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
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Sarah Hörst
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I warned the Trump admin of this exact eventuality.
Their actions combined with FIFA's ridiculous pricing schemes have discouraged fans from coming to games & now, one day before kickoff, ~180K tickets remain unsold.
Our local businesses are being shortchanged.
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When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon.
Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th...
Median price on official portal for resellers has sunk by 20% over the past month
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More changes at the NSF, this time to elevate certain (often benign) conflicts-of-interest to the point of disqualifying reviewers from serving on entire panels. A nice write-up from Dan, which includes some quotes from Bluesky's 74th most popular astrophysicist.
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
Katie Mack
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It's hard not to see this as a further attack on expertise. Currently, program officers scrupulously check for conflicts, double check with panelists, and reviewers aren't in the room for discussion of proposals where they're conflicted. This feels sufficient for ensuring conflicts aren't a problem.
