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Sarah Hörst

@planetdr.bsky.social
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Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titan’s biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com Planetdr.26 on signal

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 5h
I I didn’t think of this and I’m So jealous.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 6h
It didn’t even stop to check the damage or exchange insurance info. It just continued into the woods. Leaving me standing there going…did I just get hit by a squirrel?????
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 6h
The next thing I know this speed of light squirrel has crashed head on into my leg at full speed.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 6h
So I was walking my last zoom of the day on a trail by our house tonight. And I heard some squirrels doing some very loud squirrel business in the woods off the trail. Suddenly a squirrel comes flying out of the woods at 100 million miles an hour (estimated)
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 10h
I definitely need one of these. Looking for something squishier though
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good news per the article you can still drink them and not die (dye)
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh the link isn’t working (I tried searching the words in the link and that didn’t work very well either)
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love these outside chairs so much the other day I thought maybe I’ll just buy two more and put them inside but that is the Wrong Answer
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Possibly?
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But they are so very trendy and there are SO many of them. Is this the one? If you said yes I would probably buy it 😂
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In exchange please buy these outside chairs which I would absolutely marry if marrying furniture was a thing. Gifty Powder-Coated Steel Outdoor Rocking Chair with Tufted Cushion www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/...
wayfair.com
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My budget is- I have grown up money but also holy shit groceries have gotten expensive.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hello friends- I’m looking for the coziest possible sitting and reading/being tortured on a zoom faculty meeting/drinking tea while it rains/drinking whiskey while the world burns chair for a solidly ADHD person. Spinning. Reclining. Fuzzy all sound great. I’m so tired and just want to order chairs
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d be tempted to add a note that says we caught this typo but decided to leave this handcrafted artisanal typo here so you’d know how much we care about you and this work
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At this point honestly shout out to the students who half ass their homework making it obvious it isn’t AI. Meanwhile looking at one of the nicest assignments I’ve ever seen 🤔
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tonight I was behind a car that was the same make and model as my 2019 car and it had a Gore Lieberman 2000 bumper sticker and… I don’t even know but I thought I should share.
Proof of gore liberman bumper sticker.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m a big fan of the Mac and cheese on a stick
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m so sorry. I’m not sure what my plan is yet.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My employer also emailed to let us know we will be covering a larger percent of our premiums this year bc of budget problems.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I bought my first ACA plan two years ago. It was $595 a month, this year it was $688 a month. Next year, with a higher deductible, it is $821 a month… I hate this effing timeline
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I suspected this skeet would be a siren song
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh. Oh no
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This one has been living next to our door for a few days.
A praying mantis on a door frame Praying mantis on a door
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it possible to be friends with a praying mantis asking for a friend send skeet
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So we’ve never actually named them or given them any kind of designation because there were…two. But now!
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“We have a Pokémon situation here” Someone remind me to come back to this skeet and tell you what it’s about in like a few months.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nope good eye
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most superstitious people on Earth are experimental scientists. No question.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In other lab news, you know things have gotten serious in the troubleshooting department when we’ve had to deploy a minion. (Lab people are not ok. We are never ok)
A minion in a ninja costume holding a BANANA in front of the mass spectrometer that is currently being a giant asshole
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The plastic is how you know New Things Are Happening because it means there was New Money
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The chamber to group member ratio in my lab is getting a little out of hand. It’s giving Oprah.
The cluttered counter in my lab. With like 7 chambers or something
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Sarah E Moran @offallingstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still server issues. Now Laura Watkins (head of science policy at STScI) is saying new deadline tomorrow, Oct. 1st at 5pm EDT for all proposers.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Omg I stopped halfway through my eureka rewatch and forgot. Curse you adhd
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Sarah E Moran @offallingstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
STScI says deadline extended 1 hour to 9pm EDT, unless issues persist in which case this time will be updated
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was just thinking about this is so fucking obnoxious. MY syllabus should be things that are specific to MY class
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So the lander has a group chat? Do the instruments emoji react? #ThingsActualScientistsSay
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
abcnews.com
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As an extremely picky child who grew up with a surprisingly healthy relationship with food, I’m thankful my parents didn’t outsource managing feeding me to a computer program.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was not fun but it is published!
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This might be the daughter of a neuroscientist speaking but like brains are actually wildly good at complicated tasks. Like so good that people have spent a really lot of time trying to figure out HOW. Also that shit is absolutely use it or lose it.
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All the replies to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s posts are wild to me. Like I can absolutely envision something like this existing. But the sheer amount of work required to make it better/easier/less time consuming is absolutely not even remotely worth it to me (ignoring environment, ethics, etc)
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure did. She wouldn’t publish it until all 6 reviewers agreed. She even sent the three new reviews back to the original three reviewers (if I had been one of them I probably would’ve lost my shit)
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We had a paper that had 3 reviewers. Went back and forth. Got accepted! Got an email from the journal that I was expecting to be the galley proofs, surprise 3 more reviewers! The editor apparently decided it was so important she wanted more reviews. After already accepting it
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our garden is all in Maryland. We have orchards in both states lol
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We don’t garden at the cabin aside from fruit trees and mint. So really just Maryland’s growing seasons
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A thinking that I find…something is I have yet to be surprised about who is all in on GenAI and who isn’t. Every time I’m like yup that tracks
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.
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