Katie Devine
@katiedevine.bsky.social
Mom, astronomer, physics professor currently based in Boise. Interests: space stuff, education, Idaho, music, mountains, orange cats.
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The first 24 hours of the #RockFire -- a timelapse I made using images from the Tamarack ski resort summit webcam. #IdahoFire
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Rock Fire - Timelapse of First 24 hours #IdahoFire
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August 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The first 24 hours of the #RockFire -- a timelapse I made using images from the Tamarack ski resort summit webcam. #IdahoFire
youtu.be/FgiK-KOi1iU
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Last week, NASA and NSF released their FY26 budget requests. We list the detailed impacts on the astronomical sciences in this blog post, and share how you can take action today.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Last week, NASA and NSF released their FY26 budget requests. We list the detailed impacts on the astronomical sciences in this blog post, and share how you can take action today.
aas.org/posts/news/2...
@policy.aas.org
aas.org/posts/news/2...
@policy.aas.org
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Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
Bloodbath is right.
Bloodbath is right.
May 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
Bloodbath is right.
Bloodbath is right.
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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath
Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…
Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.
If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…
Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.
If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
May 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath
Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…
Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.
If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…
Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.
If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
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The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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May 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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This makes me so angry. The support available in the USA for STEM education research has led to so many amazing improvements and innovations in how we educate future scientists and the general public. It was an example for other countries to follow. 🎢 🍎 ⚛️👩🔬 #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
May 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This makes me so angry. The support available in the USA for STEM education research has led to so many amazing improvements and innovations in how we educate future scientists and the general public. It was an example for other countries to follow. 🎢 🍎 ⚛️👩🔬 #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
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Say it louder for the folks in the back.
NASA’s annual call for grant proposals is now 68 days late.
NASA’s annual call for grant proposals is now 68 days late.
The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Say it louder for the folks in the back.
NASA’s annual call for grant proposals is now 68 days late.
NASA’s annual call for grant proposals is now 68 days late.
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Seems appropriate for today. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
April 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Seems appropriate for today. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
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April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
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@nytimes.com 🤡
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I'll take "Complete and Utter Hypocritical Bullshit" for 25 billion dollars, Alex. Oops, I mean 20 billion since Trump wants to cut NASA's science budget in half and devastate the agency.
President Trump's stmt on Hubble's 35th anniversary: "With Hubble as a blueprint, my Administration is committed to ensuring that America continues to lead the way in fueling the pursuit of space discovery and exploration."
April 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'll take "Complete and Utter Hypocritical Bullshit" for 25 billion dollars, Alex. Oops, I mean 20 billion since Trump wants to cut NASA's science budget in half and devastate the agency.
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Here’s a good thing you can do today if you have funds: support those recently fired within the space science community.
We have one for space science www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid
choir - mutual aid
In direct response to the federal funding freeze outlined by OMB Memorandum M-25-13 and any ensuing directives imposed by the current administration which may prove harmful to our space sciences commu...
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February 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Here’s a good thing you can do today if you have funds: support those recently fired within the space science community.
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
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Lets get those numbers up!!!
Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Lets get those numbers up!!!
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I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.