Sarah Hörst
@planetdr.bsky.social
Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titan’s biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com
Planetdr.26 on signal
Planetdr.26 on signal
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How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.
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doing a bang up job aaron but at least the pedophiles feel safe
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
doing a bang up job aaron but at least the pedophiles feel safe
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This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
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Good morning Bluesky friends! We have started our holiday sale early so you can take your time to shop small this season! 💖
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
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November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Good morning Bluesky friends! We have started our holiday sale early so you can take your time to shop small this season! 💖
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
shop.startorialist.com
20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒
shop.startorialist.com
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Let me just repost this: even old people don't get maintenance MRIs. He had this because something went really wrong.
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Let me just repost this: even old people don't get maintenance MRIs. He had this because something went really wrong.
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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i alone can fix what i broke
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
i alone can fix what i broke
Ok anyway today’s wordle was LURID and after yesterday if either feels like the NYT either did it on purpose or didn’t notice and either one is…🙄
Uh has anyone done wordle yet today…
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Ok anyway today’s wordle was LURID and after yesterday if either feels like the NYT either did it on purpose or didn’t notice and either one is…🙄
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I’m looking to hire a freelance video editor for a specific project focused on creating compelling, human-centered vertical video content.
Looking for:
• Strong experience editing TikTok/Reels/Shorts-style content;
• Comfortable working with real people, interviews, and documentary-style footage;
Looking for:
• Strong experience editing TikTok/Reels/Shorts-style content;
• Comfortable working with real people, interviews, and documentary-style footage;
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I’m looking to hire a freelance video editor for a specific project focused on creating compelling, human-centered vertical video content.
Looking for:
• Strong experience editing TikTok/Reels/Shorts-style content;
• Comfortable working with real people, interviews, and documentary-style footage;
Looking for:
• Strong experience editing TikTok/Reels/Shorts-style content;
• Comfortable working with real people, interviews, and documentary-style footage;
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if your moderation team bans someone for a harmless unactionable exclamation of disgust, but permits a govt account to say stuff like this,
you need a new moderation team.
you need a new moderation team.
![Dept. of War [sic]'s bluesky account says "To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs–we will kill you."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a4n6zqm2ufqrdbyszo5gvgyq/bafkreifpxnl7xocstyj3ztg3enbd5osgyaxznmbkkkysjjuykxbplp5gl4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
if your moderation team bans someone for a harmless unactionable exclamation of disgust, but permits a govt account to say stuff like this,
you need a new moderation team.
you need a new moderation team.
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Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
Uh has anyone done wordle yet today…
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Uh has anyone done wordle yet today…
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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This screws over virtually every lab
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This screws over virtually every lab
Why yes I will watch my first terrible Xmas movie of the season thanks for asking Netflix
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Why yes I will watch my first terrible Xmas movie of the season thanks for asking Netflix
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Hey Baltimore if you could stop catching on fire that would be great. Thanks.
Siren time at Clipper Mill 😣
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Hey Baltimore if you could stop catching on fire that would be great. Thanks.
I just dumped a typo filled phrase into google. Normal Google understood exactly what I meant and completed the search accordingly. “AI” Google came up with a completely nonsensical interpretation of what I had typed.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I just dumped a typo filled phrase into google. Normal Google understood exactly what I meant and completed the search accordingly. “AI” Google came up with a completely nonsensical interpretation of what I had typed.
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🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
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This book has radically transformed my understanding of the first amendment by teaching me the significance of the fourteenth amendment to modern interpretations
Why does this matter? Because the 14th is the one that conservatives have been gutting
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Why does this matter? Because the 14th is the one that conservatives have been gutting
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What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea
The History of a Dangerous Idea
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This book has radically transformed my understanding of the first amendment by teaching me the significance of the fourteenth amendment to modern interpretations
Why does this matter? Because the 14th is the one that conservatives have been gutting
bookshop.org/p/books/what...
Why does this matter? Because the 14th is the one that conservatives have been gutting
bookshop.org/p/books/what...