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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🚨🚀🚨 NEW SPACE CONFERENCE ALERT 🚨🚀🚨 The Planetary Science Community Workshop, organized by @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social & @millionconcepts.com, will be held in Louisville, KY on April 14-16 and is aimed at bringing together academia, industry & gov. More here: planetaryworkshop.org

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I went through all of my old Medium posts today & removed the paywall so they're free to read for anyone now! From nerding out over Mars to discussing the pyramid scheme of academia to what it's like being a queer+disabled scientist, check out the archives here: tanyaofmars.medium.com

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Dr. Tanya Harrison – Medium

Read writing from Dr. Tanya Harrison on Medium. Professional Martian who's worked on rocks and robots on the Red Planet, now thinking about curiosity closer to home.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

After a 2-year hiatus, I finally posted on Medium again (and after like 4 months off Bluesky, hello again!). My goal for 2026 is to write more, and this felt like a good impetus to restart the blog and also explain where my head was at during my time away: tanyaofmars.medium.com/reflections-...

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Reflections and Returning to Writing (Or, Another Post About Self-Exploration Rather Than Space…

It’s been almost exactly two years since I last posted here.

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

'Moonrise Sunrise' 2,308 images photographed by Jonny Kim are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this 6x real time video footage. Credit: Jonny Kim / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran youtu.be/PjMRIzXn-RU

Title screen for 'Moonrise Sunrise' shows a moonlit Earth from ISS showing HTV-X1 cargo module and robotic arm in the foreground. Red light shines on ISS. Approaching dawn & zodiacal light illuminates the horizon and a star filled night sky.

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Hey Martians, did I mention we now also have a video of epic Phobos passing over a Martian dust storm near Pavonis Mons? 🌪️🌋🥔 Video & full info: flic.kr/p/2rNN8wk Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY @esa.int Mars Express HRSC 300 MP Photo quoted below Easy zoom: easyzoom.com/image/674026

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ArtAstraPodcast.bsky.social @artastrapodcast.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In episode 11, Emily & Alexa chat with planetary scientist and space industry strategist, Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social, about Mars, science communication, and finding your path in the space industry. Available wherever you get your podcasts! www.artastra.space/episodes/mar...

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Episode 11: Mars Photography and Finding Your Way in Space with Dr. Tanya Harrison — Art Astra Podcast

Join Emily and Alexa as they chat with planetary scientist and space industry strategist Dr. Tanya Harrison about Mars, science communication, and finding your path in the space industry.

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Judy Schmidt @geckzilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Worked on this yesterday with my new found free time with the kid starting school. From HST Proposal 17067, The diversity of protoplanetary disks: Imaging a complete sample of edge-on disks in four nearby star-forming regions Principal Investigator: Gaspard Duchene flic.kr/p/2rnisMm

A serene celestial scene with soft and subtle blue clouds and a scattering of stars. The three brightest stars are nestled within a central hollow of the nebula. Their light gently reflects from the nearby cloud rim, shadowing into a vignette at the periphery. A few of the stars stand out with an orange glow. There is a tiny but noteworthy orange "hamburger" of an accreting star in the left half of the image. Looking closer, one can see the "buns" are actually broad cones of light and the "patty" is the shadow of the accreting disk of dust. The star itself is unseen. This is actually the subject of study for the image.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/08/2025

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Thanks for sharing a bit of my career story! 🧡

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Dr. Sian Proctor @drsianproctor.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I love my SpaceX Inspiration4 spacesuit & can’t believe she’ll be on display in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum next week in the new Futures in Space exhibit. I’ll be there Monday from 11-12 for a Q&A with Space History curator Emily Margolis. Come say hi! 👋🏾👩🏾‍🚀🚀🙏🏽 airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/eve...

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In Conversation with Sian Proctor

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's International Moon Day! Since the 1950s, humans have been sending missions to the Moon. This rich archaeological record is under threat from proposed mining and settlement activities. #InternationalMoonDay 🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

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Who is responsible for heritage in outer space?

A new international agreement raises questions about what counts as cultural property in space, how it should be protected and who should do the protecting

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17/07/2025

Improve your surroundings with #sciart Latest paintings: artologica.etsy.com

12 different ink and watercolor paintings in various science-related themes

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

"...anyone who actually understands LLMs knows that it can’t achieve new ways of thinking. It’s just putting together words in the most statistically likely way, forming connections that may sound like a well-thought-out argument but are actually not...'intelligence' as humans would define it."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/07/2025

Creative work in general pays far less than people think it does, especially relative to the notability one can have. The correlation between "fame" and "income" is rather shaky, especially the further down you go on the fame power curve. Lots of "world famous" creators are broke as hell.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I got one of these the first time around and can say, being from the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's legit the best umbrella I've ever owned. 10/10 would recommend if you're in the market for an ultra-nerdy umbrella! ❤️

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A large brown barge, a cyclonic region in the North Hemisphere, on Jupiter as it appeared to Juno on Perijove 18. flic.kr/p/2iV5zCS

A large and long brown cloud system, sorta resembling Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨🚨🚨 FREE DATA ALERT! 🚨🚨🚨 If you're a federally funded researcher in the U.S., you can access GHGSat's high-resolution methane emissions data for free through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program! 🌎 More info on how to apply here: bit.ly/3I4ldrs

Rendering showing GHGSat satellites orbiting Earth with visualizations of plumes in rainbow colour ramps. The GHGSat and NASA logos are visible with the text "Methane Data via NASA CSDA. Learn more on ghgsat.com".

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Permanently shadowed craters on Mercury: amazing results! • Older polar craters host more ice, suggesting steady-state processes drive long-term accumulation. • Younger radar-bright craters imply recent resurfacing • Two young, ice-rich craters suggest episodic delivery from comets or asteroids. 🧪

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New insights into the origin of ice: chronological implication from 14 permanently shadowed craters on Mercury

The polar regions of Mercury are characterised by areas known as permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), which provide stable thermal conditions for wate…

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Light pollution, both on the ground and from megaconstellations, is cutting us off from one of the only universal things humanity shares across the globe: Visual access to the night sky. And it has serious biological, scientific, and cultural consequences: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

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Under attack: How humanity is losing the night sky

Losing the dark isn’t just about the stars. It has dire consequences for human health as well as the natural world.

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The Traveler [COMMS OPEN] @ekvitki.art · 20/06/2025

Another old 2018-ish piece #pixelart #art

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"To associate Mars exploration with the devastation of American space science...to tie it to the alienation of our allies and partners, is to doom the effort to failure. Mars deserves better." - @caseydreier.bsky.social Humans deserve better too. spacenews.com/the-administ...

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The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail

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Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🌟🇪🇬 WITNESS HISTORY! Join Dr. Alfredo Carpineti on an 8-day Egypt expedition (July 29 - Aug 5, 2027) for the LONGEST solar eclipse of the century! ☀️🌑 Over 6 mins of totality near Luxor's ancient wonders! ✨ Do not miss it! pastpreservers.com/witness-hist... #ancientEgypt @drcarpineti.bsky.social

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Dr. Sierra Ferguson @saturnsierra.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I was a NASA Space Grant Student in my junior year of undergrad, it was through this program that I really started to see what a career in planetary science could look like and where I could fit within it.

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient for earth sciences (seismology!) and rocket payload systems during my junior year because I wanted to explore more of space. Opportunities like this MATTER.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

At a Star Trek convention ages ago, I was standing at the front of a line to get past a curtain into an event. Mark Alaimo (Gul Dukat) popped his head out of the curtain, looked at me, and asked if I could grab him a coffee if he gave me $5. I absolutely said yes and acquired said coffee.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 13/06/2025

This is a solar eclipse. Seen from the surface of Mars by the Perseverance rover in 2022. That moon is the little space potato Phobos. And you can even see sunspots!

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

At CUNY we’ve routinely used Space Grant funds to pick up extra students who appear ‘out of cycle’ for our undergrad programs, or for bridge funding for PhD students (where advisors have 3yr grants that don’t get renewed or have a grant about to start)… not to mention the 2yrs they funded us for a

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

i was a two-time nasa space grant fellow during my phd. in addition to supporting my cosmology research (weak gravitational lensing), i did outreach in local public schools, and helped design two special astronomy exhibits for the science museum (exoplanets & comets).

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Worlds
New Discoveries
Around Distant Stars
The Museum of Natural History gratefully acknowledges the people and organizations whose support made this exhibit possible:
NASA Rhode Island
Space Grant Consortium
Brown/NASA
Northeast Planetary Data Center

Comet Rag music program illustration of an old man looking at a comet through a telescope

Illustration of dark matter density surrounding a galaxy cluster

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Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient as an undergraduate for my research with self-replicating RNA investigating the origins of life. I did not continue an academic path, but since graduation have worked exclusively in scientific fields, including DNA manufacturing and environmental monitoring.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I was awarded two Illinois space grant fellowships as an undergrad, getting crucial research experience which led to multiple publications. Most importantly, it allowed me the time and space to learn what it meant to do research in computational astrophysics, leading to my career today.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

CT Space Grant scholarships support multiple of our current students, and I likely wouldn't have finished grad school without support from the AZ and PA Space Grant programs. Eliminating Space Grant is going to reduce the number of scientists and engineers graduating US universities, period.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A NASA Space Grant is how ASU recruited me to its doctoral program in physics, supporting my first year of studies. These programs have made incalculable impacts on the field and broader STEM education.

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Sarah Carmichael @carmichaelsk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient as an early career faculty. That grant was vital in getting a brand new research program off the ground, that resulted in 7 MS students and multiple undergrads. All are still working in STEM fields.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Under the proposed White House budget, the NASA Space Grant program would be eliminated. I was a NASA Space Grant recipient during my Masters—it funded my research on water on Mars. I then went on to work in science & mission ops on multiple NASA Mars missions immediately after graduation. (1/2)

Tanya holding Opportunity rover "sol sheets" in front of the sign for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 11/06/2025

Astronomers have used the ultraviolet capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the surfaces of four icy moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon! They were in for a surprising finding 👉 esahubble.org/images/opo25... 🔭 🧪

Four small, white dots appear widely spaced in a steep, roughly jagged, diagonal line from top right to bottom left. These white dots appear against a solid black background. A fifth small, white dot is superimposed on a much larger blue sphere, which is also on the black background. This medium-blue sphere has pink, white, and lighter blue diagonal striations. Also superimposed on this striated sphere is a tiny black dot, which is just to the right and slightly beneath the white dot. Encircling the blue sphere at the same steep diagonal angle as the white dots and striations are thin, ghostly, white, Saturn-like rings. The four white dots are labeled, from top right to bottom left, “Titania,” “Oberon,” “Umbriel,” and “Miranda.” The white dot and its accompanying black dot, which are both superimposed on the blue sphere, are labeled “Ariel and shadow.” The faint, Saturn-like rings encircling the blue sphere are labeled simply “rings.”

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

An interesting thread about jargon in science communication!

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Attn: Reporters/Influencers/etc - If you are doing a story on the PBR and the science cuts, and you want to reach the mission leadership of OSIRIS-APEX, you can reach out to me. I can't promise access to everyone, but if you're looking to save US space science, so are we.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you are a researcher whose federal funding has been terminated, the Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response grants to close the gaps. Application deadline is June 13: (h/t to @agu.org's Planetary Sciences Section newsletter for the info!) www.spencer.org/research-gra...

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Research Grants

Our research grants are not designed for applicants to respond to a specific request – they are what you, scholars in the field, think we need to know more about. The goal of all of our research...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Each Friday night, I write up what happened in science & higher ed. - the budget proposal for research & where it stands - latest attack on universities: accreditation - NAS misunderstands the State of the Science - but good news from Maine! This was week 20: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Week 20

What now & what’s next in science and higher ed

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Today is the Space Horizons conference in Ottawa, focused on the Canadian space sector. 🔭🇨🇦 Canadian Space Agency president Lisa Campbell: "We'll keep making the case for space...because we know it's a pathway to solutions."

President Campbell speaking at a podium on stage.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Shadow of the Beast #Mars June 2, 2025 - Curiosity Sol 4558 🧪🔭 Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

A mosaic of 24 ochre-oned images capturing the shadow of the rover's articulated arm with its instrumented turret looming at its extremity.

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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The fact that the U.S. is turning inward and potentially set to decimate the science from its own space program while China is offering up its recently returned lunar samples for researchers around the world to analyze speaks volumes as to how the tides of science are going to shift.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

A screenshot of the number of people involved in NSF activities being reduced from 330,100 to 90,000.

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