Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️

NASA is literally eliminating the position of Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy

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Ah yes, I missed that crucial detail of your fine argument

every Mars rover has a clock built into its computer :^)

There are pi times 10 million seconds in a year (within less than a percent)

We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.

would have been nice to have this 24 hours ago :^)

Has anyone asked ICE or DHS whether tax dollars were used to purchase the dildo?

It's a serious problem if you are trying to do interdisciplinary research, though. Or asking people to give colloquia in an interdisciplinary department.

Ruin a movie:
Episode IV: A New Pope

Not seeing a lot of "roving gangs of wild youth" there that the president used as a pretext

Cover of beach boys surfs up LP

I really can't believe that this is the cover for a Beach Boys record

How do ice grains use mass spectrometry?
#OneMansPedanticQuestToEndOveruseOfDanglingParticiplrlesInScience

I do miss when things were called "neural networks" and "principal components analysis" etc instead of lumping everything as "ML" and then "AI"

Kona ones aren't bad, either

reminds of my experience 4 years ago

What GIF pops up when you type your name?

First Mate and Tennille

DC is so dangerous we waited until our daughter was 11 before letting her walk to the public library alone

Another Wolf-Rayet object was captured by #JWST 🔭. Note the cloud-to-star stairs, which are a partially hidden spiral of material being peeled off the dying star.

Speaking as a scientist, f*ck this and f*ck that prof.

Interpreting "I will never be a Christian" as "god doesn't exist" reflects a rather extreme Christianist worldview

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪

Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.

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Sam Altman doesn't even have a bachelor's degree so I am not sure he quite comprehends what a PhD level expert *is*

LOL

I can see your house from here!

You ever tried to split a restaurant check with a table of PhDs? Almost guaranteed fail at simple arithmetic. :^)

FFS people, "Webb" didn't see shit; it's just a tool. *PEOPLE* make scientific discoveries with telescopes (and I am not talking about the homophobe Webb) 🔭

This is a really great exhibit at the Heard museum