Tobias Marriage
@tamarriage.bsky.social
Citizen cosmologist. Views are my own.
Holy cow. NSF canceled the Major Research Instrumentation program call this year. This is not the rug being pulled out from under US science. This is the whole foundation.
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program:
www.nsf.gov
July 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Holy cow. NSF canceled the Major Research Instrumentation program call this year. This is not the rug being pulled out from under US science. This is the whole foundation.
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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I don’t have a lot of ways to support federal agency staff but you better believe I just answered a panel request in record time.
They deserve better and I wish we could do more than leave voicemails with representatives expressing that. 🧪
They deserve better and I wish we could do more than leave voicemails with representatives expressing that. 🧪
NSF is losing headquarters, displacing 1,800 employees.
NSF staff are outraged - not only by the lack of planning/communication, but also by HUD Secretary Turner’s requests for luxury additions (executive suite, private dining room, reserved parking, personal gym) in the new HQ.
zurl.co/BvVac
NSF staff are outraged - not only by the lack of planning/communication, but also by HUD Secretary Turner’s requests for luxury additions (executive suite, private dining room, reserved parking, personal gym) in the new HQ.
zurl.co/BvVac
Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees | ALXnow
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will reportedly take over the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters building (2415 Eisenhower Ave.), displacing more than 1,833 NSF employees who currently work there. HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin reportedly plan to announce the takeover Wednesday (June 25), according to information provided to
zurl.co
June 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I don’t have a lot of ways to support federal agency staff but you better believe I just answered a panel request in record time.
They deserve better and I wish we could do more than leave voicemails with representatives expressing that. 🧪
They deserve better and I wish we could do more than leave voicemails with representatives expressing that. 🧪
Aside from attacks on appropriations, the administration cuts US science by preventing the NSF and other agencies from distributing the funds. As far as I can tell, they are not taking a chainsaw to these agencies. They are putting them in a blender.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building
Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Aside from attacks on appropriations, the administration cuts US science by preventing the NSF and other agencies from distributing the funds. As far as I can tell, they are not taking a chainsaw to these agencies. They are putting them in a blender.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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I was in the NSF building once. I went to serve on a review panel: I and six other scientists put aside our own work to travel to the NSF HQ and evaluate our peers' research proposals, working together for two intense days to prioritize support for the most impactful new science.
I'll miss it.
I'll miss it.
It's odd that even an authoritarian like Trump would want to destroy US science, but there we have it. It is hard to see any other rationale for this random act of chaos.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building
Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I was in the NSF building once. I went to serve on a review panel: I and six other scientists put aside our own work to travel to the NSF HQ and evaluate our peers' research proposals, working together for two intense days to prioritize support for the most impactful new science.
I'll miss it.
I'll miss it.
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SPT-3G D1 Webinar: CMB TT/TE/EE power spectra and cosmology from 2019-2020 observations from SPT-3G Main Field - Now Live!!! youtu.be/TRJ5sfAwnao
@NSF @doescience @UChicago
#NSFfunded #DOEfunded #Antarctica
@NSF @doescience @UChicago
#NSFfunded #DOEfunded #Antarctica
SPT-3G D1: CMB power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field
YouTube video by South Pole Telescope
youtu.be
June 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
SPT-3G D1 Webinar: CMB TT/TE/EE power spectra and cosmology from 2019-2020 observations from SPT-3G Main Field - Now Live!!! youtu.be/TRJ5sfAwnao
@NSF @doescience @UChicago
#NSFfunded #DOEfunded #Antarctica
@NSF @doescience @UChicago
#NSFfunded #DOEfunded #Antarctica
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New detectors are installed on the new 90 GHz receiver at our Chile site! Go team!!
June 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New detectors are installed on the new 90 GHz receiver at our Chile site! Go team!!
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The new array of 90 GHz detector modules is assembled in Chile. Ready to go into the new telescope! #NSFfunded
June 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The new array of 90 GHz detector modules is assembled in Chile. Ready to go into the new telescope! #NSFfunded
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Despicable. Trump’s goons are roughing up and handcuffing
@padilla.senate.gov as he tries to ask a simple question.
This is what dictatorship looks like. Watch:
@padilla.senate.gov as he tries to ask a simple question.
This is what dictatorship looks like. Watch:
June 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Despicable. Trump’s goons are roughing up and handcuffing
@padilla.senate.gov as he tries to ask a simple question.
This is what dictatorship looks like. Watch:
@padilla.senate.gov as he tries to ask a simple question.
This is what dictatorship looks like. Watch:
Holy cow. 86% of Republicans support using the military to advance the administration's aims in a US city. From the NYTimes polling 1000 citizens
June 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Holy cow. 86% of Republicans support using the military to advance the administration's aims in a US city. From the NYTimes polling 1000 citizens
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"Microwave signals from the cosmic dawn are famously difficult to measure ... Overcoming those obstacles makes this measurement a significant achievement," said JHU professor and project leader @tamarriage.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...
Earth-based telescopes offer a fresh look at cosmic dawn
Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the universe's first light
hub.jhu.edu
June 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Microwave signals from the cosmic dawn are famously difficult to measure ... Overcoming those obstacles makes this measurement a significant achievement," said JHU professor and project leader @tamarriage.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...
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💫 Here is a new JHU Hub article by Hannah Robbins to accompany the @aas.org ApJ publication of our first optical depth measurement! 💫 #NSFfunded
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...
Earth-based telescopes offer a fresh look at cosmic dawn
Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the universe's first light
hub.jhu.edu
June 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
💫 Here is a new JHU Hub article by Hannah Robbins to accompany the @aas.org ApJ publication of our first optical depth measurement! 💫 #NSFfunded
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...
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🎉 Just published in ApJ! Our paper on the first measurement of the reionization optical depth with ground based data! 🎉 We already have twice as much data in the can, so hopefully we'll have an updated result soon! #NSFfunded iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
June 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🎉 Just published in ApJ! Our paper on the first measurement of the reionization optical depth with ground based data! 🎉 We already have twice as much data in the can, so hopefully we'll have an updated result soon! #NSFfunded iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."
"This Is What Autocracy Looks Like www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
"This Is What Autocracy Looks Like www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."
"This Is What Autocracy Looks Like www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
"This Is What Autocracy Looks Like www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Go team!
The new 90 GHz telescope receiver has arrived at the CLASS site! 📡✨ The team pictured will now assemble and test the receiver before putting it on the telescope! #NSFfunded
June 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Go team!
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Q: "Could we really see active duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?"
Johnson: "I don't think that's heavy handed."
Q: "You don't think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy handed?"
Johnson: "We have to be prepared to do what is necessary."
Johnson: "I don't think that's heavy handed."
Q: "You don't think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy handed?"
Johnson: "We have to be prepared to do what is necessary."
June 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Q: "Could we really see active duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?"
Johnson: "I don't think that's heavy handed."
Q: "You don't think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy handed?"
Johnson: "We have to be prepared to do what is necessary."
Johnson: "I don't think that's heavy handed."
Q: "You don't think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy handed?"
Johnson: "We have to be prepared to do what is necessary."
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Coco Gauff telling the ball kids “you guys are awesome!” and that of course they can touch the cup. There are different levels of winning; opening space to lift up others is the top.
June 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Coco Gauff telling the ball kids “you guys are awesome!” and that of course they can touch the cup. There are different levels of winning; opening space to lift up others is the top.
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Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
www.statnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
Don't always agree with Brooks, but this resonated and gripped me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
Opinion | I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Don't always agree with Brooks, but this resonated and gripped me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
"Some [Chinese students] also have deep admiration for America’s professed values of openness and diversity. But they must reckon with the fact — made clearer by the Trump administration every day — that many in the United States may not share that admiration." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
Chinese Students Are Frustrated With U.S. Visa Bans: ‘What Now?’
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Some [Chinese students] also have deep admiration for America’s professed values of openness and diversity. But they must reckon with the fact — made clearer by the Trump administration every day — that many in the United States may not share that admiration." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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Richard Bond and George Efstathiou have won the Shaw Prize “for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background”. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/C9MY50VZVGm
Richard Bond and George Efstathiou share the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy – Physics World
Pair are honoured for their work on the cosmic microwave background
ow.ly
May 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Richard Bond and George Efstathiou have won the Shaw Prize “for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background”. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/C9MY50VZVGm
So much damage control to do now. What a destructive move.
International students are crucial team members in CLASS. They play a huge role in the success of CLASS and US science/tech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews
Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
So much damage control to do now. What a destructive move.