Alexandra Witze
@alexwitze
Science journalist and correspondent for Nature (she/her). Opinions = my own. Reach me at alexwitze.01 (Signal), witzescience (@gmail.com), or awitze (@protonmail.com).
Why yes we were in Mission Control when flight directors broadcast a message from Jim Lovell to the crew as they woke up on lunar flyby day #ArtemisII 🧪🔭
Inside the Science Mission Operations Room at the Johnson Space Center this morning. #ArtemisII 🧪🔭
The #ArtemisII astronauts have fired the engines on their spacecraft and set course for the Moon. The Earth is falling away behind them. Watch live views of this extraordinary moment: x37b.nl/artemis/ 🧪🔭
Amazing images from the Rubin observatory displayed tonight at #AAS247 in Phoenix, at the Arizona Science Center. This is the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae first light image projected on a planetarium dome.
We are SO EXCITED to have this too especially Phoebe who is waiting for HER OWN MOON also the box is THE BEST also @arielwaldman.com every day!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system... This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
The Moon, Venus and Regulus in the predawn sky, from Colorado. #skywatching
I … don’t know what to do with this matchup. But here is Pollux (RIP) so we’re going #pollucite all the way ❤️
Important office decor update! Tissue box switch is happening…. Left: out Right: in Thank you @phaneritic.bsky.social for my @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social tissue box! 🤩🌋
We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...
I have Reviewer #2 Always critical of the amount of tuna in the house
Here at the ASSW Arctic science conference in Boulder, a poster describing research done with US federal funds has words including “ethical” and “equity” crossed out. 🧪
The Ozempic gila monster made an appearance in Denver #gilamonstersforscience
This is Courtney. She’s about to graduate with her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Colorado. She made this sign in 2017 for the first science march and has had it in her lab ever since. “In 2017 we felt science was being attacked. Now it actually is.” #StandUpForScience Denver
This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️
They weren’t kidding, there really is an inflatable JOIDES Resolution at the #AGU24 check-in area!