Dan
@danhoak.bsky.social
Radio science at MIT Haystack Observatory. Formerly: x-rays with OSIRIS-REx, gravitational waves with LIGO, Fulbrighter in Pisa at EGO/Virgo. He/him.
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Ready for tonight's semi-annual open house at @haystack.mit.edu - I'll be standing in front of the correlator with a fresh batch of black hole inspired stickers!
Remember that loud bang last May? Colleagues at @haystack.mit.edu have used radar and acoustic data to track the meteor and reconstruct its orbit, from beyond Mars to the Cape Cod Bay arxiv.org/pdf/2610.24566 @universalhub.com
This is a diagram of the distance over time (based on latest orbital elements) of the two satellites from 16 Oct 00:00 UTC to 19 Oct 00:00 UTC
This is just terrible news. Helen was a very sharp and knowledgeable reporter, and I’ll miss her work:
Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
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Fab story from Margaret Hamilton, RIP, showing why Science-Mums are brilliant scientists! When innovating at the cutting edge of technology, it's so important to bring together a wide range of lived experiences. Sad that only ~20% comp-scientists are female 👩🔬🧪 ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
MIT professor dies from injuries in crash while he was riding a bike at Mass. Ave and Memorial Drive last month csindie.com/death-of-bic... #CambridgeMA
Death of bicyclist MIT professor takes community by surprise after state stays silent about Aug. 21 incident - Cambridge | Somerville Independent
New MIT professor Thomas Rose has died from injuries sustained in an Aug. 21 collision at Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
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Critical Mass Boston - July 31st rolling from Copley Square at 19.00 Keep the safe-street momentum moving forward.....for Louisa. See you all there.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Toyota Yaris barreling down the highway with a trunk full of hard drives! Today I picked up the final set of data from the spring observing campaign of the @ehtelescope.bsky.social. Our black hole movie is in post-production!
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.
MIT Haystack Observatory’s SIMONe meteor radar network caught something at the same time that a loud boom was heard over eastern Massachusetts. Scientists are already analyzing the data!
OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would -deemphasize peer review -ban $ for publication costs and conference travel -make it easier to terminate grants we read the 400 page document () so you don't have to www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...
Trump administration seeks to overhaul federal grant-making process, alarming researchers
The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.
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Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 6mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say
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Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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TLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
