Andrea Lloyd | Science Storyteller

This week's #scicomm job blast is out! There's a fresh list of space industry opportunities, including internships.

thescicommspace.substack.com/p/trajectory...

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.

It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

I mean, don't forget that the Nazi's biggest inspiration for American eugenics used for people "unfit to breed"and gas chambers at the Southern border....

irp.nih.gov/catalyst/29/...
www.vox.com/2019/7/29/89...

An autism registry sounds a lot like a particular residence used to systemically kill 6M Jews, 3.3M soviet POWs, 2M Poles, 250k gypsies, 100k people with disabilities, 15k queers, and more.....

Source: holocausteducation.org.uk/wp-content/u...

See also: Newton "inventing" gravity.

Autism was first described in the literature in the 1930s. Broader definitions and increased screening led to more diagnoses in the 1990s and continues today.

Space Station Resupply: The 1963 Plan to Turn the Apollo Spacecraft Into a Space Freighter The story of spaceflight told through missions and programs that did not happen - that is, the great majority of them.

The forgotten history of the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) spacecraft and one engineer's brave attempt to keep NASA space station planning alive during Apollo. Kennedy's Moon Speech messed up everything.

From No Shortage of Dreams. 🛰️🔭🧪🚀🪐🌏🌖👩‍🚀

spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/11/spac...

When one of my old boss's buddies was credibly accused of harassment and assault while doing Antarctic fieldwork, he told us (his students) that Antarctica "turns men into animals" and thus his buddy can't be held responsible.

Counterpoint: No?? No it doesn't???

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

Embroidery complete! The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous sketch made by John Huobolt.

I know it's hard to notice the absence of something, but the fact that there was no NASA press release for this JWST result is so damning.

It's really hard to make videos about all of the cool science coming out all of the time.

I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.

The kids are alright

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Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.

Spread the word to drive attention and support!

Kate can't get funding for her PhD and research. Tyler has no access to publicly funded weather systems to support his YouTube channel (and the communities he raises funds for). Javi gets deported by mistake (doesn't matter his actual status) and the government won't bring him back to the US.

The new Twisters II movie should either advocate for better funding for NOAA and NWS...

or show a world where we've stripped that funding and are now dealing with the consequences of no information.

Another example of the administration’s evident lack of concern for public safety.

I haven't heard of this tool before. I'll have to read more about it later.

I've heard rumblings that the idea is if we don't track weather and climate, than the changes aren't there.

Climate change and storm intensification will continue, we'll just battle it with our eyes closed and our hands tied behind our back.

Some of this may go away. The White House Budget does not support new weather satellite launches, crippling our ability to predict farther than a few days out. Nee advancements would be nearly impossible at a 75% cut as proposed.

Things we did not have in the 1950s:
- Hurricane tracking, ratings, and predictions
- Tornado tracking, ratings, predictions
- Weather satellites (better tracking and global picture of storms)
- Doppler radar
- weather computer modeling

If enacted, the cuts would "take us back to the 1950s in terms of our scientific footing and the American people," says Craig McLean, a former director of NOAA's office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the agency's research arm. www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

Air Force deletes pages on first female Thunderbirds pilot amid DEI purge The U.S. Air Force has taken down content honoring trailblazing female pilots, including the first woman to fly with the elite air squadron.

The erasing continues.

Erase them and disappear them.

They're definitely coming after women's rights -- voting, right to work, right to own a biz, right to have a checking account, right to body autonomy, you name it.

They're telegraphing the whole play with these moves.

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team.

It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.

To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

That happened to me yesterday! Maybe we were trying to read the same thing. 😅

Just got paywalled by a journal article from ... checks distance back in time .... from 1976.

A paywall on knowledge that is half a century old lmao

(I was able to access it through my institution, just highlighting the ridiculousness of that whole concept)

Can I spam you with dog pictures??

**pulls out folding chair**

bsky.app/profile/jaso...

I saw someone skeet cdc cut their foia office....