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They say they witnessed guards kill an ICE detainee. DHS wants them gone: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Jen Sobeck
@jensob.bsky.social
Staff Astronomer at Caltech/IPAC, Team Member on the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope (nasaromantelescope.bsky.social), Mom to Lucas and Noah, (tiny print: opinions are my own and not those of my employer)
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They say they witnessed guards kill an ICE detainee. DHS wants them gone: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Unilever/Magnum has been silencing Ben & Jerry’s when the brand has tried to speak out about social injustices & progressive values. It’s wrong. Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's petition & be entered in a raffle to win a free pint of his pro-ceasefire sorbet! sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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The amounts of data from the Nancy G. Roman Telescope will be staggering! To prepare for the Mission, become familiar with the tools and data. Our first webinar will be focused on the “Tools for Exploring Roman’s Core Community Surveys". For more information, please check our website: bit.ly/4oaaewG
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This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
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My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Register yourself or a student for the 'Python and Astropy for Astronomical Data Analysis' workshop at @aas.org on January 4, 2026. 🔭 #aas247 #astrocode You'll get a broad overview of the astropy functionality that powers astronomy, taught by the @astropy.org team. github.com/astropy/astr...
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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#Communiqué 🗞️ Du 3 au 5 octobre 2025, célébrez la Fête de la science avec les Échappées inattendues du CNRS à la @citedessciences.bsky.social et au @museeartsetmetiers.bsky.social ! #FDS2025 #ÉchappéesInattendues 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/ec...
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This fee is absolutely horrendous, and I feel sick for multiple friends in the US or who were planning to take up positions in the US very soon. Hell, even people I spent time with this week at @stellarorigins2025.bsky.social here in Vienna might not get back into the US tomorrow
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"The Hepatitis B vaccine has nearly eliminated maternal transmission of the disease in the United States, slashing the incidence to fewer than 20 cases a year from about 20,000 a year before 1991..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...
Last week, I was able to catch a glimpse of the @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social telescope (well partially as she was in TVAC). I also was lucky enough to briefly chat with a few of my colleagues at NASA Goddard, who are some of the most talented and hardworking scientists and engineers around.
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The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research which contributes to NASA Astrophysics. 🔭 🧪 Applications are now open: stsci.edu/stsci-resear... Credit: NASA.
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First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
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What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
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this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
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Technicians recently tested two major deployments for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS): go.nasa.gov/41X95PN #NASARoman 🔭 🧪
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NEW: More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump admin since Jan. 2025, per a new report. That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce. “We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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As 1,000 more unnecessary National Guard troops from GOP-led states arrive to enable the Trump regime’s hostile takeover of a U.S. city, remember that you have the power to fight back. Visit freedcproject.org/allies to learn how you can support D.C. It’s going to take all of us to save democracy.
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"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has now surpassed FIVE HOURS of his "magic minute" sharing the stories of Americans who will be impacted by Trump's Big Bullshit Bill. Jeffries has also name-checked Republicans whom Democrats are targeting in next year’s election.
House Minority Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has been on the floor speaking out against Trump's Big Bullshit Bill for more than THREE HOURS. And he's still going. Let him know how grateful we are for him continuing to fight!
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Inbound: Astronomers Discover Third Interstellar Object 🧪 🔭 The object in question is currently at +18th magnitude, moving slowly along the border of the constellations Serpens Cauda and Sagittarius, right near the galactic plane. Credit: @filipp-romanov.bsky.social
The NSF should not be displaced from their current building. I stand with the NSF employees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oc7...
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💥💥 Double detonation! For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. The fingerprint that points to this mechanism is represented by two separate shells of calcium. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2511/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/
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3rd interstellar object! Using @astrafoxen.bsky.social's orbit below, it would've had velocity 57.9+-0.9 km/s entering solar sys... faster than 'Oumuamua (26km/s) or Borisov (32km/s), & absolute mag H=14.9 suggests bigger too (maybe ~few km diameter) #A11pl3Z looks like Leet for "Allplease" :)
ANOTHER UPDATE on interstellar object #A11pl3Z: Even MORE early obs from June 14-21 were found from the Zwicky Transient Facility! Now with 18 days of data, we have a lower eccentricity of e=6.11±0.14 for A11pl3Z's hyperbolic trajectory. (Sam Deen also notes ATLAS obs from Jun 4-17, unsubmitted) 🔭☄️
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