Caitlin 🌒💫
@caitelizabelle.bsky.social
astrophysics undergrad ‘26
exoplanet enthusiast
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she/her
exoplanet enthusiast
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she/her
Applying for grad school is so disorienting, what do you mean I have to write the same 2 page essay in 8 slightly different ways before December???
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Applying for grad school is so disorienting, what do you mean I have to write the same 2 page essay in 8 slightly different ways before December???
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In today’s ‘Vaccines Work, You Idiots’ news.
Incredible and enviable and with alt-text
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In today’s ‘Vaccines Work, You Idiots’ news.
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The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the Red Planet
Mars Has Lightning, Scientists Prove
The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the Red Planet
www.scientificamerican.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the Red Planet
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Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
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What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
Finally finished Clone Wars. I am speechless 🥺
September 9, 2023 at 9:39 PM
Finally finished Clone Wars. I am speechless 🥺
If I’m ever rich I’m going to donate money to my school so they can fix all the dang potholes 😭
September 5, 2023 at 5:11 PM
If I’m ever rich I’m going to donate money to my school so they can fix all the dang potholes 😭
A big thank you to @mikecarlucci.bsky.social for donating an access code 🫶🏻 and @emily.space for organizing it!
August 23, 2023 at 9:16 PM
A big thank you to @mikecarlucci.bsky.social for donating an access code 🫶🏻 and @emily.space for organizing it!
Tired of the app formally known as Twitter, so let’s see how this works out!
August 23, 2023 at 8:44 PM
Tired of the app formally known as Twitter, so let’s see how this works out!