Dr. Adeene Denton
@spacewhalerider.com
Planetary scientist, earth + space science historian, dancer/choreographer, part-time community radio DJ. (they/she) 🏳️🌈
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Dr. Adeene Denton
@spacewhalerider.com
· Oct 17
Hello new followers! I'm a planetary scientist that specializes in what happens when planets collide, but I'm also a community radio DJ, trained historian, and professional dancer/choreographer. So naturally most of what I'm posting will be shitposts.
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It’s that day, y’all. Time to do some Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald posting…
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It’s that day, y’all. Time to do some Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald posting…
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The relationship between dance and space brings up a myriad of questions—creative, logistical, and ethical. I'm excited to be part of the discussion with Dance Magazine! Read here: dancemagazine.com/dance-in-spa...
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The relationship between dance and space brings up a myriad of questions—creative, logistical, and ethical. I'm excited to be part of the discussion with Dance Magazine! Read here: dancemagazine.com/dance-in-spa...
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Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Rough day at work, but can’t beat the location!
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Rough day at work, but can’t beat the location!
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It's actually super easy to talk to people about how outer space is political! Especially now, when people's curiosity is accompanied by a growing concern about whether space exploration is causing more harm than good. If you're doing outreach talks, I recommend having these discussions!
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's actually super easy to talk to people about how outer space is political! Especially now, when people's curiosity is accompanied by a growing concern about whether space exploration is causing more harm than good. If you're doing outreach talks, I recommend having these discussions!
The relationship between dance and space brings up a myriad of questions—creative, logistical, and ethical. I'm excited to be part of the discussion with Dance Magazine! Read here: dancemagazine.com/dance-in-spa...
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The relationship between dance and space brings up a myriad of questions—creative, logistical, and ethical. I'm excited to be part of the discussion with Dance Magazine! Read here: dancemagazine.com/dance-in-spa...
It's actually super easy to talk to people about how outer space is political! Especially now, when people's curiosity is accompanied by a growing concern about whether space exploration is causing more harm than good. If you're doing outreach talks, I recommend having these discussions!
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's actually super easy to talk to people about how outer space is political! Especially now, when people's curiosity is accompanied by a growing concern about whether space exploration is causing more harm than good. If you're doing outreach talks, I recommend having these discussions!
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Yesterday was the worst day for the giving circle since August 25th.
Click “weekly” on a coffee so that no single day goes without support for six families, mostly kids—three health emergencies, four families homeless—to survive ongoing annihilation.
Click “weekly” on a coffee so that no single day goes without support for six families, mostly kids—three health emergencies, four families homeless—to survive ongoing annihilation.
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 their...
chuffed.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Yesterday was the worst day for the giving circle since August 25th.
Click “weekly” on a coffee so that no single day goes without support for six families, mostly kids—three health emergencies, four families homeless—to survive ongoing annihilation.
Click “weekly” on a coffee so that no single day goes without support for six families, mostly kids—three health emergencies, four families homeless—to survive ongoing annihilation.
Back at it!! Good morning from the Grand Canyon. The Canyon loves you, and so do I 😊
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Back at it!! Good morning from the Grand Canyon. The Canyon loves you, and so do I 😊
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November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
No canyon pictures tonight because I was genuinely too depressed to take any!! See you tomorrow folks!
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
No canyon pictures tonight because I was genuinely too depressed to take any!! See you tomorrow folks!
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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look. call your senator. but don't forget that requiring you to do this every single time, even when it's something obviously and unambiguously evil being passed, is part of a system designed to wear us down and close off our ability to imagine a better world
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
look. call your senator. but don't forget that requiring you to do this every single time, even when it's something obviously and unambiguously evil being passed, is part of a system designed to wear us down and close off our ability to imagine a better world
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Spark Space is still going, still providing mutual aid on the ground to students who need a place to study, and we're still fundraising to keep them open. Donate here, if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...
chuffed.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Spark Space is still going, still providing mutual aid on the ground to students who need a place to study, and we're still fundraising to keep them open. Donate here, if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...
Good morning from the Grand Canyon 😊
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Good morning from the Grand Canyon 😊
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
Happy sunset from Grand Canyon 😊
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Happy sunset from Grand Canyon 😊
Spark Space is still going, still providing mutual aid on the ground to students who need a place to study, and we're still fundraising to keep them open. Donate here, if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...
chuffed.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Spark Space is still going, still providing mutual aid on the ground to students who need a place to study, and we're still fundraising to keep them open. Donate here, if you can: chuffed.org/project/spar...
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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If you can, it’s very important to go to a beautiful place and let that beauty crack you open, just a little, so the wonder can get in.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you can, it’s very important to go to a beautiful place and let that beauty crack you open, just a little, so the wonder can get in.
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5 hours left, please share. I cant hold my phone anymore.
Maybe this is where the giving circle ends, right?
I asked this last week and then I wrote something hopeful after. Hope dies last, right? We keep going? We fight for Palestinian life? Right?
Six families don’t eat without you. 565/2901
Maybe this is where the giving circle ends, right?
I asked this last week and then I wrote something hopeful after. Hope dies last, right? We keep going? We fight for Palestinian life? Right?
Six families don’t eat without you. 565/2901
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 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
5 hours left, please share. I cant hold my phone anymore.
Maybe this is where the giving circle ends, right?
I asked this last week and then I wrote something hopeful after. Hope dies last, right? We keep going? We fight for Palestinian life? Right?
Six families don’t eat without you. 565/2901
Maybe this is where the giving circle ends, right?
I asked this last week and then I wrote something hopeful after. Hope dies last, right? We keep going? We fight for Palestinian life? Right?
Six families don’t eat without you. 565/2901
On a writing grind this morning and produced this delightful typo:
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On a writing grind this morning and produced this delightful typo:
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Please join us in 2 hours!!
Join us for a workshop led by Dean Spade, "Sticking Together in Tough Times" on Nov. 8 online.
This workshop benefits Wesam Water Project, a collaboration with/Wesam Hussam Mezher, a young boy from Gaza, to provide clean drinking water to families in the Gaza Strip.
chuffed.org/project/1424...
This workshop benefits Wesam Water Project, a collaboration with/Wesam Hussam Mezher, a young boy from Gaza, to provide clean drinking water to families in the Gaza Strip.
chuffed.org/project/1424...
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Please join us in 2 hours!!
Good morning from the Grand Canyon 😊
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good morning from the Grand Canyon 😊