Riding With Robots

What's your birthday on another planet? My 33rd Martian birthday is coming up! I'd prefer something red, I think. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/your-birth... 🔭 🧪

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026)! 🧪👩🏾‍🔬🐡🧮⚒️🔭 #histsci Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper

We're getting there...

My notes have been scattered. It’s ok, most of them remind me of the same thing.

Raise your hand if you are an Arab scientist. 👋🏽 I say this with all the disrespect intended. Fuck you.

"AI might cure cancer. AI can do anything" AI can only make one kind of business poster. It hasn't figured out a second poster design. The fuck they talking about?

From NASA We’ve known since the Apollo missions that dust can present challenges for explorers on other worlds. Now, scientists are using instruments on the Perseverance rover to understand the risks of dust on Mars and find clues about how to protect future crews on the Red Planet.

• Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / US): Won 1999 Nobel Prize in #Chemistry • Nader Masmoudi (Tunisia): Won Fermat Prize in #mathematics • Abbas Bahri (Tunisia): also received the Fermat Prize • Sir Michael Atiyah (Lebanese descent / British): #mathematician who won both Fields Medal and Abel Prize.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Fantastic new visions of the unknown expanses of Nili Planum and the upper Neretva Vallis captured by Perseverance in this 83-images mosaic, acquired Dec. 25 and transmitted only a few hours ago. 🔎 zoom app: zoomhub.net/EpWXX 📷 high res: flic.kr/p/2qCCpLr Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭 #Mars

Visiting the scene of DART's crime*! hera.esa.int *Potentially planet-saving test of a technique for bumping an incoming asteroid or comet into a safer trajectory science.nasa.gov/mission/dart

Little bit of Mars. Taken today. science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...

As others have said, maybe it's weird to get emotional about a software trailer, but I hope this does well.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Annual ghost story party! 👻

Lake McDonald - 2, Glacier National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #Glacier

I wish more of the public could see what I saw, which is how deeply scientists, clinicians, and public health folks care about our well-being, both individually and collectively. I’m tired, though I’m more hopeful than I’ve been in a while.

Every year this one house in Ann Arbor has the largest pumpkins for Halloween

"The US military has given Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions re: whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor." The access also raises many new national security concerns.

A rover in Times Square

Good night from the Moon, and me

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

🔭 Rosetta's Selfie Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA ap261024

A rover in Times Square

Phobos is unique in a lot of ways, but one is that its largest crater is named after a woman! Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall worked with her husband to search for the moons of Mars, though ceased helping him with the calculations when he refused to pay her a man’s wages for her work.

With love from the Moon

Dammit, Neptune

Floor it! NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is accelerating to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. Learn more about Psyche’s solar-powered propulsion system, which uses electromagnetic fields to steadily deliver thrust: go.nasa.gov/4jAR2bY

Hera’s second braking manoeuvre yesterday reduced the spacecraft’s velocity relative to the Didymos and Dimorphos system by 70 m/s from a distance of 2300 km away. A trio of smaller ‘transition’ manoeuvres this coming week will reduce Hera’s relative velocity down to near zero. hera.esa.int

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Good night

So much paint on this one… 48”x30” oil on canvas Available in my website.

From NASA Success! NASA’s DUST-III sounding rocket launched from Alaska’s Poker Flat Research Range at 9:30pm AKDT Oct. 21 (1:30am EDT Oct. 22). 🚀 In microgravity, its payload made cosmic dust, the tiny grains that build planets.