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Dr. Adeene Denton

@spacewhalerider.com
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Planetary scientist, earth + space science historian, dancer/choreographer, part-time community radio DJ. (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈 adeenedenton.com

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 3h
Seems like fewer, but larger, nuclear reactors would be more efficient but YOLO. In any case, the USA currently has fewer than 100 (96 in March) nuclear reactors operating so this literally a proposed 5x increase in nuclear reactors. On public land. For a bubble.
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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 23h
what about in the ground
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 22h
Youth opened Spark to bring hope to the community. And hope is not an abstract feeling. A "weekly/monthly” five enables this community center to stay open and support displaced youth to learn skills and reconstruct their lives, careers, futures. 91/300 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/spar...
An artistic banner with an illustration of a sunflower on a deep pink background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace
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Eos @eos.org · 29/09/2026
NASA has ignored recommended funding levels for planetary research & analysis for 15 years, according to a new investigative report by Mark Sykes (@coop.planetary-research.org). And for FY2025, it hasn’t even spent 50% of what it budgeted for R&A. 🧪🪐🔭 eos.org/research-and...
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NASA has Underspent on Research and Analysis for 15 Years - Eos
Spending for NASA’s research and analysis programs has remained relatively flat for 15 years, ignoring recommendations from community-led decadal surveys and directives by Congress.
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 29/09/2026
feels like a good time to recirculate my story about the ubiquity of rape culture, unfortunately
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It's everywhere
Rape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026
I love how every year at least one paper comes out with a completely new way to explain the differences in Saturn's mid-sized moons, and everyone just has to go
Guy throwing up his hands saying "I guess!"
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026
I haven't had anything to add re: Cornell, because I don't think anyone wants to use this space to reckon with the fact that none of these systems are meant to help you, unless you are a university seeking to minimize your legal exposure. It's not fair to ask strangers to reckon with that here.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026
Working on my Mars slides for class, which means it's time to bring back my favorite slide I've ever made:
The "we're so back/it's so over meme" that has been edited so the x-axis is time from 1960 through 2040. The plot oscillates semi-sinusoidally between positive (we're so back) and negative (it's so over). It's labeled Mars Exploration Timeline.

The start of the timeline is small oscillations close to zero. These are labeled: first Soviet attempts (note: none of the Soviet attempts worked but they sure tried). The steep positive peak next to it, we're back, is labeled Viking landers. Then a massive negative, it's so over, is labeled: everyone crashes in the 90s. Look up Mars exploration to learn more about this. Then an even larger positive spike, we're so back, is for Curiosity and the other Mars rovers.  Then a positive/negative combined spike is labeled Mars 2020 (for various reasons). Then a last negative, it's over (real) is labeled Mars Sample Return. This is accurate.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026
It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/09/2026
CHOOSE HOPE 💚 I'll be real. The reason I'm running this membership drive for the giving circle is that every family is facing an emergency, and support is down by 35%. Views on this post are down by the same amount. Read this. Just a 5. Make it recurring: chuffed.org/project/hope...
A colorful graphic with text: what can 5 dollars do if you click weekly or monthly? Ensure a lifeline for 6 families and a displacement camp of 15 more. On the side are three coffee cups arranged in a cycle, labeled small, steady, sustainable. in the center is the word 'survival.'
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026
It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#LandBack! The Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its the first phase of a 30,000-acre land return. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/rea...
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Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres in first phase of major land return
The Penobscot Nation has regained 11,297 acres near Katahdin as partners pursue a $32.5 million effort to return more than 30,000 acres.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 26/09/2026
Thinking about my favorite bad job interview moment, when I was (illegally) asked whether I have a family. I was so oblivious that I didn't understand the question and said "Yes, I have parents! And a brother 🙂" which forced them to admit what they actually wanted to know (If I had kids)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Are You A Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians follows the librarians who kept the doors open when the law said they shouldn't-from segregated reading rooms to freedom libraries to the branches serving our communities now" Rentable/streamable 📚 www.historysplayground.com/are-you-a-li...
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Watch Are You a Librarian | History's Playground
Rent the Are You a Librarian documentary for $3.99 and stream it for 72 hours on History's Playground.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
Strive to be so good at what you do that they will hire you even if you bring an iced coffee to the interview.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/09/2026
I'm obviously biased because I study Mimas (and Herschel specifically), but this little moon really is incredibly interesting and unique. There's a lot we can learn from its cratering record about whether it may actually be a "stealth" ocean world (one whose ocean seems missing at first glance).
Cassini's two highest-resolution views from its 13 February 2010 flyby of Mimas caught the southern half of the crater Herschel and an area to its east. This view is composed of two clear-filter images taken from the raw JPEG website. They were rotated to put north up and their levels adjusted to make the coloration fairly continuous. The interior of Herschel is covered in what appears to be post-formation modification. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / mosaic by Emily LakdawallaAnother Cassini image, this one from farther away in 2005. Herschel lies on the terminator of Mimas in this image, keeping the entire crater floor in shadow with the exception of the central peak. The overall effect is mildly menacing.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 24/09/2026
Spark is a community center in Gaza that serves displaced youth with resources and classes. Will anyone care? I do. Click “weekly/monthly" on something small to keep it from closing. chuffed.org/project/spar...
An artistic banner with an illustration of a white clay lamp with a yellow flame, against a deep magenta background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026
We are LIVE! Listen here: 1190.radio
1190.radio
KVCU Radio 1190 – 1190 AM Boulder & 92.9 FM Denver
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026
Have been pretty offline lately due to working two jobs (research postdoc + adjunct teaching faculty) so it's I keep seeing "Apocalyptic Evangelism" and assuming everyone on bksy has been getting into Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026
The Search for Planet 9 is BACK this week in about an hour, with a selection of hardcore EDM to help lighten your afternoon workload. I'm very happy to be back in the radio station! Tune in here at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET: 1190.radio
Graphic that reads: The Search for Planet 9, 1 pm MT on Thursdays. Listen at 1190.radio
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026
They LOVED the shattercones. I knew collecting shattercones on 3 different continents would pay off
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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When you think of it, artificial intelligence is ableist and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Marxist movement should seek to abolish it.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 23/09/2026
Got my class full of aerospace engineers and astronomy majors so geology-pilled that they asked me to bring in some rocks to show them tomorrow 🥹
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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#OTD 23 September 1846, Neptune was observed by German astronomer Johann G. Galle, confirming French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier's prediction of the planet's existence. Neptune had been observed many times in the past but not recognised. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discove... @science.esa.int
A picture of Neptune taken by NASA's Voyager 2 in August 1989. The colour image was composed of three frames, orange, green and blue, calibrated to best represent Neptune's true blue-grey colour and appearance.
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"haha no worries" - me writing an email or text when I am at my most fatally worried
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026
need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026
Being a cratering expert means I get to make a "'complex' crater? I find it quite simple" joke in the meeting to near-universal disgust
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 22/09/2026
The youth who run Spark Space and the youth they support matter. A "weekly/monthly” five enables this community center to stay open and support displaced youth in developing new skills and reconstruct their lives, careers, futures: chuffed.org/project/spar...
An artistic banner with an illustration of a sunflower on a deep pink background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026
Got my hopes up, only to find the actual response to be “we’ve carefully decided that we will change nothing” lmao
LPSC 2027 location announcement We acknowledge that the community has a range of perspectives on the conference location. We have carefully considered the feedback we’ve received, including preferences for holding LPSC outside Texas and support for keeping it in The Woodlands. LPSC will continue to offer virtual participation, allowing all community members to attend this important scientific conference, which has been a mainstay of planetary science for 58 years.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shorter version of the linked article but written by the original authors is here: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ai-...
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AI is distorting archaeology and flattening Indigenous Knowledge
While artificial intelligence can help archaeologists, it can also spread pseudoscientific claims and false histories, stripping Indigenous knowledge of context, consent and community control, say Uni...
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026
Geologists made up for this classic blunder by first creating a prequel (the Ancestral Rocky Mountains) and naming several excellent mountain-building epochs (Laramide Orogeny, etc.)
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 22/09/2026
I host this. I used to transfer their Chuffed funds every 7–10 days. Now it’s once a month because it’s so little. A community center in Gaza. The latest is supporting PhD students…universities are physically destroyed but are actually still operatin… life doesn’t stop. chuffed.org/project/spar...
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions Starting Fall 2027
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026
Spark Space has done so much for their community, including providing free space for students to study, in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. They continue on with our help! Help support their work by kicking in $5 or $10, and doing so weekly if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...
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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026
Anyone know if that spreadsheet of places recruiting planetary science grad students is up for this year?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I cannot say this enough. If you are currently doing life-affirming work and organizing in your communities, keep doing that work. People who are working their asses off keep reaching out to me asking what more they should do. YOU ARE DOING IT.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 21/09/2026
Poe from "Rise of Skywalker" saying "somehow, Monday returned" with an appropriately dejected look on his face
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20/09/2026
Hi folks, we are helping a PhD student in Gaza with his thesis. He has designed a survey for folks ANYWHERE in the disaster/crisis management, urban planning, engineering, & humanitarian sectors to fill out. English: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Arabic: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🙏🏾
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Does this form look suspicious? Report
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 20/09/2026
I try to enter academic spaces assuming that committed solidarity and communal action are possible. In theory this is a good thing, because group action can start from anywhere. In practice this means I get really mad all the time
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 20/09/2026
Spark Space has done so much for their community, including providing free space for students to study, in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. They continue on with our help! Help support their work by kicking in $5 or $10, and doing so weekly if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...
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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…
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