Hayley Roberts, PhD
@astrohayley.bsky.social
📡 Postdoctoral astrophysicist & data scientist at Zooniverse/UMN
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If you don’t do research you’re not an observatory, you’re a tourist attraction. Solidarity to the excellent astronomers at Lowell.
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
If you don’t do research you’re not an observatory, you’re a tourist attraction. Solidarity to the excellent astronomers at Lowell.
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An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social I’ve been playing this cute game called Tiny Bookshop where you sell books around a little coastal town. The books you sell are real published works, including Agatha Christie novels, Shakespeare plays, and you!! Also @michaelhobbes.bsky.social it’s a great game 5⭐️
October 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social I’ve been playing this cute game called Tiny Bookshop where you sell books around a little coastal town. The books you sell are real published works, including Agatha Christie novels, Shakespeare plays, and you!! Also @michaelhobbes.bsky.social it’s a great game 5⭐️
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We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
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This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.
They never complete the sentence, ie "...educators and students must face ideas we find offensive, such as the claim that Black women lack the brain processing power to fly planes or serve on the Supreme Court or that gay people should be stoned to death." Pretty telling that they don't!
The President of Barnard College calls for more controversial speakers like the late Kirk (without citing any of his controversial views), a position at odds with what Barnard colleagues describe as a track record of censoring events and speakers on Palestine. (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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The first citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, Comet Catchers ☄️, has already passed 1.5 MILLION classifications on @zooniverse.bsky.social 🤯
Now that's what we call teamwork!
Find Comet Catchers (and other Rubin projects as they go live) at zooniverse.org/rubin 🔭 🧪
Now that's what we call teamwork!
Find Comet Catchers (and other Rubin projects as they go live) at zooniverse.org/rubin 🔭 🧪
September 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The first citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, Comet Catchers ☄️, has already passed 1.5 MILLION classifications on @zooniverse.bsky.social 🤯
Now that's what we call teamwork!
Find Comet Catchers (and other Rubin projects as they go live) at zooniverse.org/rubin 🔭 🧪
Now that's what we call teamwork!
Find Comet Catchers (and other Rubin projects as they go live) at zooniverse.org/rubin 🔭 🧪
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This is a very good paper on the myth.
P-hacking, failure to replicate and fraud are real problems but don't remotely represent science collapsing in on itself. The existential threat to science comes from conservatives, full stop.
P-hacking, failure to replicate and fraud are real problems but don't remotely represent science collapsing in on itself. The existential threat to science comes from conservatives, full stop.
From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science
Empirical data do not support the conclusion of a crisis of public trust in science. They do support the conclusion of a crisis of conservative trust in science: polls show that American attitudes tow...
www.amacad.org
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is a very good paper on the myth.
P-hacking, failure to replicate and fraud are real problems but don't remotely represent science collapsing in on itself. The existential threat to science comes from conservatives, full stop.
P-hacking, failure to replicate and fraud are real problems but don't remotely represent science collapsing in on itself. The existential threat to science comes from conservatives, full stop.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨
Good morning!! It’s easy in these times to feel like the problems are big and we are small. Trump is relying on us to give in to that feeling. But there are steps we can take — in coalition.
Please help us save cosmic science ♥️ 🔭🧪⚛️
more of my thoughts on this here:
Good morning!! It’s easy in these times to feel like the problems are big and we are small. Trump is relying on us to give in to that feeling. But there are steps we can take — in coalition.
Please help us save cosmic science ♥️ 🔭🧪⚛️
more of my thoughts on this here:
Fund astronomy, not genocide.
You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...
news.chanda.science
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨
Good morning!! It’s easy in these times to feel like the problems are big and we are small. Trump is relying on us to give in to that feeling. But there are steps we can take — in coalition.
Please help us save cosmic science ♥️ 🔭🧪⚛️
more of my thoughts on this here:
Good morning!! It’s easy in these times to feel like the problems are big and we are small. Trump is relying on us to give in to that feeling. But there are steps we can take — in coalition.
Please help us save cosmic science ♥️ 🔭🧪⚛️
more of my thoughts on this here:
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Time for our scientific society leadership to take the case to the people by getting on national news and putting op eds in national publications, rather than just sending letters to members of congress who feel no pressure by that whatsoever
May 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Time for our scientific society leadership to take the case to the people by getting on national news and putting op eds in national publications, rather than just sending letters to members of congress who feel no pressure by that whatsoever
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Please, please, please contact your representatives. Jobs like mine are on the line. 🔭🧪☄️
www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
May 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Please, please, please contact your representatives. Jobs like mine are on the line. 🔭🧪☄️
www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
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TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.
May 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
TO 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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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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if the left had a media apparatus comparable to the right, you wouldn’t need to go hunting for a left Joe Rogan; it would create him
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
if the left had a media apparatus comparable to the right, you wouldn’t need to go hunting for a left Joe Rogan; it would create him
Getting the hundreds of thousands of images ready for this over the past month has been such a labor of love for me, so I'm unbelievably excited about this launch. 🥹 But also...
Galaxies, as seen by JWST, are a bit different and unique in a few ways... (1/8) 🧵
Galaxies, as seen by JWST, are a bit different and unique in a few ways... (1/8) 🧵
Announcing the Galaxy Zoo JWST project!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with ~300,000 galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with ~300,000 galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying…
Announcing the Galaxy Zoo JWST project!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with ~300,000 galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying them on Galaxy Zoo. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed over time, and what caused these changes and why.
blog.galaxyzoo.org
April 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Getting the hundreds of thousands of images ready for this over the past month has been such a labor of love for me, so I'm unbelievably excited about this launch. 🥹 But also...
Galaxies, as seen by JWST, are a bit different and unique in a few ways... (1/8) 🧵
Galaxies, as seen by JWST, are a bit different and unique in a few ways... (1/8) 🧵
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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
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Loving the Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social galaxy explorer tool by Mike Walmsley. Thanks to the @galaxyzoo.org volunteers for all this work! euclid.streamlit.app 🔭🧪
GZ Euclid
This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈
euclid.streamlit.app
March 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Loving the Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social galaxy explorer tool by Mike Walmsley. Thanks to the @galaxyzoo.org volunteers for all this work! euclid.streamlit.app 🔭🧪
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It's #Euclid data release day!
@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 deg² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.
#astronomy #science #space
1/4
@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 deg² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.
#astronomy #science #space
1/4
March 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's #Euclid data release day!
@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 deg² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.
#astronomy #science #space
1/4
@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 deg² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.
#astronomy #science #space
1/4
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I am giving a commencement speech soon and I keep thinking that the only piece of advice I really want to give is “do things more.”
December 4, 2024 at 4:44 AM
I am giving a commencement speech soon and I keep thinking that the only piece of advice I really want to give is “do things more.”
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Overleaf is down.
Me:
Me:
a close up of a piece of paper that says ' i ' on it
ALT: a close up of a piece of paper that says ' i ' on it
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Overleaf is down.
Me:
Me:
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Gravitational lens or not? Join our #ESAEuclid #citizenscience classification of #galaxies' masses bending space itself:
www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr...
#astronomy #space #cosmology #science
www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr...
#astronomy #space #cosmology #science
November 21, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Gravitational lens or not? Join our #ESAEuclid #citizenscience classification of #galaxies' masses bending space itself:
www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr...
#astronomy #space #cosmology #science
www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr...
#astronomy #space #cosmology #science
A quiet moment from New College this morning @universityofoxford.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 7:39 AM
A quiet moment from New College this morning @universityofoxford.bsky.social