💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀
asst prof | astronomy PhD | MSU | https://adina.feinste.in
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- starting the week off with a good laugh as Harvard astrophysicist shares his depiction of the aliens "aboard" the certified comet 3I/ATLAS: three-eyed Cornish pixies
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took on college. - Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville - Sports and Entertainment in Greece and Rome (yes, we were entertained) - Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology - Underworlds - Advanced experimental physics
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Seems like a good video for his trial
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀I’m glad there is an apology for posting Jew-hate on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but this is notably not an apology for the Jew-hate itself, just the timing of it. The article itself, which perpetuates ancient antisemitism, remains unchanged.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀New job opportunity at @stsci.edu: Senior Astronomical Data Scientist for data analysis tools, working closely with my team and me. This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
- The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported. economist.com/united-state...
- new year's resolution: don't start any new crafting projects until the current 9 are finished. pls wish me luck
- 1/9 - based on art by @anubiarts.bsky.social
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀nine years old
- I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀"You can only preach against ICE for so long before God calls you to get out of the pulpit and get to the streets”
- Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
- I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING minneapolisunions.org/system/files...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀I'll say this very satisfying to watch.
- Absolutely BEAUTIFUL work here: ice.0x0.boo It's a tracker for the number of blocks. They're averaging about 200/minute right now. 🤣
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- ✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀<waves> Hi! Jew here by raising if not by practice. We have seen massive antisemitism in this regime, so the reason behind this is clearly a lie. Also, we've been comparing Trump to Hitler for a while now, so anyone still denying it is, well, in denial.
- Once again: a far-right president asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews, after he has repeatedly accused Jews of being “disloyal.” What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- TTV masses for the 23 Myr gas giant planets V1298 Tau bcde and a [finally!] confirmed period for V1298 Tau e all in the same paper 😱 this is such a benchmark system for understanding planetary evolution. congrats to John Livingston et al. on achieving this feat! 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀“The U.S. has led an unprecedented age of cosmic discovery. Now Trump is trying to bring that age to an end, and right at the moment when answers to our most profound existential questions finally seem to be within reach,” @rossandersen.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/LThKw0kY
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
- are you an undergrad wanting to learn about or get more experience with ML/AI + TESS data? apply to work with me through the MSU Advanced Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates! applications are open until Feb 15, 2026 icer-acres.msu.edu don't hesitate to reach out with questions!
- participating students will receive: - $7,000 pre-tax - on-campus housing - summer meal plan an additional $600 is available for travel to MSU and to conferences unfortunately, the program is only open to undergrads who are US citizens or permanent residents
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science. But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
- Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode (no Star Wars or Star Trek, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Pixar)
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
- aaannnnddd just like that my first semester of teaching is over
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm. Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
- sun: massive flare! bsky: aurora! me: aurora! michigan: ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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- then pay NASA employees to analyze the data and publish it, like proper science
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
- it's crazy to me that a congresswoman is calling on NASA to release data on 3I/ATLAS while actively destroying Goddard, the campus responsible for supporting/building the missions the data comes from. the second crazy thing is believing it's aliens.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
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- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Glad to see this story covered by the press. I've heard from colleagues that Goddard labs are being moved/closed during the government shutdown while employees are unable to receive notification/e-mail/warnings. There's fear that they'll return after the shutdown & labs will be gone. 🔭
- #nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet. www.space.com/space-explor...
- the dentist asked what my major was, so I guess my Halloween costume is... an undergrad?
- today's project ft. Enoch and the pumpkin people from Over the Garden Wall 🎃
- spotted at a pizza place in Toledo, OH. the crust was excellent
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀The handmaid's tale outfits and messages are accurate.
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- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
- I'm guessing ~3300 based on some inbox numbers lolsob
- So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭
- last night's arXiv read like everyone's trying to get their papers up and citable before the jwst deadline ngl 👀
- there was also a unicorn on the riverwalk, but I forgot to take a picture 😭
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
- getting in the spirit when it's 80°F means black flowers 🥲☠️🦩🎃
- #stellarastro 🔭🌟 look at all the rotation periods @meirs.bsky.social measured from the ground!!
- arxiv.org/abs/2509.14423 ⭐️paper day!⭐️ hey now, we found thousands of stellar variability periods, including ~26k very high likelihood new ASAS-SN rotation periods from cool dwarfs! (also I have missed abt 5 typos in this version already, but it’s only been submitted to ApJS so it’ll get fixed!)..
- rotation periods! variables! machine learning! arxiv.org/abs/2509.14423
- oh man, I can't wait to see what the new season of Futurama holds on Monday 👀🤖🚀
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
- 13/10, no notes on the department welcome back party drinks 🍎🍏
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm. I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.
- petition to talk about tenure contracts the same way NFL players talk about their contracts. For example, an assistant professor would have a 75 percent six-year contract with a possible extension and a signing bonus (start-up)
- behind enemy lines #LGM ⚾
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.
- Reposted by 💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀Today our team released findings on the nature of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, based on our first round of JWST observations. The data are incredible: Not only did we detect and map gas and dust in the coma, but we found that 3I is one of the most CO2 rich comets ever seen! Check it out:
