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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I saw the new Resident Evil movie last night. Highly recommend, and you don't need to know the lore to have an awesome time.

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Resident Evil 2026

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Plot of how my mood/life has been going. (Actually a plot of NSF research awards in the astronomical sciences made through the AAG, ATI, and MSIP programs. Source: aas.org/posts/news/2...)

Plot of NSF research awards in the astronomical sciences made through the AAG, ATI, and MSIP programs, demonstrating a 57% reduction in the number of awards made between FY25 and FY26, corresponding to a 51% decrease in awarded funding. Note that FY21 had an abnormally large number of continuing grants awarded (50 compared to an average of 5 in other years), so these grants were removed from the FY21 data.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You only really need to watch the first third of Rashomon.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

- People named "Lindsay": 0... but they could change that this year🤞

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NASA recently tried to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from re-entering the Earth's atmosphere (the orbit decayed due to Sun-Earth interactions). Unfortunately, they could not save it, so they turned this moment into a space physics modelling challenge. As Homer once said "crisitunity"☀️

Email to the CEDAR space physics community. The beginning reads: "Dear Community Members,

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was launched in 2004 to detect and monitor gamma-ray bursts. After 21 years of science operations, Swift’s low Earth orbit began to rapidly decay because of increased solar activity. Swift is expected to reenter later this year, around November. More information and news about Swift can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swift/.

Thermospheric density is the dominant source of uncertainty in the atmospheric drag and associated satellite orbit determination and reentry. Thermosphere models estimate neutral density, composition, and temperature based on the solar and geomagnetic drivers. To make advances in orbit computation and determination, accurate specification and forecasting of the thermosphere are required. The uncontrolled Swift reentry event provides a natural experiment opportunity to test community capabilities for thermosphere mass density forecasting, in particular, at VLEO below ~300 km untill it reaches ~100 km. The goal of this research modeling challenge is to evaluate the sources of error in orbit predictions, ranging from model inputs, solar and geomagnetic driver prediction, model accuracy, the debiasing/drag coefficient tuning process, and orbit propagation."

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

tl;dr Folks, please back up your stuff and share it so your work can live on. Additional note: Matthew, it is surreal going into this semester not seeing you with your peers on-campus. You were an amazing person and physicist, and you are greatly missed.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

his work before classes started, and he dropped a link to his GitHub repository - where he was storing code. It was named similar to "test123", and it would have been nearly impossible for me to find without him. His work was so close to being lost, but now it can be a part of scientific discussion.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In one of my moments spiraling about this I thought his research was lost. To me his work represented the tether this exceptional student had to the physics community: a group he wanted to be in, and rightfully belonged with. In our last Discord exchange (!!) we were talking about documenting...

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Researchers talk about being "hit by a bus", meaning their research needs to continue if they were to suddenly pass away. It is also a light-hearted reminder to back up/share/publish your work. Last week an undergraduate researcher I work with unexpectedly passed away, and it has been a heavy time.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Six degrees of separation must apply to all the housecats...right?

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Peaceful videos ahead of the NSF GEO virtual Office Hour (these sessions are typically attended by stressed out geoscientists) ☺️

Zoom wait room with a peaceful AI person on their laptop with a telescope

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 15/09/2026

Physics laureate George Smith received the Nobel Prize for developing the CCD sensor. Without it, we would not have digital cameras. Did you know that his dissertation, published on this day in 1959, was just three pages long? More about Smith: bit.ly/2YJv8qj

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Eos @eos.org · 15/09/2026

The announcement happened. In it, the EPA stated that emissions from power plants "have no material impact on global climate change," 🤨 and that "if all carbon dioxides [sic] were eliminated tomorrow, there would be no meaningful climate impact." 🤨 eos.org/research-and...

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With current tech a complicated space weapon would be negligent, both 💵 and 🧠-wise Imagine putting a bomb some place where others would hit it HARD, even accidentally. A good propulsion system could help, but over time your sporadic moving "bomb-craft" would become sus www.bbc.com/news/article...

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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am loving the all caps energy/enthusiasm of the person helping me with my medical bills.

An email chain that starts with "HI Lindsay
I SENT QUEST A TICKET AND A REP WILL GET BACK TO ME
I'LL LET YOU KNOW ONCE THEY HAVE CONTACTED ME
THANK YOU". I respond "That is awesome. Thank you for your help!". They respond "NO PROBLEM!!"

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fun article about how those swirls you see in clouds and in coffee appear on the sun too 🩷

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/08/2026

Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️

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Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In case you could not see the eclipse this year, the ESA feed from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Teruel, Spain was lovely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Tj...

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Total solar eclipse 2026: Telescopic feed (Official ESA broadcast)

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In preparation for the proposed OMB rules (which are NOT final), NSF is already making changes to their grantmaking guidelines. If you have a moment, submit a comment to stop these changes. agu.quorum.us/campaign/167...

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Submit your comment now to help stop NSF from implementing harmful grantmaking changes

A new proposed rule would rewrite the terms of U.S. science at NSF. Submit a comment today to fight back.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My fav part of attending meetings virtually is when you're the only virtual person, and the in-person people leave briefly, but ask you to alert others that the meeting is still on, so now when people walk by the door you're like "HEY, you at the door! Get in here!" like a ghost yelling at folks.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Many noble attempts were made tonight to catch the moon collision 🌝 I will be curious if the booster: 1) created a smaller plume than expected, 2) hit the back of the moon, or 3) had an "unexpected" trajectory. Goodnight ya'll

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am having fun watching astro-streamers freak out about the moon collision, and how it is late/not visible yet🍿

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Eos @eos.org · 03/08/2026

Climate change is increasing the average annual burned area of Alberta’s forests. As fires burn across Canada this summer, learn more from our archives about the feedback loops that drive such fires 👇 eos.org/articles/fee...

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Feedback Loops of Fire Activity and Climate Change in Canada - Eos

New research documents how a warming climate contributes to patterns in wildfire severity and frequency and how the fires contribute to climate change.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you got a bit of time, help the New Horizons mission by filling this petition from James Green (former NASA Planetary Science Division Director)! New Horizons is the only spacecraft now in the outer heliosphere and is an essential element of the Heliophysics System Observatory☀️ c.org/Yv6zG7JnvL

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Sign the Petition

Heliophysics Community Support for Continued Measurements by NASA’s New Horizons Mission

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Will I be able to see the crash?" Probably not, but that doesn't mean friends in the Americas shouldn't try (daylight for those in Europe): look to the eastern limb of the Einstein crater. The @eso.org VLT will observe it & NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking before and after images! 🔭🧪🛰️

A picture of the moon with a blue dot on the left corner and a massive red arrow pointing to it. This is where the Space-X debris will hit.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This year the orbital mechanics spirits will look favorably upon the high-latitude. Remember to wear appropriate eye protection (not just sunglasses), and cross your fingers for some gnarly eclipse+aurora photos!

Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak (NASA's GSFC - http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/).

The dark blue path is the path of totality, light blue lines indicate 80%, 60%, 40%, 20%, and 0% boundaries, and green lines indicate when the eclipse will peak in universal time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Are the little dinos supposed to be ~10 cm tall? I know this is not the point, but I guess this diagram is not to scale (?).

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Quick reminder to talk to congress if you oppose the new OMB rules rolling into effect soon. The AGU Science Policy Action Center helps make this super easy: agu.quorum.us/campaign/166...

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Tell Congress: Stop OMB’s proposed restrictions on federal grantmaking

Now is the time to ask Congress to roll back this damaging rule.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

AGU declined my town hall, which was a check-in on reaching the "State of the Profession" goals from the 2024 Solar and Space Physics Decadal survey (i.e. a session on how the heliophysics workplace has changed since 12/2024). On the plus side, I save a $500 fee Results will go out in a few months!

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Same. For a number of reasons this program is not for me 😅

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Last night we saw "Bone Wars" (www.bonewarsthemusical.com), a musical about the feud between paleontologists Marsh and Cope in the 1800s. Highly recommend if you like history, the arts, science and society, and singing dinosaurs 🎶🦖

Ticket/playbill qr code, with the stage in the background

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

While in Houston, I checked out Meow Wolf Houston's Radio Tave. Go MIPS!

Me in Meow Wolf near a "Mips Backyard Mustard" sign

Cowboix Heavven in Meow Wolf, with Batsy (the bartender), Dilly (the armadillo), and Cisco (half-human, half-Glitzian adjoined patron).

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This week I was at Space Center Houston as faculty advisor to Team Star Maker, an undergraduate team competing in the nasaorbit.org competition. The competition was excellent, the museum is incredible, and the Johnson Space Center tours were top-notch.

Team Star Maker poster in front of a model of the International Space Station.

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Life has taken me from about 10 spoons a day to about 2... and they’re Baskin Robbins sampler spoons 🥄

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Prof Lindsay, the Space Wizard 🌞🔮📡 @lvgoodwin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In the typical "lifecycle" of a scientist, you get used to moving to places where you can research most effectively the science you are interested in. Science moves to where it can most effectively act.

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