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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My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
Hi folks! If you're buying up a lot of stuff that's on sale today, consider matching your spending in donations to fundraisers! Folks in Gaza still need our help, and we can do our best to support them: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 the...
chuffed.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hi folks! If you're buying up a lot of stuff that's on sale today, consider matching your spending in donations to fundraisers! Folks in Gaza still need our help, and we can do our best to support them: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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It’s a collective shame that two years into genocide we spend today celebrating an ONGOING genocide.
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha
My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza.
chuffed.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s a collective shame that two years into genocide we spend today celebrating an ONGOING genocide.
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Double your contribution to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign today. As you may have seen, heavy winter rains are flooding the tents and streets of Gaza.
Donate from $10 to Refaat Mobile Library's $5K match thru this link:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Donate from $10 to Refaat Mobile Library's $5K match thru this link:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
[W4G] NEW Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
NEW MATCH! 11/26: The wonderful people at Refaat Mobile Library—a traveling, volunteer-operated liberation library and mutual aid project based in what is currently known as Atlanta, Georgia—have step...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Double your contribution to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign today. As you may have seen, heavy winter rains are flooding the tents and streets of Gaza.
Donate from $10 to Refaat Mobile Library's $5K match thru this link:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Donate from $10 to Refaat Mobile Library's $5K match thru this link:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Thanks! Thanks so much! Thanks for reaching out! Can't wait to connect! Can't wait to hear more! Looking forward to our conversation! Looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know! Let me know if this works for you! Let me know if this works for your schedule! Let me know when you're available!
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thanks! Thanks so much! Thanks for reaching out! Can't wait to connect! Can't wait to hear more! Looking forward to our conversation! Looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know! Let me know if this works for you! Let me know if this works for your schedule! Let me know when you're available!
Not allowed to go to my workplace holiday party because as a NASA postdoc I'm not a real employee 😂 Will be throwing a competing holiday party at the same time, only entry requirement is you gotta bring a cool rock to show everyone
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Not allowed to go to my workplace holiday party because as a NASA postdoc I'm not a real employee 😂 Will be throwing a competing holiday party at the same time, only entry requirement is you gotta bring a cool rock to show everyone
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
aje.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
idk how this is happening but even as statements like 'israel is committing genocide' are becoming more and more acceptable to say in public by people in positions of power, it feels like concern and support for palestinians keeps declining and shouldn't it be the other way around??
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
idk how this is happening but even as statements like 'israel is committing genocide' are becoming more and more acceptable to say in public by people in positions of power, it feels like concern and support for palestinians keeps declining and shouldn't it be the other way around??
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
My hands are injured; every share helps! Can we keep it going for SIX families surviving unceased famine, fire, homelessness, health crises?
Emergency food, shelter, healthcare: you've made a difference for six months. Clicking "weekly" ensures this help can keep going. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Emergency food, shelter, healthcare: you've made a difference for six months. Clicking "weekly" ensures this help can keep going. chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
My hands are injured; every share helps! Can we keep it going for SIX families surviving unceased famine, fire, homelessness, health crises?
Emergency food, shelter, healthcare: you've made a difference for six months. Clicking "weekly" ensures this help can keep going. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Emergency food, shelter, healthcare: you've made a difference for six months. Clicking "weekly" ensures this help can keep going. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
The thing about the setting to make alt text mandatory is that Bluesky didn't bother making that the default.
Like, you have to by default opt-in to see sexually suggestive images, so they clearly know how powerful default configs are, but for alt text they've never cared enough.
Like, you have to by default opt-in to see sexually suggestive images, so they clearly know how powerful default configs are, but for alt text they've never cared enough.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The thing about the setting to make alt text mandatory is that Bluesky didn't bother making that the default.
Like, you have to by default opt-in to see sexually suggestive images, so they clearly know how powerful default configs are, but for alt text they've never cared enough.
Like, you have to by default opt-in to see sexually suggestive images, so they clearly know how powerful default configs are, but for alt text they've never cared enough.
Getting a little tired of giving science talks. I want to talk about Magic Mike (2012)
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Getting a little tired of giving science talks. I want to talk about Magic Mike (2012)
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Apathy is knife and one we have remarkable control of. And the call has been clear from Palestinians about how to help: assistance to afford basic survival needs like medicine, food, shelter.
Answer. Just one option for six families & a camp. Click "weekly": chuffed.org/project/hope...
Answer. Just one option for six families & a camp. Click "weekly": chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Apathy is knife and one we have remarkable control of. And the call has been clear from Palestinians about how to help: assistance to afford basic survival needs like medicine, food, shelter.
Answer. Just one option for six families & a camp. Click "weekly": chuffed.org/project/hope...
Answer. Just one option for six families & a camp. Click "weekly": chuffed.org/project/hope...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
The idea that stealing the data would be better than faking it says everything that's wrong about this research culture
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The idea that stealing the data would be better than faking it says everything that's wrong about this research culture
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
"Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed"
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed"
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Again: it isn’t about how it makes us feel, the poetics of care, or the individual worthiness of a family. Mutual aid means, "I have a resource someone else needs to survive. And I share it with them."
One link, six families, survival every day in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hope...
One link, six families, survival every day in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again: it isn’t about how it makes us feel, the poetics of care, or the individual worthiness of a family. Mutual aid means, "I have a resource someone else needs to survive. And I share it with them."
One link, six families, survival every day in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hope...
One link, six families, survival every day in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Anyone else doing a silly little walk in the grocery store just to feel something
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Anyone else doing a silly little walk in the grocery store just to feel something
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
A lot of folks, including kids, who saw my speech on Tuesday really liked it and thought it was helpful, so I thought I'd post it online - it's an overview of just how nonlinear my path to science was. Maybe it'll help you or someone you know too: medium.com/@adeene.dent...
A Planetary Scientist’s Guide to Finding Your Momentum
This essay is adapted from a speech I gave at my local high school on November 18, 2025. If you’re a kid, have a kid, or just need a…
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A lot of folks, including kids, who saw my speech on Tuesday really liked it and thought it was helpful, so I thought I'd post it online - it's an overview of just how nonlinear my path to science was. Maybe it'll help you or someone you know too: medium.com/@adeene.dent...
A lot of folks, including kids, who saw my speech on Tuesday really liked it and thought it was helpful, so I thought I'd post it online - it's an overview of just how nonlinear my path to science was. Maybe it'll help you or someone you know too: medium.com/@adeene.dent...
A Planetary Scientist’s Guide to Finding Your Momentum
This essay is adapted from a speech I gave at my local high school on November 18, 2025. If you’re a kid, have a kid, or just need a…
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A lot of folks, including kids, who saw my speech on Tuesday really liked it and thought it was helpful, so I thought I'd post it online - it's an overview of just how nonlinear my path to science was. Maybe it'll help you or someone you know too: medium.com/@adeene.dent...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Offline for health // I won't list out all the needs these six families aren't meeting due to a drop of support, but do know that it has had a real impact, especially for families waiting to get shelter before winter, which has now arrived.
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Offline for health // I won't list out all the needs these six families aren't meeting due to a drop of support, but do know that it has had a real impact, especially for families waiting to get shelter before winter, which has now arrived.
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
We're steadily falling a week or more behind on sending out crucial survival funds to these six families and a displacement camp.
Every day waiting is a delay of emergency healthcare, food, and more for these malnourished families—mostly kids. Change that: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Every day waiting is a delay of emergency healthcare, food, and more for these malnourished families—mostly kids. Change that: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We're steadily falling a week or more behind on sending out crucial survival funds to these six families and a displacement camp.
Every day waiting is a delay of emergency healthcare, food, and more for these malnourished families—mostly kids. Change that: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Every day waiting is a delay of emergency healthcare, food, and more for these malnourished families—mostly kids. Change that: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
Honored to be a part of this year’s group! Here’s hoping I can stick around and do some more science worth watching 😊
Selected from a pool of more than 60 nominees recommended by Nobel Laureates and recently elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, these early-to-mid-career researchers are the future of discovery. www.societyforscience.org/blog/2025-sc...
The Future of Discovery: Science News Spotlights Five Scientists to Watch
Science News, published by Society for Science, highlights early-to-mid-career researchers working on some of today’s biggest challenges in a profile
www.societyforscience.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Honored to be a part of this year’s group! Here’s hoping I can stick around and do some more science worth watching 😊
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...