@karenromanoyoung
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Things that will happen when he's gone:
* we're going to learn about shit he did that's so heinous, it makes the stuff we know about look tame
* his many minions will claim to have "always opposed" him and demand sympathy for their suffering at his hands
* dancing in the streets, worldwide
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...
The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX
Hope is real.
I know your R reps are garbage and it feels pointless to call them.
But please call them today and tell them not to vote for Trump's murderous budget.
The call costs nothing. The fact that it MIGHT save lives is all that matters.
Find your US rep here: reps.fyi
💔 the Senate just passed that awful cruel budget bill, but it’s not over yet. Now it goes back to the House to vote.
If you have a Republican member of Congress: Call, email, comment on all their social posts, @ them. Tell them to vote NO. Get your friends to do it too. ☎️: (202) 224-3121
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
Disgusted. No.
The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.
🧪 This is fascinating and the method could be used in other environments.
“…this work also emphasizes the importance of specialized, interdisciplinary methods to address the intrinsic limitations of these data, particularly the challenges posed by temporal sparsity.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No.
Trump’s proposed budget details drastic cuts to biomedical research and global health | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
A color-coded map of greens, yellows, oranges and reds that reveal topography of the Martian volcano Alba Mons. Text reads: Reading the rivers: To understand Mars’ more recent geologic and hydrologic history, three PSI scientists used the latest high-resolution images and topographic data, along with hydrologic models, to characterize ancient river valleys on the Martian volcano Alba Mons.
Read the full story here: buff.ly/D5O99Z4 🧪 🔭
📸 : NASA / JPL-Caltech / Arizona State University.
I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now.
Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre...
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The Weather and Climate Livestream has officially concluded, but our mission continues...
Thank you to everyone for tuning in and learning about weather and climate science! Let's #SaveAmericasForecasts together 💯
wclivestream.com/more/
As of 9.30p, nothing in the @nytimes.com - Looking forward to more updates on Biden's prostate, though 🧪
Satellite photograph of Hurricane Katrina heading into New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Katrina taught us to prepare for the unimaginable in our new climate reality. As part of our series tied to the 20th anniversary of Katrina, we ask: Are we more prepared? We head into "Hurricane Season" on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social 🧪 🔊
Listen here: buff.ly/RfWr428
#NASA funds research that no other agency can do. We work at the crossroads of #Earth and #Planetary science to search for life in the universe #Astrobiology 🧪🔭🪐
During commissioning, PUNCH’s NFI instrument captured this image of the new Moon as it passed by the Sun in the sky on April 27, 2025. The new Moon appears full, because it is illuminated by Earthshine (sunlight reflected off Earth). The image helped the PUNCH team confirm that the Moon will not obscure NFI’s view of the corona and solar wind. The dark circle near the bottom is the shadow of NFI’s occulter, which hides the Sun. The occulter, which was not yet fully aligned with the Sun, is surrounded by a narrow bright ring of diffracted light. Around that is a large, hazy circle of stray light glinting off the occulter (the Moon is inside that circle). Outside that is a small, dimmer region of the sky that is less affected by glint.
Serendipitous space beauty to start your weekend.
NASA's new PUNCH mission, designed to study the solar wind, just took this ethereal image of the Moon passing the (blocked out) Sun. The Moon's night side is facing us, but it's beautifully lit by Earthshine. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/...
Duh.
A digitally illustrated diagram of the cross-section of a turtle showing how the lungs and muscles supporting them are arranged within the shell. The top part of the illustration shows the turtle with the head out of its shell. "In turtles, the ribs have fused with the shell, forming a rigid box. They can’t expand and contract their lungs like most other vertebrates. Instead, in some species, a muscular sling is used to actively move the lungs. The transverse abdominis and pectoralis muscles contract the lungs for exhalation. The oblique abdominis and serratus muscles expand the lungs for inhalation. " The second part shows the turtle with its head pulled into its shell, "In turtle species who can retract their head and limbs into their shells, breathing can become a bit more difficult. There is much less room for the lungs to expand, but studies have found that some air remains in the lungs and limited breathing can still occur. (after Landberg et al. 2003)"
Happy #WorldTurtleDay!
Have you ever wondered how turtles breathe inside a rigid box? I made this illustration back when I was teaching Chordate Zoology. It's a subject I find fascinating. 🌿🐢
As someone who has relied on SNAP to put food in the fridge, I'm incredibly proud of the work we're doing at @dataforprogress.org to shine a light on how disastrously unpopular cutting nutrition assistance is
The federal government is trying to kill 150,000 trans people in the United States.
I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.
Hey, let's outlive these ghouls ok? Let's witness their demise together
“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..”
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...
Did it
I just thought I'd tell you that the first dragonflies emerged from the pond today.
