Adrian Price-Whelan

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Actually heartbreaking, the list of colleagues that have run the show behind the scenes for so many years who are saying their pre-emptive goodbyes and taking literally thousands of years of amassed knowledge and expertise with them.

Not to mention camaraderie and community.

Morale is ... bleak.

[neon rainbow pattern background] THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME The universe reimagined -- through pop culture, poetry, and theoretical physics. From the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos image of the cover of the book which features circular artwork in the center, one half of it a black and white pattern and the other half a neon rainbow pattern PREORDER NOW Coming 4/7/26 image of the Pantheon logo

📣📣 BOOK NEWS 📣📣

I'm excited to share the cover and release date of Book #2, #EdgeOfSpaceTime, which is now available for PREORDER!!

You can order from ANY bookstore, including your local indie!

More details on preordering here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

What's the book about? 🧵

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein

Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

ALL CAPS

THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...

GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

There is an ongoing effort to coordinate observations of 3I/ATLAS among the community before it leaves the solar system! If you're interested in contributing (or seeing what's going on), you can check out the website here:

3i-atlas.github.io/coordinated....

though the subject is dark, I'm loving @bsky.app because it enables random intersections like this — between some favorite political @aoc.bsky.social, scientific @chanda.bsky.social @philplait.bsky.social, and art/music @rob-sheridan.com people I follow

New manuscript by Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Bob Carpenter, Tore Kleppe and Sifan Liu on the WALNUTS algorithm which improves of the NUTS sampler by introducing a locally adaptive step size.

📜 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18746
💻 Code: github.com/bob-carpente...

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

A photo of the slide with the December 2026 release date

Finding out about Gaia at #EAS2025Cork! ☄️

Just announced: Gaia DR4 will be released in December 2026!

The fraction of simulated clusters we recover (upper panel) compared against a dust map (lower panel.) Dust is clearly a major hindrance to seeing open clusters with Gaia.

The detectability of young clusters (upper panel) and old clusters (lower panel) in the anticentre of our galaxy. Grey points show real clusters. It's clear that there's a huge void where we're not sensitive enough to say if there are more old clusters.

The detectability of old clusters, shown a different way. The two most distant catalogued clusters in the anticentre (Saurer 1 & Berkeley 29) appear to simply be lucky detections, as they sit in a small (not so reddened) part of the anticentre.

General trends in cluster detectability in the region as a function of various parameters. Mass, age, extinction, and distance are the biggest culprits.

How many open clusters could be hiding at the edge of our galaxy? 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic

Our new paper out today (A&A, accepted) pioneers a new way to test the completeness of cluster catalogues built with @esa.int's Gaia mission!

A bizarre internet ad with a man (?) possibly about to insert another man (?) or corpse into a third man's anus?!?

Normally my brain doesn't see or register the truly bizarre ads that appear randomly throughout the internet (e.g., on www.wunderground.com pages). But ... what ... why ... who ...

The New York Times front page.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

running in a notebook or as a script?

Fund astronomy, not genocide. You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...

SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science.

h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.

for a while we had:
baby: looks at me, says "da da"
me: omg!! yea, dada!!!
baby: points at banana "da da", points at pacifier "da da", etc 😅

Everyone needs to make some calls on Monday. Here's a helpful guide: aas.org/advocacy/get...

The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Omg a picture worth a thousand tears 😭 🪐

In the scientific discipline of media content and discourse analysis, aggregate coverage bias means even if all individual stories are factually accurate, a relative focus on one issue over another suggests readers that said issue is much more important than other less-covered issues.

Takes five seconds, and might mean you can still get COVID boosters.

Gaia RVS?

Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government's web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here's why we just published a volume on the left's war on science.

by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.

Should go without saying but given the UK supreme court ruling I guess not so let's say it again:

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

And the fake identity war you're dragging us in will not distract from the real problems you refuse to address, such as a long overdue Wealth Tax.

#TransRights

NASA Needs Your Help! NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready to be launched, put tens of thousands out of a job, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask congress to prevent these ...

From Skylar Grayson/Cole Meldorf/Abby Lee/Drew Lapeer/Catherine Slaughter: NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready for launch, put tens of thousands out of jobs, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask Congress to prevent this!
astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...

The UK supreme court just single-handedly overturned most trans rights in the UK today.

Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life.

This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible

Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy The billionaires behind Facebook and Google can do more than hand out glitzy awards for science. They should fund the research the Trump administration has canned

Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy www.scientificamerican.com/article/dear...

Objectively, being able to make things without AI makes us better at making things than the people who can't.

I'm better than the kids who copied my homework, and you're the same person pulling the same crap 30 years later.

Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...

Also on the chopping block all climate change research in the US. www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...