Steve Elardo

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

Swapna providing the highlights of Isaacman's presser.

tl;dr: Artemis III descoped to a LEO test of human landing systems, goal is to launch SLS faster. Higher mission/Moon landing cadence.

My Take: This is not unexpected and I give him props for doing this.
#PlanetaryScience

If you're a Floridian, particularly a Floridian who may disagree with a far right state government, you really need to read this article and find out what Florida legislators are trying to pass into law.

So far, Democratic lawmakers aren't offering much resistance.

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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program.

"Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this."

Two UF faculty members, including UF Geology's Dr. Amy Williams, recently played key leadership roles in a major report that will help guide U.S. science priorities for future human missions to Mars.

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Color photograph of a huge black mound in a snowy landscape red and orange lava is Flowing down from the mound. This is an aerial view and so we see dozens of people around the eruption is a very slow eruption in the lava is moving very slowly and so the people are forming a ring approximately 10 yards away from the lava flow as close as you can get without the heat becoming a big problem

Eruption, Iceland — Arnar Kristjansson, 2021

Gotta read the fine print: “Dolphins fans ineligible for salvation”

😆Yes, "explained"

Narrator: "It did not, in fact, explain the dichotomy"

mood

Since this is getting a few likes, here are my Top 5 Birds™️at this moment (subject to change in the next moment) #Birds

1. Greater Roadrunner
2. Belted Kingfisher
3. Shoebill Stork
4. Carolina Wren
5. European Bee Eater
5a. Black Backed Dwarf Kingfisher
6: Atlantic Puffin
HM: Painted Bunting

Since this is getting a few likes, here are my Top 5 Birds™️at this moment (subject to change in the next moment) #Birds

1. Greater Roadrunner
2. Belted Kingfisher
3. Shoebill Stork
4. Carolina Wren
5. European Bee Eater
5a. Black Backed Dwarf Kingfisher
6: Atlantic Puffin
HM: Painted Bunting

It feels like geosci conferences are a bubble about to burst. Inflation and virtual access have made them obscenely expensive, non-US folks don’t want to travel here, USRA just F’ed up LPSC, gov employee travel to them is highly restricted. IDK if/how this changes but it feels unsustainable

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

Me with Paul, Prue, Julian Edelman, Von Miller, and Antonio Gates

Bakeoff/baking enthusiasts: My episode of the Great American Baking Show: Big Game Edition is out now! You can find it on the Roku Channel

Between size and attitude, dude has Johnny Manziel written all over him

Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look

New planet just dropped and it

1) is almost exactly Earth-sized

2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.

3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡

Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

If you told me at the beginning of the year that by week 18, the Dolphins would be ranked higher than the Chiefs I would have gone f’ing crazy

I’m not ready to give up on LPSC. Though perhaps more of a long shot, I would rather see AGU, GSA, and/or The Planetary Society take over management of LSPC. I strongly suspect trying to move to a meeting like DPS would splinter the community.