Dr. Sierra Ferguson

Oh my gosh. You don’t deserve that at all. What a jerk 😠

Cut my life into pieces
This is my last resort

Have you read Legends and Lattes? It’s a really sweet book that flows well and is cozy. Tress of the Emerald Sea is also a fave of mine

A magenta Coach tote that the poster found at a consignment store

I’m in this post and I don’t like it 😂

(But also look at this beautiful bag I found at the consignment store)

The way that I used spite throughout my math classes in undergrad for the physics degree 😌

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Chris, you all at HiRISE are seriously incredible. Some of the coolest folks I've met for sure.

Another instance of "No one asked for this." I get so mad each time I see it.

It also wins on the front that it would be hard to resolve in dynamical formation models, so no one could really prove you wrong 👀. Plus it takes a while to get there, so we might not notice for a while....

It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

I'm just so glad someone else didn't have to struggle with how to process Cassini data 😭. And the student had such good questions and thoughts!! My heart!!!

A student emailed me asking about a paper of mine and thanked me for putting the detailed methodology in there that I did. I'm so glad I added those details to the paper! I added the information that was missing in the literature when I started the project and I'm so glad it's now helping others <3

An image showing the night sky facing north. The aurora borealis are visible as far south as Colorado. Bright reds light up the majority of the sky, with green at the bottom near the horizon. A streak of green appears in the middle of the red

Colorado aurora!!

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

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Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet?

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Hey planetary scientists! I don’t know about y’all, but ADS makes my life so much easier.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Knowledge is Worth Your Time Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...

NEW WRITING:

It's aimed at students, with some specific examples for astro/physics folks, but I think other people may find it useful too. 🔭⚛️🧪

"Knowledge is worth your time because of how it shapes your mind. And the authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds."

ladies, this is how gullible Silicon Valley tech bros think you are

👀

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

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Thank you for highlighting these awesome events Kate! As a planetary scientist and Trekkie, it's so uplifting to have you and fellow trek cast mates continue to push for science funding and improving inclusion in the space sciences ♥️. Janeway really helped inspire me to get to where I am today.

Mine is at 23, so it's seemingly moving along. I got my laptop into the queue too and that's at 53 mins :/

Okay I'm finally in the queue to checkout!! Had to go on my cell signal not wifi

YES

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