💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀

hi new followers 👋 quick intro - I'm Adina, currently a NASA Sagan fellow at Michigan State, but I'll be starting as an assistant prof here next year 👩🏻‍🏫 my research focuses on observing very young planets and stars 🌟🪐🔭 I'm a crafter 🧶, baker 🥧, cat-mom 🐱, and Halloween enthusiast 🎃👻 🧪

if you're tired of ai crap, I highly recommend going to see LAIKA's Wildwood. it's refreshingly human handmade stop motion animation is stunning and it's the best movie I've seen in a very long time

“We’ve established that the observatory is fully functional,” said Julie McEnery, #NASARoman senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “The telescope can guide and take exposures, data flows appropriately, and we can slew from one place to another for observations.” 🔭

I would like to see a new feature on arXiv that labels preprints that use AI upfront, since apparently TWO slop papers were successfully uploaded to the preprint server over the last two nights... arxiv.org/abs/2610.26056 🔭🌟🪐

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

found a local farm with u-pick flowers 🥰

does anyone else sing ROSÉ & Bruno Mars "APT" whenever they open the APT? or is it just me

YES!!! LET'S GO PRIMA!!! Such a joy to be part of this wonderful team 🌌🔭🚀 www.nasa.gov/news-release...

tfw it's jwst season

Important for #astrosky: Overleaf seems to upgraded to TeXLive v2026 in the past few days, and as a result, your aastex v7 / aasjournal v7.1 might be broken. To fix it, go to Overleaf's File > Settings > Compiler > TeX Live version > [select 2025] www.overleaf.com/blog/tex-liv...

Texans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5

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not us ending virtual group meeting today by saying don't breath the cigarette air outside and don't eat your vegetables 😭 #MichiganLife

flying back from Japan be like

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

btw did I mention all of the data behind the figures in the manuscript are publicly available? 👀 github.com/kronos-jwst/...

Elise Koo reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how researchers have taken advantage of the unique TOI-3884 system to directly probe a starspot with JWST. aasnova.org/2026/06/02/t... 🔭

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

#nsf canceled #geoscience postdocs. That’s nifty. Let’s pretend we aren’t messing up the planet and be super sure to stop training people who can help. eos.org/research-and...

Michigan State's Darryl Seligman discusses how interstellar interlopers and dark comets are challenging our understanding of the behavior and properties of comets and asteroids. Today's lecture is part of the weekly 2026 Spring Colloquium talks at STScI.

ready to go!!!

Welcome to the new fellows selected to pursue their research in space science at ESA! Their projects span a broad range of topics from investigating the nature of dark matter to learning how Jupiter’s atmosphere works. Discover more about them 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

astro hive mind - a student in my intro to astro for non-majors class asked about good astronomy documentaries they could watch. does anybody have any recommendations? 🔭 🌟#astronomy

Just released: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval" - Minority Staff Report Prepared for Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

This administration really hates Goddard Space Flight Center. I hope we can save it. 🧪 #planetsci 49197025.hs-sites.com/assessing-th...

a little delayed, but congratulations to MSU grad student Sydney Petz for receiving an NSF GRFP 🥳 astro.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/...

Anti-war demonstrations occurred all across Israel this evening. US media decided you really didn't need to know about them.

Is this a new headline or did they just translate from the original German?

the number of times I've been mistaken for an undergrad on campus is now up to 5

1) Let's 2) Go 3) Mets

we were talking about solar flares and solar activity cycles in the intro astro for non-majors class today and somebody asked, "Do solar flares happen more frequently if a star spins faster?" ngl, I was shook by this intuition 💪