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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Last year, the Trump White House tried to cut funding for NASA’s science missions by 47 percent. Congress told them no, but now they’ve decided to try again. If they get their way, here’s roughly what it will look like:

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I went to the moon launch and wrote about it Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Important point about AI and math in this excellent @matteowong.bsky.social interview with Terrance Tao www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

One of the ironies: AI research is among the hardest hit fields

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Delighted to have snuck this phrase into The Atlantic

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Our August issue is given over to the 80th anniversary of that attack, and the dawning of the nuclear age. I’m so proud to be a part of it.

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope still has the power to astonish - grateful to @kokogiak.bsky.social for putting its recent gems all in one place for us to peruse: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

For those who were particularly touched and saddened to learn that James still counted olo as his favorite color, despite not having seen it, some good news… (next post)

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

(Sorry to dredge up press release discourse)

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Beyond thrilled to learn that my essay ‘Do Animals Know That They Will Die’ will be in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing. This was extra meaningful because the piece was chosen by @susanorlean.bsky.social and @jaimealyse.bsky.social, two writers whose work I absolutely adore.

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

6/ Science has to be able to defend itself (fin)

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

5/ He should really know better:

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

4/ It is not his beliefs that justify his expulsion, but rather his actions—his willingness to dismantle the institutions of science on Trump’s behalf:

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

3/ Even Musk’s heresies on vaccines or climate change are not enough to throw him out

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

4/ But Musk is not just a climate or vaccine heretic. He is actively dismantling the great institutions of science:

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

2/ Scientific institutions are understandably hesitant to expel people for political reasons

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I wrote about smoke and smog and the meaning of an orange sky over Los Angeles gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’ve spent a lot of time in Southern Utah during the last ~15 years, and it was a real pleasure to hold it in mind, day in and day out, while reporting this story

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

And the background on *that scene*

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Headed to see INTERSTELLAR on an IMAX screen later today, and thinking about what Christopher Nolan told me last year about Coop’s orientation toward technology www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...