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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 4d

The largest war ship in the world has been moved to the Caribbean, along with other ships, bombers, amphibious vehicles and more.

That’s a lot of firepower to stop small vessels carrying drugs.

It looks a lot more like preparation for war.

Congress needs to get involved before it’s too late.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

For this month's @newscientist.com column, I reflected on the poetry of Robert Frost and the cancellation of CMB-S4, a high priority next generation particle cosmology telescope. 🔭⚛️

If you're not a subscriber, your local library probably is. 🥳

The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating

The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

www.newscientist.com

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 5d

3.5 keV line XRISM results out: insufficient sensitivity to detect the Bulbul+ stacked cluster sample 🔭 ⚛️ #darkmatter arxiv.org/abs/2510.24560

XRISM constraints on unidentified X-ray emission lines, including the 3.5 keV line, in the stacked spectrum of ten galaxy clusters

We stack 3.75 Megaseconds of early XRISM Resolve observations of ten galaxy clusters to search for unidentified spectral lines in the $E=$ 2.5-15 keV band (rest frame), including the $E=3.5$ keV line ...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 9d

Innovation doesn’t thrive under suspicion, but the chill of the political extremes is seeping into Europe’s labs. As Zhuoying You, Peter Teirlinck & I show in Research Policy, where support for the political extremes rises, #research & #innovation weaken.
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 9d

I would guess most are aware.

Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 11d

My earlier substack on this: drkev.substack.com/p/uc-gives-a...

UC Gives Access to All Faculty Computers to the Trump Administration

In an era of federal investigation and prosecution of political opponents, UC hands the keys of faculty computers to the Trump administration.

drkev.substack.com

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 11d

The journal Science covers the UC spyware saga. The UC administrators’ policy assurances are like saying one does not have to lock one’s car because it is illegal for someone to steal the car or its contents. #highereducation 🧪⚛️🔭 #academicsky www.science.org/content/arti...

University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate

School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices

www.science.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13d

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · Sep 29

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency

New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell.

NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA.
🧪🔭

www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 14d

I am literally fucking sick. This travesty of a President has literally, IS literally, destroying everything. Disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe it. Trump has taken apart every ounce of dignity, respect, history, and brick by brick foundation this country was built on and wanted to achieve

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 14d

It’s so fucked up.
substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

substack.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15d

Ooof

Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 15d

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was published OTD in 1953.

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

#booksky 🐡

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 15d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 15d

🔥 Climate change is making wildfire risks in Irvine very real. Join us Oct 30, 6–7:30 p.m. at City Hall for Wildfire Ready Irvine—learn how to harden your home & protect our community. RSVP: shorturl.at/Am72D

— Chair, Irvine Sustainability Commission

#Irvine #WildfireReady #ClimateAction

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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 16d

Whooooo hooo Newport Beach !!!!
#NoKings

Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 16d

#NOKINGS NEWPORT BEACH!

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 16d

#NOKINGS NEWPORT BEACH!

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 19d

This, among many things, bodes very badly for U.S. leadership in science, and, as you importantly put it, science as a human endeavor.

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 19d

Dept. of Energy dismantles High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advised & prioritized US particle physics for 58 years #particlephysics ⚛️🧪🔭 #cosmology

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

And I think it's important to say that this is not a problem that will be solved simply by every US-based physicist moving abroad. The amount of resources that the US has put into particle physics compared to the rest of the world means the rest of the world doesn't have the capacity to absorb. 🧪

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

I am also concerned about the fact that the formation of a new committee means that it will be comprised only of people who agreed to be appointed by the Trump administration. In the past, HEPAP has been comprised of people appointed at different times, often by different presidents. 🧪⚛️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

It does not really make sense to have a single committee overseeing all of the areas of science that the Department of Energy covers. DOE does everything from nuclear weapons development to searching for dark matter, and there is little to no overlap in the expertise required for these (anymore). 🧪

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

DOE's public statements about this say that all the ad hoc committees, including HEPAP, will be replaced by a single committee. As an STS researcher, I am compelled to point out that this overlaps with the Nazi playbook for taking over German physics. My slides about how they did that:🧪⚛️🔭

APS April 2017.pdf

drive.google.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

I have not talked openly on social media about my work on HEPAP for various reasons, but now that my time officially as an appointee to HEPAP is over, I want to say that I think the end of HEPAP is an incredibly dangerous development for academic freedom in American science, esp HEP/astro. 🧪🔭⚛️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19d

Every time a Democrat says something Vance doesn’t like: “this is unacceptable hate speech”

When Republicans engage in actual hate speech: “boys will be boys, youthful indiscretion, what happened to your sense of humor?”

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.politico.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 24d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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