Not sure how anyone can root for OKC… what an awful brand of basketball
Dr. Deep Anand
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some guy working on some telescope. views are my own and not those of my employer or the government or anyone else.
happy to say that I've been named the 2026 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist! very grateful for all my wonderful collaborators and mentors who've made this possible 🙂 news.stsci.edu/4ucX58v
Dr. Gagandeep Anand Receives 2026 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist Award
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NASA’s next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed Did you think that the cuts to NASA made in 2025 had all been reversed, and everything is now fine? Think again. NASA's AXIS mission, on account of that 2025 bloodbath, is now dead. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #NASA #AXIS #Xray
NASA's next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed
The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.
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Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hubble-pee... 🔭 🧪
Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe
No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos
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it’s incredibly important to note that on the new footage that came out from the ICE agent himself, halfway through the video he switches his phone between his hands, opening up to grab his gun way before renee good even starts driving
The new Congressional NASA budget does look way better, but we need to acknowledge that even if NASA "gets its budget back," it will not undo the massive amount of damage done across the country. It won't bring back the many scientists and engineers who've lost their jobs and had to move on!
If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.
Astronomers are on “Cloud 9” with a new, starless gas cloud Just 16 million light-years away is a massive cloud of gas, weighing in at around 1.4 million solar masses. And yet, there are no stars inside at all. Here's what that means. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #stars #astronomy #astro
Astronomers are on "Cloud 9" with a new, starless gas cloud
Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.
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Really proud of this work from our small team on the discovery of the first starless galaxy #astrosci 🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
NASA's Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object - NASA Science
A team using Hubble uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud, a remnant of early galaxy formation.
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Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.) the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11mo agoCall the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 11mo agoSounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi
Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 11mo agoyep
The mistake that the Senate Dems are making is that they think they are playing a game that will be repeated in the future-in which case, the optimal course of action is compromise. But the Trump regime is doing all it can to ensure this is the last cycle under the Constitutional order.
They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵
if you are at all interested in the status of the local value of the Hubble constant/tension, I would very much recommend reading this new paper! the local results are very robust, and point to a sizable and significant tension with measurements inferred from data from the early Universe 🔭🧪
Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 11mo ago#Cosmology The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision The baseline result is H0=73.50+/-0.81 km/s/Mpc. by the H0DN Collaboration: Stefano Casertano, et al (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2510.23823 🧪
#Cosmology The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision The baseline result is H0=73.50+/-0.81 km/s/Mpc. by the H0DN Collaboration: Stefano Casertano, et al (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2510.23823 🧪
someone get the FBI to investigate OKC this shit is unwatchable
Tony East@tonyreast.bsky.social · 12mo agoRick Carlisle can't believe there was no call on that drive from Siakam. SGA just got to the cup and put the Thunder up 4 with 2:45 to go.
Genuinely curious: can Dems physically get close enough to use this as a backdrop? Political malpractice not to if you can.
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 12mo agooh my god he demolished it lmao www.lawdork.com/p/trump-demo...
The NBA is back tonight! Follow #NBAsky and convince your friends that Shams still posting on twitter is not a good reason to stay.
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy wish for the upcoming NBA season is that any #NBAsky media folks or similar who still also post over there because not enough basketball people left is that you explain to a colleague or other relevant prominent person why that is nihilist tautological bullshit. Also tell them video works here.
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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I count at least 2130 proposals so far 😭 #jwstcycle5 🔭🧪
The JWST Cycle 5 "Procrastination Monitor", i.e. Molly's proposal counter submission form, is up an running. Please fill it out if you have data to add to it. And do share! #JWSTCycle5 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
JWST Cycle 5 Proposal Procrastination Monitor
An anonymous way to monitor JWST proposal submission times In the email from proposal-submission@stsci, the subject line will be like, "JWST Phase I Proposal 3434 submission 4 received". Here, 3434 =...
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FUCK ICE FOREVER
Lynn Becker@cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12mo agoAfter spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...
