Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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/ 🧪🔭

CAPCOM: “Integrity, looks like a good burn”. WE ARE GOING TO THE MOON!!! (The Apollo Kid who remains inside me has a huge smile on his face 😃) #Integrity #ArtemisII #TransLunarInjection

Jonathan for Attorney General! He is better than anyone else this admin might put forth.

AI could not have come up with "Too Many Cooks".

Reaching the point in the job search where, when someone asks how it's going, I tremble a bit and my eyes water. (Will maybe delete this, but for the moment I'm posting through it while working on lecture.)

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

Liftoff!

God that’s a heavy rocket it’s so fucken slow

How have I lived in Connecticut for nearly three years, and I'm just discovering we have a Garnet Trail??? explorect.org/garnet-trail/

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

This slide in my Surface Processes lecture got at least one stifled giggle, so I know who the real ones out there are.

I'm doing a figure-making workshop with students next week. If you have examples of figures that are (1) Really good, or (2) Really bad, I'd like to see them! Figures from the earth sciences (or even volcanology specifically) are extra appreciated! (feel free to be covert and DM bad examples!)

The YouTube algorithm understands me.

And the hundreds of beautiful state parks!

I’m not saying you’re missing out, but some of you are definitely missing out on the places that the BLM manages

Once, when I was working on my undergraduate thesis, the local classic rock station (WMGK!) played Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" at 3:35 AM, and it was transcendent. Anyway, all-time great song there.

Sandra Wong, the great-granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, in San Francisco today 👇🏽 bsky.app/profile/asam... #NoKings

In general, I think more of our statues should just be of regular people being decent.

Did he read the letters where Union soldiers decried slavery as “an abomination that must be purged by blood for the Union to survive” or

I'm doing a figure-making workshop with students next week. If you have examples of figures that are (1) Really good, or (2) Really bad, I'd like to see them! Figures from the earth sciences (or even volcanology specifically) are extra appreciated! (feel free to be covert and DM bad examples!)

Clockwise from the top-left... Venus Mercury (? uncertain) Earth (<3) Mars (? based on the ramparts)

I was made aware that this year is the 20th anniversary of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, and I'm not ready to face that kind of impending mortality.

Update: You'd think you could get through 26 slides in 50 minutes, but you'd be wrong.

Love to finish a lecture ~20 minutes before class. (Mars gets its own section because NASA has long decided it's a special boy to everyone else's eternal torment. But also, it has a lot of past fluvial action!)

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Evergreen.

NASA science is usually strongly driven by peer review & community-derived priorities. That's how we (as a country) know we're investing in "great science." That includes basic & applied research. Dictates coming down from the administration, bypassing that process, are not how we do "great science"

It’s not just about the alignment, it’s also that both Uranus and Neptune will be at equinox at the same time, in the 2040s, which is the only time you can see and map both poles of all their moons (and all the latitudes between) and watch how their atmospheres change seasonally. We need to go!!!

This evokes feelings, and none of them are good.

.......Uh huh.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Our spring break is officially over, and I am Not Ready.

🌋 A large pyroclastic density current (PDC) was caught on camera on the 20th of March at #Semeru (Indonesia) youtu.be/Hi1TUpzMSOA

I just noticed there's a giant fusion reactor in the sky. We could probably get some energy from that if oil is a problem

I need to figure out how to put this on a cover of GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

The funny thing about Christian Hubicki on Survivor is that I can just...look up his CV. Which is how I found out he was a post-doc at Georgia Tech while I was a grad student. Different departments, but we could have crossed paths!

Should be a little spot o' volcano in Missouri! But, to be fair, it's not the most straightforward to recognize.

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Feeling this very strongly.

Meramec Caverns (the Cave State!) and the Gateway Arch (Gateway to the West!). Also, not as hyper-specific but still classically rural, Pioneer Orchards and Farm Day!

Every time I'm reminded of the volcano Kick 'em Jenny, I am unreasonably delighted.

geologists:

Coulda told you not to fuck with Big Opera and Big Ballet

This Casablanca bit is cute.

Well, that was pretty shocking. (watching the Oscars)

My kingdom for Workday to have a universal login so that I don't have to create separate accounts for every university I apply to and overload my poor password manager.

I applied for it anyway.

I applied to a department's assistant professor call a few months ago and never heard anything from them. I am now applying for a lecturer position in that same department, and it feels weirdly bad? Maybe it shouldn't. I think I'm just getting demoralized (more than think).