[time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]

Care about NIH and its mission?

Sign the #BethesdaDeclaration and follow the NIH starter pack!

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

go.bsky.app/LQZYUdE

AAS Press Office The YouTube channel of the American Astronomical Society's Press Office, managed by AAS Press Officer Dr. Susanna Kohler.

The associated press materials, led by science writer Frank Reddy: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

SVS page with some of the extra graphics is here: gs6064ssvsdev.gsfc.nasa.gov/14857

Props to Frank + Isak for all the hard work on this.

AAS Press Office The YouTube channel of the American Astronomical Society's Press Office, managed by AAS Press Officer Dr. Susanna Kohler.

Those of you at the AAS Meeting in Alaska can also go to the event in person, at Dena'ina Convention Center Ballroom E, 10:15 am. Isak is the 3rd speaker in an exciting session.

Image of the "Pandora" galaxy cluster with zoom-ins of strong emission line galaxies and illustrations of their spectra.

Tune in at/soon after 1415 EDT (18:15 UT) to www.youtube.com/c/AASPressOf... to hear Isak Wold talking about a few of our favorite things: Emission line galaxies, narrow-band imaging (well, medium band this time), gravitational lensing, and the reionization of the universe!

NIH employees have written an open letter to the NIH Director and HHS secretary RFK Jr, calling for a return to a normally functioning NIH. You can sign a support letter - and you might want to, if you or someone you love may one day need up-to-date health care.

A statement from Kamala D. Harris: Los Angeles is my home. And like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city. Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division. This Administration’s actions are not about public safety —they’re about stoking fear. Fear of a community demanding dignity and due process. Protest is a powerful tool — essential in the fight for justice. And as the LAPD, Mayor, and Governor have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful. I continue to support the millions of Americans who are standing up to protect our most fundamental rights and freedoms.

My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

City Nature Challenge 2025 is this weekend! www.citynaturechallenge.org it's a fun way to comnext with nature and contribute to citizen science.

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP USING THEIR LANGUAGE.

YOU CANNOT DEPORT A CITIZEN. You can expel them! You can exile them! You can kidnap them and put them in an extrajudicial prison, but you aren't "deporting them."

"Deport" is a word we've used for years to mean "send to one's country of origin."

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

Ducks visit Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope being assembled at Goddard Space Flight Center. RST will find and image planets around other stars, do a 3D map of the universe at least halfway to the Big Bang and more. It is scheduled to fly in 2027, and is on budget and schedule.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

❌Bad press will stop him
❌Republican elites will stop him
❌Congress will stop him
❌Our legal system will stop him
❔Capitalism will stop him

Conservatives are like "this isn't fair, we didn't think he'd really do tariffs, we weren't voting for him because we wanted tariffs, we were voting for him because we wanted racism!"

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.

Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.

No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

In the absence of adequate staff, the lion's share of the administrative burden of helping the elderly navigate SSA will fall on adult daughters, DILs, and female friends.

The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war.

@jessicacalarco.bsky.social

Lunar eclipse in progress. Go look up if it's dark and clear where you are right now.

Today in DC, for any who can attend: "shut down the coup" rally at 12 PM, on the West lawn of the Capitol building. An hour of rally followed by 2 hours to go visit congressional offices.

An enthusiastic crowd at the rally in support of NIH today.

Defend the National Institutes of Health: March 8 in Bethesda · People For the American Way Defend the National Institutes of Health. Stand up for Science. March 8 • Maryland Democratic Party Weekend of Action • Bethesda Join Congressional and Maryland leaders and advocates to protest the T...

DC area friends--- if you missed "Stand up for science" or if you want an encore, come out to NIH on Saturday morning.
www.mobilize.us/peoplefor/ev...

DC area peeps- we have an opportunity This Saturday to show support for people who the administration is scapegoating simply for existing.

Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message:

“Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.”

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We were at the Capitol today!

No Kings Day is today.

Happy Superb Owl Sunday, everyone!

Hmm, "noise" may be a stunningly accurate word for Kennedy Center programming if 47 takes charge there....