Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Very low on the horizon from Tucson. You got a much better view. 011
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I don't want to contradict your very valid point, but partly your post was the first and possibly only source of information on that niche topic, so you hear from those of us it directly affects more than others might. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I took that same picture, but from farther away. It just missed us, so still no rain here. 110
Reposted by Mike NolanAstrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...astrobites.orgNSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to AstronomyThe president's budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. This post summarizes the major cuts and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against thi... 211158
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Kinda feels like that's all we have time for anymore. 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Dave has always been a fountain of ideas. 90% crazy, but that's still one amazingly good idea per day. He would spout off ideas while teaching undergraduates. 210
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I don't know either of those languages, but it seems to have Swedish and Finnish words jumbled together? Yksi Kaksi Kolme were the only words I actually recognized, but there was certainly some "yeah that's Germanic" in there. A fun tune in any case. 110
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I don't know in inches, but I prefer lanyards short so that it's not as hard to attempt to surreptitiously look to see what the name of this person you really should know is. There are competing issues, of course. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025That whole "cause - effect" thing isn't something they believe in. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This happened last time too. Sometimes he would say something sane because he hadn't yet been told that that wasn't the policy. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025They might if they get federal funding. That's the problem with this: so much simultaneous insanity that there's no way to keep up 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I guess it depends. I have back trouble, and my PT wants to hurt me without it hurting :). 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Oh, and I use that phrase because it's what Wikipedia calls it. Other choices are политический руководитель or Nationalsozialistische Führungsoffiziere 230
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025As my PT says, If it hurts when you do that, don't do that. 100
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025And then there's the whole "every grant program must have a political commissar" requirement in the memo. 2140
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025No salary for students and post-docs = the people who support them also lose their jobs. R1s go bankrupt quite quickly in this scenario. 020
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025wapo.st/4gfgcHQwapo.stWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Note also the requirement that every grant program have a political commissar. 020
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This pretty much fires every scientist working for a university or research company, and most people doing work for NASA. 0100
Reposted by Mike NolanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025For context, Russ Vought, the OMB nominee, told Congress he believes he is allowed to not spend appropriated fund regardless of the law banning impoundment. The Senate should not confirm someone promising to engage in illegal executive aggrandizement. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 18944292
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Yeah but it would end up being all Sinclair news sites with the same propaganda. The point is occasional access to the local source of the news of the day, and that's not going to happen in the era of conglomerates. 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Most do, unfortunately. E.g. , LA TImes is getting a lot of hits right now, but I don't have a long-term interest and certainly don't want to be on their long-term ad list. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Yes! I don't live anywhere near you. I don't need your ads. But I'd be happy to pay you a dollar for the one thing that is relevant to me. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I agree with Tod. No. Dune was written as a singleton, and the rest ride on its coattails. Some are better than others (I've read about half of them, probably 40 years ago), but reread Dune a few years ago and it's still pretty good. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 30/11/20242/2 "Stop being angry" needs to be rephrased as "It's clearly useless to gripe all the time, but I reserve some time for "I need an hour to !@#$%^& let some steam off about this ridiculous situation". I will not give away my shot. 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 30/11/20241/2 JFC. "Move on" and "stop being angry" are *not* the same. "Move on" is often good advice. Think rationally about what to do next and take whatever steps might actually lead somewhere. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024And because I can't edit, only re-comment, I have been in the position appealed to (I am much older than the OP) and didn't have a helpful response. In some cases I now know what I should have said and done to attempt to effect change. In others, still no. 110
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024And I agree that "funny" is the best we are assured of doing. 110
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024It's true that grad students do have some power, and also true that the administration (including people like me) is acknowledging it in an attempt to defuse it. 110
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 29/11/20241. If it's something that has illustrations, print, otherwise digital if available. 2. Whatever's cheapest: Unless it's an art book (in which case hardcopy), I'm after content, not archive. 3. Online. I don't have nearly enough patience to go to a bookstore that may not have it anyway. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Interesting how a few appear instantly to mind, where with some people one has to think for a minute. 010
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024And we astronomers didn't go because we were supposed to know what they were talking about but didn't really. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024How come only one of them has more than a couple authors? 100
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024And even more disturbing if JK doesn't know this. We have problems with JK, but *THIS IS NOT ONE* 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024And te most disturbing is that we each see the other as her. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Tucson www.lpl.arizona.edu/~css/lemmon/...lpl.arizona.edu 110
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Not so much that as "It's ridiculous that it's so hard to get needed medicine but also some of these drugs do do people incredible harm. People were overprescribing painkillers, so now nobody can get them when they need them". And then on for a few pages of dialog until I see a squirrel. 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 12/06/2024L I h,y you to GG BG to no is, GG BB b I've you box lol k, I no 9 no ii 000
Mike Nolan @mikeynolan.bsky.social · 10/06/2024The US economy is based on the assumption of infinite resources and exponential growth in everything. Manifest Destiny and all that. Of course the alternative is stratification, where people are born to their station. 000
