Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

NCC-60147-working on comms@ncc-60205.bsky.social · 2d ago

someone animate voyager walking with those tiny legs please

"Unsettles" is an interesting word choice to see, as one of the full soft money researchers who will likely be out of work within the next year as a direct result of these changes.

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 5d ago

A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...

On September 4, New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard issued an executive order that bans the leasing of state lands for new uranium mining and associated activities. #NoNukes #NukeSky www.ans.org/news/article...

Heartbreaking and infuriating. We are facing a future of cascading system failures. It will be bad, but it will be even worse if we do nothing.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the U.N. acknowledges that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say.

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

Got a text from CVS yesterday that the updated COVID vaccine is available soon in my area. Booked an appointment to get that and a flu shot this Friday. All the cool kids are doing it!

Got caffeine, electrolytes, snacks, my lined sweatshirt and ski socks, and some dives to put on while I work. Let's see how many samples I can collect isotope data on today and tomorrow.

Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”

Applications are officially OPEN to join the 2027 Nautilus Exploration Program and sail aboard #EVNautilus next year as a #ScienceCommunicationFellow or for the #ScienceandEngineeringInternshipProgram. Learn more and apply by October 15: nautiluslive.org/education

Dolly Parton covers Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 4w ago

NOT DOLLY PARTON

I cannot express how mad I am that they are actively trying to dismantle and get rid of the USGS (and the rest of the Department of the Interior)

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 4w ago

Geologist Dr. Dave Applegate, a former USGS director and current USGS chief scientist, was reassigned to Interior headquarters.

My friends at the The Natural History Society of Maryland have planned an amazing trip to Florida, including a shark research expedition with me, snorkeling, and visiting some cutting-edge marine biology labs. They’re opening the opportunity to to anyone! 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦈

Preparing an Earth Sci or Geog course for fall? Please check out geologypics.com. There, find >5500 searchable captioned photos for free download to promote good instruction. Just uploaded 60 new photos I shot from this year-- coastal to desert, rocks to landforms. Please share! #teaching #geology

Okay, B2 flyovers are cool, but I kinda want that taxpayer money going into repairing the roads around the DC area instead. There's still some pretty significant damage from the ice storm in January and we're forced to either weave around giant potholes or risk destroying our cars.

NSF proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 is a little over $4.8 billion. That's a VERY steep cut that the scientific community is not able to absorb so abruptly.

I don’t think anyone is ready for the storm of neurodivergent rage that is brewing. We have a whole class of people we’ve trained to analyze systems and use that knowledge to make things happen, and you’re going to take away their pipettes and mass specs? They’re 100% intrinsically motivated.

@AGU.org releases (announces?) its very readable and frank "State of Science after Yr One" report in @Eos.org today. Although we've all suffered thru the yr in question, this authoritative summation from an important source and well worth a read. eos.org/state-of-the... eos.org/wp-content/u...

The State of the Science 1 Year On - Eos

eos.org

New paper out by the wonderful @janinekrippner.bsky.social that you can read here: rdcu.be/fAH0Z

Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

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Alan Gerard@wxmanms1.bsky.social · last mo.

Lala has continued to strengthen and with radar now showing 80+ mph winds (aloft) on the northeast side of the eye, NHC has upgraded it to a hurricane with 75 mph winds.

“It may feel like we’re having an unusually large number of earthquakes, but statistically, this has been a fairly normal year,” said Wendy Bohon, a geologist who studies earthquakes. Here's why it seems like we're having more earthquakes lately, and what we can do to prepare for The Big One.

Why Are There So Many Earthquakes Happening? We Asked Geologists.

The recent string of earthquakes are a reminder that we need to be prepared for “The Big One.”

huffpost.com

Trump's DOJ claims 3 of NSF's efforts to broaden participation in STEM are unconstitutional. They are not. Goodbye to: -Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions -Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate -Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

DOJ Declares 3 Race-Based STEM Programs Unconstitutional

The programs received about $104 million in federal funds this past year.

insidehighered.com

gosh life is so beautiful its really overwhelming sometimes how beautiful it is

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm a blocked/possibly infected gallbladder.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · last mo.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm an allergy shot.

The one-day planned outage of the DI water line supplying the wing of my work building has ballooned into an 8-day (for now) outage. Things in the isotope lab may be about to get interesting, seeing as we rely heavily on ultrapure water systems that need that DI line and our reserve is getting low.