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Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Capping off February with our Lead Ambassador Highlight! Yueyi Che, a glaciologist studying snow & ice, shares how SciX transformed her lit review. Read her story: scixplorer.org/scixblog/sci...

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I took snippets from the Curtis Yarvin (techno-fascist idea originator driving current dismantling of the government) NYT interview and used the unaltered words as lyrics set to dystopian hyperpop suno.com/song/99f4b48...

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End of Democracy by @sjarmak | Suno

Infectious EDM, Dystopian Hyperpop song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

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Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

ADS/SciX has been experiencing a DDoS attack. This attack resulted in several orders of magnitude higher levels of traffic than usual. We have increased our resource scaling capabilities and blacklisted the 100s of thousands of offending IPs and the issue is hopefully resolved.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I urge you all to not follow demonizing, misinformation spreading pages, I see this happening from folks with good intentions but I respectfully encourage that you only share information you can check sources for. I’m going to follow this up with excerpts from ‘Let This Radicalize You’

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2025

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

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It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership. Today vs. January

Screencap of American Geophysical Union DEI webpage (URL at end) reading "Inclusion at AGU" on a banner with "AGU Ethics & Equity Center" link below it.

https://www.agu.org/learn-about-agu/about-agu/diversity-and-inclusion

Screencap Wayback Machine archive version of American Geophysical Union DEI webpage (URL at end) from January 04 2025, reading "Diversity & Inclusion at AGU" on a banner with "Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at AGU" section below it, with link to "Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Please consider signing this open letter written by the planetary science community if you are concerned about recent policy changes impacting scientists: sites.google.com/view/space-s...

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Space Science is for Everyone: An Open Letter Written February 6, 2025

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/02/2025

Apparently NASA HQ has been told to remove all Pride Flag imagery from the office. I swear to god you guys, if that places doesn't look like a fucking unicorn exploded in there in the next two days..

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a lego batman movie poster with a quote from the movie

ALT: a lego batman movie poster with a quote from the movie

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The President can have his own views about these matters. He can try to make his
views into policy. But he cannot seize Congress’s power of the purse. He cannot deny due
process to millions of Americans. And he cannot abridge or disrupt the free speech of those who
disagree. Those are the constitutional and legal transgressions of the J20 and J21 Orders. To
remedy these harms, and to defend core Constitutional rights, Plaintiffs bring this suit.

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Erin M. May, PhD @astronomay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

❗❗NASA is pausing program analysis groups activities. These are the groups that provide community input to the Astrophysics and Planetary Divisions to help shape the science that NASA supports. Source: I'm on the ExoPAG executive committee (repost with more emails blocked)

Screenshot of email from NASA headquarters sent to ExoPAG executive committee. It asks the ExoPAG to pause all meetings and activities to ensure compliance with presidential actions, and links to several EOs and memos.

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Meeting my doctor today to say yeah I guess I do still need to spend over 500/month (until hitting deductible, then 50) to function 🤷‍♀️

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Baptiste Journaux @bjour.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Incredibly excited to annonce the publication of our new experimental thermodynamic work at high pressures with the definition of a novel thermodynamic invariant point: The Cenotectic (κ) nature.com/articles/s41...

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On the equilibrium limit of liquid stability in pressurized aqueous systems - Nature Communications

The authors define the cenotectic — the low-temperature stability limit for a liquid under arbitrary thermodynamic conditions — and measure it for several aqueous solutions of relevance to extraterres...

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

On my quick flight home from AGU I had a window seat and spent some of the time doodling my view. I also had a window seat on the way to AGU, but the cover was presumably designed to stay shut as I was getting nervously sideeyed by the attendants while trying very unsuccessfully to heave it up.

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I made a custom GPT that connects to the ADS/SciX API to help with literature searches and finding relevant earth and space science info that we have in our digital library. Try to break it and/or tell me if it’s working for how you’d use it! 🤖 📚 🚀 chatgpt.com/g/g-67316605...

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ChatGPT - SciX Chat Assistant

A helpful research assistant that connects to the ADS API to find papers of interest and export their citations as needed.

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I stayed up a little later than I wanted to because my husband and I were trying to debug my hacky code (without AI, like olden times) that I insisted to make work instead of the obvious one line solution to the puzzle 😂 we actually googled and * read * documentation 🙀

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I downloaded Juno so I could solve an advent of code puzzle using an IDE on my phone between powerlifting reps 🙃 somehow my dopamine levels seem to have been fixed since this time last year and I have motivation to do things sometimes

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My 4.5 y/o lets me know when his context window ends; I told him I was working on a problem and he asked what it was. I said, are you sure, it’s pretty technical? And he said yes so I got most of the way through describing it for him and he said ‘okay too long now’ and shifted back to paw patrol 😅

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Omg why wasn’t I using cursor before; as a planetary scientist cosplaying as a software developer it is amazing 🥹 I was released from work already but I love this and so I’m still playing with it 😅

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

When talking with people about things outside my immediate area of expertise I’ll often be like ‘this may be a stupid question …’ or ‘I have a naive question …’ and then usually the response is something like ‘actually nobody knows the answer and that’s why they pay us the big bucks’ 😆

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I spent part of my summer writing and illustrating science children’s books, one on how scientists love ✨everything ✨ and about the solar system, sharing links to the images here: sjarmak.com/the-worlds-w... sjarmak.com/you-are-a-sc...

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The Worlds We Know Illustrations

The ebook is available for free on Kindle unlimited and the paperback version is available for purchase here.

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This time last year I didn’t know what an ontology was and now I’m the elected AGU Informatics Section secretary somehow 🥳 I am still a planetary scientist but it’s been super fun to learn more about information science and to support scientific literature discovery 📚

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I joined a slack dedicated to search engineering recently (cuz I also do that now, working on the ADS), and was gushing to my team about all the search people there that I think are so cool and I’m pretty certain they all think I’m a major dork but to be fair I definitely am so I’m not mad 🤷‍♀️

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

I’m happy to share the frontier of planetary rings with you all (modified talk titles for clarity), Planet rings come from dirt Counting weird stuff in Saturn's ring Computer makes tiny, weird rings Another model solves Saturn's rings A computer has thoughts on how old and dirty Saturn's rings are

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

I asked GPT-4 for some art prompts, guess the prompt

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

My 3 y/o eating chips and queso for the first time: ‘OH my GOD queso is so delicious.’ Very correct, yes

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Me following my friend back into the secured meeting without my QR code to get past the gate, ‘I’ll just go through right after you, at the same time pretty much’ * alarm blaring in the background as we shuffle to the elevators * ‘well I guess their system can detect a binary system’ 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

On my way back home from the NASA small bodies meeting, lots of fun with friends. Listening to a Wombats song over and over on the flight as one does, ‘I wear a suitcase under each one of my eyes … astrophysics, you’ll never be my closest friend, I find no comfort, in what my mind can’t comprehend’

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

wow totk went for the gut with the realism here

A screenshot from Tears of the Kingdom. The reporter Penn is talking to Link in the Lucky Clover newspaper office. His dialogue has been edited to read, "Oh, actually, we decided to use AI to do a "Ten places Zelda Might Be" list instead of field reporting.

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Hi, it’s me, the tired reviewer reviewing 25 proposals on a plane that all the workshops warned you about 🤡

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

The coffee people think I’m cool enough to pull off just an i at the end, I’m flattered

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Set up the telescope in the drive way while the Sun was out, a neighbor walked by ‘… you can, do that?’ Yep, it’s allowed

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

I drew my astronomer friend’s doggos last night. I showed my 3 year old this morning and I said ‘what are these?’, he said ‘dogs?’, and I said ‘yeah! Nice.’ he said ‘yeah, but … why are they in space?’ He doesn’t question when I draw him dragons, but dogs in space? Worrisome

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Me trying to parent: it’s okay to be wrong, we don’t know everything and it’s important to say when we don’t know something 3 y/o: No. 🤷🏼‍♀️ work in progress

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Waffle needs to up his engagement metrics

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