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Julie Rathbun

@lokivolcano.bsky.social
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Planetary scientist studying volcanoes on Io (favorite is Loki). Pronouns: she/her.

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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I've been MIA here for a bit, so maybe I missed it if someone else proposed it. What about a virtual, open, social media centered Alt-LPSC? Come up with a hashtag, encourage planetary scientists to share images, videos, or text about their current research projects. All free and open to all.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Where is alt-LPSC going to be?
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Please share with planetary scientists you think would benefit from this workshop!
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“Well organized and well-facilitated, great breadth and depth of topics, and good novel interactive components as well. The content was expertly curated and extremely well presented …” Participant, Nov. 2022
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Entirely on-line. Visit website for more details and to fill out the indication of interest form. Facilitators: Drs. Julie Rathbun (she/her/hers) and JA Grier (ee/em/eir) Website: workforce.psi.edu/leadership/
workforce.psi.edu
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Excellence in Science Leadership: A workshop on strategies for unlocking individual potential Next Workshop: August 18-20, 2025 (entirely virtual) Our worksh...
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Participants at all career stages and experience levels are welcome, as well as those who have previously attended past workshops. This offering (~25 people or less, to encourage interaction) provides the basic tools needed to enact positive change in personal and professional spheres.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If you are seeking expanded approaches to engage with colleagues, groups, teams, committees, etc. with understanding and ethics, this is your workshop. The content also includes specific strategies to meet present challenges, including additional resources, staying motivated, and avoiding burnout.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We invite planetary scientists to join us for our reinvigorated workshop. We offer best-practices to meet current challenges while uplifting potential in ourselves and that of our professional partners.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Announcing a NEW workshop from myself and @jagrier.bsky.social EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE LEADERSHIP: A NEW WORKSHOP ON STRATEGIES FOR UNLOCKING INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL August 18-20, 2025, 4 hours daily, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm EST (entirely virtual) workforce.psi.edu/leadership/
Flyer with text:
Excellence in Science Leadership:
Strategies for Unlocking Individual Potential
Next Workshop - August 18-20, 2025 (entirely virtual)
Indication of Interest - Now Open!
https://workforce.psi.edu/leadership/
Workshop Facilitators – Dr. Julie Rathbun, Dr. JA Grier
Feedback from past attendees:
In our anonymous poll, 93% strongly agreed that the hosts created an environment where they
felt valued. 100% found the workshop itself valuable and would recommend it to others.
Our workshop is designed for people in
leadership roles in space science, and our
definition of leader is broad. Past
attendees represented all career stages
from graduate student to senior scientist,
in positions including instrument PI,
university faculty, spacecraft engineer,
outreach professional and program
officer. Participants hailed from industry,
non-profits, colleges, small businesses,
and governance institutions.
Both the content of the workshop and the
strategies for facilitation are models of best-
practice for leaders in how to engage with their
teams - their rising stars - to guide them towards
individual and group success. We have substantially
retooled our offering to empower leaders to meet the
challenges of the present moment, and beyond. Topics include the basics of team building,
science ethics, and feedback mechanisms; developing a personal support structure and
finding resources to remain engaged and effective; and innovative strategies to find new
funding, connections, and opportunities. Previous workshop participants are welcome to
indicate their interest to attend so that they can access our new materials and so that we can
strengthen our growing community with ongoing activities well after the workshop.
The format of this workshop is
different from that of others you may
have taken. We will meet on-line for
four hours each day (11 am – 1 pm
and 2-4 pm Eastern) for 3 days and
strongly encourage everyone to
attend all sessions. Every session is
interactive!
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Copaganda and Me
Maris Kreizman writes about the way police are mythologized in popular culture in this excerpt from her book 'I Want to Burn This Place Down'
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Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Links to register to all our events! www.blackinastro.com/black-space-...
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Black Space Week 2025 — Black In Astro
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NASAaarrr @nasaaarr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This table was downloaded on Feb 21 when ROSES 2025 was published and public for a few hours before being taken down for revision of 'EO compliance'. Late items marked in red. Due dates less than 60 days off marked in yellow. This will be updated as more due dates are missed.
A screen grab of the ROSES 2025 Table 2 of AOs and due dates, with 8 NOIs and Step 1 deadline marked as late, and 12 final submission/step 2's  marked as less than 60 days until deadline.
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NASAaarrr @nasaaarr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ROSES 2025 is now 67 days late. And counting.
A background of ROSES with the overlaid text "April 22, 2025   67 Days Late" and the pirate NASA logo (NASA meatball with 2 crossed swords instead of the swoosh"
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I have air fried broccoli in a borrowed standard bucket air fryer, but all my other experience is with my counter top model, so YMMV.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What sort of air fryer? We've got the toaster oven version. I love pretty much all veggies air fried, but especially broccoli. I've also been doing lots of root veggies with homemade fry sauce (mayo, ketchup, +whatever). And air fried tofu is amazing.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
NASA has closed its chief science office, its technology/policy/strategy office, and the DEI branch of its equal opportunity office. 23 people have been fired, per a HQ spokesperson.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I won't be at #LPSC2025, but other co-authors of the document will be. Go chat with them!
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There's an open letter about the value of EDIA to Planetary Science: sites.google.com/view/the-val... If you agree with this message, please co-sign it! #LPSC2025 #PlanetaryScience
sites.google.com
The value of EDIA
To co-sign this letter, use this form. You may choose to sign anonymously.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My goal is not to "save science". My personal fight is to make sure that any planetary science that moves forward moves forward with everyone and that we remake planetary science into a field even better, and more welcoming, than what we've had. #LPSC2025 #PlanetaryScience
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Or we can rally with marginalized groups. We can stop fighting for just "science" and fight for humanity. We can't save real science without saving EDIA. Without also saving our Black and Brown colleagues. Without saving our transgender friends.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We have a choice. We can pivot Planetary Science back to the Rockets and dudes sphere. We can remove anyone who isn't white, male, cis, het, able-bodied, etc., and hope that this will save "science". (P.S. - It won't.)
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
These actions have made us "woke" in the eyes of the current administration. Remember, they first removed EDIA from all NASA funded websites. They paused the AGs. They stopped Inclusion Plans. That was the first attack. Now they are attacking deeper into science.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
But, recently, Planetary Science has become a more human endeavor. It has begun to notice that people treated like people end up doing better science. NASA has included "Inclusion" as one of it's core values. We've started encouraging more scientists of color and white women to participate.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Make no mistake that Planetary Science is seen, by these folks, as unimportant. They like rockets and manned (yes, manned only) spaceflight, but not science. Planetary Science has historically been able to coexist with the rockets and men in space crowd. #LPSC2025 #planetaryScience
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Some folks are wondering WHY? Why are they cutting planetary when the dude making the cuts supposedly loves Mars. He doesn't love Mars. He loves rockets. He loves being first. He loves himself and sending things to Mars on big rockets makes him feel like a big man. #LPSC2015 #PlanetaryScience
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Some folks (there and absent) are wondering if this will be the last LPSC meeting ever. The US has been a leader in Planetary Science since the field was invented, just over 50 years ago. The actions of the current US executive branch are destroying Planetary Science. #LPSC2025 #PlanetaryScience
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There are lots of BIG emotions during this week of the annual LPSC meeting. Some folks are there and wondering if it will be their last time. Some are not there due to government regulations. Some are not there due to the dangerous actions of the Texas government. #LPSC2025 #PlanetaryScience
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A group of planetary scientists, who have served as co-chair of the former Cross-AG EDIA Working group, has written an open letter on "The value of EDIA to planetary science" sites.google.com/view/the-val.... Please co-sign the letter if you agree that EDIA efforts make for better science.
sites.google.com
The value of EDIA
To co-sign this letter, use this form. You may choose to sign anonymously.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The US risks diminishing its hard-won advantages when it undermines its investment in national institutions and strips them of their people and resources, writes Janet Vertesi. As the moonshot teaches us, building up is much harder than tearing down. www.techpolicy.press/invigorating...
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Invigorating the American Space Sector Requires Working With NASA, Not Against It | TechPolicy.Press
When programs are cut to the bone, America loses much more than it gains, writes Janet Vertesi.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Fascinating and well-researched article about the interaction of money and knowledge at NASA. Bottom line: You can loose knowledge if you cut NASA too much. (Example: we had to relearn how to get to the moon.) I'd bet that this applies to other government agencies.
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Ed Rivera-Valentín @planettreky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I started to do a back up of AG documents that have been purged here: planettreky.com/documents/ I will also post other planetary documents and resources as I find them. #PlanetaryScience
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Documents
Important Documents for Planetary Science   This is a collection of important repots in our field that are currently no longer publicly accessible. I am not an author nor do I claim own…
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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
From the CHOIR collaboration: To stand with our community in physics, astronomy, & planetary science affected by the federal grant funding freeze we (choir, Black in Astro, Astro Poverty Survey, Movement Consulting) have organized a mutual aid initiative. www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid 🔭🧪
A poster for the CHOIR mutual aid support fund including a QR code to the GoFundMe link for donations
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JA Grier, Ph.D. @jagrier.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Some folx have only realized the extent of this crisis now that their own science is at stake. I'm glad these colleagues have mobilized, but I doubt they realize the key to ending this crisis *forever* is to center our most vulnerable members. 🧵 #standupforscience2025 #academicsky #sciencesky 🧪🔭😷👩‍🦽⚛️🏳️‍🌈
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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Given how many individual careers in American science have been delayed, ruined, or just made much harder than they should be due to insecure misogynist twerps, it would somehow make sense for the entire enterprise of American science to face the same at the hands of an insecure misogynist twerp.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 20/02/2025
This is a letter I did not want to write. There is a WWII-era saying: “If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.” If you voted for #Trump, you are a #Nazi. brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-letter-b...
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The Letter
This is a letter I did not want to write. I had hoped that the angels of our better natures would win out, would convince people that…
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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“It feels like a betrayal by NASA....It’s inefficient, it’s wasteful, and it’s also just messed up.” This is how scientists inside and outside the agency are feelings about the cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Words by me: 🧪
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NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard
Some researchers at NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the changes at the agency, which was known for promoting inclusion in science.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 11/02/2025
"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions." #WomenInSTEM
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Women in Science – a work in progress - Bylines Scotland
On The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, equality and inclusivity are still works in progress
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Dr. MM @otherorb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Seeing reports that the traitors and spies have infiltrated NASA HQ… Send your favorite, second-favorite, and least-favorite (but not maga) NASA HQ employees love and hugs today.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Trump and the GOP are in a full-out war against science. I have a lot to say about that. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-attack... 🧪 🔭
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The Attacks on Science
Science is under siege like never before in the US. What can we do?
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...
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NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites
NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.
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Congresswoman Grace Meng @meng.house.gov · 11/02/2025
Elon Musk's DOGE team gained access to NASA today. Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, which is NASA's largest private contractor. This is a MAJOR conflict of interest. Let's talk about it👇
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Once again, why I hate that fucking poem. They come for anybody, we show up for anybody, it’s actually much simpler. Welp.
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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.
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Julie Rathbun @lokivolcano.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I've signed. 🧪🔭
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
ICYMI: I talked to federal employees across eight agencies about the internal chaos they're experiencing because of Trump/Musk and how they feel going forward in their jobs. A clear theme? They are scared -- and also pissed and digging in for a fight. "Fuck that." www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...
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‘F**k That’: Federal Workers Say They’re Scared But ‘Digging In’ Amid Trump’s Chaos
“Ironically for the Trumpies, bringing us back to the office will make us stronger morale-wise,” said one EPA employee as Trump vowed to purge civil servants.
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Erini Lambrides @eriniastro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Please for the love of all that is good, DO NOT PREEMPTIVLEY COMPLY. If you are not a civil servant and are shutting down the resource bank, website etc. etc. you run on non-gov servers bc its DEIA related or adjacent - do not shut it down. You are literally making their jobs easier.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/01/2025
Some of the people that lost their homes in Altadena, will be living in their cars or tents 6 months from now, with the few possessions that they could save. If tomorrow, I cited them for sleeping in public, and then threw the rest of their stuff away? You'd call me evil! But in 6 months? Sweep!
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