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I'll be right there!

You bullshitted NASA!

🔭 Paper day, and it’s a big one! We have found the most metal-poor object known in the universe. It’s a star, and it comes to us from our nearby friend the Large Magellanic Cloud. Out in Nature Astronomy today: rdcu.be/fbylI

Ohio has seen a 58% rise in the firearm death rate for children as gun laws and prevention efforts have been loosened and overturned.

It was 2.6 per 100,000 children between 2015 and 2019.

It then rose to 4.1 per 100,000 children between 2020 and 2024, according to KFF.

Liftoff!

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A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.

Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M.

Do you see how this works?

First elephant shrews born in the UK at Hertfordshire Zoo Hertfordshire Zoo says the newborns are a "significant victory for the wider zoological community".

The 12yo has declared it Rufous Sengi Awareness Day!

Also called rufous elephant shrews, sengis are closer to elephants and manatees than to shrews and are a lovely rusty colour. Look, babies!

Here's the reason, you weirdo:

There have been many studies showing that there is no fraud. And since the right is so precious and so important, the idea that legitimate voters would be barred from exercising it over some unnecessary bureaucratic technicality is anathema to any patriotic American.

My wife says this photo is missing Benoit Blanc

This would work much better with a serif font....

Should be Proposal I, Proposal II, Proposal III....

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

UW Planetarium Arts - Constelaciones y Supernovas 2026

Exhibition of paintings inspired by @sdssurveys.bsky.social plug plates happening at UW in Seattle next month: uwplanetariumarts.myportfolio.com/constelacion... 👩‍🔬🔭

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Trump's assholery has killed a wonderful advanced X-ray astronomical mission that has been in development for almost a decade.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.

I had a busy day yesterday 🧵

A large remote controlled paddle boat with a green mouth and googly eyes

I 😍 the trash wheel in Baltimore Harbor

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

Alerts are flowing from Rubin Observatory!

There will be a proper press release in the coming hours, please see all the details then, and meanwhile, your favorite alert broker probably has public data available to peruse *now*!

We are up to well over 20k alerts after 20 min on sky 🔭

A screenshot of the new NEH guidelines, with eligibility text highlighted "The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present." The rest above it says "NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars."

"Exceptional work in the humanities for me (white) but not thee (non-white)."

Ohio State University has received nearly 300 requests to remove Wexner name from buildings • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio State University has received nearly 300 requests to remove billionaire donor Les Wexner's name from buildings because of his association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. However, the ...

Ohio State University has received nearly 300 requests to remove billionaire donor Les Wexner’s name from buildings because of his association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/23/o...

Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch in Antelope Valley; suspect charged with murder An accomplished CalTech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in the Antelope Valley.

Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch in Antelope Valley; suspect charged with murder

It’s hard to overstate how much blood, sweat and time away from your family goes into the preparation and submission of grant proposals. All for a tiny chance of being selected and pushing the frontier of knowledge.

These actions were unconscionable and they will always have been unconscionable.

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

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