Prof Lía Corrales
@eblur.bsky.social
High energy astronomer studying space dust and exoplanets.
Opinions my own.
Opinions my own.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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We will not forget who enabled fascism in the United States.
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We will not forget who enabled fascism in the United States.
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As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪
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 2:48 AM
As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
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An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
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#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...
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#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...
Aerosols are so interesting! I love this visualization from NASAEarth. Fun side fact: a few percent of the dust in your home comes from the Sahara desert! (the purple stuff on the animation) It’s incredible what US funding for NASA and the sciences can do.
www.instagram.com/reel/DOrH-Gm...
www.instagram.com/reel/DOrH-Gm...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Aerosols are so interesting! I love this visualization from NASAEarth. Fun side fact: a few percent of the dust in your home comes from the Sahara desert! (the purple stuff on the animation) It’s incredible what US funding for NASA and the sciences can do.
www.instagram.com/reel/DOrH-Gm...
www.instagram.com/reel/DOrH-Gm...
The images of inflatable prostestors bring me so much joy. Too much is going on right now in my personal life to be able to join in, but these images of joy in resistance and meeting the clownery of the current leading party with equal measures of buffoonery makes me feel hope for the future.
October 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The images of inflatable prostestors bring me so much joy. Too much is going on right now in my personal life to be able to join in, but these images of joy in resistance and meeting the clownery of the current leading party with equal measures of buffoonery makes me feel hope for the future.
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The nation’s military and defense journalists exited the Pentagon in unison Wednesday, having had their accreditation revoked after refusing to agree to the Defense Department’s new restrictions on their newsgathering activities.
Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules
After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The nation’s military and defense journalists exited the Pentagon in unison Wednesday, having had their accreditation revoked after refusing to agree to the Defense Department’s new restrictions on their newsgathering activities.
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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
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NASA SSC sent this to grantees: "NASA has reviewed the activities currently being performed under your entity's grant or cooperative agreement ... and have determined those activities to not be an "excepted" activity." nasawatch.com/shutdown/nss... #NASA
NSSC Memo To NASA Grantees
NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
nasawatch.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
NASA SSC sent this to grantees: "NASA has reviewed the activities currently being performed under your entity's grant or cooperative agreement ... and have determined those activities to not be an "excepted" activity." nasawatch.com/shutdown/nss... #NASA
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Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
www.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
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"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
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Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Big R1s, where are your legal teams? Smaller places (and individuals like me) need you to start this fight.
September 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Big R1s, where are your legal teams? Smaller places (and individuals like me) need you to start this fight.
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I also had two papers come out this month! I worked on the first XRISM results from the Perseus cluster and got time on XRISM to observe A1914, which we discovered was undergoing a line-of-sight merger! 🔭
September 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I also had two papers come out this month! I worked on the first XRISM results from the Perseus cluster and got time on XRISM to observe A1914, which we discovered was undergoing a line-of-sight merger! 🔭
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Today we received our final proofs for our upcoming @ioppublishing.bsky.social published book, "Integrating Computing into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum."
My introductory chapter is posted for free: dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo...
#iteachphysics #iteachcs
My introductory chapter is posted for free: dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo...
#iteachphysics #iteachcs
First chapter of Computing in Physics Education book available
Announcement of the first chapter release from the book 'Computing in Physics Education'.
dannycaballero.info
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Today we received our final proofs for our upcoming @ioppublishing.bsky.social published book, "Integrating Computing into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum."
My introductory chapter is posted for free: dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo...
#iteachphysics #iteachcs
My introductory chapter is posted for free: dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo...
#iteachphysics #iteachcs
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You are watching the rugged and stunning landscape of an asteroid, a near-Earth object: 162173 Ryugu.
The image was captured on 23 September 2018 immediately before hop of Rover-1B.
Image source➡️ hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20...
Image credit: JAXA
🔭 🧪 #science #histsci
You are watching the rugged and stunning landscape of an asteroid, a near-Earth object: 162173 Ryugu.
The image was captured on 23 September 2018 immediately before hop of Rover-1B.
Image source➡️ hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20...
Image credit: JAXA
🔭 🧪 #science #histsci
September 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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You are watching the rugged and stunning landscape of an asteroid, a near-Earth object: 162173 Ryugu.
The image was captured on 23 September 2018 immediately before hop of Rover-1B.
Image source➡️ hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20...
Image credit: JAXA
🔭 🧪 #science #histsci
You are watching the rugged and stunning landscape of an asteroid, a near-Earth object: 162173 Ryugu.
The image was captured on 23 September 2018 immediately before hop of Rover-1B.
Image source➡️ hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20...
Image credit: JAXA
🔭 🧪 #science #histsci
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Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/
September 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/
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On the 🔭🧪 postdoc job market? Excited about science with Rubin and big surveys? Come join us at DiRAC. I’m so excited that we’re able to offer a few of these Fellowship positions this year!
Please share, LMK if you have Q’s!
aas.org/jobregister/...
Please share, LMK if you have Q’s!
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology | American Astronomical Society
We invite applications for the 2026 DiRAC Fellowship in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. These up to 3-year full time postdoctoral positions are available to promising earl...
aas.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
On the 🔭🧪 postdoc job market? Excited about science with Rubin and big surveys? Come join us at DiRAC. I’m so excited that we’re able to offer a few of these Fellowship positions this year!
Please share, LMK if you have Q’s!
aas.org/jobregister/...
Please share, LMK if you have Q’s!
aas.org/jobregister/...
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The res(t)ock is 73% funded! ✨
We're so close to bringing back 5 designs 🤩
You can still pre-order a pair here:
sciencesocks.co/collections/...
We're so close to bringing back 5 designs 🤩
You can still pre-order a pair here:
sciencesocks.co/collections/...
The Great Sock Res(t)ock
Important: this is a pre-order. Once the funding goal is reached, all five sock styles will be restocked! Socks are expected to ship mid-October. Help us restock five sock designs! We're getting rea...
sciencesocks.co
September 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The res(t)ock is 73% funded! ✨
We're so close to bringing back 5 designs 🤩
You can still pre-order a pair here:
sciencesocks.co/collections/...
We're so close to bringing back 5 designs 🤩
You can still pre-order a pair here:
sciencesocks.co/collections/...
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The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
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Our grassroots awareness team handed out over 200 mini-flyers yesterday at @airandspacemuseum! The flyers had facts on how to support NASA. Seeing as everyone in line was interested in learning about aeronautics and space, they were predominantly receptive to our message. #nasa #nasaneedshelp
August 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Our grassroots awareness team handed out over 200 mini-flyers yesterday at @airandspacemuseum! The flyers had facts on how to support NASA. Seeing as everyone in line was interested in learning about aeronautics and space, they were predominantly receptive to our message. #nasa #nasaneedshelp
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Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
www.propublica.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.