'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.'
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'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.'
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege
Women In Astronomy 90-Min Workshop: March 5, 1pm PT 3 Days Left! Celebrate Women's History Month at ASP
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The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE KAGAN would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE JACKSON joins, dissenting from denial of certiorari. This case asks whether federal law prohibits the poorest prisoners from splitting the $350 fee required to file a federal lawsuit when it allows everyone else to do so. The answer statutorily appears to be no. Because the decision below held otherwise and deepened a split among the Courts of Appeals, the Court should grant the petition for a writ of certiorari.
Petitioners Topaz Johnson and Ian Henderson were incarcerated at High Desert State Prison in California when they filed this lawsuit in federal court. According to their complaint, corrections officers forced them and a third prisoner to stand in filthy cages that reeked of urine and measured 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet. They alleged that the officers forced them to stand in those cages for nearly nine hours with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
The ratfucking of elections through silent destruction of the post office continues apace.
wow we are so fucking hot that our mere existence is sexually explicit. me walking down the street needs a big ol censor bar. i'm so sexy it should be illegal.
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
🚨 Action Alert: Take action to support the sciences by filling out a constituent request form with one or more of your members of Congress. This is one of the most effective ways to make your voice heard! aas.org/posts/action... 🔭
SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.
Half are luxury jets.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...
And here is some of the amazing news coverage of our paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c... by @catrineinhorn.bsky.social
Breaking WaPo:
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Being a pregnant woman in the US is more dangerous than being a police officer.
Deaths per 100,000:
Police officers: 11.3
Pregnant women: 18.7
It is almost twice as dangerous to bear a child as it is to be a cop.
Study in Nature that just came out shows a 51 PERCENT drop in Dementia post Shingrix vaccine. That is earth shattering. 19% drop was reported from the older+ less effective vaccine given up to 2019. Whew. So glad I got mine already!
Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
GO DONATE.
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"Warming has already melted so much ice in Greenland and Antarctica that Earth’s rotation has slowed and its axis has shifted, slightly altering the length of the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking, global positioning systems and timekeeping."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration's plan to dismantle a major scientific research center could cause property insurance prices to increase across the country, according to an industry group representing actuaries. The warning adds a new dimension to the potential breakup of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose climate data is used by the insurance industry to help predict financial losses and set rates. "We're incredibly reliant on curated and unbiased data sets available to the public," said Peter Ott, who leads a research committee at the American Academy of Actuaries. The academy said in a recent letter that disrupting the center would "undermine the stability and affordability of insurance." The White House budget office stunned the scientific world when it announced in December that it would break up the federally funded center, which budget director Russell Vought called "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism." The move is among an array of steps taken by the Trump administration to dismantle programs aimed at addressing climate change.
Climate denial is expensive!
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — which the Trump regime calls “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — would lead to higher prices for home insurance and thus for housing itself.
What a joy to read… One shouldn’t be surprised at the type of men Epstein decided to fund/hang out with, but it does make one think about how other scientists talk about their female colleagues behind closed doors.
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.
This could have tremendous implications for voting:
Yup, he did pay a fee. I wonder if the one local organizer there for the day was also effectively scammed into participating? The hotel venue was at least sympathetic and let them use a room to basically self-organize talks on their own on the next day (only enough participants for 2 days of talks).
Sorry about the garbled English here—under caffeinated still…
I had friend actually sign up and go to one of these. There was an actually one person doing sign ins with name tags and such on the first day of the conference, and folks gave talks… But then they didn’t show the 2nd day, the room was locked, and all signs of the conference were missing.
In April, #PrideinSTEM turns 10! We will have a celebration for it, and we would like to recognize individuals who have had a positive impact on LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, here in the UK!
Do you know someone who fits that description?
Nominate them here:
prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n...
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The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
Now in his 60s, he stands accused of drugging a total of 248 women between 2009 and 2018 during fake job interviews as part of a sadistic power play. The women recounted how he would spike their coffee and tea with powerful diuretics and then take them on long walks to watch them squirm. Police say he later recorded his observations on an Excel spreadsheet entitled “experiments”. The apparent aim was to chart their descent into humiliation, and the moment they lost control of their bladder. He relished every detail, from the colour of their underwear to the strength of urine flow, his alleged victims told The Telegraph.
So I guess the plan is to just let men continue to torture women and if we happen to catch them great if not, not?
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
