Todd Austin

@CordeliaJ @ChristopherJM It impresses me as revealing a large amount of identifying information that is normally not shared about Ukrainian combatants. Doesn’t that put her and her family at risk?

This is such a brilliant piece by Chris Miller, the FT's Ukraine correspondent on the incredible fortitude of a drone commander on the eastern front - please read it. as.ft.com/r/33f7fc2c-39d…

@AJamesMcCarthy @SpaceAbhi @astro_reid It’s hard to understand you over the music. Interesting pictures!

I'm thrilled to share this unique collaboration with Artemis Il astronaut @astro_reid. Artemis II was a unique opportunity to get high-quality imagery of the moon, and Reid was gracious enough to capture some special image sets for me during the lunar flyby.

@ABMFusa The 42nd Infantry Division and the 20th Armored Division also participated in the liberation of the camp. My late uncle, Lt. Col. Harold G. Austin, Jr., was there as a member of the 42nd ID.

On this day, units of the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberated Dachau concentration camp, the first concentration camp established under Adolf Hitler’s regime. Established just five weeks after Hitler took power in 1933, Dachau held about 5,000 political prisoners, consisting primarily of political opponents like Communists and Social Democrats, before expanding to include Jews, Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others targeted by the regime. Dachau was also the first Nazi camp to use prisoners as human guinea pigs in medical experiments. Here, Nazi scientists tested the effects of freezing and changes to atmospheric pressure on inmates, infected them with malaria and tuberculosis, and treated them with experimental drugs. Over 41,000 prisoners died in Dachau as a result of the labor, starvation, and experiments they endured.  On April 27, 1945, approximately 7,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to begin a death march from Dachau to Tegernsee, far to the south. Many SS guards abandoned the camp. When American soldiers arrived at Dachau on April 29, they uncovered the full scale of suffering and, after a brief battle with the camp’s remaining guards, liberated the camp. Today, we remember those who were imprisoned and murdered, honor the survivors, and recognize the liberators who ensured these horrific acts could never be denied. #Dachau #HolocaustRemembrance #NeverForget #April29 #WWIIHistory #HolocaustEducation #Liberation #Holocaust #TeachHistory #RememberTheirStories

@ThirdPlanettt @ulalaunch @NASAArtemis @BoeingSpace I believe that’s at least in part because SLS did not have a third stage, like Saturn’s S-IVB. ICPS imparted part of the necessary TLI delta-V, resulting in the elliptical high Earth orbit. Orion’s main engine, a repurposed Shuttle OMS engine, provided the rest during TLI.

@ulalaunch @NASAArtemis @BoeingSpace Apollo did one orbit checkout and then translunar injection. These guy's need a whole day in Earth orbit.

ICPS-2 successfully boosted Orion and its four-person crew into a high Earth orbit. This is where the astronauts will orbit for the next day to ensure Orion’s systems are working as expected while still close to home. United Launch Alliance, under a collaborative partnership with Boeing, built the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) upper stage of the SLS rocket.

Hey @nikestore ! Where do we get these shirts in TALL, like you get to the players? Wolverines are TALL! 😁🏀〽️

@SciGuySpace I’m frankly deeply disappointed by all of the video from this mission, beginning with launch (no telemetry, no video from the side of the rocket, cheesy simulations). Is PAO asleep at the switch? After all these years, can they really not produce an engaging experience?

You're probably going to be disappointed with the video imagery of the lunar flyby. Here's why: arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/…

#askNASA Why aren’t you showing us any views of the Moon from the Artemis solar panel cams? Why is the darkened interior of the spacecraft all that we ‘see’? Why aren’t you sharing any telemetry at the bottom of the video feed (velocity, distance, map)?!?

#askNASA Why does your sim in the app show Artemis continuing to slow down? Isn’t the Moon pulling them in and accelerating them?

@umichbball @UMichAthletics Where can we buy Final Four gear in tall sizes? MDen seems to sell only clothes for short people ☹️

ONE. MORE.

@NASA Request to #NASAPAO: Orion telemetry should be an overlay on your main feed that’s on the screen at all times, not only when you sub in the simulation view #askNASA Waiting for TLI without live data is deeply frustrating.

@NASA The solar arrays are open on Artemis. I understand that there are cameras on the arrays. Why aren’t we seeing live feeds from the mission now, rather than this computer sim?

@karlmehta @amethystarlight The URL in the image you share here does not resolve properly. Here’s the link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26502459/

Harvard researchers put 24 office workers in the same room for 6 days. They changed one thing about the air. The workers didn't know. Then they tested their brains. Cognitive scores doubled. Here's what the air you're breathing right now is doing to your brain:

@SpcPlcyOnline What would be the logic behind that choice? If my rocket failed a WDR, I’d want to have a clean WDR before proceeding to launch. Can the vehicle not withstand an additional round of fueling without increased risk to the structure and its systems?

Re Thursday's Artemis II update bfg, which is after the Flight Readiness Review (FRR), I asked if that meant there won't be another Wet Dress Rehearsal. They said that's correct, no more WDRs are planned, but after the FRR will decide "if any additional reviews may be needed."

@airandspace @NASA I would have used the ALT text to name them all. They deserve to be remembered by name.

On @NASA's #DayofRemembrance, we honor those who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. We join NASA in remembering the crews of Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L), and Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107).

@radioXobscura @Johnubacon Actually, no. Schlissel said as much when he became pres and got read the riot act. Donations to the U’s General Fund are positively correlated with success in major sports. A Pres who’s a sports fan is good for the bottom line.

It's done: Michigan will name Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud its 16 president tomorrow. He earned a J.D. and a masters in economics from UM in the early 1980s. Strikes me as a very good hire - UM's second in 2026.

@TestKitchen I just received a copy of Dinner Tonight! Unfortunately, you chose not to include gram weights for ingredients. This makes it significantly more complicated, both to execute the recipe and to clean up, as there’s a sea of unnecessary dirty bowls, cups, and spoons. #Metric please!

You don’t always have every ingredient—or you might like the recipe but want to tweak it. That’s when our Dinner Tonight Cookbook smart substitutions come in. Knowing which swaps work reliably can make cooking more flexible and far less stressful. Use these guidelines when you’re retooling a recipe so your improvising still leads to great results. Preorder the cookbook: cooks.io/49DI5Jv

@umichbball Friendly note - white text on a yellow background is illegible 😳🤔☹️ (LaSalle’s score/fouls/timouts left was very hard to read throughout the game). Please use a different background with more contrast. TY! 〽️

Handled business at home! We're back at Crisler on Dec. 29 to take on McNeese. Get tickets » myumi.ch/XyDrX

@GELighting I’m curious, you require an account on GELighting in order to control your Cync lights using a smartphone, but you limit password length to 16 characters, which is incompatible with the auto password generator on iOS. It also implies that you’re storing raw passwords, not hashes.

Can’t go wrong with the classics. (Can you guess which one this is?) bit.ly/3L5kisw

@umichmedicine You need to stop calling people and asking them to supply their birth dates. It violates basic data security protocols, and you know it. You tell your own staff not to do this, yet you expect your patients to do this. KNOCK IT OFF.

@UofR Memo to Page Hetzel: This dumbed-down scribbling does none of this. “Research shows that our audiences want URochester to stand out—to tell our story boldly, authentically, and in a way that captures the imagination of our community, and the world…”

New look, same promise: Ever wonder. Ever better. Today, we're proud to launch a refreshed brand identity that keeps pace with the dynamic, collaborative, and innovative spirit that has always defined us. rochester.edu/communications…