And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

This is Pachycephalosaurus erasure

Done with space travel; time for time travel! 😄

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

I'm so so sorry. You deserve so much better. This is your victory too and you should be right there with everyone else. I hope you get a path back to your dream in the future.

Splashdown!! I'm so relieved and happy I could cry. The Artemis II coverage has been such a wonderful source of joy and delight over what's personally been an incredibly difficult ten days for me. I'm so very grateful for it.

I wasn't holding my breath the whole six minutes obviously but it sure felt like it. Yaaaay!

Reid: We have a great view of the moon out of window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday.

Jackie: Guess we’ll have to go back.

Safe trip back, Integrity!

The crescent of Earth rapidly picking up in comparison to Artemis II

Artemis II is rapidly closing towards your location (Earth).

*heavy sigh in high-energy/UV astrophysics* Time to bother my reps again.

Not only is pineapple on pizza good, banana on pizza is also good.

Season 9 completely turned me around on the 12th Doctor era and Clara, after deeply disliking Season 8 to the point that I stopped watching. Very glad I went back after all!

#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion

EARTHSET.
April 6, 2026.

Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon.

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Spiritually I am the pot of Nutella flying across the Artemis II Orion cabin.

Delightfully surprised by the appearance of some compact object friends in here, including the Crab pulsar, HLX-1 (!) and Sgr A*. Really cool to see different kinds of objects sat beside things of a similar size scale that you might not have expected. Boggled at just how big hypergiants can get!!

Earth from space, with a very bright arc on its bottom right edge from the sun illuminating it, and little green and red arcs of aurora at the poles.

I downloaded the high-res version of this amazing picture from the Artemis crew and did a little edit to make it look more like what the astronauts might actually see!

Enjoy the picture and then check out the thread below explaining what you’re looking at… 🧪 #artemis #artemisii #space #moon

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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Discord message by me, with four emoji standing for T = trans (transgender flag) L = lunar (gibbous moon emoji) I = injection (syringe emoji) B = burn (fire emoji) So the TLIB was a ‘good burn’ according to ground control. Trans-lunar injection burn is done!

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sorry have to add my favorite one

Rocket launching

GO #ARTEMISII GO!!!! 🚀

Godspeed, humans!

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Artemis II is go for launch! T-10 mins and starting the countdown soon!

www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

On Trans Day of Visibility, Supreme Court sides with conversion therapy The 8-1 ruling threatens to overturn bans on the discredited practice in 23 states.

The Supreme Court’s decision today in Chiles v. Salazar is a devastating step backward that will cause real harm to American children and families. By weaponizing the First Amendment, the Court has elevated anti-LGBTQ+ bias over the safety, health, and wellbeing of young people.

"We have centuries of accumulated pedagogical wisdom telling us that the attempt, including the failed attempt, is where the learning lives. And yet, somehow, when it comes to AI agents, we've collectively decided that maybe this time it's different."

The world is full of horrors right now but they can't take away my joy to finally see humans go back to the Moon. Yay spaceflight!!!

There is no separating art from the artist when the artist is determined to use every penny of her fortune to destroy the lives of trans people. Don't touch it. Our lives are more important than your nostalgia. Watch literally anything else.

Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.

Happy International Women's Day!

Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general).

arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465

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It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.

That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.

Why do we do astrophysics? At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...

"Every person is a human being, whose personal development is more important than our short-term scientific accomplishments" - and more bangers in this from David Hogg (spoiler: it's about AI!) arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181 🔭