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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 10h

Today JPL lost so many incredible people. My heart hurts for every single one of them. This administration is gutting American science institutions and throwing away hyper specific experts who cannot be replaced. This is an extremely detrimental loss.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 15h

Holy sh*t!

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 17h

(I really hope I didn’t forget a telecon that someone will read this and think it’s for them hahah)

Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 17h

Sorry, I cannot join the telecon, need to catch up with all the reels my friends have sent me today.

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 1d

“But the companies provide a better service”

Hire a person to do it on a permanent contract

“But that costs too much money, we don’t have that”

Fund better research

“But there’s no money “

Tax the ultra rich in 50%

“But they will go away”

Then tax them in 100%

Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 1d

If people only knew how much of their tax money that is supposed to go to research actually goes directly to the private sector via page charges, outsourcing services the universities should provide…

Like outsourcing MAILING LISTS and Newsletter to a private company … cmon!

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 1d

There’s nothing in academia that cannot be turned into an excuse to funnel public funds from research and education to the private sector… nothing!

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 1d

If people only knew how much of their tax money that is supposed to go to research actually goes directly to the private sector via page charges, outsourcing services the universities should provide…

Like outsourcing MAILING LISTS and Newsletter to a private company … cmon!

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 1d

HOLD ON A SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 3d

Damn Tories! 😡

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 4d

How much we charge? Nothing.

Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 4d

Time to create a “startup” called “Guerrilla Astronomy” where we provide a service of taking down these satellites so telescopes can observe and life can be respected.

Since it seems like you can do whatever the f*ck you want in space…why not?!

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 4d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 11d

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 15d

Se fosse a China já imagina os headlines neh

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Ieda Marcondes @iedamarcondes.com · 15d

When Americans watch the news and say things like "this isn't like us, we're not some third world country", I want you know that the US funded the dictatorship that took Eunice Paiva's husband. You *are* very much like this.

RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 15d

“It’s an undeniably powerful human drama, which also feels quite relevant to us considering the ongoing rise of fascism and dictatorship around the world.”

Seongyong Cho writes about the perennial staying power of I’M STILL HERE, especially given its recent release in South Korea.

Why “I’m Still Here” Will Always Be a Powerful Watch | Far Flungers | Roger Ebert

Our South Korean correspondent takes another look at the ever-powerful I'm Still Here.

www.rogerebert.com

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 18d

*permanente

Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 18d

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Lobo da Silva @thelonewolfba.bsky.social · 18d

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Tigre Mecânico #PrayForOdete @itazuratora.boo · 18d

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 19d

Acho que esse feito aqui tem que ser uma prova de que Chorão deveria ser canonizado.

Não tirando o crédito do Mineirinho, mas só de terem deixado ele tentar isso já foi um milagre e só o Chorão seria responsável por tal milagre.

Pessoas no local dizem que ouviram as palavras "Santôs" e "Skaitê"

Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 19d

🛹 E o Sandro Dias que tá descendo a rampa do CAFF em Porto Alegre? Ele desceu de 70 m de altura, batendo o recorde mundial.

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 19d

Every child that grew up in my home town, Porto Alegre, has been DREAMING about this moment!

We all called this building "the skate ramp" and FINALLY someone is skating it!!!!!

www.redbull.com/br-pt/live/r...

I cannot believe these mf are doing it! 🤩

Thanks @redbull.com !

Red Bull Building Drop

Sandro Dias dropa de alturas nunca antes alcançadas na rampa de skate mais ousada já construída.

www.redbull.com

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20d

Happy 100th anniversary to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s extraordinary thesis!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · May 10

Happy birthday to astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢🔭
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard 🧵1/n

My linocut portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in a lace collar in front of the sun in oranges and black against the blackness of space. At the bottom of the print is the solar absorption spectrum (a rainbow style gradient of indigo at left through to red and black at the right with specific discrete thin black vertical lines at various places).

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 22d

This is what happens when you try to mindlessly project a cube into a sphere.

Don’t do drugs, kids!
Stay in school!

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 22d

Biblically accurate healpix map.

#cosmology

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Everton Rocha 🍉 @evertonrocha.bsky.social · 23d

NÃO TÁ MORTO QUEM PELEIA 🧉✊🏼

Manifestação em Porto Alegre
(Crédito: Manuela Davila, no IG)

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 24d

Maybe it’s time for European countries to review their new “affirmative actions to help white united statean academics” since now Europeans won’t be able to take academic posts in the US anymore.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 25d

Looking to see if the new fee kills academic job opportunities in the USA. From the guidelines.

“The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.”

www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...

H-1B Program

www.dol.gov

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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 24d

Bloody Tories!

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Lázaro Rosa 🇧🇷 @lazarorosa.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 IMPORTANTE: Hugo Motta, a extrema direita e o centrão passaram de TODOS os limites. Vamos mostrar a revolta do povo nas ruas. COMPARTILHE MUITO!

DIA 21 POVO NA RUA
SEM ANISTIA
PEC DA BANDIDAGEM NÃO

Daqui a pouco divulgaremos os locais das manifestações.

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