yesenia lightyear
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✨ lunar science and comms @ NASA Goddard 🌋 planetary volcanology/geology 🪩 DJ - UK Garage, Disco, House views expressed are unhinged but my own! senarroyo.com
meanwhile, polling locations in Tarrant County, TX (DFW) about to be slashed in half: bsky.app/profile/phil... the astronaut office is in Houston, Texas
yesenia lightyear@vividreams.bsky.social · last wk.oh we need to encourage people to vote. people vote! people voted! what are you doing to address the disenfranchisement that happens to non-white voters every election season? how are we keeping polling places from being closed in marginalized neighborhoods?
too much change in one month. I am having a Hard Time
ok I'm hot since my ac not working and agitated I read that astronaut voting movement whatever it is. they are not saying anything that we don't already know. and worst of all doing that same type of bland activism that gets everybody a participation trophy
the problem with the used market right now is that everybody wants $100 for everything I know you didn't pay $100 for that faux marble table samantha
the talk was selected as a tedx editors pick! it's just nice to get a reminder that I am pretty good at the comms thing.
yesenia lightyear@vividreams.bsky.social · 3mo agohelped another early career scientist with their tedx script, wrote one hell of a mic drop, and when I was reading the article about the event, was gobsmacked to read my own words!!!!!
Talk about a cosmic glow-up✨📸 This progression of images of galaxy group RSCG 55 shows the evolution of ground-based sky surveys spanning more than three decades🤯, ending with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view. 🔭🧪
A memorial reads "He Should Be Alive," at the intersection of Willy and Baldwin, where this afternoon Madison police shot and killed a 30-year-old man on a bike. For many, today evoked a feeling of deja vu. Team coverage from @isthmusmadison.bsky.social is now online. isthmus.com/news/news/fa...
I'm finding out that there are people biking from Greenbelt and College Park into DC
damn you set one reasonable boundary and all of a sudden you're not a team player no more huh
colleague asked if I knew anybody graduating soon looking for a post-doc in volcanology. every one of my recs was a woman! ugh I know so many smart cool people, you love to see it
every time I text someone about an apartment they go "who is this" brother I am replying to your apartment listing!!!!
Always a proud & wonderful moment to meet students, especially these #HBCU students yesterday after the plenary at the #EsriUC2026, ~20 of them from 15+ HBCUs, thanks to Prof. Freddie E. Wills, and his Harris-Stowe State University team! #gischat ⚒️ 🌎🌍🌏
everything was fine and then I had to go and be ambitious and blow up all my routines
oh it's non-binary awareness week BEWARE NON-BINARY PEOPLE ARE AMONGST YOU YOU MIGHT EVEN BE ONE
so another cool thing about my job: daily space weather reports!!! you can visit iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/app/ to see real-time updates from NASA missions like STEREO, SOHO, and SDO and watch solar flare activity. you can also see where space missions are in our solar system in real time!
"so you know Brads Mikkelson," me talking about the Swiss coach to my partner
Bellingham blowing a kiss to the audience, the diva
EGYPT!!! Messi will be watching the rest of the cup with us, inshallah
lmao I've been informed that I was actually dead wrong about Paraguay France, what can I say
standing on the 11th Street bridge, watching people pull over on the 295 connector and putting on their caution lights to watch the fireworks
always hate doing the quarterly reports, but then always end up feeling so proud of myself. I've been going off!!