Kaveh Pahlevan
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Kaveh Pahlevan
@kavehp.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Scientist. “We’re here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is” -KV
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Rainy day walk in Portland’s NW Hills #Photography #Portland 📷
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Tornadoes have mostly calmed down over the last month or so here in Italy, but today a waterspout, part of a family of three, managed to reach land W of Salerno, Campania. Damage very unlikely. Photos by Carlo de Felice
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The night is young yet…
September 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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It is definitely aurora season
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Check it out - the first Webb Space Telescope images of the new interstellar comet 31/Atlas!
🧪🔭

science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatla...
August 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Researchers, including Dr. Mark Showalter and Dr. Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute, along with colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). 🧪 🔭

Learn more: www.seti.org/news/new-moo...
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus
www.seti.org
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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This proposed budget is a policy statement, not an appropriation.
There are still a lot of steps and potential changes ahead before it becomes one. This is not a time to sit quietly, team. Let's go.
May 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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May 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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If you are concerned about the proposed 50% cut to #nasa's science budget, then write your representative in congress. The #planetarysociety provides on online form that will only take 2 minutes of your time:

https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/50
March 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Vera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24...
🔭 #WomenInStem
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise!

Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters?

Journalists: COVER THIS!
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Some amazing pictures of the active lava flow at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater #Etna 🌋
Credits: Emilio Messina Photography
February 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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People may not understand just how important federal science research funding is to the prosperity of the nation. I tried to explain it, because it's under unprecedented and direct assault.
February 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I didn’t know if it might help to actually see what we are talking about with indirect costs so I did a little lab tour.

youtube.com/shorts/ttia4...
February 8, 2025
YouTube video by Sarah Horst
youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.
February 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
February 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Was at an event in DC this evening with a lot of federal employees and it is absolutely wrenching to talk to people who dedicated themselves to public service work through the appalling attacks and uncertainty that they are facing now.
February 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama
January 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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kate bush running past sisyphus
December 23, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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alexander graham bell slipping a piece of paper with the number 1 written on it to a babe at the bar
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 AM