Joe Renaud

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.

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#sciencepolicy #saveNASA

can confirm most of this

My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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Did not realize until right now that one thousand percent humidity was a metric that was possible to achieve

I'm actually fully saturated with students already, but I'd be happy to host postdoc fellows for the NHFP, the 51 Peg b, NSF AAPF, etc. Please feel free to reach out!

Congrats Sarah!! welcome to the department!

Your shot and your chaser

A black graph with white text. Y-axis is Average time; X-axis is number of required integration steps. There are several dots showing the performance of CyRK's cysolve_ivp, pysolve_ivp, and nbsolve_ivp functions compared to SciPy's solve_ivp. In all cases CyRK is significantly faster than SciPy. The plot shows the cysolve_ivp method to be the best in all circumstances.

I wanted to share a side project I have been working on: CyRK github.com/jrenaud90/CyRK a #Python package that mimics much of the functionality of #SciPy solve_ivp but can perform #ODE integrations 100's x faster. If you are looking for a numerical integrator for your python project, check it out!

Map of houses next to a 18 lane highway surrounded by parking lots and nothing to walk to in LA; houses cost at least $675,000 if not $800k+

I am losing my mind

A online form that has a drop down selection for preferred language. After typing the letters "e" "n" "g" the recommended options in the list are "English, Old (ca. 450-1100)", "English", "English, Middle (1100-1500)".

My doctor's new registration portal has old English as a preferred language option. Excited to discuss my aliments Beowulf style.

Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026 Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
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Back to the Corgi

The people who are going to make #HWO25 happen, and I am there as well!

I’m convening a session at a planetary science conference this fall and people keep withdrawing their presentations. So far every one has been withdrawn because of lack of travel support. It’s all folks coming from the US. This administration is killing scientific disciplines in big ways and small

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The Mighty Nein have arrived!

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In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency | CNN Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave risk to astronauts.

A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” that they say could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety.

Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.

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A screenshot from the US version of the TV show The Office. Michael Scott is being gently held from behind by a Holly Flax.

me at the coldplay show

Wife has a pretty cool job. #wolftrap

The Roman space telescopes primary mirror apparatus and solar panels are sitting on the floor in a giant clean room at NASA Goddard.

The Roman space telescopes main instrument package and superstructure is surrounded by engineers in bunny suites in a giant clean room. Behind the telescope is a huge wall of filters cleaning the air.

#Roman is starting to look like a real telescope!

Yeah, here's the graphical representation of how bad the ROSES consolidation of solar system programs is from research.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mikewong/bl...

For anyone unfamiliar, the ranks of GS-13, GS-14, and GS-15 are equivalent of assistant, associate, and full professor ranks among NASA civil servants. This is the letting go of over 2,000 faculty-level researchers. 🔭🧪

With cuts like these -- 5,000 planned cut staff through 2026, 1414 cut staff at Goddard Space Flight Center alone, where much of NASA Astrophysics is housed -- the United States effectively abandons its decades-old global leadership position in astrophysics.

Website ticket queue for the Maryland Renaissance Festival. The queue shows that I am in 5270th in line with 4885 people in front of me and over and hour wait to buy tickets.

My hobbies have gone too main stream

Cleaning out my old boxes at moms

Whoa.

That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.

With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

Hi, it's me, a solar system scientist turned science communicator asking journalists for the thousandth time to stop giving a certain Harvard professor airtime about objects from outside our solar system.

I know you know the one.

It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA.

The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.

We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.