From NASA Get ready with us to observe the Moon 💅 Only a few days until International Observe the Moon Night! You’re invited to celebrate our nearest neighbor in space, together with people all over the world. Find an event near you, or observe on your own: go.nasa.gov/ObserveTheMoon

Here's all 13 released engineering film shots from the Artemis II launch played back at full speed and synced!

This machine gets turned up to max for every election now. When you see posts about "not voting" or not supporting flawed candidates, consider the possiblility that you are being targeted by people spending huge amounts of money to piss you off enough to stay home.

I want to talk a little bit about a tangent to recent discourse here. The discourse is generally of the form of "I could never vote for anyone unsupporting of [a particular issue], no matter what else they support. I'm not going to cite examples. They're _everywhere_ now in the runup to the midterms

This thread 🧵 is really important. None of us are immune to propaganda, no matter how smart or savvy we think we are.

Steve Conklin@nondim.com · 14h ago

I want to talk a little bit about a tangent to recent discourse here. The discourse is generally of the form of "I could never vote for anyone unsupporting of [a particular issue], no matter what else they support. I'm not going to cite examples. They're _everywhere_ now in the runup to the midterms

NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months. n.pr/3SK34oz

NASA rushed engineers out of their labs. They say it risks future space missions

NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.

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More information about not just NASA but other government agencies forcing folks to move while then still paying rent on their building that now is sitting empty... www.instagram.com/reel/DdRx6Sh...

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Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

If you are asked to review a paper/proposal, and you intend to use AI to conduct the review, please do not accept the request. Peer review is a fundamental component of the scientific process. Using AI to conduct this not only insults the authors, but your own expertise.

bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming

You can check out my interview & more how the laboratory moves at Goddard have impacted the center which just played on NPR’s morning edition. Thanks to Chiara Eisner for covering this topic. NASA relocations could hinder agency's ability to build spacecraft : NPR www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...

NASA relocations could hinder agency's ability to build spacecraft

NASA has been moving engineers out of their labs as a way to reduce waste. But the moves may be limiting the agency's ability to make spacecraft.

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I really wish we'd flown the Moonrise South Pole-Aitken lunar sample return mission. It was first proposed in 1999 as part of the Discovery Program. spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/10/miss...

Fault Taunting xkcd.com/3296/

Crater Fact Friday ☄️ DID YOU KNOW ☄️ The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is one of the largest (~2,500 km) and oldest (4.3 billion yrs) impact basins in the solar system? SPA is important because this basin and its ejecta can help us better understand the early solar system and its violent history.

Cementing their names in history. The Artemis III crew is leaving their mark — literally. The astronauts recently signed their names on the hardware that will be inside their Orion spacecraft during their low Earth orbit mission, launching in 2027.

I understand completely the idea of "the lesser of two evils". For the 4,566,721st time, we are asking that the lesser of two evils be even less evil ffs.

I don't think that you need to or should claim that a particular political issue is a "winning" one to demand that politicians stand up for human rights.

When we had that singular moment in time where our nation was motivated for energy independence and "no blood for oil" but Dubya said we should all buy dishwashers.

Both the article and the thread are well worth your time reading. 🧵🧪🔭⚒️🪐

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 6d ago

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Losing NCAR would set back scientific research, with real consequences for people’s lives and livelihoods. As a taxpayer-funded public good, NCAR belongs to all of us, and we deserve to know the rationale and deliberations behind any effort to dismantle or restructure it.”—Carlos Martinez, PhD.

National Science Foundation and White House Sued for Refusing to Release Government Records

UCS, represented by Earthjustice, and Environmental Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation and the White House for withholding information about plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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Oh yeah, that time I gave a presentation as Her Royal Highness and my coauthors were the Honorable @nepetro.bsky.social and Sam Esquire

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 6d ago

A small request: If you're sending people a form in which there are fields for "Name" and "Title," please specify whether by "Title" you mean "honorific" (Dr/Prof/Ms/Mx etc) or "job title" (Professor of Physics) because I absolutely never know which is being requested and the answers are different.

Every single time you use an LLM to write code, or bang up a quickie website, or make yourself a nifty drawing, or whatever, you are exploiting someone else's unpaid labor. Since it's Labor Day, I'm going to say that again, clearly:

What's bothering me about AI on Bluesky, and which for the sake of civility I have been biting my tongue about probably more than I should, is the increasing number of people willing to turn a blind eye to the fact that *all of these products* are built with stolen labor and copyright violations.

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

I am in a weird middle ground on AI on bluesky in that I work in software and I see how capable it is in that field and I also feel like a crotchety old man who doesn’t want to spend time learning how to manage agents and would rather retire to play video games

A former colleague pronounced Catholic similarly to alcoholic and I've never been the same

Dr. SkySkull@drskyskull.bsky.social · last wk.

You can sing "Catholic Batman" to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby" and I have not yet decided what to do with this knowledge

there’s a lot more nuance to it but as a basic principle you could do a lot worse than unions good, billionaires bad happy Labor Day, everyone

Just glad we didn't elect a woman president so we didn't get trivial nonsense about what color her hair is today or how much make up she's using.

For various reasons I've had occasion to really step up my reading over the last couple weeks. Someone asked me about it so figured I'd share here too.

Behold the beauty of four recently installed rocket engines 💅 These four RS-25 rocket engines are now on the work stand for integration with the core stage of the Artemis III rocket. These engines will generate more than two million pounds of thrust at liftoff.