David Grinspoon
@drfunkyspoon.bsky.social
Astrobiologist, Author, Musician. 👽🎸❤️🚀
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
I think I might be a cosmic influencer (a bad influencer?)
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
I think I might be a cosmic influencer (a bad influencer?)
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
Check it out!
We (Durty Neil) are playing live on air Tuesday 12-2 for a Neil Young birthday tribute on WOWD.
(Durty Neil only plays Neil songs that haven’t had radio play.
But then if we play them live on air does that mean we can’t play them again?)
takomaradio.org
We (Durty Neil) are playing live on air Tuesday 12-2 for a Neil Young birthday tribute on WOWD.
(Durty Neil only plays Neil songs that haven’t had radio play.
But then if we play them live on air does that mean we can’t play them again?)
takomaradio.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Check it out!
We (Durty Neil) are playing live on air Tuesday 12-2 for a Neil Young birthday tribute on WOWD.
(Durty Neil only plays Neil songs that haven’t had radio play.
But then if we play them live on air does that mean we can’t play them again?)
takomaradio.org
We (Durty Neil) are playing live on air Tuesday 12-2 for a Neil Young birthday tribute on WOWD.
(Durty Neil only plays Neil songs that haven’t had radio play.
But then if we play them live on air does that mean we can’t play them again?)
takomaradio.org
WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Re-upping this because I don’t want this profound cosmological insight to be lost in the dust of space-time:
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Re-upping this because I don’t want this profound cosmological insight to be lost in the dust of space-time:
I’m sorry to learn that Donna Jean Godchaux has died. Her exuberant harmonies with the Grateful Dead in the 1970s enriched and elevated the band’s vocal sound during their most consistently great decade of performances. When she was on (not every night…) it was frequently pure heart of gold magic.
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I’m sorry to learn that Donna Jean Godchaux has died. Her exuberant harmonies with the Grateful Dead in the 1970s enriched and elevated the band’s vocal sound during their most consistently great decade of performances. When she was on (not every night…) it was frequently pure heart of gold magic.
Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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Sad to learn that great jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has played his last on this Earth.
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Sad to learn that great jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has played his last on this Earth.
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K Le Guin, who would have turned 96 today.
—Ursula K Le Guin, who would have turned 96 today.
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K Le Guin, who would have turned 96 today.
—Ursula K Le Guin, who would have turned 96 today.
Hey if you can find a dark (ish) place look for the COMET tonight!
After sunset in the North, off the handle of the Big Dipper.
🧪🔭
After sunset in the North, off the handle of the Big Dipper.
🧪🔭
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hey if you can find a dark (ish) place look for the COMET tonight!
After sunset in the North, off the handle of the Big Dipper.
🧪🔭
After sunset in the North, off the handle of the Big Dipper.
🧪🔭
Hatch act anyone?
Duffy, NASA’s “acting administrator” (he is definitely only acting the role) is not only blatantly lying, he is breaking the law here.
Also, he wants to merge NASA into the Dept of Transportation?
A once proud agency descends further into idiocracy.
🧪🔭
Duffy, NASA’s “acting administrator” (he is definitely only acting the role) is not only blatantly lying, he is breaking the law here.
Also, he wants to merge NASA into the Dept of Transportation?
A once proud agency descends further into idiocracy.
🧪🔭
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hatch act anyone?
Duffy, NASA’s “acting administrator” (he is definitely only acting the role) is not only blatantly lying, he is breaking the law here.
Also, he wants to merge NASA into the Dept of Transportation?
A once proud agency descends further into idiocracy.
🧪🔭
Duffy, NASA’s “acting administrator” (he is definitely only acting the role) is not only blatantly lying, he is breaking the law here.
Also, he wants to merge NASA into the Dept of Transportation?
A once proud agency descends further into idiocracy.
🧪🔭
This photo of Trump and Putin in today’s Times really captures their dynamic.
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This photo of Trump and Putin in today’s Times really captures their dynamic.
“A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy... & accidentally creating something new”
— Elvis Costello channelling Darwin
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— Elvis Costello channelling Darwin
🧪🎶
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy... & accidentally creating something new”
— Elvis Costello channelling Darwin
🧪🎶
— Elvis Costello channelling Darwin
🧪🎶
A year ago we launched Clipper towards Europa.
Since then NASA science has been ravaged & threatened by our malevolent administration. By the time Clipper is orbiting Jupiter and sending back precious data we will have different people in power. As perilous as the journey is, that gives me hope.
🧪🔭
Since then NASA science has been ravaged & threatened by our malevolent administration. By the time Clipper is orbiting Jupiter and sending back precious data we will have different people in power. As perilous as the journey is, that gives me hope.
🧪🔭
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A year ago we launched Clipper towards Europa.
Since then NASA science has been ravaged & threatened by our malevolent administration. By the time Clipper is orbiting Jupiter and sending back precious data we will have different people in power. As perilous as the journey is, that gives me hope.
🧪🔭
Since then NASA science has been ravaged & threatened by our malevolent administration. By the time Clipper is orbiting Jupiter and sending back precious data we will have different people in power. As perilous as the journey is, that gives me hope.
🧪🔭
Since spooky season is here: Jupiter in the infrared looking like an angry red pumpkin planet.
(Square-root-enhanced images of Jupiter's thermal emission from cloud tops at 5.1 microns from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in October 2020)
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(Square-root-enhanced images of Jupiter's thermal emission from cloud tops at 5.1 microns from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in October 2020)
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October 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Since spooky season is here: Jupiter in the infrared looking like an angry red pumpkin planet.
(Square-root-enhanced images of Jupiter's thermal emission from cloud tops at 5.1 microns from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in October 2020)
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(Square-root-enhanced images of Jupiter's thermal emission from cloud tops at 5.1 microns from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in October 2020)
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A sorry record. This is one reason I don’t care for the Nobel prizes. Three others being:
1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity.
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1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A sorry record. This is one reason I don’t care for the Nobel prizes. Three others being:
1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity.
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1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity.
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Clearly this monarch chilling on our encore azalea did not get the memo about the shutdown.
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Clearly this monarch chilling on our encore azalea did not get the memo about the shutdown.
A great primate has left our habitat. Jane Goodall -hero of our biosphere. A peak experience was reading from Earth in Human Hands for her and her board. She was kind, humble, great hugger, inspiring, brilliant. Let’s try to live her vision of a world where we care properly for all living creatures.
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A great primate has left our habitat. Jane Goodall -hero of our biosphere. A peak experience was reading from Earth in Human Hands for her and her board. She was kind, humble, great hugger, inspiring, brilliant. Let’s try to live her vision of a world where we care properly for all living creatures.
If Medbeds aren’t real, how do you explain Keith Richards?
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
If Medbeds aren’t real, how do you explain Keith Richards?
“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency
New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.
NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
🧪🔭
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.
NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
🧪🔭
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
September 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency
New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.
NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
🧪🔭
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.
NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
🧪🔭
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
Just came across these cool artifacts:
“Viking Lander Biological Instrument, Life on Mars” matches. (“The most complex instrument ever flown “)
From a party in Pasadena for the first Mars landing in 1976. Handed down to me by the late, great Shirley Arden (Carl Sagan’s long time assistant).
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“Viking Lander Biological Instrument, Life on Mars” matches. (“The most complex instrument ever flown “)
From a party in Pasadena for the first Mars landing in 1976. Handed down to me by the late, great Shirley Arden (Carl Sagan’s long time assistant).
🧪
September 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just came across these cool artifacts:
“Viking Lander Biological Instrument, Life on Mars” matches. (“The most complex instrument ever flown “)
From a party in Pasadena for the first Mars landing in 1976. Handed down to me by the late, great Shirley Arden (Carl Sagan’s long time assistant).
🧪
“Viking Lander Biological Instrument, Life on Mars” matches. (“The most complex instrument ever flown “)
From a party in Pasadena for the first Mars landing in 1976. Handed down to me by the late, great Shirley Arden (Carl Sagan’s long time assistant).
🧪
On a bender.
Happy 99, Saint John Coltrane!
Happy 99, Saint John Coltrane!
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On a bender.
Happy 99, Saint John Coltrane!
Happy 99, Saint John Coltrane!
I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.
- Joy Harjo
(JWST Carina Nebula)
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- Joy Harjo
(JWST Carina Nebula)
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September 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.
- Joy Harjo
(JWST Carina Nebula)
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- Joy Harjo
(JWST Carina Nebula)
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Today, in actual health news:
September 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Today, in actual health news:
Today I’m celebrating John Coltrane on what would’ve been his 99th birthday. He was not only one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century. He had the combination of technical mastery, fearless innovation and deep spirituality that we humans will need to survive and flourish on this earth.
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today I’m celebrating John Coltrane on what would’ve been his 99th birthday. He was not only one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century. He had the combination of technical mastery, fearless innovation and deep spirituality that we humans will need to survive and flourish on this earth.