Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Kat Dapré
@katdapre.bsky.social
Icy seismologist at UMD with a special place in my heart for Enceladus | she/her
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.
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Canadian firefighters hauled ass to get down here when half of Los Angeles was on fire last year. What a characteristically classy way to repay that favor.
Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
📢 Join my group at the @unibe.ch as a PhD student in #planetSci. Work on how impacts and sublimation shape comets and other icy bodies using experiments and numerical modelling. 📆 Start Date: Jan. 2027 or by arrangement ⏳ Apply by 30 Sept 2026: jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.
This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪
Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war
The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the war in Iran.
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Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
International or UK researcher looking for a #fellowship in #astrophysics, #planetaryscience, and/or space instrumentation? Leicester @physicsuol.bsky.social is inviting expressions of interest for this year's STFC 5-year Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (deadline June 25th): le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Stumbled across some very cool #scicomm in a Portland metro station, of all places 😂 this drilled geological core is installed on the wall wrapping around both platforms, with rocks from the surface all the way down to station depth!! I jogged the full circuit in the 2 mins before our train came 👀🧪
This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 3mo agoGPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪
The Planetary Society has re-launched our Save NASA Science action hub today given the draconian cuts proposed in the FY 2027 NASA budget — follow here for running updates, statements, charts, and advocacy actions you can take now: planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Save NASA Science Action Hub
Updates and actions on the proposed cuts to NASA science in FY 2027.
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Need to catch up on #ArtemisII science ahead of today's launch attempt to the MOON? See our explainer at @nature.com 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do
Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group
mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 4mo agoi think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!
Behold the power of a lag deposit to armor water ice against solar radiation. Jupiter’s moon Callisto knows it well.
dan sinker@dansinker.com · 5mo agoIt’s 70 degrees and my grocery store’s snow-and-dirt mountain is still holding strong.
"Each time I understand slightly more about what you are doing 😂" - my mum Give this a read if you, too, would like to understand slightly more about what I am doing - and perhaps more importantly, *why* 🔭⚒️🧪 #planetsci buff.ly/J2mNECo
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Seismological Society of America@seismosocam.bsky.social · 5mo agoLearn more about how #seismologists are preparing to study icy worlds in this month's SSA At Work with Kat Dapré! buff.ly/J2mNECo #Enceladus @katdapre.bsky.social @univofmaryland.bsky.social
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
Click on the article title to read more.
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Monday, Day 1: Polar Film Festival (PFF) theme: Through an Artistic Lens. Access all films, see the daily highlights, read a mini-blog from the filmmakers, and register for Friday's Filmmaker's Roundtable at: www.usapecs.org/polar-film-f...
The US spent half of NASA's annual budget in just six days of unplanned war against Iran www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Still time to submit! I want to read about your work! ❄🥼🛠🧪
US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS)@usapecs.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe deadline to email your interest in this year's blog series has been extended to this Friday (13th). The themes this year are centred around contemporary advances and challenges in obtaining data for polar research - whether those are societal, environmental, technological, or something else!
For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5mo agoPreliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
Starting this Friday, four separate #JWST programmes will be exploring physical processes in Jupiter's atmosphere and ionosphere. We're asking amateur astronomers to help provide context imaging over the next few weeks to understand how the atmosphere is changing with time. #planetaryscience
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
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I'm on the blog team this year and we're really hoping for submissions featuring the huge range of polar research disciplines in the US. If you've got a story about recent adaptations, challenges, or improvements in your field, from new satellites to Arctic community initiatives, get in touch! ❄🥼🛠
US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS)@usapecs.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur 2025-26 call for blog posts is out now! If you work in Arctic, polar, or cryospheric science, we want to hear about your experiences relating to this year's blog theme: "Reimagining Data in Polar Science". Send us an email by Feb 20th to register your interest! www.usapecs.org/post/2025-26...
YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 8mo agoTravelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026. This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces. (1/2)
Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
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@univofmaryland.bsky.social Active Tectonics group are at #AGU25! Come track down our posters and talks this week to hear about finding slow-moving landslides using InSAR, seismology at the Ross Ice Shelf, and hydroacoustics: 🛠❄
