Heather Goss
@heathermg.bsky.social
Interested in the art & science of connecting people for art & science. Senior comms at @agu.org, @eos.org. Founder of Exposed DC. Casual powerlifter; dabbling in astrophotography.
Solid NY Times Daily podcast on Arizona’s changes to SNAP. State created numerous Catch-22 processes to make it as difficult as possible to claim benefits, cut staff, stopped answering phones, and then claims victory when SNAP recipients are down 50%. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.
Podcast Episode · The Daily · August 5 · 31m
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Our Career Issue is out! Find some inspiration for all the ways in which you can be a scientist.
Eos@eos.org · 2d agoThe 10 people we're profiling in our annual Career Issue aren’t just Earth and space scientists. They’re musicians, runners, scuba divers, equestrian therapists, musicians, and backpackers. Take a look! eos.org/agu-news/wor...
Very very muggy today, but overcast in the low 80s is about as good as it gets for summer hike weather—the creek is looking nice and lush!
What makes a derecho a derecho? Seventy years of storm data are helping meteorologists find the answer. eos.org/articles/wha...
What Drives Derechos? The First Derecho Archive Could Help Meteorologists Figure It Out. - Eos
Researchers can now use 70 years of data to examine the conditions that create these destructive windstorms.
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Out here at Nats park on a perfect summer Wednesday in my cherry blossom jersey calling this guy “JJ Abrams” until the whole section ejects me.
Sharing in case someone needs to see this - if you are a fallopian tube having person and do not want to have any more children and are having any kind of abdominal surgeries seriously consider getting them removed. its wild how this recent this knowledge is.
Morgan Thompson@morgankthomp.bsky.social · last wk.Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
Good god. I don't think I've ever seen the trees outside my window bend the way they did in this storm. I'm sure they were saved by being in a Rock Creek Park copse and not street trees hanging out in the wind, literally, but probably just barely.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · last wk.Well, whatever quasi-tornado just tore through my neighborhood in Northwest brought down a lot of trees and branches. That had 2012-derecho energy, for those of you who remember.
What a lovely, novel idea: older folks are trained to be community “listeners.” Friendship Bench DC is volunteer run and free to use. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
These grandparents sit on benches, ready to talk to strangers who need them
Through Friendship Bench DC, a team of about a dozen older adults fan out across the District to sit and listen to people share their lives.
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Photographer Nancy Shia has documented the movements, politicians, and people who defined Adams Morgan — and D.C. more broadly — during several of its most tumultuous decades. But "in all my time in D.C., I’ve never felt such a critical time" to resist facism, she tells @serenazets.bsky.social:
Nancy Shia's been photographing protest in DC for 50 years
Capturing tenant organizing, statehood activism, and rapid gentrification taught her that change comes for those who keep fighting.
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Anyway I wrote two motions today that are likely to measurably improve two people’s lives and I feel absolutely high with it. Then two Pileated woodpeckers and a red shouldered hawk blessed my balcony view. What a day. Go volunteer.
Heather Goss@heathermg.bsky.social · 2w agoI spent all day at this really incredible pro bono clinic where I was the only non-practicing attorney and a LOT of curious lawyers now know what a “geophysicist” is lol
I spent all day at this really incredible pro bono clinic where I was the only non-practicing attorney and a LOT of curious lawyers now know what a “geophysicist” is lol
⚠️🌉 NEW! The AGU26 Postdoctoral Travel Grant is now open, helping cover costs of attending #AGU26 in San Francisco this December. 🗓️ Apply for this grant by 12 August: spklr.io/63325EPCHR #Postdoc #Grant #ScienceFunding
Been awhile since good sky feature has been in my limited balcony view. Here’s M27, the Dumbbell Nebula.
I blew an absolute gasket at my bill last month and then a second time when I called Pepco to demand they explain why they think my *usage* - not my rate - doubled in a month and they brushed me off. (I keep my 1-bdrm at 77-80!!) However, I did learn something important that you should know! (1/2)
PoPville@popville.bsky.social · 2w agoSpeaking of Pepco – How were your bills last month/this month? www.popville.com/2026/07/spea...
Since Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, an estimated 4.5M Americans have lost SNAP benefits—including nearly 7,500 here in D.C. As more cuts take effect, experts say food banks can’t fill the growing gap. Gail O’Hara breaks down what that means for food access across the DMV:
Oh, SNAP: How Program Cuts Are Impacting Food Access in the DMV
Last year, Congress passed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. Since then an estimated 4.5 million Americans have lost food benefits.
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The District of Columbia Archives has released its largest digital collection of historic photos — showing new views of the city from 1947 through 1959. Find anything interesting? Let us know!
Check out thousands of photos of midcentury D.C.
The District of Columbia Archives has released its largest digital collection of historic photos
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this has the potential to be the funniest half of football of all time, easily beating the current record held by the first half of this same match
One Medical just sent out a newsletter on "what to know" about cyclosporiasis and I'm sorry but WHAT is this photo? Do people just rawdog washing their lettuce in the sink like this?? Good god. My kingdom for a five-dollar colander.
This is happening because I texted my Rolling Stones fangirl mom at minute 88 to turn on the game because they keep panning to Mick Jagger and “don’t worry it’s about to go into overtime so they’ll show him again” [5 seconds later…] lol
"You've got an old boy but it's doing numbers!" -- my HVAC guy doing the biannual check-up on my system.
Yesterday, President Trump signed two executive orders that shrank Utah's Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument by about 90%, @sltrib.com reports. www.sltrib.com/news/environ... PC: Jeff Sullivan & Khun Hans Photography, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
I know we’ll never have the cache of the DC Punk Archive but I should definitely make a bunch of Exposed DC buttons and stickers to giveaway at the library right? (I run into Exposed photogs every time I’m here!)
🎸 DC Punk Archive is back on the rooftop tonight! MLK Library kicks off the 12th season of live rooftop shows marking 50 years of punk in the U.S. Free, all-ages shows all summer bringing together fans and the DMV punk community. https://bit.ly/3YppyKm
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
Tour in the morning, World Cup in the afternoon -- it's a great time to be a remote worker constantly in search of novel background noise.
God, here we go. Strength to Lonnie Bunch.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · last mo.A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.
Two years from today Dragonfly will be sitting atop a rocket at the cape. With any luck weather will be green, the go no go poll will be all go and we will be on our way to Titan.
