Stephanie Jarmak
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Stephanie Jarmak
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Planetary Science Project Scientist for NASA funded information retrieval system the Science Explorer (ADS/SciX). JWST observations, mission design and remote sensing, numerical modeling, AI/ML and information science. I LOVE DATA 🤩
https://sjarmak.com
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I made a custom GPT that connects to the ADS/SciX API to help with literature searches and finding relevant earth and space science info that we have in our digital library. Try to break it and/or tell me if it’s working for how you’d use it! 🤖 📚 🚀

chatgpt.com/g/g-67316605...
ChatGPT - SciX Chat Assistant
A helpful research assistant that connects to the ADS API to find papers of interest and export their citations as needed.
chatgpt.com
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Capping off February with our Lead Ambassador Highlight! Yueyi Che, a glaciologist studying snow & ice, shares how SciX transformed her lit review. Read her story: scixplorer.org/scixblog/sci...
February 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I took snippets from the Curtis Yarvin (techno-fascist idea originator driving current dismantling of the government) NYT interview and used the unaltered words as lyrics set to dystopian hyperpop

suno.com/song/99f4b48...
End of Democracy by @sjarmak | Suno
Infectious EDM, Dystopian Hyperpop song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
suno.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ADS/SciX has been experiencing a DDoS attack. This attack resulted in several orders of magnitude higher levels of traffic than usual. We have increased our resource scaling capabilities and blacklisted the 100s of thousands of offending IPs and the issue is hopefully resolved.
February 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I urge you all to not follow demonizing, misinformation spreading pages, I see this happening from folks with good intentions but I respectfully encourage that you only share information you can check sources for. I’m going to follow this up with excerpts from ‘Let This Radicalize You’
February 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership.

Today vs. January
February 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us.
slate.com/technology/2...
There Is Basically One Point to Space Exploration. Right Now, We’re Missing It.
Efforts to scrub DEI from NASA's websites get it all wrong.
slate.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
www.chemistryworld.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Please consider signing this open letter written by the planetary science community if you are concerned about recent policy changes impacting scientists: sites.google.com/view/space-s...
Home
Space Science is for Everyone: An Open Letter Written February 6, 2025
sites.google.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Apparently NASA HQ has been told to remove all Pride Flag imagery from the office.

I swear to god you guys, if that places doesn't look like a fucking unicorn exploded in there in the next two days..
a lego batman movie poster with a quote from the movie
ALT: a lego batman movie poster with a quote from the movie
media.tenor.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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❗❗NASA is pausing program analysis groups activities. These are the groups that provide community input to the Astrophysics and Planetary Divisions to help shape the science that NASA supports.

Source: I'm on the ExoPAG executive committee

(repost with more emails blocked)
January 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Meeting my doctor today to say yeah I guess I do still need to spend over 500/month (until hitting deductible, then 50) to function 🤷‍♀️
January 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Incredibly excited to annonce the publication of our new experimental thermodynamic work at high pressures with the definition of a novel thermodynamic invariant point: The Cenotectic (κ)
nature.com/articles/s41...
On the equilibrium limit of liquid stability in pressurized aqueous systems - Nature Communications
The authors define the cenotectic — the low-temperature stability limit for a liquid under arbitrary thermodynamic conditions — and measure it for several aqueous solutions of relevance to extraterres...
nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:09 AM
On my quick flight home from AGU I had a window seat and spent some of the time doodling my view. I also had a window seat on the way to AGU, but the cover was presumably designed to stay shut as I was getting nervously sideeyed by the attendants while trying very unsuccessfully to heave it up.
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
I made a custom GPT that connects to the ADS/SciX API to help with literature searches and finding relevant earth and space science info that we have in our digital library. Try to break it and/or tell me if it’s working for how you’d use it! 🤖 📚 🚀

chatgpt.com/g/g-67316605...
ChatGPT - SciX Chat Assistant
A helpful research assistant that connects to the ADS API to find papers of interest and export their citations as needed.
chatgpt.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I stayed up a little later than I wanted to because my husband and I were trying to debug my hacky code (without AI, like olden times) that I insisted to make work instead of the obvious one line solution to the puzzle 😂 we actually googled and * read * documentation 🙀
December 3, 2024 at 1:14 PM
I downloaded Juno so I could solve an advent of code puzzle using an IDE on my phone between powerlifting reps 🙃 somehow my dopamine levels seem to have been fixed since this time last year and I have motivation to do things sometimes
December 2, 2024 at 1:58 PM
My 4.5 y/o lets me know when his context window ends; I told him I was working on a problem and he asked what it was. I said, are you sure, it’s pretty technical? And he said yes so I got most of the way through describing it for him and he said ‘okay too long now’ and shifted back to paw patrol 😅
December 1, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Omg why wasn’t I using cursor before; as a planetary scientist cosplaying as a software developer it is amazing 🥹 I was released from work already but I love this and so I’m still playing with it 😅
November 27, 2024 at 7:33 PM
When talking with people about things outside my immediate area of expertise I’ll often be like ‘this may be a stupid question …’ or ‘I have a naive question …’ and then usually the response is something like ‘actually nobody knows the answer and that’s why they pay us the big bucks’ 😆
November 23, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I spent part of my summer writing and illustrating science children’s books, one on how scientists love ✨everything ✨ and about the solar system, sharing links to the images here: sjarmak.com/the-worlds-w...

sjarmak.com/you-are-a-sc...
The Worlds We Know Illustrations
The ebook is available for free on Kindle unlimited and the paperback version is available for purchase here.
sjarmak.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:34 AM
This time last year I didn’t know what an ontology was and now I’m the elected AGU Informatics Section secretary somehow 🥳 I am still a planetary scientist but it’s been super fun to learn more about information science and to support scientific literature discovery 📚
November 22, 2024 at 2:10 PM