Jessica Lu
Astrophysicist, Associate Professor @UCBerkeley. Interested in black holes, stars, galactic centers, astronomy instrumentation, adaptive optics.
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- You don’t get seven former NASA science heads in a room unless something’s seriously wrong. They’ve all said the same thing: these cuts will kill missions, stall discovery, and erase decades of work. www.planetary.org/press-releas...
- Why oh why? arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
- NASA Goddard is pushing through a 48% staff reduction!!! This could impact the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and many other future Astro missions. News coverage seems not sensational enough. Are we really going to let NASA (as we know it) die quietly? www.space.com/space-explor...
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Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money. - Reposted by Jessica LuAlso of note/horror: this budget makes the 30M downselect explicit (GMT, not TMT) --
- Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
- Reposted by Jessica LuPresidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
- Reposted by Jessica LuTO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.
- Reposted by Jessica LuA key portion of #NASARoman has cleared a thermal vacuum test. Tt was subjected to the hot and cold temperatures it will experience in space: go.nasa.gov/43cwDQL 🔭 🧪
- Reposted by Jessica LuMy heart goes out to the good people who had to endure this at the NSF today www.wired.com/story/nation... 🧪
- Reposted by Jessica LuThe Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
- For you foodies out there, I highly recommend this conference tradition. Great food and meet new people!
- What a night. The third annual #FoodieDinner was an awesome time. We had an undergrad, director of the Chicago Astro Society, @jluastro.bsky.social, Nathan Smith, Dan Castro, and Pierce Prize Winner Maria Drout. Most important, amazing food from #VermillionVA. #AAS245
- Interested in black holes or the Galactic Center check out Thursday sessions at #AAS243 by MovingUniverse Lab grads, Natasha Abrams (440.05) and Anna Pusack (420.05). Lots of new results!
- Update on the gravitational lensing black hole, OB110462. It is definitely a black hole and our revised photometric and astrometric analysis gives a mass of 6 +/- 1 Sun. arxiv.org/abs/2308.03302
- First author, Casey Lam, put together the known population of Milky Way black holes:
- Reposted by Jessica LuESA’s Euclid mission has reached L2 where JWST and Gaia are waiting 💕 esa.int/Science_Exploration…
