Lisa Will

A word cloud from the titles of ~1100 NSF grants that were terminated. The most frequent words are STEM, ADVANCE, Student, career, and engines.

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.

It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

Seriously, if you haven't watched Wonder Man, it's fantastic.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Two small terrier mixes on a couch covered in blankets. Black and white pup Winnie draped over black and tan pup Amelia.

Troublemakers.

Hey @repscottpeters.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov! Does this look like the behavior of a department that will comply with stronger regulations or do they act more like they think they are above the law? Abolish ICE. Prosecute ICE.

And the sock. So very him.

Small fuzzy brown terrier mix Dozer, on a colorful quilt with a sock in his mouth.

Missing this best little boy on the fifteenth anniversary of his adoption.

Immigration arrests surge by 1,500% in San Diego: 'I feel the temperature rising' Immigration agents escalated their presence in San Diego in the second half of 2025, where they made hundreds of arrests as part of President Trump's crackdown.

Immigration arrests surge by 1,500% in San Diego: 'I feel the temperature rising'

Immigration agents escalated their presence in San Diego in the second half of 2025, where they made hundreds of arrests as part of President Trump's crackdown.

100 gigawatts is FIFTY (50) Hoover Dams

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Borders also keep you in

A huge antenna dish pointed at a cloudy sunset sky. The crescent moon hangs over a distant desert ridge. This is the Goldstone DSCC Station 13. Now decommissioned, this antenna was built for the Voyager 2 encounter of Uranus. Photo: NASA/Bill Dunford

A few months ago they let me walk around the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex at night. Don't know if it was the desert rain, watching skyscraper-sized antennas swivel to catch signals from beyond Saturn, or just my fillings buzzing from the radio signals, but I had goosebumps all night.

This is gorgeous.

Public employee names are... public.

(Look, this is just a huge pet peeve for me, a public employee.)

Original (unaltered) image and explanation for why Curiosity is looking at things at night:

science.nasa.gov/resource/cur...

Alien hand glove by Imaginerick on Etsy.

(h/t to @kennen11.bsky.social for pointing me towards this displacement exercise)

The sharpest, most detailed map of dark matter ever made from new JWST data gives new insights into this mysterious scaffolding of the universe ✨ Read more: www.nasa.gov/missions/web...

I've updated my megaconstellations list www.planet4589.org/space/con/co... with details of the planned Blue Origin Terawave system and the enormous CTC1 and CTC2 constellations China just filed with the ITU, for a total of almost 750,000 proposed satellites in the years to come.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

For a respite, watch one of our pups walk around a sporting goods store while I was buying whistles, for reasons.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

The World Cup in the US must be boycotted by foreign nations. Outside financial pressure is the only thing the thugs in suits (as opposed to the thugs in camo) will respond to.

Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.

Countering Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, California is the first American state to join the @who.int’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network.

With GOARN, we’ll keep working to help protect Californians from public health threats.

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

The planetary nebula Abell 7 via APOD ✨ It's ~1800 light-years away & ~8 light-years wide. A planetary nebula is a brief final phase in a "normal" star's life - our own Sun will go through this in ~5 billion years as it sheds its outer layers. 📸: Martin Pugh apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012...

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."