Cynthia Froning

Look you can say whatever horrible racist shit you want. But I draw the line at making fun of my favorite chain restaurant bsky.app/profile/mari...

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

I'm really looking forward to moving back to a place with buried power lines.

I'm attending an online conference. It's pretty good, but I'm not thrilled that I was cut off before my time was complete only to have an older man go off on an extended "get off my lawn" rant without interruption.

Paxton has to be one of the most evil men in the country. Many children will die because of this. Pediatricians will flee Texas because of this and children will die from causes that have nothing to do with vaccines because there are no doctors to care for them.

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

I’d contribute here but I’m not sure how much the average reader is interested in Building Scientific Apparatus and looking up the spec sheets of photodiodes online…

SPRITE's taking flight! 🚀 🌌 On October 1, this LASP-led mission is scheduled to launch and begin its journey to investigate some of astronomy’s biggest questions about the early universe. Learn more about SPRITE and how to watch the launch: lasp.colorado.edu/2026/09/29/s...

This graph represents probably more than a hundred thousand hours of work by our community. Every year when I look at it I think our current proposal model is broken.

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

The NYT has an article today on how Mary Peltola treated her congressional staff. I'm old enough to remember the many times this story has run before with a different (woman's) name in the headline. Presumably, men in power behaving like assholes behavior is considered normal, therefor unnewsworthy.

They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.

We purchased our 1954 house from the original owners, who designed it so that there were no steps in the home because the wife's brother was in a wheelchair from childhood polio. How quickly we forget.

TIL that New Hampshire is not landlocked...

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Are we sure he actually owns the watch and didn't just grab someone else's from a security checkpoint?

We also know that AI is only helpful if you have the discipline specific skills and knowledge to understand when, how, and why the AI is giving you incorrect results. Therefore the most important thing we can do to prepare students to work with AI is double down on the fundamentals.

Astronomers! STScI just advertised vacancies for ESA/AURA Astronomer positions. These are 50/50 mission support/research positions, funded by ESA via an AURA contract (so you don't need to be an ESA member state citizen). Full details here: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Be cautious about reports of life/biosignature detection on planets other than Earth. Any initial signs are likely to be low signal to noise and/or subject to other interpretations.

Happy Left-handers' Day to everyone who, like me, suffered the indignity of having to write upside down or endure endlessly smudged writing

Yesterday I was in the zone. It was awesome. Today, I'm taking a page from my husband and "working" by downloading a large dataset.

I'm a UT Austin grad, so it breaks my heart to see the state throwing out the academic freedom that has made our universities (yes, even TAMU) great institutions.

There is a lot of bad news in the world right now, but I am enjoying seeing Gianni Infantino get his ass handed to him.

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

Thanks to @rhubarble.com for saving these from the dustbin. I guess we’re in the era of the cloud all around.

I helped manage UT Austin's covid response in 2020. One thing that immediately became clear is how hard health messaging is: too much nuance and people tune out; too little, and you risk getting called a liar when best practice shifts.

In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrofysicus (1964-2026) www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/in-me... English: In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrophysicist (1964–2026) www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/in... 🔭

She is also such a great human.

A lot of this relied on the unpaid labor of women, so a recovery is not just a matter of going back.

Aaron Bello-Arufe is updating us on the ELT building process. Almost 70% complete, featuring 798 mirror segments to make up a 39m mirror First light in Dec 2030 #exoplanets6 #exo6

@ucobservatories.bsky.social is searching for a leader for our outreach and public education programs - looking for a scientist who is passionate about science communication and bringing astronomy to the public. Feel free to reach out with questions or interest! recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02124

This is what a jet of dust and gas on a comet looks like up close.

Arkansas touts its designation as the “most pro-life state in America," but that clearly only applies to fetuses, not women.

The answer to this depends on how you define AI. In astronomy, for example, we have been using machine learning for many years to search for features in large data sets. We develop and vet our own training sets, though. I think people mean LLMs for AI, but there is a broader set of tools.

recorded this just before news broke that the settlement shields the trump family from IRS audits which is OUTRAGEOUS youtu.be/hraZ4tIuDWA?...

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Red states can cancel elections and redraw the maps to cut out Black representation without any voter input, and no one stops them. Blue state asks the voters if they wanna redistrict, the voters say yes, and the court strikes it down.

Glad I finished grading yesterday though they aren’t submitted yet. #canvashack

Currently in this situation, though I haven't finished yet. I did get many other things done while avoiding the task, though.

I have finally done the thing The important thing I have inexplicably been putting off And which is very late And which has been contributing to my anxiety and insomina for months It took about an hour wasn't very hard at all, almost enjoyable in fact