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Dr. Deep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Not sure how anyone can root for OKC… what an awful brand of basketball

Dr. Deep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

happy to say that I've been named the 2026 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist! very grateful for all my wonderful collaborators and mentors who've made this possible 🙂 news.stsci.edu/4ucX58v

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Dr. Gagandeep Anand Receives 2026 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist Award

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

NASA’s next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed Did you think that the cuts to NASA made in 2025 had all been reversed, and everything is now fine? Think again. NASA's AXIS mission, on account of that 2025 bloodbath, is now dead. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #NASA #AXIS #Xray

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NASA's next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed

The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hubble-pee... 🔭 🧪

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Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe

No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/01/2026

it’s incredibly important to note that on the new footage that came out from the ICE agent himself, halfway through the video he switches his phone between his hands, opening up to grab his gun way before renee good even starts driving

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 09/01/2026

The new Congressional NASA budget does look way better, but we need to acknowledge that even if NASA "gets its budget back," it will not undo the massive amount of damage done across the country. It won't bring back the many scientists and engineers who've lost their jobs and had to move on!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Astronomers are on “Cloud 9” with a new, starless gas cloud Just 16 million light-years away is a massive cloud of gas, weighing in at around 1.4 million solar masses. And yet, there are no stars inside at all. Here's what that means. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #stars #astronomy #astro

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Astronomers are on "Cloud 9" with a new, starless gas cloud

Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.

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Dagnabitalltoheck (she/her) @dagnabitalltoheck.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.) the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/11/2025

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 07/11/2025

The mistake that the Senate Dems are making is that they think they are playing a game that will be repeated in the future-in which case, the optimal course of action is compromise. But the Trump regime is doing all it can to ensure this is the last cycle under the Constitutional order.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 06/11/2025

They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/11/2025

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

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Dr. Deep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

if you are at all interested in the status of the local value of the Hubble constant/tension, I would very much recommend reading this new paper! the local results are very robust, and point to a sizable and significant tension with measurements inferred from data from the early Universe 🔭🧪

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#Cosmology The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision The baseline result is H0=73.50+/-0.81 km/s/Mpc. by the H0DN Collaboration: Stefano Casertano, et al (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2510.23823 🧪

This is Figure 1 of the paper, a conceptual overview of the Local Distance Network, a many routes approach, featuring what looks like a metro map with routes converging on H0.

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Dr. Deep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

can’t even make this shit up anymore

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Dr. Deep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

someone get the FBI to investigate OKC this shit is unwatchable

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Genuinely curious: can Dems physically get close enough to use this as a backdrop? Political malpractice not to if you can.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The NBA is back tonight! Follow #NBAsky and convince your friends that Shams still posting on twitter is not a good reason to stay.

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Dr. Deep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I count at least 2130 proposals so far 😭 #jwstcycle5 🔭🧪

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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The JWST Cycle 5 "Procrastination Monitor", i.e. Molly's proposal counter submission form, is up an running. Please fill it out if you have data to add to it. And do share! #JWSTCycle5 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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JWST Cycle 5 Proposal Procrastination Monitor

An anonymous way to monitor JWST proposal submission times In the email from proposal-submission@stsci, the subject line will be like, "JWST Phase I Proposal 3434 submission 4 received". Here, 3434 =...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

FUCK ICE FOREVER

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

Another source at NIH agreed and told me they were "all for a shutdown." That's in spite of the fact that their life would be substantially altered as a result. "A shut down would be very disruptive to my personal work and personal finances but we are so far beyond what is permissible in a functioning society and government," they said.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

feeling this again today

headline of my handbasket post from monday "The is simply too much shit"

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#Cosmology The Perfect Host: JWST Cepheid Observations in a Background-Free SN Ia Host Confirm No Bias in Hubble-Constant Measurements by Adam Riess and co-authors (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2509.01667 🧪

This is Figure 1 of the paper, with caption reading: Left: Color image (red-green-blue) of the NGC 3447 field, generated from HST WFC3/UVIS imaging (F 814W/F 555W + F 814W/F 555W ). The tidal companion (NGC 3447A; left) and the main body (NGC 3447; right) regions used in this paper are delineated using dashed ellipses (the region to the lower-left of the yellow dashed line in the dwarf region was further excluded, to remove a separate dwarf in projection). Right: Zoom-in views that show color JWST/NIRCam (F 277W/F 150W/F 090W ) imaging from a region within the dwarf (top) and the main body (bottom). These two cutouts are shown with identical stretch and contrast (drawn from the same parent image) to highlight the lack of crowded stellar background in the dwarf region. Cepheids are identified using yellow circles.

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

David Grinspoon confirms that his term appointment as NASA's Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy will not be renewed and the position itself is being eliminated. He'll participate in Wednesday's Astrobiology Update (which is listed on our Calendar).

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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Getting A NASA Grant Just Became Very Political nasawatch.com/trumpspace/g... - "Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."

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Getting A NASA Grant Just Became Overtly Political

White House Executive Order "Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking" dropped today

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Susan Bell @susanbellair.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

NASA Goddard is in real jeopardy!!! Employees received a memo that center is closing the cafeterias, vending, visitor center, rec center, etc. Oct 1, which is start of the fiscal year. HQ Cheeto lackeys trying to kill NASA before Congress can act.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/07/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Jeffrey Epstein during a 2010 deposition: Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? A: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.

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WIRED @wired.com · 23/07/2025

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL. www.wired.com/story/a-top-...

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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Goddard Director resigned…

Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, announced that she will leave NASA, effective Friday, Aug. 1.
As center director of Goddard since April 2023, Makenzie also was responsible for guiding the direction and management of multiple other NASA field installations including Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Katherine Johnson Independent Verification & Validation Facility in West Virginia, the White Sands Complex in New Mexico, and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas.
Having served in a variety of science and aerospace civilian and government roles in her career, Makenzie contributed to a variety of NASA's priority science missions including successful operations of our James Webb Space Telescope and Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, as well as development of the agency's Roman Space Telescope, and more. As a planetary scientist and astronomer, Makenzie's scientific work has been in using ground- and space-based astronomical observatories to understand the interactions and dynamics of planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres - the relationships between planets and their surrounding space environments.
We're grateful to Makenzie for her leadership at NASA Goddard for more than two years including her work to inspire a Golden Age of explorers, scientists, and engineers. Following Makenzie's departure, Cynthia Simmons will serve as acting center director Cynthia is the current deputy center director. She previously served as the Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at Goddard and has extensive experience supporting missions for NASA, DoD and commercial space and science missions. We are confident Cynthia is prepared to guide Goddard through this transition.
Before joining the agency, Makenzie served as senior director for Ball's Civil Space Advanced Systems and Business Development, where she managed new business activities for NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and …

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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/07/2025

Breaking news: The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. scim.ag/4eIo0m4

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U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

NASA started in 1958, so to cut it to early 1960s levels is back to an era when NASA was just beginning. It is so alarming seeing many senior colleagues at NASA, international scientific leaders and innovators, saying their goodbyes on social media and e-mail.

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

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Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented…

The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

in the #arXiv Envisioning the Distance Ladder in the Era of the Habitable Worlds Observatory by Gagandeep Anand @styrofoamplates.bsky.social and co-authors arxiv.org/abs/2507.02056 #HWO #Cosmology 🧪

This is Figure 1 of the paper. Caption reads: Main panel: false-color HST imaging of IC 4040, a spiral galaxy in the Coma Cluster at 100 Mpc. The upper inset panel zooms in on a small region of the HST image, showing that individual stars cannot be resolved. The lower two panels show a simulation of the same scene imaged with a 6m version of HWO, which resolves the galaxy into stars. The center panel shows a luminous Cepheid at maximum light (MV = −6.5), and the lower the same Cepheid at minimum light (MV = −5.1).

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

NASA appears to be pressuring mission leaders to think of the White House's FY26 budget proposal as an operating plan (i.e., work to close out missions even though Congress hasn't decided on the budget yet): arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act

“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Yet again: Managers do not have to follow illegal executive orders.

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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Audio from today's #NASA Town Hall: soundcloud.com/keith-cowing... Speakers - Janet Petro, Acting NASA Administrator - Brian Hughes, NASA Chief of Staff - Vanessa Wyche, Acting NASA Associate Administrator - Casey Swails, Deputy Associate Administrator

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/06/2025

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur. Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

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Keith Cooper @keithpcooper.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

My latest for @physicsworld.bsky.social explores the deepening mystery of the Hubble tension, as new results – with one exception – emphasise how local measurements of the Universe's expansion rate differ from the value predicted by the CMB. Is new physics needed? physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-con...

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Cosmic conflict continues: new data fuel the Hubble tension debate – Physics World

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict – or do they?

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