Oxford Planets and Life (OPAL) just held its wildly successful Planets Day at @jesusoxford.bsky.social . They've managed to bring together a wildly diverse group of researchers interested in the origins of life planets, from biology, medicine, history, paleontology, earth science, the museum.... 🔭🧪

10 … 9 … 8 … 7 … 6 … 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 … Lift-off! liftoff! Ten years ago this morning (at 09:31 UT) saw the launch of ExoMars-16 mission. Take a moment to celebrate this! 🧪🔭 #planetsci

Fiona Henderson ( @oxfordphysics.bsky.social ) and I have written a new article for @theconversation.com on what a #Moon base could look like. Fi's a lunar scientist and did a great job, check it out! 🧪🔭 #planetsci theconversation.com/nasa-plans-t...

@laylamoran.bsky.social This is impossible to read and should not count as notice. How does another tax actually help the neighborhood? Most of the area is not affected by parking the new high-rises....

Little slow to post, but @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social (John Moores, York University) was in the department last week for some meeting and gave us a seminar about his work. Totally #Plutonic On the slide, the image of #Pluto says: I'm glad you finally found me, I hope we can be friends 🧪🔭 #planetsci

Rough headline from @gizmodo.com: "The Stupidest Glitch Imaginable Killed a $72 Million Lunar Mission in a Single Day" Hope these companies are taking notes....🧪🔭 #planetsci #moon gizmodo.com/the-stupides...

Got to attend my first #Oxford graduation ceremony! Congratulations to Dr. Reid, @mhairireid.bsky.social, who formally graduated from @kelloggoxford.bsky.social this weekend! 🧪⚒️ #paleosky

Congratulations Shubham on your successful PhD viva! Here's to a bright future exploring #Venus #planetsci

Congratulations to Dr Agata Carreira, a Dr Sara Hope Brown Research Associate in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, who's been awarded a 2-year MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship by the European Commission to independently develop her research on prostate cancer 👏 https://ow.ly/lrLz50Yf6yF

Our Cosmic Connections public outreach event at the Jesus College Digital Hub was a smashing success! Thank you to everyone who came and learned about space, to all our volunteers who came to speak and engage, and our host @jesusoxford.bsky.social!!👏 🧪🔭 #Oxford #space @oxfordphysics.bsky.social

Hey #Oxford! Not too late to get your tickets to Cosmic Connections! Our public outreach event on space research with Jesus College and Tap Social!! @oxfordphysics.bsky.social

A little late showing this, but we had a lovely visit from Keven Roy at Moody's last week, when he delivered our weekly seminar in @oxfordphysics.bsky.social He is leading catastrophe modeling to show the impact that unmitigated climate change is having on our economies

Who's been watching the #Olympics Dual moguls!!?? What a wild event! 🥇for Canada🇨🇦, Mikhail Kingsbury wins the first ever Olympic dual moguls, giving him 2 Olympic golds and 3 silver medals! This is one of my favourite skiers, Ikuma Horishima, getting a little wild and still making it to the final!

Let's go #Canada! Mikhail Kingsbury kicking it off in the #Olympics #moguls

#Olympics #Canada takes bronze 🥉 in the women's slopestyle! Way to go #TeamCanada !!!

#Olympics The legendary (formerly) illegal backflip on skates 😱😱😱

#Olympics! let's goooo!!🍁🍁🍁

The chase drone going over 120 km/h in the Men's #Olympics Downhill is hot fire. Absolute cinema!

Want to learn more about #space and #solarsystem research going on at Oxford? Join us Feb 24 at Jesus College for our big public outreach event: www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/digital-hub-... We'll have short talks, opportunities to ask an expert, and service by the Market Tap! @oxfordphysics.bsky.social 🔭🧪

Happy #ArtemisII wet dress day 🚀 On deck: Weather briefing ~0915 ET (currently 35°F/ 2°C; expected high 56°F/ 13°C) Full L-minus/ T-minus list(s) in 🔗 🔭🧪 #PlanetaryScience

Where is the protest song?? Found an article about revisiting post 9/11 protests songs... and it's a journey of discovery through our beloved Sleater Kinney discog interminablerambling.medium.com/dissents-not...

Eye-bleach to help us deal with the news: Another #oxfordpubreview!! The Trout, a happy jaunt up the river Isis (Thames) all the way across Port Meadows, was doing a steak platter for two! Steak, chips, and béarnaise sauce are among my favorite things!

Moved my college teaching into here for the term! The second floor has some offices and teaching spaces for the college still. It is actually from 14th century, was built as the New Inn. The windows are wonky, but it's warm in the winter!!! 🧪🔭

Anthropic's road to Claude destroyed million of books. This was literally a plot point in Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

Read an article in the globe and mail declaring it 'leave the owls alone season.' The ravens didn't get the memo🤣🤣🤣! Two common ravens drove this short eared owl off their turf, Hinton AB 🪶🦉

Iconic youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...

Presenting our @oxfordphysics.bsky.social remote sensing capabilities and tech at the CEOI Technology Showcase at IET, London. Great day !! 🔭🧪 #space

CEOI has made a case study for the @oxfordphysics.bsky.social thermal imaging system development that lead to our Broad Horizons Earth-observing prototype and the BEBOP/LightShip Mars mission. Check our Broad Horizons here: ceoi.ac.uk/technologies... 🔬🔭 #planetsci

With Ariel facing delays, @esa.int Comet Interceptor has found a new ride with a commercial Arian 6 launch customer. Comet Interceptor will carry MIRMIS being built by @oxfordphysics.bsky.social 🔭🧪 #planetsci spacenews.com/esas-comet-i...

An incredibly rough week of news.... Distractions: another #Oxfordpubreview This time in Edmonton, an old haunt, the Sugarbowl near @ualberta.bsky.social Goat cheese lamb-burger for the win.

There's a semi-silver lining in the new us budget, only a 1% cute in finding from last year. Not good news, but not as grim as things have been.... 🧪🔭 #planetsci www.science.org/content/arti...

As Google had a calculator, I used to use it to check time zone conversions. AI has ruined it, it fails! Relevant: Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins expressed strong doubts about LLM's utility in mathematical research: "garbage" and "mathematically incorrect". Agree! 👏🧪 tinyurl.com/4apc7xw9

The Electrifying Science Behind Martian Dust A news article about my collaborator Alian Wang's new paper on dust-induced shocks in the Martian atmosphere breaking down its chemistry! 🔭🧪 #planetsci mcss.wustl.edu/news/electri...

Way to go Finland 🇫🇮!! #WorldJuniors hockey quarterfinals advance!!

FYI - Bob Smith tried to rewrite this one. The song was ultimately forgotten by public at large, but its another one showcasing him in a rare optimistic mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7F9... bsky.app/profile/timt...

New year, new birds! One of the little downy woodpeckers wintering at the cabin this year. Out in the cold! 🥶 🪶🦉

The Boxing Day special: JGR Planets published my commentary article about HCl on Mars!! This was requested by JGR and my first time writing a commentary, which is also fairly new for the journal! dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025... 🧪🔭 #planetsci

The final South African birds before Christmas: the Cape Wagtail! There are wagtails in England, adorable to watch running around and bobbing their butts up and down! These ones are so similar with such softer colouration! Yellow underneath, the dramatic chest crest.... 🪶🦉

What a FUN-GI!!!!! A mushroom playing music, brought to you by the YouTube page "BionicandtheWires". youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890?...

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Tonight's SA bird is the Speckled Pigeon. Look at that eye!! 🪶🦉

South African birds of the day are ibises! The Hadada Ibis and the African Sacred Ibis. Shot in Hermanus last spring. This one is the Hadada. 🪶🦉

Today we have the helmeted guineafowl. Cape Town, spring.🪶🦉

Time for another #oxfordpubreview But not in Oxford, and not a pub. Big #YEG welcome to marlo tacos in old Strathcona. Been open since 2023, I think, but where were tacos like this my whole life growing up here!? Will eat again!!

New paper! Neil Sturchio leads a deep dive into the isotope chemistry resulting from dust-storm-induced electrostatic discharges breaking down salts and releasing reactive chlorine in the Martian atmosphere doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... Cartoon made with the help of @mhairireid.bsky.social 🔭🧪 #planetsci

The African oystercatcher! Once threatened, bouncing back due to coastal conversation efforts around Southern Africa. These were shot in Hermanus last spring. 🪶🦉

Cormorant time! The many cormorants of Cape Point! (Betty's Bay, really 🤷) First up, the Crowned Cormorant 🪶🦉

@torontopearson.bsky.social wifi so bad, can't even post a picture while waiting 🤣 what year is this!?

The adorable Cape Bunting!! 🪶🦉

Karoo Prinia!! Very fun bird to watch as it goes inverted to feed. Shot down by the sea in Hermanus and way up in the Klein Karoo semi-desert. (Last spring). Prinia maculosa 🪶🦉 #birding #ukbirding #Southafrica