Kimberly Cartier
@astrokimcartier.bsky.social
Senior Science Reporter for @eos.org at @agu.org, science communicator, journalist, planet and space enthusiast. Posts reflect my own views. Signal: kstar.20 🏳️🌈✡️🧪🔭
Huh, just saw someone post about this. I've used subscriber lists before and added it into the bio text, but now BlueSky has switched on the availability to add your pronouns to your profile (just seeing this now, myself) Can now remove it from the bio text too. Go to 'Edit Profile' to change.
Science and the environment were on the ballot in yesterday's midterm elections in the U.S. The results were generally very positive—dive in and explore some of the key science and environmental policy results. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...
How Science and the Environment Fared in the 2026 U.S. Midterms - Eos
Science was on the ballot across the United States in Tuesday’s midterm elections. On federal, state, and municipal levels, hundreds of people with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, mat...
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though I am deeply disappointed in Washington state for passing that awful transphobic ballot measure! Shame on you.
Kimberly Cartier@astrokimcartier.bsky.social · 2d agoRoses are Red 🌹 Congress flipped Blue 💙 I feel like I can unclench my jaw for the first time in two years ....how 'bout you?
Roses are Red 🌹 Congress flipped Blue 💙 I feel like I can unclench my jaw for the first time in two years ....how 'bout you?
seriously Democrats, it's not hard to do!
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3d agoYesterday, in a hostile 60 Minutes interview with a Bari Weiss acolyte who once called trans kids a “social contagion,” El-Sayed refused to budge on trans rights. “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own.” Subscribe to support our journalism.
I wrote Sir Patrick Stewart into this Daily Show piece on a whim, and he actually agreed to it. He never even looked mildly perturbed at the amount of time he had to stand around in a foil-covered box. RIP to a man who was as good a sport as he was an actor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlX7...
Patrick Stewart stars as Yutu, the Chinese moon rover
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See, it's funny that President Pedophile Q. Rapist has spent the week talking about men's asses, and we're going to joke about that instead of reporting the most recent accusation that he raped another woman
NPR@npr.org · 7d agoHint: He likes them big (and he cannot lie). n.pr/4jOMEq0
A terrestrial microbe survived Enceladus-like ocean conditions in laboratory experiments, expanding the range of what might be “habitable.” eos.org/articles/arc...
Archaea Survived Enceladus-Like Conditions in Lab - Eos
Enceladus’s ocean is extremely alkaline and low on carbon dioxide, but one terrestrial extremophile made it work.
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There's been *a lot* of change happening at NASA recently. Take a look at what's going on in my latest for @eos.org. The quote that I gave the biggest side-eye to: "I think the community needs to realize that when your mission goes over budget, you kill the next mission." 👀 🧪
Eos@eos.org · last wk.NASA has been undergoing a shift in how it considers science and exploration missions. Dive into what’s been going on. eos.org/research-and...
A terrestrial microbe survived Enceladus-like ocean conditions in laboratory experiments, expanding the range of what might be “habitable.” 🧪🦠🔭 My latest for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/arc...
Archaea Survived Enceladus-Like Conditions in Lab - Eos
Enceladus’s ocean is extremely alkaline and low on carbon dioxide, but one terrestrial extremophile made it work.
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According to a new Pentagon estimate, the Iran war has so far cost $47.1 billion. From data collected by @caseydreier.bsky.social, that's just a little more than the cumulative total given to NASA's Planetary Science Division since 2007. TWENTY YEARS of planetary science. Or eight months of war.
Compared to the plume of smoke from a nonurban wildfire, the Eaton Fire's smoke—breathed in by millions in the area—had 50 times as much lead, 7 times the halogens, and 3 times as much arsenic. My latest for @eos.org. eos.org/articles/eat...
Eaton Wildfire Exposed Millions to a “Cocktail of Chemicals” - Eos
Compared to a nearby wildfire that primarily burned vegetation, the smoke plume from the urban Eaton Fire contained 3 times as much arsenic and 50 times as much lead.
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Researchers announced today at #DPS2026 that they’ve identified what appears to be the first dwarf planet in our Solar System detected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (@rubinobservatory.org). 🔭🧪 noirlab.edu/public/news/...
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Its First Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System - The candidate orbits our Sun beyond Pluto, and may be among the largest and brightest objects discovere...
In the outer reaches of our Solar System, beyond the orbit of Pluto, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has spotted 2026 ED138 — a large, bright trans-Neptunian object that scientists have identified a...
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Anyone know if the recording of today's NASA SMD town hall has been posted yet? I had to duck out early this afternoon.
Anyone know if the recording of today's NASA SMD town hall has been posted yet? I had to duck out early this afternoon.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. ChatGPT: not even once
Kristine Smith@ksmithsf.bsky.social · 2w agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:
Vivek Ramaswamy and the Grand Old Rape Party
As Election Day closes in, the party's values have never been more clear.
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The old Theia is dead, a new Moon struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. . . er, new models for the formation of our Moon. Adeene Denton (@spacewhalerider.com) and colleagues showed a way to smooth the process of Moon formation. 🔭🧪 eos.org/articles/was...
Was the Moon-Forming Impact Squishy or Crunchy? - Eos
A new computer simulation adds a crust to the Earth-smashing planet Theia, showing how a proto-Moon could form from the leftovers.
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Possibly my best headline this year! Squishy or crunchy? Also read the article for the excellent sound effect from @spacewhalerider.com ! 🔭🧪
Eos@eos.org · 2w agoThe old Theia is dead, a new Moon struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. . . er, new models for the formation of our Moon. Adeene Denton (@spacewhalerider.com) and colleagues showed a way to smooth the process of Moon formation. 🔭🧪 eos.org/articles/was...
Formaldehyde + water can help create organic material. Could that have happened on Mars? A new study says yes! eos.org/articles/whe...
Where Did Formaldehyde Rain Down on Mars? Almost Everywhere. - Eos
More formaldehyde rained down in places that were already wet and favorable for prebiotic chemistry.
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Formaldehyde + water can help create organic material. Could that have happened on Mars? A new study says: yes! 🧪🔴 My latest for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/whe...
Where Did Formaldehyde Rain Down on Mars? Almost Everywhere. - Eos
More formaldehyde rained down in places that were already wet and favorable for prebiotic chemistry.
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This is a CRITICAL read, by Emmet Fraizer on the takeover of @sciam.bsky.social. If journalists cannot *SAY THE NAME OF THE PRESIDENT IN THEIR HEADLINES* for fear of retaliation against the company...ARE WE LIVING IN A FREE NATION? No. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.
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I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.
Warming from climate change may be making natural disasters more likely in the Arctic, according to a new study that linked an oceanic earthquake with a rock avalanche several kilometers away. My latest for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/a-r...
A Rock Avalanche Buried an Arctic Glacier. Was Climate Change to Blame? - Eos
Degrading permafrost and earlier small quakes likely weakened a rock slope until it collapsed and buried an Arctic glacier in tons of rock.
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My heart breaks for the people of Idaho and other states with these policies 💔 "By banning abortion, Idaho has become a more dangerous place to give birth." Abortion and women's healthcare is on the ballot in Idaho this year, make sure to vote!
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago“More than a third of Idaho’s OB-GYNs have stopped practicing obstetrics, left the state, closed their practices or retired since the ban took effect in August 2022… By December 2025, there were just 170 obstetricians for the state’s roughly one million women — fewer than two doctors per 10,000”
'"We're not even supposed to use AI as a term ... it's being talked about like Voldemort or Macbeth, with people calling it 'the technology that must not be named,'" the NASA employee said.' How much money is being wasted on this nonsense? www.space.com/technology/w...
'We are getting a lot of pressure from the administrator himself': How NASA is racing to obey Trump's 'Super Intelligence' order
Get ready for the "new era of Super Intelligence."
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