Space is moving fast. Governance needs to keep up.
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Australia can do more in space to position itself as a regional leader and a valuable member of the Quad. Read my latest with Isobel Haddow:
I enjoyed chatting with you, @biancanogrady.bsky.social! This is an excellent piece with great insights from colleagues across the sector, including @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @drspacejunk.bsky.social. I love good science journalism. Please give Bianca a follow and read her other work.
I’d also like to report my toddler is more interested in animal noises with Alexa and my mom than watching the NASA feed. As a screen free parent, this should feel like a win…
SPLASHDOWN
Main chutes have deployed.
And they’re through the blackout!
They’re currently in a six minute communications blackout.
If you’re not watching #ArtemisII is coming home right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...
Congrats on a beautiful launch! I’m off to the phone free parent toddler program, but so excited to see humanity back on the way to the Moon! #ArtemisII
About a minute until the terminal count starts! #ArtemisII
GO!!! The most beautiful word :)
#ArtemisII
Well this is the best way to find out you’re on Bluesky!
NASA is getting ready to launch four astronauts to orbit the moon - the first crewed launch of SLS (and the most diverse to leave LEO) - in about an hour and a half. You can watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM.... #ArtemisII
The salsas at Rosa’s is the best I’ve ever had!
You are so welcome, Danielle! And I am SO jealous of your meal right now. I’d love a weekend to just eat in Tucson right now :)
I actually loved the train trip! It was so gorgeous and super easy for the transfers in the city to JFK.
Also, and excellent party!
Political scientists see non-violent resistance as much more effective--and it's not just from aggregate statistics. Rather, it's the way that peaceful resistance undermines the state's repressive capacities.
This op-ed by Berkeley prof @owasow.bsky.social explains this logic 🎯.
Give it a read!
A good friend recommended the book, Hestia Strikes a Match, a few years ago. It was a fascinating read. Right now, the future it imagined feels much too close. However, I’m proud of my fellow Americans who are getting up to good trouble and mourning for those who lost their lives for their values.
I’ve been teaching versions of an intro to American Politics for over a decade - and all my students know her name (laughter helps them learn and retain; thanks, Drunk History). As a pregnant teen, she had more courage than most. Rest in Power.
I’m devastated by the attack at Bondi. No one deserves to be targeted because of their religion and every Australian deserves to be safe. My heart goes out to the victims.
“If you don’t have rare earths, then you don’t have the high-powered magnets that go into missiles and the jet engines that hold everything together,” says USSC's Hayley Channer.
“So it is a national security threat.”
Read:
Screenshot of following text, with the quote about the Middle East highlighted in red. Further, by inviting the R.S.F. delegation to attend the talks in D.C., the Administration conferred legitimacy on the group. “You don’t invite Hamas or the Taliban to Washington to negotiate things. You do that in Doha, right?” Hudson said. “That’s why God invented the Middle East, so that we didn’t have to have these war criminals sipping champagne in Washington, D.C.” Hudson believes that further horrors can be avoided, but only if the U.S. commits to focussing on the issue, and to putting real pressure on the R.S.F. and its allies.
I’m wondering why your editorial team thought this was an appropriate quote to run in this piece? It’s so casually demeaning of an entire region and undermines the point being made.
Some things never change!
(Which, as I should have mentioned above, was also the most frequently chosen top concern.)
When we recently surveyed Australians about their concerns around space - 41.9% cited the accumulation of space debris around Earth.
YES YES YES to all of this.
Along with Tristan, we worked with Dr Aleks Deejay, our colleague at the @acsg.bsky.social, and had the support of @usstudiescentre.bsky.social at @sydney.edu.au, UNSW Canberra, and Space Industry Association Australia. www.ussc.edu.au/looking-up-f...
We published our newest report on Australian public opinion of space from @acsg.bsky.social on Friday, and somehow, in the middle of #IAC2025, @tristanmoss.bsky.social and I found some time to write about it for @theconversation.com. I’ll also link the full report below.
