I am posting some photos of the NASA Goddard library taken yesterday. The photos were NOT taken by library employees - but rather by others at NASA Goddard . Word has it that trucks are arriving this weekend to begin removal of these boxes. More: nasawatch.com/trumpspace/n... #NASA

I've been testing my own ~$200 total budget allsky build for about 6 months now with our Twitch community. See photo of early prototype being tested back in the fall. Of course now Dylan making me feel under pressure. 😃 Keep it up @dylanodonnell.bsky.social

Losing the historical, irreplaceable documents of the Goddard Space Library would be detrimental to space science. You can help save the library by visiting this link below! tinyurl.com/ycxc83yd (1/4🧵)

Want to learn about Pluto? Want to feel that love is real in the Solar System? I'll be at CU's Fiske Planetarium tonight and tomorrow night at 7 pm! Tickets here: fiske.vantixticketing.com/default.aspx

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Come be my boss! The North Dakota Geological Survey is hiring the State Geologist position. They are casting a wide net in terms of professional experience, including paleontology given the strong program we have here. To apply go to www.nd.gov/jobs and search for State Geologist.

Oh this is so cool. I really need to make it over there and see the VLA in person.

Space IT Job!!!

To request your personal data from Discord, you can follow their instructions here: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art... They say it can take up to 30 days to receive the package and you will be notified by email when it's ready (I'm sure their servers are crushed with all the requests atm).

Space/ #astrosky friends: have an extra lapel pin from a mission/instrument/observation campaign floating around? Consider sending it to me! (DM me for my address) I plan on using them to decorate my Starbucks apron, in a desperate attempt to maintain my dignity as an underemployed scientist

Semi-regular reminder that, since the maritime tradition is to refer to the full count of all people aboard a ship, including passengers and crew, as "souls", the correct adjective for "uncrewed", "unmanned", or "autonomous" vehicles, should be "Soulless."

Looking for evening plans next Thursday/Friday? I'll be setting the pre-Valentine's Day mood at CU Boulder's Fiske Planetarium, talking about my favorite cosmic romance between Pluto and Charon 💗 Tickets here: fiske.vantixticketing.com/default.aspx...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Conditions didn't live up to the forecast tonight so I could really test out this planetary setup, but I figured we could all use a pallet cleanser in our doom feeds. So here is Io and Europa flanking Jupiter, and then Mare Nectaris where the JAXA SLIM mission landed!

If you use Notepad++, this is critical reading and you need to update ASAP

This document is full of amazing detail and would 💯 recommend checking it out if you’re looking to go down the nerd rabbit hole.

Come for my talk about Pluto, stay for Laser Bad Bunny 👍

Recently I learned that there are only about 5 million industrial robots in operation across the ENTIRE planet. I hope this puts into context how absolutely absurd the Tesla pivot to Optimus is. This is less about building a sci-fi utopia, and more about the tech bro suppression of human labor.

My textbook on SETI is published! Please see if your libraries offer a free download—mine does! iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/97... If so, you can order hardcopies for around $30 each. Otherwise, you can buy copies here: store.ioppublishing.org/page/detail/... I hope you like it!

Cost Savings xkcd.com/3197/

Any photography friends have good luck w/ KEH? Just had 2 back to back disappointments. 1st lens was clearly dropped and had bad coma/tilt. It happens. Only available replacement is a better condition (ie more $) lens. Really excited about F1.4 so okay. FedEx delivery today. Wrong mount system. FFS

I found this take from Tillie Martinussen, a politician from Greenland, to be very useful for understanding the perspective of someone from the island. (Heads up: I don't know who "APT News" is, but this is the longest uncut video of the Tillie Martinussen interview that I could find).

G4 AURORA ALERT AFTER SUNSET IN NORTH AMERICA! 1) Sunday there was a X1.9 CME that seems destine for at least a glancing blow to Earth. Normally it would be days out, but with the help of a coronal hole facing Earth over the weekend it seems to moving at blistering speeds of 1400kms.

Astronomer here! Are you an undergrad student interested in astronomy (or know one) wanting to do a paid summer research experience this year? Here are some slides I made up for my class detailing REU programs! (both NSF and not-NSF funded, including stuff abroad and for non-US citizens) 🔭🧪🎢

PSI's Kirby Runyon spoke with the hosts of What The If podcast about his citizen science project to map ancient impact melt flows on the Moon, which he co-leads with PSI's Pamela Gay. Listen here! buff.ly/mFe08of

Microsoft: "Hey we nerfed Powershell ISE a bit cause it wasn't a paid product. Use Visual Studio Code instead! It's a WAY better tool with Copilot integrations to help you write code more efficiently!" Me: "Okay fine. Run this script of a couple dozen lines. " VS Code: "...like now?" Me: "FFS. "

Sunday night we got some decent seeing while Jupiter was near opposition, so broke out the Edge 9.25 and started up OBS so I could stream this with the community on Twitch. Really happy with the result.

We are not a serious people. This is insane.

The explosion of popularity of LLMs — and the trust people put in them — indicates that the claimed death of expertise is overblown: people really do want (perceived) expertise. They just don’t like the experts. They want experts who will agree with their priors, and chatbots are the perfect vehicle

Someone let Elon know I’ve got a hell of a deal on a new COPV for Starship! 95% sure this one wasn’t dropped yet. 🤭

@dylanodonnell.bsky.social just finished catching the latest video. So you're saying there's a chance? #NeverTellMeTheOdds

The amount of moronic takes I've seen in reaction to the sudden departure of Tory Bruno from ULA is infuriating for me. I shouldn't be so surprised, but man oh man some of the stupidest things are said loudly and confidently online.

This is amazing.

We are about to move into hour 18 of the hangout-a-thon. Funding levels are far below were it has been in past years, but this is expected. Life is hard and money is tight. Thank you for hanging out with us and learning what it is we do.

I've put my thread from yesterday, with additional information, into this post.

bUt HoW dOeS sPaCe ImAcT mE?!? #spaceweather www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tried reporting a page on Facebook that was obviously pushing anti-semitic propaganda that the Meta algorithm decided to push into my feed multiple times. It went as well as you’d expect as apparently that’s not against community standards apparently. Thanks Zuckerberg!

Glad to see Starship V3 already to a great reassuring start. Maybe the L in HLS stand for Liability?

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

The final day of #SaveTheVaquita Week is here! Check out these amazing streamers (Mountain Time): @infectiouskarma.bsky.social @ 10 MaryBeary1994 @ 12 @lauratheexplaura.bsky.social @ 1 @kpassionate.bsky.social @ 6:30 @marinebiologale.bsky.social @ 6:30 Let's spread the word and save the vaquita!

In physics, we differentiate between kinematics (describing the motion of objects) and dynamics (*explaining* the motion). Political analysis needs to be focusing on dynamics, not kinematics.

Official government link to donate to support Jamaica 🇯🇲 Pass it on. supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate

If anyone wants an example of how media manipulation works- including manufacturing consent, the danger of 'centralism', and legitimization of bad-faith pseudo science in mainstream media, here you go. Fuck off @cnn.com

Happy International Save the Vaquita Day! The vaquita is the most endangered marine mammal on Earth and could really use a signal boost! Want to know more? Watch here from 9 - 12 Pacific: vaquita.day/2025 I'll be making an appearance at 11:45ish to talk about the Twitch event! #SaveTheVaquita

Ganymede. The biggest moon in the Solar System. Bigger than Mercury, and with a rocky interior under NINE HUNDRED KILOMETRES of ice and water.

Portland Folks: if you're in town Saturday and want something to go to aside from the No Kings protest, or after, the Portland Defense Fund is holding a street fair on Clinton St in SE.

Apparently, the link populated with an error. Here is the correct one: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thank you, everyone!

Standing up for science can be wacky (and quacky), but effective! Our Quack-O-Grams put us in touch with legislators that are leading the charge to get rid of the Quack RFK Jr. Now is the final stretch! We're fighting until we #impeachrfk ! Thank you to Prof. Dave for a great conversation!