Kristin Block
@marsmaven.bsky.social
making spacecraft do things | musician, queer, pwME | bay area | she/her | asteroid 42665
aka marsmaven
aka marsmaven
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My article for Sky & Telescope about the cool new pictures of asteroid Donaldjohanson from the Lucy mission: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
Meet Asteroid Donaldjohanson: Long and Lumpy
During a close flyby on April 20th, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft surprised its science team by revealing an asteroid that was once two smaller pieces that have been conjoined into a larger whole.
skyandtelescope.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My article for Sky & Telescope about the cool new pictures of asteroid Donaldjohanson from the Lucy mission: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
Costco called me 5 minutes before my appointment - they just gave away the last novavax to walk-ins.
I've had an appointment for weeks.
The journey here will put me in bed for several days.
I've had an appointment for weeks.
The journey here will put me in bed for several days.
April 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Costco called me 5 minutes before my appointment - they just gave away the last novavax to walk-ins.
I've had an appointment for weeks.
The journey here will put me in bed for several days.
I've had an appointment for weeks.
The journey here will put me in bed for several days.
#migraine gang, frovatriptan is on here too
Gabapentin and metformin are on here and I know those are common, plus a few generics, so check your bottles to see if Glenmark was the manufacturer and if so contact your pharmacy to see if your lot is subject to recall
FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#migraine gang, frovatriptan is on here too
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Here's some poems from a nonspeaking autistic person (and there's a lot more than this!), so RFK Jr can go to hell with that eugenicist noise.
www.deejmovie.com/poetry
www.deejmovie.com/poetry
April 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Here's some poems from a nonspeaking autistic person (and there's a lot more than this!), so RFK Jr can go to hell with that eugenicist noise.
www.deejmovie.com/poetry
www.deejmovie.com/poetry
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It’s all so absurd
and so awful
and so awful
March 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s all so absurd
and so awful
and so awful
I've been offline for a bit- Planetary friends, this was lpsc? is there more on this?
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I've been offline for a bit- Planetary friends, this was lpsc? is there more on this?
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This is going be 10:50PM EDT for any of my fellow Americans who want to celebrate this monumental occasion tonight.
For those who celebrate the downfall of empires (everyone should), raise a glass or a fist to salute tomorrow morning, for at 02:50 UTC the sun will finally set on the British Empire.
Empire means domination. Imperialists are the baddies.
All empires shall fall.
www.reddit.com/r/geography/...
Empire means domination. Imperialists are the baddies.
All empires shall fall.
www.reddit.com/r/geography/...
From the geography community on Reddit: On Friday 21st March 2025 at 02:50 UTC the sun will finally set on the British "Empire"
Explore this post and more from the geography community
www.reddit.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is going be 10:50PM EDT for any of my fellow Americans who want to celebrate this monumental occasion tonight.
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For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity
I’m bringing this up because this is a simple procedural way to fuck with republicans even if they’re in the majority. Call them out of order, rise to a point of personal privilege, use the very procedural rules that organize their meetings to strangle them. It fucking works.
March 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity
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I’m glad my friends can gather at #LPSC2025 - again I wish I could join, but I and the rest of our trans colleagues could find themselves made literal felons in the middle of a TX conference. Not attending has not primarily been a boycott on my part, it’s been and remains a matter of safety.
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m glad my friends can gather at #LPSC2025 - again I wish I could join, but I and the rest of our trans colleagues could find themselves made literal felons in the middle of a TX conference. Not attending has not primarily been a boycott on my part, it’s been and remains a matter of safety.
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Heading out to cover another LPSC for @science.org. Ping me if you have a talk or poster I shouldn't miss -- or if you want to talk confidentiality about goings on at NASA.
March 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Heading out to cover another LPSC for @science.org. Ping me if you have a talk or poster I shouldn't miss -- or if you want to talk confidentiality about goings on at NASA.
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I'll be covering tomorrow's Stand Up for Science rally in DC for C&EN. Will you be attending? Want to meet briefly to talk about why you're there, what's at stake, etc.? Hit me up by DM or on Signal (Laurel_Oldach.07)
March 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'll be covering tomorrow's Stand Up for Science rally in DC for C&EN. Will you be attending? Want to meet briefly to talk about why you're there, what's at stake, etc.? Hit me up by DM or on Signal (Laurel_Oldach.07)
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DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
February 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
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Happy Landiversary Perseverance! 💕🧵
Same view, from MRO/HiRISE 700 km/435 miles away, in space. An awful lot of talented engineers and scientists made this happen.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...
www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...
February 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Landiversary Perseverance! 💕🧵
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🚨Alert!🚨 We just digitized this 1772 handwritten volume of Irish and Scottish folk dance tunes.
Do you know any of these songs? Are they still played? Take a look and let us know what you think! findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...
Do you know any of these songs? Are they still played? Take a look and let us know what you think! findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...
February 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚨Alert!🚨 We just digitized this 1772 handwritten volume of Irish and Scottish folk dance tunes.
Do you know any of these songs? Are they still played? Take a look and let us know what you think! findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...
Do you know any of these songs? Are they still played? Take a look and let us know what you think! findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...
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Pretty cool plant... quickly closes all of its leaves when touched.
February 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Pretty cool plant... quickly closes all of its leaves when touched.
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Related. Here is a step-by-step for civil servants to get their personnel files. If the system is even open anymore...
February 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Related. Here is a step-by-step for civil servants to get their personnel files. If the system is even open anymore...
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look at this little guy
February 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
look at this little guy
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I'm a reporter at the SF Chronicle hoping to speak with scientists who were impacted by the government firings. Specifically NOAA scientists, especially those in California. Open to hearing from you on the record, off the record or anonymously.
email: anthony.edwards@sfchronicle.com
DMs open
email: anthony.edwards@sfchronicle.com
DMs open
February 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm a reporter at the SF Chronicle hoping to speak with scientists who were impacted by the government firings. Specifically NOAA scientists, especially those in California. Open to hearing from you on the record, off the record or anonymously.
email: anthony.edwards@sfchronicle.com
DMs open
email: anthony.edwards@sfchronicle.com
DMs open
I have just had a *very* angry weep. Fuck these fascist fucks.
UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I have just had a *very* angry weep. Fuck these fascist fucks.
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Exclusive photos of the EA-18G Growler that crashed in San Diego this morning.
February 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Exclusive photos of the EA-18G Growler that crashed in San Diego this morning.
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A Thread: During the Apollo 4 Post launch press conference, in November 1967, Peter Sterling of the London Evening Standard asked a question of Wernher von Braun about reusable booster segments. ( 36:36 on my scrubber at least via the @archive.org ) - archive.org/details/Apol... 1/
February 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A Thread: During the Apollo 4 Post launch press conference, in November 1967, Peter Sterling of the London Evening Standard asked a question of Wernher von Braun about reusable booster segments. ( 36:36 on my scrubber at least via the @archive.org ) - archive.org/details/Apol... 1/
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So we finally had a chance, with the help of a homeowner, to sample soils from two burned structures in Pacific Palisades. This will form the basis for our tracking of the effect of both the fire and the clean-up on soil toxicity. Depressing scenes, to be sure.
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
So we finally had a chance, with the help of a homeowner, to sample soils from two burned structures in Pacific Palisades. This will form the basis for our tracking of the effect of both the fire and the clean-up on soil toxicity. Depressing scenes, to be sure.
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OK, since the cat's out of the bag (and we're official) I'm happy to report we were granted time to use JWST to look at #2024YR4 and measure its size in about a month. :) 🔭🛰️
NEW: There is a small chance that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. What can we do? Well, first, we track it, and study it, very closely.
Here's how that's done—and why, for the first first time, JWST has joined forces with planetary defenders. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Here's how that's done—and why, for the first first time, JWST has joined forces with planetary defenders. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
OK, since the cat's out of the bag (and we're official) I'm happy to report we were granted time to use JWST to look at #2024YR4 and measure its size in about a month. :) 🔭🛰️