Eryn Cangi, PhD
@planetaryemc2.bsky.social
planetary atmospheric scientist studying Mars, Venus, + @ CU Boulder. From PDX 💚 cats, plants, dnd, climate, outdoor stuff, Star Trek 🖖, bothering geologists about rocks, NPs geek
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Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket?
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket?
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
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Pretty exciting news, a long-thought possibly - that dry dust storms produce enough static energy to create little lighting bolts - has been kind of observed on Mars!!
🧪🔭 #planetsci
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪🔭 #planetsci
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars - Nature
The SuperCam microphone aboard the Perseverance rover captured 55 triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars over two Martian years, providing implications for examining the planet’s surface ...
doi.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Pretty exciting news, a long-thought possibly - that dry dust storms produce enough static energy to create little lighting bolts - has been kind of observed on Mars!!
🧪🔭 #planetsci
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪🔭 #planetsci
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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At Lake Fryxell Camp in Taylor valley we get our drinking water by collecting then melting "glacier berries". About a 2 km ATV ride from the camp to the berry patch at the edge of Canada Glacier #scicomm 🧪 #antarctica
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
At Lake Fryxell Camp in Taylor valley we get our drinking water by collecting then melting "glacier berries". About a 2 km ATV ride from the camp to the berry patch at the edge of Canada Glacier #scicomm 🧪 #antarctica
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The Pleiades, a.k.a. The Seven Sisters or M45. Pleiades is known for its bright, blue stars and the surrounding reflection nebulae. Recent work has shown that it is a part of a much larger stellar complex that spans over 2,000 light years.
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Pleiades, a.k.a. The Seven Sisters or M45. Pleiades is known for its bright, blue stars and the surrounding reflection nebulae. Recent work has shown that it is a part of a much larger stellar complex that spans over 2,000 light years.
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25
#astronomy #astrophotography
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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buddha in the japanese maple
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
buddha in the japanese maple
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In case you missed it: my follow-up video op-ed responding to ongoing conversations surrounding the COP30 climate conference and seemingly widespread misconception regarding how harmful 2-3°C of global warming would actually be for human societies, economies, and global ecosystems.
I recorded a short video op-ed to help cut through the noise surrounding the ongoing COP30 climate conference. In short: now is not the time to scale back our efforts to address climate change--quite the opposite, as the intensifying consequences have never been clearer.
Now is not the time to scale back efforts to address climate change!
As the #COP30 #climate conference unfolds, competing narratives from scientists, politicians, and influential billionaires swirl. In this brief video op-ed, climate scientist Daniel Swain cuts through the noise to explain why the present moment is an especially consequential one--including where wer
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In case you missed it: my follow-up video op-ed responding to ongoing conversations surrounding the COP30 climate conference and seemingly widespread misconception regarding how harmful 2-3°C of global warming would actually be for human societies, economies, and global ecosystems.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Came across Klingon Bluegrass music and now you get to hear it if you want to.
youtu.be/cSwHobtSijA?...
youtu.be/cSwHobtSijA?...
batlh vIteqta’ | Klingon Doomgrass | A Star Trek Folk Metal Anthem (Original Song)
YouTube video by Lord OTT
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Came across Klingon Bluegrass music and now you get to hear it if you want to.
youtu.be/cSwHobtSijA?...
youtu.be/cSwHobtSijA?...
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HiPOD: Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
HiPOD: Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
This bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045519_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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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.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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ACTUALLY CANJOT DEALNWITH THIS
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
ACTUALLY CANJOT DEALNWITH THIS
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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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.
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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.
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As SNAP benefits are foreseen to be cut on 10/31, we are frustrated and disappointed that the basic human right for everyone to access food resources is being threatened.
Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio: bit.ly/OR-food-reso...
Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio: bit.ly/OR-food-reso...
OREGON FOOD RESOURCES
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As SNAP benefits are foreseen to be cut on 10/31, we are frustrated and disappointed that the basic human right for everyone to access food resources is being threatened.
Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio: bit.ly/OR-food-reso...
Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio: bit.ly/OR-food-reso...
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Rain in Monument Valley.
#EastCoastKin
#Scape
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#RoadTrip
#LandscapePhotography
#StormyWeather
#BlackandWhite
#Art
#EastCoastKin
#Scape
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#RoadTrip
#LandscapePhotography
#StormyWeather
#BlackandWhite
#Art
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩🔬⚛️
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩🔬⚛️
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
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Excellent piece from the Planetary Society highlighting some of the human stories of NASA's workforce losses: www.planetary.org/articles/400...
4,000 gone: Inside NASA’s brain drain
In exclusive interviews, ex-NASA scientists speak out on the impact of the agency's mass departures.
www.planetary.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Excellent piece from the Planetary Society highlighting some of the human stories of NASA's workforce losses: www.planetary.org/articles/400...
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To any of my colleagues who still think that the administration will not gut NOAA, NASA and NSF programs, I respectfully ask you to read this thread about what they just did to our federal health sciences.
Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
To any of my colleagues who still think that the administration will not gut NOAA, NASA and NSF programs, I respectfully ask you to read this thread about what they just did to our federal health sciences.