Andy Britton

A Trump tweet for every occasion!

Ross Beyer Senior Research Scientist

Dr. Beyer has also worked with images from Pluto and Charon to better understand their geology and tectonic history. Dr. Beyer is currently part of the VIPER mission and the Artemis Geospatial Data Team, helping to plan missions for robots and people on the Moon.

Learn more: buff.ly/3h039wq

Right?! The burden of proof lies with the party making the positive claim.

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.

It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

(Published Dec. 2025)

Dr. @kaylaiacovino.com studies how life-essential elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur drive magmatic processes that help form atmospheres, maintain climate, and create chemical disequilibria that life can exploit. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens

Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Silhouetted human figures in front of absolutely HUGE fountains of lava. The sky is red, and lava flows can be seen flowing to the right on the ground.

Mele Kalikimaka from Pele herself! Two fire fountains in Kīlauea’s lava lake, Halemaʻumaʻu.

Unspeakably amazing.

#JunoCam: Zoom out and zoom in!

These painterly views of Jupiter were processed by participatory scientist Kevin M. Gill. Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit: buff.ly/9YvnJFy

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Took me a while to realize Return of the Jedi has more visually boring elements. Forest and Han Solo guarding a door.

New #JMARS release is now available ✨
This update enhances both data import/export workflows and on-screen productivity tools across Shape Layer and the broader user interface.

Read full release notes at jmars.asu.edu/rel5_6_3

Download at jmars.asu.edu/download

ISS in Real Time Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.

Announcing ISS in Real Time, a new multimedia project where you can play back every day of the past 25 years aboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org

Worshiping a politician is the surest sign a person has stopped thinking for themself. #theyreinacult

It got even colder when they made Safari for Windows

False choice. AI is an economic race; climate change is an existential threat.
It’s already costing billions and killing Americans — the Pentagon calls it a “threat multiplier.”
And tossing in “illegals & free health care”? That’s not logic, it’s whiplash. Three panics ≠ one point. Do better DOI.

Cool! Small note: “Martian” with a capital M has deep cultural roots in science fiction, so in planetary science writing it’s often better as “martian”when referring to geologic or atmospheric phenomena. A subtle shift, but it helps reinforce the scientific descriptor rather than the mythic one.

A devastating loss to the Star Trek community and the world. Subrina, you will be missed.

@gitlab.com having search functionality for wikis at the group or subgroup level would be super useful. ❤️🦊

HPL sounds cool.

“Faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don't have evidence.” ― Matt Dillahunty

Someone being “dedicated to their faith” does not make them a good person if they’re also a massive bigot.

Microsoft Failed to Disclose Key Details About Use of China-Based Engineers in U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of Microsoft's security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company's China-based operations.

Microsoft has maintained that it disclosed the digital escorting arrangement, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials have expressed outrage over the model, which used China-based engineers to work on sensitive DOD computer systems.

Right?! Argument from incredulity!

NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land Grab Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s new plan for a nuclear reactor on the Moon could be a lunar land grab.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Someone claiming to be a scientist but proposing something as objectively idiotic as sending Juno to an interstellar object is not a scientist. Any high school kid could google how impossible and stupid the idea is. Stop treating Loeb like a scientist. He’s a lazy attention seeking crank.

I hear from friends that PowerPhotos is great www.fatcatsoftware.com/powerphotos/

I’m excited to let y’all know that in January 2026 I will be joining the department of Earth & Planetary Sciences/Institute of Meteoritics @unm.edu as an Assistant Professor 🐺 ✨

Tucson Sentinel: NASA finally announces 2025 space research grants but lack of awards puts Tucson's PSI in trouble.

Read the news story here: buff.ly/0xH5F3a

I loved it! Really captured the heart!

Christopher Reeve on Superman IV | Segment from the Roy Faires Collection (1987) YouTube video by Texas Archive of the Moving Image

Superman represents the better angels of our nature, something Christopher Reeve understood so well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58f...

They have pink salt in Trona, California. I don’t know why we have to go all the way to the Himalayas.