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Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College!

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️
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Part 2 of our Auntie Jess workshops is happening today! Learn how to build out your own custom self-care plan 📝

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Radical Self-Care
🗓️ 10 June | ⏰ 2-3:30 pm EST

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#WomenInSTEM

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Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget:

- Cuts to every science division
- Smallest science funding since 1984
- 19 active, inflight missions cancelled
- Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961

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Happening today! Join us at 2pm EST for the first part of our self-care series with Jessica Harris. Zoom link emailed to all LUMA members!

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Knowing how to take a break and recharge your batteries takes time and reflection. Our upcoming workshop series with Jessica Harris will take you step-by-step through building a self-care plan that works for YOU ✍️

Let's Talk
🗓️ 3 June | ⏰ 2-3:30 pm EST

Radical Self-Care
🗓️ 10 June | ⏰ 2-3:30 pm EST

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Confused, worried, or stressed out lately? LUMA is hosting Jessica Harris for a 2-part workshop on self-care. Join us on June 3 and 10 to vent in a safe space and build a self-care plan! Open to LUMA-members 🚀🫂

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Reminder to reach out to your legislators in support of NASA! A simple phone call or email can make all the difference. Take a few minutes to tell them about your research and the importance of NASA dollars in making that research happen.

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Opinion | Trump’s Cuts to NASA Will Hurt Our Search for Alien Life Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

If the Trump administration cuts NASA’s science program by 48 percent, as is rumored, “the savings to taxpayers would be negligible, and the impact to science would be calamitous,” writes Casey Dreier, the chief of space policy at the Planetary Society.

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Are you a person of color wanting to find community at the @aasoffice.bsky.social meeting next week? Are you a first time attendee or a senior scientist?

If you answered yes, please sign up to attend our 10th anniversary LUMA Splinter Session at #AAS245! 🔭✨️

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We are a peer mentoring community for Black, Indigenous and Latinx women and gender minorities in astronomy and related fields. We would like to share opportunities with the field!

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Do you want to find community within astronomy as a person of color? Are you attending the @aasoffice.bsky.social Meeting in January 2025?

If you answered yes, please sign up to attend our 10th anniversary LUMA Splinter Session at #AAS245! 🔭✨️

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