Amy’s Space

NASA will be under SpaceX.

I’m studying to become an astrophysicist in the US who will never work under Elon Musk. So I guess unless I go to another country, there are zero opportunities for me.

Fuck everyone who voted for him.

Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research

“Viruses don’t care about countries and borders. They don’t know they exist. We need to coordinate globally in order to stay on top of what’s happening with the virus and to learn from one another.”

From my latest for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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You: They did the math.

Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ

You: What was that?

Me: Nothing.

Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

I hate it here. 😢

I’m calling representatives, I’m reaching out to friends, I’ve ordered blank postcards to start mailing.

But I still feel like I should be doing more.

My own piece of resistance is to keep studying calculus and physics. An intelligent woman is loathsome to MAGAs.

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count | Quanta Magazine By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.

How would you count the number of different words in Hamlet? Computer scientists have come up with a simple and efficient way to do it, using randomness.

I hope this helps someone.

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

The science community will praise your dedication and sacrifice for years to come.

Every professor/academic on here needs to call their elected officials tomorrow re OBM federal funding pause. Be polite and professional and express your concern. I will be doing this.

And what were your findings?

Me too - I just popped some popcorn. 🍿

Move over Neil deGrasse Tyson, I’m at the top of my game!

I’m experiencing quite a bit of panic.

Thank you! Yes, I’m learning and understanding it perfectly but when I test myself, I may not remember the right formula and really want to Google it, which is what I would do in normal situations. I say let me Google, but time me. 😅

Excerpt from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book “The Demon-Haunted World”: I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness… The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

The dumbing down of America. (Sadly, those who should read and understand this, cannot.)

Slowly making progress in math as I’m getting closer to the GRE. Trying to make daily progress in learning but I get frustrated when I forget how to do something. It takes so much practice and I’m putting in the hours. 😅

Nice 😂

Image taken by BepiColombo during its sixth Mercury flyby. Planet Mercury is visible in the background with its grey, cratered, pock-marked surface. In the foreground are some spacecraft parts.

Image taken by BepiColombo during its sixth Mercury flyby. Planet Mercury is visible in the background with its grey, cratered, pock-marked surface. In the foreground are some spacecraft parts.

😮 WOW! Check out these images from the ESA/JAXA #BepiColombo spacecraft's sixth and final Mercury flyby before entering orbit around the planet in late 2026!
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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YouTube video by Dr. Becky An ASTROPHYSICIST'S TOP 5 space news stories of 2024

For the final episode of 2024, @drbecky.bsky.social counts down her top 5 news stories.

Best enjoyed beside a fire and a nice glass of egg nog. 🥛 😋

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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

For the dinos we lost along the way.
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Love seeing this clip! I find it sad that a portion of the asteroid collected was lost when the canister had a piece lodged in the opening so it couldn’t close right away. But NASA still has samples available to study.

“Sometimes science is a lot more art than science. A lot of people don’t get that.” -Rick Sanchez, Earth Dimension C-137 From cartoon “Rick and Morty”

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🤩 A beautiful observatory.

This is awesome! 🤩

Maybe it would be too passive aggressive to print the monthly questionnaire and fill it out, send it in as needed…but not entirely a bad idea 😅

What if Bluesky had a limit of blocks you could receive before you’re booted off? Wouldn’t that take care of the Singal + others issue?