Dr. Tanya Harrison
“Very Respected Science Person” -NBC News
🔴 Former science operations for NASA Mars missions
🛰️ Current space sector strategist & author advocating for Earth
🌎 Based in Ottawa but often found on a train
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- 🚨🚀🚨 NEW SPACE CONFERENCE ALERT 🚨🚀🚨 The Planetary Science Community Workshop, organized by @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social & @millionconcepts.com, will be held in Louisville, KY on April 14-16 and is aimed at bringing together academia, industry & gov. More here: planetaryworkshop.org
- I went through all of my old Medium posts today & removed the paywall so they're free to read for anyone now! From nerding out over Mars to discussing the pyramid scheme of academia to what it's like being a queer+disabled scientist, check out the archives here: tanyaofmars.medium.com
- After a 2-year hiatus, I finally posted on Medium again (and after like 4 months off Bluesky, hello again!). My goal for 2026 is to write more, and this felt like a good impetus to restart the blog and also explain where my head was at during my time away: tanyaofmars.medium.com/reflections-...
- "Friend link" for folks without a Medium account: tanyaofmars.medium.com/reflections-...
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya Harrison'Moonrise Sunrise' 2,308 images photographed by Jonny Kim are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this 6x real time video footage. Credit: Jonny Kim / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran youtu.be/PjMRIzXn-RU
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonHey Martians, did I mention we now also have a video of epic Phobos passing over a Martian dust storm near Pavonis Mons? 🌪️🌋🥔 Video & full info: flic.kr/p/2rNN8wk Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY @esa.int Mars Express HRSC 300 MP Photo quoted below Easy zoom: easyzoom.com/image/674026
- 1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonWorked on this yesterday with my new found free time with the kid starting school. From HST Proposal 17067, The diversity of protoplanetary disks: Imaging a complete sample of edge-on disks in four nearby star-forming regions Principal Investigator: Gaspard Duchene flic.kr/p/2rnisMm
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonI realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
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- Thanks for sharing a bit of my career story! 🧡
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya Harrison"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya Harrison"...anyone who actually understands LLMs knows that it can’t achieve new ways of thinking. It’s just putting together words in the most statistically likely way, forming connections that may sound like a well-thought-out argument but are actually not...'intelligence' as humans would define it."
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- I got one of these the first time around and can say, being from the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's legit the best umbrella I've ever owned. 10/10 would recommend if you're in the market for an ultra-nerdy umbrella! ❤️
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- 🚨🚨🚨 FREE DATA ALERT! 🚨🚨🚨 If you're a federally funded researcher in the U.S., you can access GHGSat's high-resolution methane emissions data for free through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program! 🌎 More info on how to apply here: bit.ly/3I4ldrs
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- Light pollution, both on the ground and from megaconstellations, is cutting us off from one of the only universal things humanity shares across the globe: Visual access to the night sky. And it has serious biological, scientific, and cultural consequences: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
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- "To associate Mars exploration with the devastation of American space science...to tie it to the alienation of our allies and partners, is to doom the effort to failure. Mars deserves better." - @caseydreier.bsky.social Humans deserve better too. spacenews.com/the-administ...
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- At a Star Trek convention ages ago, I was standing at the front of a line to get past a curtain into an event. Mark Alaimo (Gul Dukat) popped his head out of the curtain, looked at me, and asked if I could grab him a coffee if he gave me $5. I absolutely said yes and acquired said coffee.
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- Under the proposed White House budget, the NASA Space Grant program would be eliminated. I was a NASA Space Grant recipient during my Masters—it funded my research on water on Mars. I then went on to work in science & mission ops on multiple NASA Mars missions immediately after graduation. (1/2)
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- An interesting thread about jargon in science communication!
- Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
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- If you are a researcher whose federal funding has been terminated, the Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response grants to close the gaps. Application deadline is June 13: (h/t to @agu.org's Planetary Sciences Section newsletter for the info!) www.spencer.org/research-gra...
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- Today is the Space Horizons conference in Ottawa, focused on the Canadian space sector. 🔭🇨🇦 Canadian Space Agency president Lisa Campbell: "We'll keep making the case for space...because we know it's a pathway to solutions."
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonIf you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonI've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonThe NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonThe Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.
- The fact that the U.S. is turning inward and potentially set to decimate the science from its own space program while China is offering up its recently returned lunar samples for researchers around the world to analyze speaks volumes as to how the tides of science are going to shift.
- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonTO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonBREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition
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- Canada has long worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. to push the boundaries of exploration. But in today’s political climate, we must ask: What should our priorities be, & how can they serve all Canadians? We need a bold, cross-agency strategy for Canada's future in space. spaceq.ca/trumps-space...
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- 🌍 We're launching a science webinar series! 🛰️ Join us for the inaugural session of GHGSAT's Science Webinar Series, a new platform to share cutting-edge research from the academic community using methane emissions data. Register for free: go.ghgsat.com/exploring-gl...
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya Harrison4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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- My first Mars mission ops job was "targeting" the Context Camera (CTX) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This meant picking what the camera took pics of everyday & then analyzing those images when they came back to Earth. This was the 1st photo I ever took of Mars: Pits on Arsia Mons. (1/2)
- A serene early morning view on Mars from the Curiosity rover. 🩶
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya HarrisonThis pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.
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- What did NASA's Hubble Space Telescope see on your birthday? Find out with this cool website! 🔭 science.nasa.gov/mission/hubb...
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- 🌎 If you could get point source methane emissions data over any point in the world for your research, where would it be? If you are a federally funded researcher in the U.S., you can request 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 tasking of GHGSAT's methane monitoring satellites thanks to NASA! More info in the replies.⏬
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- Reposted by Dr. Tanya Harrison🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
