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Josh Simon

@joshsimon.bsky.social
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Astronomer. Opinions my own.

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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Ah, I see, I only looked at the summary table up front, not the rest of the 384 pages. But where are the $1B of cuts to astrophysics funding coming from?
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Nothing about NUSTAR, UVEX, Swift, TESS, either, suggesting that the budget for those will be $0 . . . They do seem to have given up on axing Roman, though.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Disagree - I've had faculty interviews where I was told (once explicitly, once not quite explicitly) that I was not actually under consideration for the job.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The paper says that they downloaded the entire raw MACHO data set and re-reduced it. So if there are specific sources you're interested in, I would just ask them for those.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This group might be able to help: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...
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Eppur non si trovano: Comments on the Primordial Black Hole Limits in the Galactic Halo
In a recent arXiv post, Hawkins & Garcia-Bellido raised doubts on the results of 20-yr long OGLE photometric monitoring, which did not find a large number of gravitational microlensing events in t...
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Sadly, Ron Desantis was at a football game this evening, watching Florida St. lose to Stanford. 😢
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Time to bury Weinstein under a pile of complaints about the anti-liberal bias at CBS.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Probably worth throwing in some devils too, just to emphasize that he's not getting anywhere near heaven.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The author also severely misunderstands the nature of the threat. The administration has made science just as much of a target as the humanities, although the reasons are only partially overlapping.
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camacho @bencamach0.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I am launching No Secret Police, a public records database. It currently hosts the Santa Ana Police Department's records but more agencies' records are being processed. Headshot photographs, names, badge numbers, payroll and other basic public data. www.nosecretpolice.net
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Congrats, Juna!
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Also, everything the House is trying to do is bad. Wasting its time makes it harder to accomplish those things, which is good.
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 10/05/2025
I’m calling on Secretary Kennedy to resign. We are sick of it. He must go!
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I think TRES has observed most northern stars with planets/ planet candidates, but this might be limited to transiting objects. They certainly have thousands of spectra, which are not explicitly public but are generally available on ExoFOP. Has anyone mentioned Hypatia: www.hypatiacatalog.com?
hypatiacatalog.com
Hypatia Catalog Database Website
The Hypatia Catalog Database features an interactive table and multiple plotting interfaces that allow easy access and exploration of data within the Hypatia Catalog, a multidimensional, amalgamate da...
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I know why! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Seems like kind of a big oversight that the Biden OMB didn't rescind this "no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities" part.
A screenshot of part of the Suspension and Termination Procedures for NSF grants, showing that NSF can terminate grants that "no longer effectuat[e] the program goals or agency priorities."
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Sierra Delta @sierradelta328.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Please VOTE for Susan Crawford for WI SC on (or before) 4/1. Polls: 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. on 4/1. Voters need to show acceptable photo ID. Early voting: NOW until 3/28. Deadline to request absentee ballot: Thurs, 3/27. Musk $$$: no place in WI -- or USA -- politics.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🙏🙏💪🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I mean, when you hire a Fox News host as Secretary of Defense, you can't really be surprised when he has a Fox News-level understanding of opsec.
The end of The Atlantic article reporting a Signal chat discussing the bombing of Yemen.  The paragraph reads: "All along, members of the Signal group were aware of the need for secrecy and operations security. In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group—which, at the time, included me—`We are currently clean on OPSEC.'”
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Legislators who are voting based on death threats rather than what they believe is right need to resign. Let someone with more courage do the job. Anything else is a violation of their oath of office.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🔭
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The President of the USADF handled the attempted DOGE takeover exactly correctly. They say they're going to call the US Marshals to force their way into the building? Fine, make them do it. Other agency heads should follow Ward Brehm's lead.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#TeslaTakedown in Los Angeles near LAX. Happening now!
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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Happy to report 25+ protestors at the Tesla dealer in North Hollywood today cheered on by a steady stream of honking cars. One guy had a double-sided NO KINGS sign and said he’d been compelled to come out for the first time today after seeing the Zelensky presser. Say ‘no’ now. #TeslaTakedown
Author with a NO MUSK COUP sign in North Hollywood Anti-DOGE sign in North Hollywood Protestors at Tesla in North Hollywood
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It's not just Memoli. The article names three HHS officials as well: "Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy" as responsible for the orders. They should all be held in contempt.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I called all my reps and told them not to support any budget deal that would allow Trump to not spend the money. You should too. www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
Schumer: Dems will insist on Trump undoing ‘bad things’ in spending deal
The Senate minority leader doubled down on Hakeem Jeffries’ comments Monday that Democrats would insist on a funding deal that addressed the attempted funding freeze.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Why has no judge said to the DOJ attorneys: by close of business today, you have to file sworn statements by government officials with knowledge as to who is running DOGE, list every person, what their position is, what their status is (advisor, employee, SGE, and so on). By close of business today.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Any member of Congress who is deciding how to vote because they are afraid of violence against them needs to resign. They cannot serve their constituents or fulfill their oath of office if they are paralyzed by fear.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@padilla.senate.gov's voicemail works fine . . . Sen. Padilla also posts phone numbers for 5 local offices in California, which makes it easy for constituents to contact him. Please do better on enabling Californians to reach you in an easy and timely manner!
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@schiff.senate.gov Please listen to your voicemails and/or hire more staffers who can answer the phone. Your constituents want to contact you and can't because your voicemail is consistently full. But your colleagues seem able to handle the calls that they're getting.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
At least one big group of 100 was organized by Indivisible.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I went to @padilla.senate.gov's office today - they said they had about 160 visitors by mid-afternoon, whereas a normal day is zero or one.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
3) Having established that laws are being broken and what is at stake, I would state my own authority as a member of Congress to gain full access to the building. I would then demand, not ask, that LE step aside. If they don’t, at this point, at least one member of Congress needs to risk arrest.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I called @repbradsherman.bsky.social, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, to ask him to go to the Treasury Dept. today and intervene in Musk's takeover.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Why is the Rubin Observatory changing the online bio of its namesake? Stop complying in advance!
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Really sorry to hear this, Mike.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Maybe Penn is the problem? A lot of our recent issues seem to be originating with their alumni.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Apparently one was the Red Cross . . . #PalisadesFire
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
#PalisadesFire MORE drones reported over Chautauqua Blvd. in the Palisades, as well as over Will Rogers State Park. Stop it!
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#PalisadesFire Scanner reports a backyard fire on Piedra Morada Dr., close to the initial ignition point three days ago.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#PalisadesFire Scanner reports that drone activity is still affecting air operations near the eastern edge of the containment line.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Are links to those images available?
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#PalisadesFire Scanner and Watch Duty app report a vegetation fire near Victory Blvd. in West Hills. Up to 50 acres, and spreading to the north. #SanFernandoValley
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#PalisadesFire Scanner reports that there is still (or new?) fire burning at Palisades High School, with resources on site and in route.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#PalisadesFire Scanner reports a structure fire with a broken gas line on Sunset Blvd. near Amalfi Dr.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#PalisadesFire Scanner reports a structure fire on the 1600 block of Alta Mura Rd, on the eastern/southeastern perimeter of the fire.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I have some, but not sure what the best way of distributing them would be.
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Josh Simon @joshsimon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
At the Pasadena press conference at 4pm this afternoon, the fire chief estimated 200-500 structures damaged/destroyed in the #EatonFire.
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