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Dr. Adeene Denton
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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.
spacewhalerider.com
Please do not send out faculty job rejections on a Friday night!! Please allow me some semblance of dignity and rest!!
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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bowlerhatscience.org
so my friends: are any of you (or someone you know) an expert on post-main sequence stellar evolution and/or planets in post-main sequence star systems? 👉👈😬🧪🔭
bowlerhatscience.org Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 21h
this throws my whole fucking schedule off for the next several days because they couldn't be bothered to let me know they were blowing me off. Now instead of being able to finish writing, I have to find another source NOW.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
spacewhalerider.com
I know nothing at all about birds but I know this one found the perfect spot!
Some sort of bird that is blue, gray, and white is perched on the top of a tree that sits right on the edge of the Grand Canyon’s south rim. The perfect spot Zoom in on blue gray and white bird on a tree branch right in front of the Grand Canyon
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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One more sunrise.
Grand Canyon at sunrise. Clouds above. Post author in front of the south rim, wearing a beanie with a cat on it The light filtered through the canyon walls begins to reach the lower cliffs
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
alexwild.bsky.social
Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
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
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
mbkplus.bsky.social
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
brookenewman.bsky.social Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 23h
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
spacewhalerider.com
Got one more Grand Canyon sunset for y’all 💗
The setting sun is so bright on the canyon tops that my camera can’t grasp the depths! The post author in front of the Grand Canyon at sunset The south rim of the Grand Canyon is in the foreground with the north rim behind, facing east. Blue is chasing the pink and orange up the sky, turning to dusk. The south rim of the Grand Canyon is in the foreground with the north rim behind, facing west. The horizon is still a vibrant orange and yellow
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Every day, boldness, hope for Palestinian life. This link is how six families afford food, secure shelter for their kids, & get emergency medical care (which three women need right now).

The ONLY way.

Meet this with hope, not hopelessness. Click “weekly” on even a dollar to join in. 399/1000
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 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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divyampersaud.com
THREE days left. Every week, we collectively invest in the survival of six families and a displacement camp of fifteen more. Clicking "weekly" on a cup of coffee is a small but meaningful act of faith in their next week.

Priority: emergency healthcare for three women:
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 their...
chuffed.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
spacewhalerider.com
This pops up EVERY TIME I click on an Elsevier paper and the only thing stopping me from tossing my laptop into the Grand Canyon about this is the knowledge that the Grand Canyon doesn't want my laptop either
A pop-up ad that reads: ScienceDirect AI Ask ScienceDirect AI Research faster with ScienceDirect AI Ask complex questions your way and instantly find what you need from millions of peer-reviewed, full-text articles and book chapters. Try ScienceDirect AI now
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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brosandprose.bsky.social
"Starting masking again in 2025 means I – we – have to confront the fact that maybe we should never have stopped. It’s scary to admit that we might have been harming ourselves and our communities; that our government might not have our best interests at heart." @onqueerstreet.bsky.social
Mask Up: Community care and wearing masks in 2025 – The Skinny
Masks aren’t just for lockdowns. One writer explores how mask wearing – and other measures to reduce COVID transmissions – can help us look after one another.
www.theskinny.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
spacewhalerider.com
And I'm one of them! If you are outside the US and need a planetary scientist, please let me know!!
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
spacewhalerider.com
One more sunrise Grand Canyon run! Good morning from the Grand Canyon 🙂
Sunrise has just reached the top of the cliffs, making the Kaibab limestone of the north rim glow pink and orange. The sky is orange fading into blue. Sunrise has progressed, turning the canyon into watercolor blues, purples, and pinks. Plateau Point, which is part of the Bright Angel trail, is visible in the foreground. Selfie of the post author in running clothes smiling on the the south rim of the Grand Canyon at sunrise.
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
divyampersaud.com
Rather than getting distracted or overly fascinated by our own takes, remember that Palestinians have an explicit ask of us…!

Survival in the face of impossible conditions that the occupation wants you to look away from...!

Six families, survival funds every week:
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 their...
chuffed.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
spacewhalerider.com
Ran a fun space trivia night at Grand Canyon again tonight and had a blast! It's so nice to be able to bring joy to people by helping them learn about the universe in fun ways.
An upcoming events sign that reads: Astronomer Here Today. There is a blurb with a picture of the post author on it, and it's sponsored by the Grand Canyon Conservancy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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mmflint.bsky.social
Starbucks baristas are ready to strike!! TOMORROW Nov 13, baristas across the country are disrupting business as usual on Starbucks’ busiest day of the year. We talked with Zarian, a unionized barista with @SBWorkersUnited about how you can support at nocontractnocoffee.org #NoContractNoCoffee
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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sciencenews.bsky.social
Planetary scientist Adeene Denton is investigating why some icy worlds, like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are so geologically active.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/adeene-denton-pluto-moon-formation
How did Pluto capture its largest moon, Charon?
Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.
www.sciencenews.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
kattenbarge.bsky.social
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
spacewhalerider.com
Good morning from the Grand Canyon 😃
The Grand Canyon at sunrise. It's a cloudy morning so the clouds are orange and yellow, while the canyon tops are brown, orange, and pink. Post author in front of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at sunrise.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
fivefourpod.bsky.social
This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.

open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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divyampersaud.com
Please share. We're a week behind sending out funds to the families of this giving circle—six families plus a displacement camp. Every day waiting is a delay these malnourished families—mostly kids—three women with medical emergencies—getting survival needs.

Can we change that? 700/1000
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 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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divyampersaud.com
Every share matters, offline for health 🙏🏾 more than ever support for survival funds evaporates despite the occupation's escalating DEATH-MAKING.

Clicking "weekly" on a coffee means emergency care for three women: a high-risk pregnancy, deteriorating lupus, an urgent dental condition.

354/1000
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 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
spacewhalerider.com
Great sunrise this morning! Good morning from the Grand Canyon 😊
A truly epic sunrise stains the tops of the grand canyon’s cliffs a vibrant pink and orange The post author in running gear in front of the Grand Canyon
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Dr. Adeene Denton
owlinautumn.bsky.social
It’s that day, y’all. Time to do some Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald posting…
Who Would Win meme One side reads, “a good ship and true with a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more than it weighed empty” Underneath is a photo of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the famed iron boat freighter The other side reads, “one stormy boi” Under this is a weather reading of a storm over Lake Superior, labeled “Lake Superior Nov 9-11, 1975. Significant Wave Height and Direction 7 PM EST, November 10, 1975.” The storm map is colorized and marked with a wave height scale off to one side. The two strong arms meme: a white man and a black man, both very built and strong, clasp hands in an overhand, bent-elbow handshake of sorts. One arm is labeled “Rick Astley”, the other is labeled “Lake Superior”, and their clasped hands are labeled “Never gonna give you up.” A pic of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Above it, it reads “I never see you at the club.” Below it, it reads “ well I never see you getting emotional about the 1975 ship wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" The top pic is a photo of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. The bottom is a screenshot of a woman saying “honey, you’ve got a big storm coming.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM