Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 17mGot paid for a side gig today and sent the money to Spark Space - they’re on the ground doing the work to sustain a safe space for their community, and we can help them stay open: 010
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Dentonpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7hi genuinely forgot how bad this wasbuzzfeednews.comNobody 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... 24946268
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 4hSeems 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. 84324
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonThe Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what about in the ground 121910
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonDr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/09/2026Youth 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... 0109
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonEos @eos.org · 29/09/2026NASA 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...eos.orgNASA has Underspent on Research and Analysis for 15 Years - EosSpending 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. 03420
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonZoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 29/09/2026feels like a good time to recirculate my story about the ubiquity of rape culture, unfortunatelymothership.blogIt's everywhereRape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators 07023
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kat 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. 4487132
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026Trying to cook up an explainer for myself but I'm not good enough at dynamics. Is this anything 130
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026It's another excellent one by Ćuk and the gang: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...iopscience.iop.orgOrigin of Hyperion and Saturn’s Rings in a Two-stage Saturnian System InstabilityOrigin of Hyperion and Saturn’s Rings in a Two-stage Saturnian System Instability, Ćuk, Matija, El Moutamid, Maryame, Fuller, Jim, Lainey, Valéry 250
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026Real "prove me wrong" hours in the outer solar system 0110
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026I 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 4200
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026I 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. 658186
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026Is it a burden being so correct about the Mars exploration program? Yes, thank you for asking 0130
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026Working on my Mars slides for class, which means it's time to bring back my favorite slide I've ever made: 35215
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026It'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. 1421044
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonDr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/09/2026CHOOSE 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... 11113
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026"History of science" is a really broad field, tbh, and one that does get broken up into temporal and geographical subfields, as with other types of historical research. So, history of science as an umbrella term encompasses anything aimed at the history of scientific advances/research. 110
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026Wow, incredible pull for class reading. I wish I could do something like that! During the day allocated to ethics of space exploration I touch on the connections between economic exploitation on Earth and plans for colonizing Mars/asteroid mining, but mostly assign short articles. 200
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026Anyway, I think my history degree is what makes me a great scientist, and as a bonus it makes me really fun at parties when someone misuses the term "anarchy" and baits me into describing the Paris Commune of 1871. There are many benefits. 5403
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026A lot of things about impact cratering knowledge make more sense once you understand where our knowledge came from. This is true of every scientific subfield - what is now "established knowledge" has to come from somewhere, and be established by someone. That's our history. We should know it! 1273
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026The study of impacts and collisional physics, including my own research, is inextricably linked to the Cold War. Vital knowledge comes from conventional and nuclear weapons tests, which affected what data could be shared with the scientific community and has shaped how impact research developed. 1232
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026In STEM classes, we encourage students to cultivate a curiosity about why things are the way they are - why do mountains form? why are asteroids shaped like that? It's just as important that they ask similar questions about the history of the field, and how it affects the questions we ask today. 1251
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026I work the history of earth/planetary science into every class I teach - it's important for students to understand how we got here. My introduction to impact craters last week started with a discussion of how scientists realized craters on the Moon are caused by asteroid and comet impacts. 1271
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026It'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. 1421044
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Dentonconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’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. 562067282
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonRebecca 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...tribalbusinessnews.comPenobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres in first phase of major land returnThe Penobscot Nation has regained 11,297 acres near Katahdin as partners pursue a $32.5 million effort to return more than 30,000 acres. 415967
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 26/09/2026Oof!! Totally understandable. Not a time for hobbies! 110
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 26/09/2026I was seconds away from showing off pictures of my brother's cats before they stopped me to explain. Alas, I didn't get that job, so maybe I should've shown the cats off anyway. 1290
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 26/09/2026A lot, actually! Central peaks come from collapse of the crater during formation, and the amount of collapse that happens depends on internal properties like heat flow and, in the case of Mimas, the presence/absence of an ocean. 010
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 26/09/2026Thinking 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) 2301
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don’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. 91728323
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please 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. 52518653
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Dentonjessamyn @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...historysplayground.comWatch Are You a Librarian | History's PlaygroundRent the Are You a Librarian documentary for $3.99 and stream it for 72 hours on History's Playground. 218374
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026Strive to be so good at what you do that they will hire you even if you bring an iced coffee to the interview. 421820
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/09/2026I'm something of a Mimas image enthusiast myself 2120
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 25/09/2026I'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). 4248
Reposted by Dr. Adeene DentonDr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 24/09/2026Spark 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... 21316
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026We are LIVE! Listen here: 1190.radio1190.radioKVCU Radio 1190 – 1190 AM Boulder & 92.9 FM Denver 040
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026Have 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 080
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026The 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 030
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026I have to walk 4 miles round trip to teach so bringing in samples is genuinely a labor of love. Everyone deserves to touch rocks 090
Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 24/09/2026They LOVED the shattercones. I knew collecting shattercones on 3 different continents would pay off 1301