Radio science at MIT Haystack Observatory. Formerly: x-rays with OSIRIS-REx, gravitational waves with LIGO, Fulbrighter in Pisa at EGO/Virgo. He/him.
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An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.
MIT Haystack Observatory’s SIMONe meteor radar network caught something at the same time that a loud boom was heard over eastern Massachusetts. Scientists are already analyzing the data!
OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would
-deemphasize peer review
-ban $ for publication costs and conference travel
-make it easier to terminate grants
we read the 400 page document () so you don't have to
www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet.
The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UMass Amherst
Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year.
Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers.
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
TLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.
