Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.
A fantastic day with hundreds of their advocates for NASA’s science mission and the National Science Foundation. #savenasascience
What note would you leave for #Congress? Tell them to save NASA science funding! #nasaneedshelp #savenasascience #spaceisforeveryone
AAS members are on the Hill today to #SaveNASAScience and advocate for sustained funding for NASA, NSF, and our nation's other science agencies! Help us amplify their voices by calling and writing to your Congressional offices today: aas.org/action-alert...
Hi all! It’s your friendly senior space scientist. Are you proud that the US leads the world in space science? Do you appreciate knowing where hurricanes are? How about black holes?
If Yes to any of the above, pls call your US Senators Representative. Tell them NASA science matters to you. Help
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
We are absolutely losing an incredible amount of institutional knowledge and leadership. The current acting administrator of NASA is executing huge reductions with no plan or interest in maintaining space sciences in the United States
The call to service — there it is. Young man quits his job as an accountant, gets trained as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, and helps save frightened kids from floodwaters
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It is still possible to save NASA science. Here’s my how to
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Sadly true. Although most other nations, with the possible exception of China, do not have the resources to match what the US is giving away.
Everything is awful, America is turning its back on science, and yet, I am strangely elated because THERE IS A VERA RUBIN QUARTER
A special 2025 U.S. quarter with astronomer Vera Rubin engraved on it
I’m 25 cents richer and a whole galaxy happier now that I have my very own Vera Rubin quarter 💫
So, how is the meeting different , with gov scientists not allowed to attend?
Shonda Rhimes’ great book, Year of Yes, includes a commencement address where she opens by admitting she may puke in fear. Which made her feel brave enough to give an amazing talk
As NASA faces down the prospect of significant budget cuts to its science portfolio, the question becomes: what is the space agency's future supposed to look like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Watching the grim 2025 “State of the Science” report. Takeaway: China leads the US in almost every sector, because the US is under-investing in science
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Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.
Too soon!
The Space Sci community is reeling today at the President's proposed NASA budget. I'll admit that angry crying may get added to my to do list.
Before that happens, however, the @aas.org has a letter for me to sign & I have phone calls to make.
May Congress listen.
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Ever see a football player catch the punt, run 60 yards down the field, dodge and weave around the other team’s defenders — then on the 10 yard line bend over, tie his shoelaces together, start running again, and faceplant onto the grass? ME NEITHER, but that’s exactly this plan for US space science
The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.
To continue to comply with the decadal planetary survey, NASA had preliminary plans to send a flagship-class orbiter to investigate this world and it's moon system. The Trump Administration's new budget proposal would terminate this and many other #NASA Science efforts.
Let me memify that to check to see if I understand…
Do ALL the things! With not nearly enough $$
All right, nasa watchers. What did you think of Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing?
Also, gov workers afraid to exercise their first amendment rights to speak out on social media or attend peaceful protests in their personal time? Yes, these are also signs of autocracy
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NIH has been shepherding the breakthrough medicines that may save my spouse’s life. Mass firings at NIH are terrifying us
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Alicia was an amazing scientist. I miss her
Now this is a good sign. I wish I were better at slogans
“By going after the federal work force, Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are radicalizing the very people who can best explain how the government does so much good for so many.”
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