💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀
@afeinstein20.bsky.social
asst prof | astronomy PhD | MSU | https://adina.feinste.in
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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 🎃👻
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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 🎃👻
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
then pay NASA employees to analyze the data and publish it, like proper science
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
then pay NASA employees to analyze the data and publish it, like proper science
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What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
it's crazy to me that a congresswoman is calling on NASA to release data on 3I/ATLAS while actively destroying Goddard, the campus responsible for supporting/building the missions the data comes from.
the second crazy thing is believing it's aliens.
the second crazy thing is believing it's aliens.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
it's crazy to me that a congresswoman is calling on NASA to release data on 3I/ATLAS while actively destroying Goddard, the campus responsible for supporting/building the missions the data comes from.
the second crazy thing is believing it's aliens.
the second crazy thing is believing it's aliens.
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BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
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“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
GESTA’s Summary of Goddard Building Closures Status
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the largest group of scientists, technicians and engineers in the US who develop Earth and space science flight missions. Below is GESTA's understanding of the...
www.gesta-goddard.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
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Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭
#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭
the dentist asked what my major was, so I guess my Halloween costume is... an undergrad?
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
the dentist asked what my major was, so I guess my Halloween costume is... an undergrad?
today's project ft. Enoch and the pumpkin people from Over the Garden Wall 🎃
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
today's project ft. Enoch and the pumpkin people from Over the Garden Wall 🎃
spotted at a pizza place in Toledo, OH. the crust was excellent
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
spotted at a pizza place in Toledo, OH. the crust was excellent
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The handmaid's tale outfits and messages are accurate.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The handmaid's tale outfits and messages are accurate.
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BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
I'm guessing ~3300 based on some inbox numbers lolsob
So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭
October 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I'm guessing ~3300 based on some inbox numbers lolsob
last night's arXiv read like everyone's trying to get their papers up and citable before the jwst deadline ngl 👀
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
last night's arXiv read like everyone's trying to get their papers up and citable before the jwst deadline ngl 👀
there was also a unicorn on the riverwalk, but I forgot to take a picture 😭
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
there was also a unicorn on the riverwalk, but I forgot to take a picture 😭
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Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!
So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.
Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
getting in the spirit when it's 80°F means black flowers 🥲☠️🦩🎃
September 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
getting in the spirit when it's 80°F means black flowers 🥲☠️🦩🎃
#stellarastro 🔭🌟 look at all the rotation periods @meirs.bsky.social measured from the ground!!
arxiv.org/abs/2509.14423
⭐️paper day!⭐️
hey now, we found thousands of stellar variability periods, including ~26k very high likelihood new ASAS-SN rotation periods from cool dwarfs!
(also I have missed abt 5 typos in this version already, but it’s only been submitted to ApJS so it’ll get fixed!)..
⭐️paper day!⭐️
hey now, we found thousands of stellar variability periods, including ~26k very high likelihood new ASAS-SN rotation periods from cool dwarfs!
(also I have missed abt 5 typos in this version already, but it’s only been submitted to ApJS so it’ll get fixed!)..
200,000+ Deep Learning Inferred Periods of Stellar Variability from The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae
Stars exhibit a range of variability periods that depend on their mass, age, and evolutionary stage. For space-based photometric data, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated success in...
arxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#stellarastro 🔭🌟 look at all the rotation periods @meirs.bsky.social measured from the ground!!
