Joe Renaud

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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 So far every one has been withdrawn because of lack of travel support.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.

Wild to watch NASA leadership admitting that they have not pushed back against the 50% cut to SMD

YouTube video by K Save Science!

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Image of an large cat walking on top of a long snake, with caption OH LAWD HE TREADIN'

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today.

#wipolitics

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: NASA Budget Briefing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join The Planetary Society's Space Policy & Advocacy team for a community briefing on the FY 2026 President's Budget Request for NASA. Participants will be able to submit questions during the briefin...

The Planetary Society will provide a NASA budget briefing on Thursday, June 12, at 12pm ET! We'll answer the top-rated scientific community questions, share everything we know, and give you our expert perspective on what's going on. Register for free here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery

New paper day! In 'Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery', we show that scaling up use of launch vehicles 🚀 has a point where the healing of the ozone layer is affected 🧪🛰️
Open access, free to read & share

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Request for Information: Conference on Lunar, Planetary and Space Sciences Decision Made Not to Solicit Partnership Proposals Number: NNH25ZDA006L Short URL: https://go.nasa.gov/LPSS24RFI The Science Mission Directorate's (SMD) Planetary Science Division(PSD) is updating its Community Announcement regarding future Lunar, Planetary and Space Sciences Conferences that was published under Number: NNH25ZDA006L as a special notice on SAM.gov. In November 2024, NASA issued a Request for Information (RFI) NNH25ZDA006L to gauge interest in a partnership to organize a conference on lunar, planetary, and space science. Based on the response to this RFI, NASA gave an update on progress towards a future release of an Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP) in February 2025. This email notice is to inform the community that, at this time, NASA has decided not to pursue an AFPP as described in the RFI and the "Questions and Answers for the LPSS RFI posted February 10, 2025 (pdf)". The Planetary Science Division is studying options for future support of community-led and community-driven

Today in examples of how obeying in advance gets you nothing.

LPI took down all our DEIA related abstracts to avoid pissing off NASA.

And NASA just killed LPSC.

Screenshot of the president's budget showing that the Exoplanet Exploration budget would reduce from $54.4M to $3.3M.

*speechless horror*

(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)

The president’s proposed NASA budget does 2 things well: it cedes US leadership in STEM, and it funnels taxpayer dollars to companies and their CEOs.

Moving the goal to Mars means that companies get to spend a LOT of tax dollars in development, rather than having to deliver actual results.

Picture of NASA budget proposal showing $0 for stem education next to a picture of kids learning from said programs.

Announcing you are cutting STEM education programs by including a photo of kids learning from said programs.

there are 1,100 words in this article and zero of them are "bus"

NASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface.

Cool new paper out. Ryan Park and Alex Berne (with the help of a lot of other co-authors including a tiny role from me) pushed the GRAIL lunar gravity data further than before, notably updating the estimate of the k3 Love number.
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