NASA Needs Your Help!
NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready to be launched, put tens of thousands out of a job, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask congress to prevent these cuts!
How can we build trust in science?
Fostering public trust in science is essential for creating a stronger and more informed global society. As researchers and communicators, what can we do to help build this trust?
So, you want to be a graduate student activist.
Are you a graduate student interested in making your astronomy department or university a better place to grad school? Today, one of our authors shares his advice about how to make positive change from his experiences this past year as a Graduate Student Council President.
More Than a Name – Why Women in Physics Deserve Context
Why should we give more context to the incredible contributions to STEM by exceptional women? And do you need to be exceptional to be successful? Find out in this interview with Dr Claire Davies!
Chapter 7 Summary Part 2: Energy Solutions by Rector and Yu, Climate Change for Astronomers
This post summarizes the second half of Chapter 7 of the book ‘Climate Change for Astronomers’, involving a discussion of energy sources available to us in the present, and the future, in order to understand the way forward for solutions to climate change. It also discusses how various solutions can be combined, how energy usage can be made more efficient, and how we can move towards creating a smarter and greener energy infrastructure.
The “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium
Today we highlight the “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium, with lectures and events happening in February and March!