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aparajito🍉
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🪐he/they | space twitter refugee. looking for a phd program | msc (astro)physics, kolkata '21 | i mostly like/repost shitposts, leftist hot takes, & astronomy/academia content | views expressed are yours, not mine 🚀
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I have to go in and make statements today against my rapist and I’m so stressed out.

Daycare still isn’t paid and I need help. Please

At least help me eat today. Please.
Hey everyone 🚀

My rapist has made me feel so unsafe because he attacked me.

Can yall help me with daycare? I couldn’t pay it last week but it needs to be paid this week.

The total would be $250. $125/week

My v e n m o is : @astrotoya
My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya
or PayPal.me/toyamck
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Any cuts to public education are devastating, but the loss of the department where I got my start really hits home.

Geoscience expertise empowers communities to effectively use resources and mitigate hazards. Nebraskans need and deserve that expertise, but it's being cruelly taken away.
They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable.

If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Our dear, sweet friend Mai is about to welcome new life to Gaza, and you've been a huge part of that, sustaining her with vital medicine & nutritious food as she endures a high-risk pregnancy.

What greater honor? Keep it going + click "weekly"! Give/find her link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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10 years ago : blockchain is the future of banking. if you don't understand you're an idiot

5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg

Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Today, we highlight Sarah & her mom who are enduring excruciating health emergencies: Sarah’s untreated lupus with NUMEROUS health complications, and her mom with a severe dental condition.

Help with doctor’s costs. Give/find the Abdelwahed’s link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."

www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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23 hours left, please share for Link ⚠️ New day, new week, new goal. We keep going for six families’ urgent survival needs. No support for survival, then…?

Anything helps with:

- Emergency healthcare for 3 women
- Food
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies

Last check 0/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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5 HOURS LEFT. PLEASE SHARE.

My students asked me to speak at a rally. I asked them what we say about the university continuing to invest in genocide—they replied SHAME.

Everyone has given up on survival funds.

What do you say to this?

Six families, food, shelter, survival. Extended: 1059/1500
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
Home
UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands
sites.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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They're tearing Goddard apart for scraps and I'm supposed to write as many proposals as I can to scramble for a fraction of the money NASA has left? Depressing, degrading, and dehumanizing in a time when the future of planetary science can be measured in the number of people it leaves behind.
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This is my best alt text performance
January 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Help us to build the Astronomy feeds and The Astrosky Ecosystem! 🔭 ☄️ #astrophotography

We'd especially like to find >1 frontend dev to help work on replacing @bot.astronomy.blue with a simpler web interface, but we have some backend & devops needs to fill too.

More details in the post below ⬇️
We're looking for new developers! - Blog - The Astrosky Ecosystem
We'd like to expand our team to include new devs. We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer.
astrosky.eco
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Reminder that you can work with us* on some pressing topics about remote sensing and Palestine!

*including Link 👀
Apply now to join a global community reimagining the future of space for justice 🌍

Application form: tiny.cc/psi-fellowship
Deadline: November 10, 2025
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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been having a chuckle about this. looking on that subreddit, the mods are constantly running searches for and deleting posts that mention mamdani. the posters have been saying things like "the frontrunner for mayor" and so on to evade getting banned lol
The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.

The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.

www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🏳️‍⚧️ More resource for US-based trans & nonbinary people 🏳️‍⚧️

The Queer Trans Project will open applications for free gender-affirming kits on Nov 8, 2025.

Early access is available for trans and nonbinary people who are BIPOC and/or disabled.

More info:
baqk.queertransproject.org?utm_campaign...
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Halfway through and just £10 raised. Not even shares??

I extremely promise you that every other family is ALSO facing a life-and-death emergency, just like our pregnant friend—I just can’t list them all in so many characters
To look away, to say it doesn’t matter anymore, is to surrender to the death-making machine ravaging the world. Reject this.

24 more hours to help six families who are blessedly still with us. Don’t take that for granted.

Food + healthcare ASAP. 0/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end.

The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner.
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Our most urgent drive ever ⚠️ 13 hours left, please share!

After two years of ongoing genocide, help Mai bring LIFE to Gaza—and help her survive this! She is entirely reliant on YOU to pay for her C-section, medicine, and other essentials.

Bet on life. 169/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet?

Help archives help you!

(Help archives keep funding!)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Astrophysics Data System (ADS) User Feedback Survey
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) digital library. Your insights will help us improve the platform and better serve the scientific community. All ...
docs.google.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I was one of the first people to donate to Mamdani's campaign and TBH I thought I was donating to keep a dream alive, even though the dream was not going to become a reality

Choose hope. Choose to dream. Choose a just in case we win scenario. Sometimes we do.

Go forward knowing that, fam.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM