ICE departs the streets, leaving in its wake hundreds if not thousands of long-and-winding court cases.” Great profile of one of the lawyers on the ground in MN.

After seven days away and 18+ hours of travel we are back in ALX and wow you all weren’t kidding about the ice

We’re at a ball!

Bedside reading hits different in Vienna

Years of packing for the field have prepared me for fitting a ball gown into a duct taped cube for transport to the Vienna Ball of Science.

Voted for the second time in as many weeks, get out there (again) ALX!

DC just sent out two city wide alerts saying “Monday, January 20” (today is the 19th) so be advised this is happening tonight and could be visible around 8pm here in DC!

Eos has released a fantastic report today looking back at the last year of changes to science policy and the scientific workforce. The full report is split into 5 sections. Sit down with it, share it with colleagues and policymakers, and keep an eye out for what's likely next in 2026.

If you’re frustrated with national news coverage and like podcasts, let me rec the City Cast extended universe. In addition to DC I tune into Chicago, Portland, Twin Cities—TC had great segments today on local restaurants handling ICE and the mass resignation at the MN US atty office.

Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Love to show up to vote one minute past doors-open and there’s already a line. Get out there, Alexandria!

Part of my doomscroll avoidance this weekend has been to binge Loot, and hot damn this soundtrack is phenomenal if you’re looking for a banger-filled playlist.

😍🌋🌋🌋

This could really go in so many directions

This is absolutely unreal, from a balcony in DC 😍

Melted a skirt, had wine and peppermint schnapps for dinner, sang Celine at the top of my lungs. A+ party @oconnell.bsky.social & all.

There is a lot to be unhappy about right now, and I sure am, but my current sadness is because they changed the title from Three Bags Full to The Sheep Detectives for the movie.

So sad to miss #AGU25 … especially right now. But very glad colleagues like Laura (and 6ish others from across NSF/GEO + BIO!) are there!

8 of my 15 years at NSF were spent right here. Our hallway was the most fun and the most productive and I will miss it. Goodbye, 2415 Eisenhower.

Last day in our NSF HQ at Eisenhower. So far we’re shredding, we’re labeling artwork, we’re eating.

@wdncnu.bsky.social TIM AND FAM this card is absolutely above and beyond, thank you thank you 💕🌋🚴🏻‍♂️