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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"This is not a left or right moment. It is a right or wrong moment." -- Senator Cory Booker, today

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Firefly Aerospace @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

That's a wrap for #BGM1! After downlinking more than 119 GB of data, including 51 GB of science and technology data for NASA, we're beyond proud to say Firefly met all our mission objectives. fireflyspace.com/news/firefly...

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Firefly Aerospace Successfully Completes 14 Days of Surface Operations on the Moon

All 10 NASA CLPS instruments successfully operated on the lunar surface and collected their science data during Blue Ghost Mission 1.

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

USGS Folks can’t be at #LPSC2025 and someone hung up a shirt with a flower as a memorial of sorts. We’re already feeling the loss of their presence and a bunch of other members of the community who can’t be here for a myriad of reasons.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

People are losing their jobs. Prices keep climbing. Measles continues to spread. Bird flu is raging. Veterans are getting fired. The stock market is a roller coaster. Our alliances are being shattered. Ukrainian civilians are getting bombed by Russia. Donald Trump is golfing.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trump signed executive orders to expand logging on public lands while bypassing environmental protections. His “energy emergency” declaration lets him override regulations entirely.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/02/2025

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t the billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts, but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE. To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Why is Trump the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl? Because all the presidents before him realized it would be extraordinarily wasteful to spend 15-20 MILLION of our taxpayer dollars to go in person.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just checking in on all of my federally funded friends. I hope you are okay. 😭 It’s been an insane week.

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trying to figure out what this white stuff falling from the sky is. 😂 #cats

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1st draft of my proposal is 98% done. You’re telling me I have to do this multiple times a year in the future!? 😅😮‍💨🫢😩

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I remember this!!!!! 🤯 Pretty sure this is how we ended up with a real aquarium back then.

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It’s fine I didn’t need to finish my proposal draft anyway. 🫡

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’d just like to say RIP to everyone posting secrets on TikTok thinking their posts were gonna be deleted. 🤭 Fun fact—they are not. #tiktok

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Welp. TikTok is gone. Excuse m while I go off to have an existential crisis about what it is to live without social media. 😅

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/01/2025

SpaceX Starship Flight test 7 breaks up in the atmosphere over the Turks and Caicos.

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just got an influx of geology related followers. Hi!! Thanks for the follow! I’m a new grad student in my 2nd semester. I study the mineralogy and geochemistry of sediments and materials in Mars analog environments. Also just adopted two kittens and that has been an adventure in itself. 🤭 Welcome!

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Let’s see how long these new curtains last? 🤔

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Do you ever work yourself up thinking you’re behind and a total failure and then find out everyone else is in the same boat and you’re just on time? You got this, bb! #academia #gradschool #undergrad #life

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Submitted my abstract to LPSC! Who else is gonna be there? #lpsc2025 #planetaryscience

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

They said getting two kittens wouldn’t be more work. But it’s definitely pure chaos. 😆🫢

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Officially survived my first graduate semester! 🎉 Now the hard part…grant writing. 🥲

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One finals week presentation down, one more and another project I haven’t started to go! Yay grad school! 🤭

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today I found out my apartment has a hole underneath the cabinets. Thanks Persephone, for giving me a heart attack. Now, how do I get my complex to fix that? 😬

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Working hard? Or hardly working? Some highlights from my field season in Sweden this past summer. 👩‍🔬🪨

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Went to the grand opening of the new Lowell Observatory visitor center and got to see the telescope that discovered Pluto, the mausoleum of Percival Lowell and got to meet Diana Gabaldon! Best weekend ever. 🔭

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

High definition image of a dead star. This is Cassiopeia A, a star that died 320 years ago. This image was presented today on AAS Nova (ApJL). aasnova.org/2024/11/12/t... 🔭 🧪

A roughly circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. Around and within the nebula, various stars are seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of dust, coloured yellow in the image.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.

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Martian Geologist @martiangeologist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hi. I’m Candice. And I like space, rocks, space-rocks, and cats. I’m addicted to coffee, Greek mythology and Fortnite. Wanna be friends? 😬

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