Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonJess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history* 8363123
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56119723555
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonCasey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For the second fiscal year in a row, NASA awarded ~20% fewer grants than the recent historical average. That's about 500 fewer grants going out to scientists around the country. 34724
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 367201329888
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026No shit, when I was “recovering” from my knockout case of Omicron and beginning treatment for PASC, a researcher looked at my records, saw Moderna there, tapped it with a finger and said, there’s every chance you owe Dolly Parton your life. I loved her before and I love her still. 249287
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026🎉 New paper (and data) on editorial & peer review at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. With a wonderful team! @samzhang.bsky.social, @nicklaberge.bsky.social, Quinten and @aaronclauset.bsky.social. 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 39439
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonThe Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026🚨URGENT ADVOCACY ACTION - We can pause OMB's harmful rewrite of grant rules that insert political appointees into the funding process, but only if enough of us speak up THIS WEEK. 🚨 This is our best shot before senators leave for August recess. Send your letter: www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...planetary.orgAdvocacy Action CenterThe Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud. 03024
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonAftermath @aftermath.site · 27/07/2026Stop talking to me, Google search aftermath.site/google-search-... 1362995
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Came for the Adobe hating, stayed for the photoshop alternative! 010
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonGrant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 22/07/2026With layoffs at Xbox, sources indicate accessibility efforts have also been affected. What was once a champion of accessibility is now a shell of its former self, unsure if accessibility even has a place at the new Xbox. Read my first report for @aftermath.site here: aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs...aftermath.siteLayoffs Leave The Future Of Xbox’s Award-Winning Accessibility Efforts In DoubtFormer workers say Xbox cuts leave less resources and experts to make sure games are developed, labelled, and tested with accessibility in mind 5447227
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonKat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Y’all. There is still one hour left if you haven’t submitted your comment yet. Their website says 340k submitted comments as of yesterday (only 52k posted so far). But if your comment isn’t among them, there’s still a very little bit of time! 014
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonCasey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The Planetary Society has submitted its official response to the OMB's proposed rules change to federal grantmaking. We believe the changes would result in concrete harms to The Planetary Society and to the public. We recommended that the fully OMB withdraw this proposal. 23213
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 11/07/2026If you have time to browse bluesky this weekend, you have time to submit your comment on the proposed OMB rule to politicize science funding agencies. This one is important. Here's my comment if some inspiration will help. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...scienceforeveryone.scienceSubmit your OMB comment this weekend.This one is important. It's due on Monday. 9173128
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonThe Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Who should decide what science gets funded: scientists or political appointees? Right now, it's scientists. A new OMB rule would hand that power to political appointees instead. Comment by July 13 to stop it. ⬇️ www.planetary.org/ombgrantrulesplanetary.orgAdvocacy Action CenterThe Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud. 3187103
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Check out the cool work some of my friends just finished up! 151
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonKat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Reminder that there is just one week left to post your comments about the OMB's disastrous proposed rule changes to federal grants: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... (there's a handy guide about it from the @planetarysociety.bsky.social that can help you planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdfs/...)regulations.govRegulations.gov 067
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 06/07/2026the horrors persist, but so do we chat, so do we Trans Rights 41233331
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/07/2026🧪 Members of the scientific community: the comment window is still open. 13627
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6115448116364
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQbit.lyThe war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“ 311363788
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 21/11/2025ASTRONAUT: Houston, we are back in visual range. Feasting our eyes on that big blue marble :) MISSION CONTROL, OFF MIC: Oh fuck. Oh fuck. They’re supposed to see EARTH. Why can they see a huge marble?? Fuck. Fuck! They must’ve got shranked by space rays. Goddamn space rays made them so teeny! Fuck!! 1070099
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/06/2026I want fewer publications with worse graphics made by scientists who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding 13510
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/06/2026You cannot have an "equal partnership with AI"! That is not possible to do because AI cannot think, and thus cannot enter into a partnership of any kind! This is also why you should not be "leveraging" LLMs to teach!! Please just do your job regular-style, I am BEGGING you. 23611
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I definitely saw number 3 when I was reviewing something and it was so disheartening. 1195
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 17/06/2026Mkay pals we’re ✨ hopemaxxing ✨ Yall already know Spark, a youth-led mutual aid project in Gaza City. They’re hosting dozens of high school students prepping for exams this month! We’re collecting YOUR notes of encouragement for these amazing kids! Send hope: form.jotform.com/261667705466... 44741
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonAGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026🚨Proposed OMB rule could let political appointees override peer review, cancel grants mid-project, ban certain research topics, restrict publishing and more.🚨 Stand up for science! Learn more and use our resources to submit a public comment today ⬇️ agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...agu.quorum.usStop OMB From Erasing Federal ResearchA new proposed rule rewrites the terms of U.S. science 01110
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Truly lessons from video game development that can be ported to many different industries. 000
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026HALF of all federally funded clinical trials would be “illegal” under the new OMB rule. LEAVE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT AND YELL AT YOUR CONGRESS CRITTERS. 18881471
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonBríd 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @brid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan 7157681297
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonPlanetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Come join us in Flagstaff! 013
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 25/05/2026If anyone happens to be at #JpGU26 - #AGU joint meeting in Japan and has questions about publishing with JGR Planets, please feel free to reach out and come chat! I’m an associate editor for Planets and would be happy to answer any questions related to publishing’ 041
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonEthan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723arxiv.orgLLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citationsLarge language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p... 13429160
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonMichael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The National Academies literally exist so that scientists and engineers who understand science and engineering better than elected officials & their appointees do are available to report on those things. Yet again, USA: Require that Congress do its job, end all of this, and #ImpeachTrump. 213356
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 11/05/2026"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day 5508116
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonTony 🎃👻 @shintonty.bsky.social · 06/05/2026hey man can you just walk into my suspiciously boss-arena sized room. don't worry about the save point outside that's just to give you a break haha. just walk in. walk into this room right now 1144082038
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonEmily Hunt @emily.space · 30/04/2026instead of "planet" or "dwarf planet", we instead could have: 🪨 tiny rock (comets, asteroids, etc) 🌑 smol rock (makemake to mercury) 🌍 earth-like rock (mars upto a bit bigger) 🌕 super-rock 🔵 mini gas fren (neptune, uranus) 🪐 gas fren! (saturn, jupiter) 🟤 large gas fren!!! 811318
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Whenever I'm asked about Pluto this is the response I give. Pluto is such an incredible world in its own right and that's what people should see instead of this endless classification debate. 0123
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I don't often post about my reality TV show thoughts, but tonight's Survivor showed me why Jimmy Fallon is my least favorite of the late night Jimmys 🫠. 010
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonPlanetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Happy Earth Day! The Earth has hundreds of confirmed impact craters, which provide a key reference point for impact cratering research. Field and laboratory studies of terrestrial impact craters are a key part of how we learn about craters, including how they form and decay through time. 2188
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/04/2026Instead of doomering about the NASA budget proposal, I am going to focus on the fact that it's Earth Day and the Earth has many excellent impact craters. My top 3 are Meteor Crater, Manicouagan, and (of course) Chicxulub, but there's a whole lot of excellent craters out there. 1411425
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/04/2026BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won. 143108382561
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I was going through my box of notebooks and binders from undergrad in prep for moving over to a condo and I found this paper from my brief foray into heliophysics during my REU. So wild to see this now that @craig.deforest.org is one of my coworkers! 130
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonIsaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Louder for the people in the back. 037041523
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 02/04/2026How do we cherish the Moon? How can we best love the Moon? Good questions to ask when considering what it might be like to "return" to the Moon with people! 2153
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 02/04/2026Many of us have the Moon/space exploration on the mind, and I encourage folks to consider how we want to explore the Moon in the context of how we interact with treasured places on the Earth, like the Grand Canyon. I think about these pictures I took of moonrise from inside the canyon often. 15813
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/03/2026The actual reality of what’s going on with NASA is a real trip when juxtaposed with what a hit the NASA-saturated “Project Hail Mary” film seems to be. I wonder how many people who enjoyed the film are aware of just how much this admin has shanked all the cool real-world research it featured. 181548433
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/03/2026The PCC is a great community organization for those of us on the cratering side of planetary science! For students, their annual meeting is a wonderful and friendly place to present new work. Check them out! 082
Reposted by Dr. Sierra FergusonAftermath @aftermath.site · 25/03/2026Games Done Quick's long, difficult journey to a better gaming future aftermath.site/games-done-qui... 51035360
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I've been playing through Final Fantasy 9 for the first time and it's truly such a treat to experience. The NPC names are fantastic, with "Jobless Jeff" being one of the standouts for sure 🫡. Jobless Jeff trying to figure out what comes next at South Gate 131
Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Devastated to learn that what I thought was helping with clenching my jaw (chewing gum) was actually making it worse by strengthening the muscles 🥲. 130