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On The Orbital Evolution of Multiple Wide Super-Jupiters: How Disk Migration and Dispersal Shape the Stability of The PDS 70 System Direct imaging has revealed exoplanet systems hosting multiple wide-orbit Super-Jupiters, where planet-planet interactions can shape their long-term dynamical evolution. These strong perturbations may...

my last phd thesis paper is now accepted to ApJ and is on the arXiv today! arxiv.org/abs/2510.11021
We simulate the PDS 70 exoplanet system's future using hydrodynamic + n-body simulations involving the disk and the two planets to see how its orbital architecture evolves! 🪐🪐

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

AHHHH this is gorgeous, it came out so good!! Phenomenal color work as always 🙏💜

Fanart of Huntrix in their "How It's Done" outfits from KPOP DEMON HUNTERS. Rumi is centred and looking down at the camera while Mira leans on her shoulder. Zoey is behind Rumi's other shoulder, smiling open-mouthed and stretching out her arms. The picture is brightly coloured, adorned with big lens flares and shaded with black. The background is hot pink, and "HUNTRIX" is written vertically in large letters down the image behind the girls.

HUNTRIX

Very good read!
We need to think more about accessibility embedded in game design from the start in games.

Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
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here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight!

i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.

contact: reps.fyi

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Most of us “become disabled“ by finally admitting it to ourselves. We have to fight the medical community and our own community to get any sort of accommodations, and when we run out of energy to fight, we just don’t get accommodated—and we’re shut out of society. 

So very excited to see our collaboration with Nature Astronomy out today on #Juneteenth. These articles for #BlackSpaceWeek2025 were labors of love and I encourage folks to check them all out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list.

I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.

Inaction is complicity.

Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

HELP FAMILIES SURVIVE FAMINE 🌹 We’ve made it easy to take action & bet on Palestinian life.

🌿 Give to 6 families + a displacement camp. No aid is reaching them. 300 will be matched: chuffed.org/project/hope...

🌿 Print our premade flyer for your community: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.” On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use. On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm. On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Join our giving circle 🌹 We’ve made it easy for you to materially help a number of families survive:

🌿 Contribute to the giving circle (click Recurring!): tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

🌿 Download digital graphics & printable flyers for offline sharing: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables

Given recent conversations in the industry, I wanted to highlight some amazing organizations, resources, and community-driven groups working hard to advance accessibility in gaming. There’s a lot of great work happening — and it deserves more visibility.

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Former Employees, Community Members Allege AbleGamers Founder Fostered Abuse Behind Closed Doors - IGN Over 20 years, AbleGamers has become synonymous with the accessibility movement as its presence and influence grew across the industry. However, new reports from former employees and members of the ac...

I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...

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@ubisoft.com has made a tool for game developers that lets you detect colour blindness related issues in your game: UbiChroma!

It is open source and free to use! 💕

Accessibility win for the day!

Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...

Anyway you don't have to just take my word for it, @palestinespace.bsky.social's database has all the info you need on just how intertwined NASA and the defense industry are: www.palestinespace.org/psi-database

A square purple graphic with an illustrated iris in the background, titled “Help Mai and her two kids!” A quote reads: “Every dollar you can help with may save a life, bring hope to a tired heart, and save a future of a youth. Please don't read this as a tragedy, l'm here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragic and to help us start our life all over again.” Next to the quote is a QR code. Text reads: “Mai is an interior designer and single mom of two. Last year, she wrote: "I now see their future wasting away before my eyes.” After much loss, and now separation from her kids, she needs our support with daily essentials and rebuilding her career. We have a chance to invest in her family's survival!” Below says https://tiny.cc/HelpMai

For 48 hours, we’re helping Mai, a single mom facing CONSTANT, terrifying displacement & bombardment.

📣 I have a bold challenge—she’s found housing but needs rent. In two days I want us to get HALF her rent. I think we can do it.

📣 0/453 - every 5 is life 💜 let’s do it!! tiny.cc/HelpMai

A square graphic with a keffiyeh pattern on the right and text on the left, with a line drawing of a poppy in the background. The graphic is titled “let’s help Mohamed’s family live.” in black on green. Underneath says “Mohamed is caretaker of his siblings, parents, and grandmother. This family was just forcibly displaced by “evacuation orders.” Already facing numerous, compounding emergencies, they need our support now more than ever. Funds will go to: Urgent food & water; and Replacing essential supplies they couldn’t transport, such as blankets and clothes.” Below is the link https://bit.ly/Help-Mohamed

For 48 hours, we’re helping Mohamed, his siblings, their parents, & their grandma survive after catastrophic displacement.

It’s hard to get even a trickle of support, but I believe in us. Can we get 250 in two days so they can eat & replace supplies? bit.ly/Help-Mohamed

My time as an IPAC VGSF was great, I highly recommend applying!

Happy to answer questions / offer advice for those interested.

A square purple graphic with an illustrated iris in the background, titled “Help Mai and her two kids!” A quote reads: “Every dollar you can help with may save a life, bring hope to a tired heart, and save a future of a youth. Please don't read this as a tragedy, l'm here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragic and to help us start our life all over again.” Next to the quote is a QR code. Text reads: “Mai is an interior designer and single mom of two. Last year, she wrote: "I now see their future wasting away before my eyes.” After much loss, and now separation from her kids, she needs our support with daily essentials and rebuilding her career. We have a chance to invest in her family's survival!” Below says https://tiny.cc/HelpMai

👋🏾 We’re 24 hours into this 48hr drive for Mai to literally survive. I hope you can share this if you can see it.

I’ve known Mai for over half a year. You’ve previously helped so much with survival needs but the needs persist. Don’t be shy about 5-10: tiny.cc/HelpMai

"Defense Scheduled" in the Elden Ring font over a screenshot of a character standing in front of a gothic academy.

All listed here: linktr.ee/divyamp

Everyone is very worried between being displaced today / a few days ago, losing relatives and friends every day, going to the market and finding nothing to buy. Give boldly and raise hell everywhere

It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."

A square purple graphic with an illustrated iris in the background, titled “Help Mai and her two kids!” A quote reads: “Every dollar you can help with may save a life, bring hope to a tired heart, and save a future of a youth. Please don't read this as a tragedy, l'm here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragic and to help us start our life all over again.” Next to the quote is a QR code. Text reads: “Mai is an interior designer and single mom of two. Last year, she wrote: "I now see their future wasting away before my eyes.” After much loss, and now separation from her kids, she needs our support with daily essentials and rebuilding her career. We have a chance to invest in her family's survival!” Below says https://tiny.cc/HelpMai

For 48 hours, we’re helping Mai.

Mai is a single mom doing her best for her family, while also enduring separation from her kids.

Goods are now 20x the price so a bold $5 really helps this family survive catastrophe. Goal is a modest 335 (7500 on gfm) tiny.cc/HelpMai