Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isnโt about the budget. If it was, theyโd be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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Advocacy Action Center
The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.
Please share widely: Planetary Society form to email Congress and the White House to reconsider NASA RIF www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...
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Hearing that the NASA DOGE firings started last night.
I donโt really have any words.
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Sure thanks!
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So handy!!! Thanks!
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Planetary Scientist, Husband, and Father. Was hockey player, now sedentary blimp. Board/strategy gamer with minimal playtime. Tsundoku Master. Opinions are mine alone.
Planetary Wanderer: public speaker, spacecraft engineer, scientist, artist, maker, mom. https://www.sarahmilkovich.com/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/windstoneandstars
The comet is coming.
Fan of San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Blue Jays
Woke, but sleepy
๐ง https://www.nts.live/
Recently visited Wojewรณdztwo Mazowieckie
Opposes clandestine reverse Solar Oberth Manoeuvre
Astronauts report it feels good
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Planetary astronomer @UCNZ: envisioning worlds from here and elsewhere, in a dark & glorious sky. Rutherford Discovery Fellow. Asteroid (10463). Pฤkehฤ; she
Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titanโs biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com
Planetdr.26 on signal
planetary astronomer | nearly famous | jwst interdisciplinary scientist | looks just like an ordinary mom | oboist (thoughts expressed here are my own)
Software Developer, Planetary Image Research Lab, UArizona LPL - MRO/HiRISE & TGO/CaSSIS GDS - he/him/his.
Astronomer wandering through time and space.
Likely to post about #Earth and #Space science especially #astronomy, Open Source Software, Open Science, and space. And hiking with our dog. Opinions are my own.
He/him.
Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out itโs hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
UK astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Author of 'The Planet Factory' and editor of โPlanetary Diversityโ. Very into space, virtual reality, computer graphics and rescue cats.
Planetary scientist and Yorkie Mom. Exploring the solar system. Opinions are my own.
Planetary seismologist in Pasadena. Project Scientist for InSight (sigh) and PI for Farside Seismic Suite. Somewhat nerdy. Opinions are, of course, my own. he/him
Proud dad, Space Systems Prof U Toulouse- Mars Microphone @NasaPersevere Venus balloons #PlanetaryScience & SoCal addict. IHEDN 75e PolDef . Reserve Cit. AAE
PhD, occasional astronomer, talking head, science geek, cynic. Senior Editor at @Science.org, responsible for research papers in astronomy and planetary science. Views own, duh. Bio: https://www.science.org/content/author/keith-t-smith
Planetary scientist, Dad-in-training, space enthusiast, Professor based at the University of Leicester
https://linktr.ee/leigh.fletcher
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5834-9588
Associate Research Scientist studying planetary climates
Research Leader in Meteoritics & Planetary Science @NHM_London. Occasional cricket bat maker. he/him
PhD from Open University School of Planetary Sciences researching Mars's climate, focusing on Lyot Crater, after my Physics BSc. Previously did 3 degrees in Roman archaeology, one in languages and a law degree. Multinational upbringing. ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ
Planetary geologist and UH-60 pilot. Views are not my employers'. She/her.
Meteorites, Museums, Mars, Mountains and many more things. Meteoriticist, Noble Gaser, Space Nerd, Family Man. Director of the Natural History Museum of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Private account (en/de).
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