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“In order to invest in a new vision, and a new way of living, we have to believe in each other and our capacity to create something better. Our belief in human potential must outweigh our fear of human failure. Our imaginations must be courageous.” ❤️

“Challenging the mythologies of this system, reordering our fears, and investing ourselves in collective struggle are huge steps, and they are not steps most people will take merely because conditions are deteriorating.”

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“Joining the ranks of such struggles may come naturally to some. For many people, though, choosing to believe that change is possible and that it can only come from working in concert with other people requires tremendous courage.”

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“Fortunately, the death-makers of this system have never gone unopposed. There have always been dissenters and freedom fighters organizing against the violence and avarice of capitalism and white supremacy.”

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But capitalism requires an ever-broadening disposable class of people in order to maintain itself, which in turn requires us to believe that there are people whose fates are not linked to our own: people who must be abandoned or eliminated.

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“Acknowledging this truth threatens a social order built on the myth that we need authority to protect us from our own chaotic impulses in times of crisis. The state sees communal care as an ideological threat.“

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“People are capable of overcoming, or at least negotiating, difference for the sake of their common interests, especially in moments of crisis.”

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“When no longer ruled by a manufactured fear of one another, we experience a form of liberation. It is not a total liberation, as the structures that oppress us are, for now, very much intact, but we experience a kind of unshackling that allows us to begin the process of dismantling individualism”

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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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I know, we’ve just received some emails from concerned users including one that asked if we were intentionally doing something to halt scientific progress through technical difficulties, so I wanted to say something to the effect of ‘absolutely not’ 🥲

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We also appreciate everyone’s patience as we work on unrelated technical issues stemming from high traffic. Our goal is to support scientists and we work very hard to do so, that is always our main priority ❤️

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We are working as a team and with partners to identify opportunities to bolster ADS/SciX, we are not currently at any risk but we are taking steps to proactively discuss mitigation strategies that would enable us to continue supporting our communities.

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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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Home

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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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Something I’m also concerned about is the expansion of the ADS to SciX (ingesting content for all NASA SMD disciplines) … some of our example searches we have used to showcase this expansion that is dominated by earth science content are things like ‘climate change’.

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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

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 😅

Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Ah okay that’s pretty much my process as well

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Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Yeah I’m mostly using it for very straightforward metadata processing tasks and it’s been great at that. I would be more mindful if it was code that would go into a production pipeline to minimize incurring tech debt. Do you have any pointers on the types of protocols people use?

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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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I told my husband about how I do this and wondered whether it was disingenuous to preface questions this way but he assured me it’s actually a great way of priming people and he also does this when questioning assumptions in groups

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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The Worlds We Know Illustrations

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 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

At first I read this as the search community starter pack and was about to follow a bunch of peeps if that’s what it was 😆

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Here’s the link! join.slack.com/t/relevancy/... It’s hosted by opensource connections, their blog post on it is here: opensourceconnections.com/blog/2021/07...

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Slack

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

I spent 3 hours last night using ChatGPT to add 1500 definitions with citations to an ontology to support our search and it did a surprisingly good job; we unfortunately don’t have the ability to hire a taxonomist 😅 we’re experimenting with a solr ontology tagger and eventual hybrid search

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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