Sasha Kaurov

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.

reckoningscience.org/lets-stop-do...

🔭 #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
reckoningscience.org/observing-ai...

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-...

Unspoken crisis: the absence of climate change communication in U.S. Catholic churches - Climatic Change Climate change, as a topic, is virtually absent from discourse in the U.S. Catholic Masses. This is despite Pope Francis's strong emphasis on environmental stewardship in his two encyclicals Laudato S...

New paper with @kaurov.org, professor Debra Javeline from Notre Dame, and UC San Diego's John Evans, showing that religious leaders are just not talking about climate change. Not disparaging it. Not denying it. Just not saying anything.
doi.org/10.1007/s105...

@jimantal.bsky.social

The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate Opinion | A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.

How much impact can one ghostwritten paper have on the #glyphosate regulation? In our new opinion piece for @undark.org, @naomioreskes.bsky.social and I unpack how a single ghostwritten review of #Roundup safety still drives science, policy, Wikipedia, and AI discourse.

👉 undark.org/2025/08/15/o...