Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Why oh why? arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...arstechnica.comWhite House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”… 000
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025NASA Goddard is pushing through a 48% staff reduction!!! This could impact the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and many other future Astro missions. News coverage seems not sensational enough. Are we really going to let NASA (as we know it) die quietly? www.space.com/space-explor...space.comNASA begins push to slash workforce with more staff buyouts, early retirements as budget cuts loomNASA employees have until July 25 to decide if they'll stay or go. 1010269
Reposted by Jessica LuSera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money. 491588572
Reposted by Jessica LuCarl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Also of note/horror: this budget makes the 30M downselect explicit (GMT, not TMT) -- 152
Reposted by Jessica LuDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... 30846487
Reposted by Jessica LuDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS. 4653282
Reposted by Jessica LuSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/05/2025A key portion of #NASARoman has cleared a thermal vacuum test. Tt was subjected to the hot and cold temperatures it will experience in space: go.nasa.gov/43cwDQL 🔭 🧪 37717
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025aasnova.org/2025/04/02/r...aasnova.orgRapid Microlensing Classification: A Lonely SOBH StoryAstrobites reports on how we can use simulations of stellar populations to rapidly estimate the identity of the lensing object in a microlensing event. 000
Reposted by Jessica LuSarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 19/02/2025My heart goes out to the good people who had to endure this at the NSF today www.wired.com/story/nation... 🧪wired.comNational Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge ContinuesFirings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers. 08422
Reposted by Jessica LuWill Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefiringsdemocrats-science.house.govWere you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and TechnologyThe House Committee on Science, Space and Technology 7580456
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025For you foodies out there, I highly recommend this conference tradition. Great food and meet new people! 020
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Interested in black holes or the Galactic Center check out Thursday sessions at #AAS243 by MovingUniverse Lab grads, Natasha Abrams (440.05) and Anna Pusack (420.05). Lots of new results! 052
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 09/08/2023Update on the gravitational lensing black hole, OB110462. It is definitely a black hole and our revised photometric and astrometric analysis gives a mass of 6 +/- 1 Sun. arxiv.org/abs/2308.03302 121
Reposted by Jessica LuSarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2023ESA’s Euclid mission has reached L2 where JWST and Gaia are waiting 💕 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Spa… 062
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 18/07/2023AstroTechers working on grating design principles and inclusive teamwork skills today at #AstroTech! 010
Jessica Lu @jluastro.bsky.social · 05/07/2023Hello BlueSky! I'm an astronomy professor at UC Berkeley working on black holes, star clusters, the Galactic center, and the instruments and telescopes needed to study them. As a further introduction, I'll post a brief thread on my research group's latest published paper. 4243