Reckoning Science

Let's stop doing irreversible things. Do we need a million satellites? The FCC public comment period for two major satellite proposals is closing fast.

SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Reflect Orbital wants 50,000 giant mirrors. Neither properly consulted scientists.

Public comment closes this week: March 6 (SpaceX) and March 9 (Reflect Orbital). Your voice matters.

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🔭 #DarkSkies #LightPollution

Observing AI Entering Astrophysics:A Series Introduction and Request for Perspectives Astronomy may be the natural science which AI rewires first. Its infrastructure is unusually open. Most data is public. The scientific record is mostly open through online preprint servers. Core softw...

Calling for opinions from astronomers, astrophysicists, and scientists in related fields: How is AI reshaping what it means to do astronomy?

Read more about our call on @reckoningscience.org
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Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

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Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

Unspoken Crisis: What Our Analysis of 700,000 U.S. Catholic Services Did Not Find Climate change is no longer a distant “global issue.” It is local emergencies that carry the names of friends and neighbors. Heat waves, wildfires, flash floods, and other extreme weather events are b...

We analyzed 700,000 U.S. Catholic services to ask a simple question: how often do congregations hear about climate change?

The answer: almost never.

Read more: reckoningscience.org/unspoken-cri...

With @naomioreskes.bsky.social at @reckoningscience.org

Mars as a Red Herring in Climate Conversations Mars has been a place for dreams for a long time. A god of war, a planet, the home of invaders in science fiction, more recently the scientific and space exploration frontier. The details change, but ...

Is Mars just a red herring in climate conversations?

With @naomioreskes.bsky.social for @reckoningscience.org

👉 reckoningscience.org/mars-as-a-re...

Lineages of Science in a Warming World: Who Owns Climate Knowledge? Science is often spoken of as if it were a single institution: what science says, what science has shown. In practice, it is a tangle of labs, companies, contracts, grants, and norms that fall, broadl...

When corporate science eclipses public data and models, it shapes who knows climate risk and how decisions get made. Read more: "Lineages of Science in a Warming World: Who Owns Climate Knowledge?" by @kaurov.org and @naomioreskes.bsky.social

👉 reckoningscience.org/lineages-of-...

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Launching Reckoning Science We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching
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Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.