Kimberly Cartier
@astrokimcartier.bsky.social
Senior Science Reporter for @eos.org at the American Geophysical Union, former astronomer who still loves all things space. Posts reflect my own views. Signal: kstar.20 She/her 🏳️🌈✡️
Some fun Swift facts: 1) For a long time (still?), someone on the team always had a pager with them connected to the telescope. If there were issues, the telescope would page whoever was on call 2) UVOT on Swift, although not the primary instrument, has been a crucial UV window into the universe.
Eos@eos.org · yesterdayNASA’s attempt to rescue the falling Swift Observatory has failed. Look back at some of Swift’s most exciting discoveries. 🧪🔭🛰️ eos.org/research-and...
This one breaks my heart 💔 Swift is a smaller telescope, but it has been a mighty workhorse of high-energy astrophysics for more than 20 years. Plus, it is run by my alma mater, Penn State. There is no good replacement lined up for it.
Eos@eos.org · yesterdayNASA’s attempt to rescue the falling Swift Observatory has failed. Look back at some of Swift’s most exciting discoveries. 🧪🔭🛰️ eos.org/research-and...
NASA’s attempt to rescue the falling Swift Observatory has failed. Look back at some of Swift’s most exciting discoveries. 🧪🔭🛰️ eos.org/research-and...
Swift Observatory Rescue Mission Fails - Eos
NASA’s attempt to rescue the falling Swift Observatory has failed. Look back at some of Swift’s most exciting discoveries.
eos.org
The Arctic Report Card will be published despite a lack of NOAA support, according to non-NOAA editors involved in the 2026 report. eos.org/research-and...
Arctic Report Card Will Move Ahead Without NOAA - Eos
The Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed evaluation of the state of our warming Arctic, will still be published this year despite a lack of financial or logistical support from NOAA. On 10 Au...
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The USDA claims that rescinding the Roadless Rule, which has protected wild national forests for 25 years, will reduce wildfire risk. The science says the exact opposite. eos.org/research-and...
Forest Service to End Protection for 45 Million Acres of Forest - Eos
The U.S. Forest Service has moved forward with a rule to withdraw protections from 45 million acres of pristine national forests.
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Yesterday the new NSF MPS opportunities came out... Y'all, oof. The red flags - they are a little subtle, but they are many.
The White House fired me for being transgender. In 2013 I became the first CIA officer to successfully transition. I worked for Mike Pence for a year. Then I volunteered to serve the second Trump White House.
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
theatlantic.com
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
meidasnews.com
📣Calling all eclipse viewers🕶️! Submit your eclipse pics and a few sentences about your experience to be featured in our Postcards from the Field collection. eos.org/submit#postc...
Postcards From the Field - Eos
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Woah!
Henning@geohenning.bsky.social · last wk.A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
I mean in the U.S. we’re in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in decades and the President decides that it’s critical, right at this very moment, to further undermine trust in the MMR vaccine.
"The watchword of patriarchy is women’s service with a smile. Every woman alive is hence in the service industry to some extent or other, in being subject to the constant expectation of our emotional and intellectual, as well as sexual and domestic, labor." Brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social.
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
katemanne.substack.com
So proud to be part of this team! The State of the Science report and R&D blog are 100% team efforts 💪🥳 Go Team Eos!
Eos@eos.org · 2w agoCongratulations to us! 🏆🎉 The Eos team received two 2026 APEX awards yesterday for our State of the Science One Year On report and our Research & Developments blog. apexawards.com/winners-2026
That's really not the message I want to hear from the NASA administrator, to be quite honest
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
“I wake up every day and I’m like, ‘Heck yes, I get to go to work today,’” said Kelsey Young, science flight operations lead for #ArtemisII and the voice behind #CopyMoonJoy. 🧪🌖🚀 eos.org/features/kel...
Kelsey Young: “Copy, Moon Joy” - Eos
She came to NASA with the goal of making planetary science front and center of the Artemis missions. She succeeded.
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Read more about the observatory scientists are saying could "rewrite the textbooks" in this feature by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social. eos.org/features/sma...
Small, Faint, or Fast, Rubin Will Find It - Eos
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to redraw the map of the solar system by discovering millions of small, fast-moving objects hidden all around us.
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One of our favorite tools in our Science Policy Tracker is the search function, which lets you see patterns that might otherwise be drowned out in the firehose of news from this administration (like how science policy affects Navajo Nation, or how space policy is changing). eos.org/research-and...
The Trump regime admitted to canceling over $7.5 billion in federal grants for clean energy projects in states that voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
LPL graduate student Kayla Smith is taking planetary sciences lessons to Pima County Juvenile Detention Center! www.kold.com/2026/07/23/j...
Juvenile detainees discover other worlds through UA planetary science program
A planetary sciences graduate student developed the curriculum herself and chose to bring it to the detention center.
kold.com
A good overview of the discovery and why it's hard to give it a name
Eos@eos.org · last mo.New moon alert! Well, maybe. eos.org/research-and...
The American Geophysical Union comes to the defense of the National Academies: "This is science that protects and preserves lives and livelihoods. Calls for suspension or debarment from federal funding for this crucial information is dangerous and misguided." www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump threatens National Academies with debarment. Here's what it is.
The president invoked an obscure process to review the institution's federal grants over what he says is "climate fraud."
eenews.net
The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.
If you, like me, just had a bunch of rain and your AQI didn’t go down as much as you maybe thought it would: AQI isn’t just particles, it is also a few gases. Rain is really good at removing particles, gases less so. Also if your rain came with lightning, it could’ve made more of the gases!
Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
bostonglobe.com
VERY UNHEALTHY: DC among cities with worst air on earth this morning. 😖 Air quality as bad or worse than during historic 2023 wildfire event. Could get worse before it gets better. We'll have updates through the day: www.capitalweather.com/wildfire-smo...
The accuracy of weather data is already at risk from budget cuts, reduced balloon flights, and equipment shutdowns. And now... prediction markets?!?
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last mo.The risk of weather data sabotage is rising www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1...
Yuck, the smoke in DC is awful today. Folks, stay inside if you're young and/or medically vulnerable, keep it short and mask up if you *have* to go outside. Windows and doors closed, air purifiers on high. Stay safe everyone!
