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i'm doing my part

BEGONE, CRYPTO SHILL!

RFK Jr “announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted.”

mRNA vaccines are a profound leap forward in lifesaving medical science and these walking potatoes with eyes have culture warred them into oblivion.

why functioning governments fund scientific research
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I genuinely got misty eyed at Jacob’s monologue before the final question. The community y’all have created with and for one another seems amazing.

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My thoughts on those recent alien headlines…🔭🧪

BIG NEWS: The Navy has canceled its decision to shut off critical weather satellites used by NOAA to monitor tropical cyclones.

Background:

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

./extreme_jealousy.sh

Astrology isn’t real.

Current FY25 funds literally disappearing in thin air. Current administration is dismantling NASA based on budget request w/o Congressional approval. JPL will likely layoff 1000s. All this is crippling the world’s top space agency.

geese likely dont understand fiction, so I’m going to go with “no” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@nws.noaa.gov I’m glad you’re here.

A picture of a bunch of bananas on a sidewalk, surrounded by poorly photoshopped Yiga Clan members from the video game Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Game dev is hard. Thank you for your continued refinement of the game and for working to be as transparent as possible about the process. These entitled, capital g “Gamers” absolutely suck the life out of everything and are among the worst parts of video game culture. Don’t listen to their hate.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At left is a large elliptical galaxy, smooth like a polished stone. At right lies a large spiral galaxy that is nearly a ring, with bright golden core. To its lower left is a smaller spiral with a barred core. At top and bottom, two bright stars shine brightly with multi-colored diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies are just smudges of various colors.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top left is a large galaxy that is smooth like a stone, with wisps like cotton candy spiral from left and right. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. / A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At bottom left is an elegant two-armed galaxy, with arms extended like a dancer viewed from above. The bright points of three stars form a triangle at top center. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top right is a large galaxy with two whirling spiral arms wrapping around like a hug. At bottom left, two smooth elliptical galaxies appear near each other, like champagne glasses in the midst of a cheers. A bright star above the pair has red, green, and blue diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center is a spiral galaxy peppered with tight, knotted clumps of vivid blue, young stars. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find.

Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪

➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | Rubin Observatory From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility unveils its first imagery and brings the night sky to life like never before

Whew, what a day!

Today we revealed the preview of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's epic cosmic movie🎬 #RubinFirstLook

From wide-field and deep views of the Universe, to the dynamic and changing sky, Rubin is already bringing the night sky to life! 🔭🧪

rubinobservatory.org/news/first-i...

n+1 years in the future, digital anthropologists are going to find this *actual ass argument* over Dunning-Kruger and use it as a data point in a paper published to arXiv titled “From Fallacy to the Phallus - a Survey on Internet Conversations Regressing into Dick Measuring Contests” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The Planetary Society reissues urgent call to reject disastrous… The Planetary Society, the world's largest and most influential space advocacy group, issued a statement following the release of the Trump…

Our statement on the full FY2026 NASA budget proposal:

www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Witness the *proposed* devastation of NASA science. If this concerns you, consider exploring the tools provided to make your opinions known: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science.
Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition.
This is just the start of our fight.
Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

it's like the government doesn't know how interferometers work.

Final NSF budget proposal jettisons one giant telescope amid savage agencywide cuts Trump’s 57% proposed cut to agency would drop grant success rates to 7% and gut education and training

President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation, and it’s not a pretty sight. scim.ag/3HhGa1D

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath

Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…

Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.

If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

A screenshot of the number of people involved in NSF activities being reduced from 330,100 to 90,000.

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions

President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to throttle the scientific ambitions of #NASA, prematurely ending a host of active missions in orbit studying Earth and other planets, while also ending the agency’s work to develop their successors. scim.ag/4kmAX7n

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Inauguration of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) – first ESA presence in Switzerland The European Space Agency (ESA) has inaugurated the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI), the first ESA presence in Switzerland, created in close collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Inst...

🇨🇭Today we inaugurated the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) – the first @esa.int presence in Switzerland. The inauguration of ESDI is a testimonial to ESA’s and Switzerland’s joint commitment to push innovation and drive economic growth. @psich.bsky.social