The Planetary Society has re-launched our Save NASA Science action hub today given the draconian cuts proposed in the FY 2027 NASA budget — follow here for running updates, statements, charts, and advocacy actions you can take now: planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Need to catch up on #ArtemisII science ahead of today's launch attempt to the MOON? See our explainer at @nature.com 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Behold the power of a lag deposit to armor water ice against solar radiation. Jupiter’s moon Callisto knows it well.

"Each time I understand slightly more about what you are doing 😂" - my mum Give this a read if you, too, would like to understand slightly more about what I am doing - and perhaps more importantly, *why* 🔭⚒️🧪 #planetsci buff.ly/J2mNECo

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Monday, Day 1: Polar Film Festival (PFF) theme: Through an Artistic Lens. Access all films, see the daily highlights, read a mini-blog from the filmmakers, and register for Friday's Filmmaker's Roundtable at: www.usapecs.org/polar-film-f...

The US spent half of NASA's annual budget in just six days of unplanned war against Iran www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Still time to submit! I want to read about your work! ❄🥼🛠🧪

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

Starting this Friday, four separate #JWST programmes will be exploring physical processes in Jupiter's atmosphere and ionosphere. We're asking amateur astronomers to help provide context imaging over the next few weeks to understand how the atmosphere is changing with time. #planetaryscience

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

I'm on the blog team this year and we're really hoping for submissions featuring the huge range of polar research disciplines in the US. If you've got a story about recent adaptations, challenges, or improvements in your field, from new satellites to Arctic community initiatives, get in touch! ❄🥼🛠

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026. This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces. (1/2)

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

@univofmaryland.bsky.social Active Tectonics group are at #AGU25! Come track down our posters and talks this week to hear about finding slow-moving landslides using InSAR, seismology at the Ross Ice Shelf, and hydroacoustics: 🛠❄

Very exciting projects being advertised, including some with my PhD supervisor @jessicairving.bsky.social - if you're at AGU and want to chat about STFC planetary PhDs at Bristol, feel free to reach out! #AGU25 🛠🪐

Last month we buried 7 seismometers in a cornfield to see if we could detect groundwater changes using ambient noise cross-correlation. Last week we went to retrieve them - my first snow day in Maryland, and much less corn than before! It sure added an extra layer of excitement to the process... ❄️⚒️🧪

Great news for lunar science! 🧑‍🚀🌓🚀 NASA has selected the SPSS payload for the Artemis IV mission (2028) It will be deployed near the Moon’s South Pole to record moonquakes and reveal the deep interior. A proud international effort led by JPL! #ArtemisIV

Fascinating study from CU Boulder discussing dramatic effects associated with glaciers at grounding lines. Thinning of the glacier caused the seaward part to float, which let the ocean in to form cracks at its base and break off more icebergs. Full story: buff.ly/D43Y8nv

Having an excellent time at the @seismosocam.bsky.social Environmental Seismology conference so far, and thanks to everyone who came by our poster! (if you missed it, feel free to corner me later this week) Looking forward to the rest of the talks and posters lined up for the next two days 🥼❄🧪

PSA for folks visiting any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) during the shutdown: PLEASE take everything you brought in with you, including trash! Don't leave it in the bins if you can avoid it - those are emptied by National Parks/Forest workers. If they're furloughed that job isn't done.

The last paper from my PhD is out today in JGR Planets! we looked at how Titan's topography can interact with tidal and possible tectonic stresses to generate fractures, which could erode over time to produce icy sediment and provide fresh surface area for hydrocarbon interxn doi.org/10.1029/2024...

I am now a postdoc at @univofmaryland.bsky.social! I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪

Have we considered classifying geological terranes by making a surface image into a jigsaw and setting professional jigsaw solvers on it? It’s not even funny how well these (independently evolved) piles are going to line up with descriptions of surface categories I learned during my PhD 😂 🪐🔭⚒️

I’m working on a piece about funding basic science and if you’ve never explored spinoff.nasa.gov, I would really encourage you to do so. Even though I’ve been doing this for 20 years, it really is humbling and informative to see the ways in which space science works its way into our daily lives.

Took the parents to watch the planets align last night. We had moderate success (Mercury had already set by the time we got there) but the stars were very pretty ✨🔭🧪

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

In the unlikely event that anyone has the time or energy to read my PhD thesis, it’s now publicly accessible! hdl.handle.net/1983/a617d18... I recommend Ch 2 if you want to watch me piece an icy moon together by trawling through a *whole bunch* of options for models and analogues ❄️🥼🪐🧪⚒️

The depths of the anti-trans hatred in sections of the British media is just shocking to behold. Trans people in the UK are a tiny group of people who must constantly suffer this blazing hot ire directed upon them by self-righteous bigots for no reason at all.

My fabulous supervisor @jessicairving.bsky.social has a #PhD project in this list looking at modelling quakes and working with seismic data on the rocky planets (v cool stuff). And if you want to pick someone's brain about doing a PhD at Bristol, feel free to reach out! ⚒️🧪🔭🪐

My partner + flatmates got me these dope moon dice (byFlowerFox on Etsy) and *made* this giant Saturn d20 from scratch, like hand-painted and pressure-cooked resin and everything, all in secret?? The 7 lil guys are the moons you can see from Earth with a telescope?? I cannot comprehend

Thanks David for the fab summary thread and signal boost! 🪐❄️

3D Enceladus paper out now in JGR Planets (OA): doi.org/10.1029/2024... Join us as we consider how Enceladus' 3D ice shell could affect body wave seismology! 🧪⚒️🪐🔭 This constitutes the last ~18 months of my PhD research with @jessicairving.bsky.social and I think our results are very cool indeed.

you’ll never guess what date I submitted my thesis

Overleaf down, nothing to do now but skeet about it I guess (praying my thesis edits survive)

Super excited to share that my ✨ first PhD paper ✨ has been published on GJI! 🥳🧪 doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae386 We compared extensively-trained deep learning phase pickers to detect really small induced earthquakes. Key points (with figures!) of the paper are in this thread: 🔗 #seismology #academia

Me: taking from a break from thesis corrections by watching the new David Attenborough documentary because the next section I gotta do is some really finicky ice crystal anisotropy David Attenborough: ❄️🧊🥼⚒️

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

twitter: deleted (finally) now it's time to look into this storygraph malarkey

Been TA’ing undergrad coding labs for 5 years at this point and oh boy has ChatGPT made it into a Sisyphean dystopia. or maybe one of those lil mazes with a metal ball that you have to tip into the right path but it always ends up diverting in a gravitationally inexplicable direction

Loving the recent influx of new faces here, so: Hi! I'm just about done with my PhD modelling icy moon seismology on Enceladus 🪐 Next role update to follow when I'm less scared of jinxing it 👀 But expect posts about geophysics/seismology, planetary science, ice, academia, and maybe some scicomm??

Not meat rock, but potato stone (yes, that's its actual nickname!). It's a geode containing agate, calcite and hematite found in and around Dulcote Quarry, Somerset, England #MinCup24

Could this be… a sighting of meat rock #rhodochrosite in the wild (well, the undergrad geology lab)? I had never heard of it before this year and now, the day of #MinCup24 finals, it appears to me in person?? Could it be a sign???

Thesis: submitted 😤💪🎉🪐🧪

Ticking things off my PhD Trello board and kind of sad that I'm... not going to add new things on to replace them?? I have a paper to revise and a viva to complete, but soon I'll be archiving my emotional support months-old formatting tasks and waving my janky python scripts goodbye?? Inconceivable

Rapidly approaching the point where I need to remove the section heading "Uh oh spaghettios (but what is the aspect ratio of a spaghettio)" from my thesis 🥲 (It's about Enceladus' core porosity and the lack of constraints on geometry, which limits how effectively we can predict seismic velocities)

Paper 2: submitted. 3D Enceladus coming to a journal near you hopefully soonish I hope 🪐 Now all that stands between me and submitting my thesis is… *checks notes* …writing my thesis?

Hey Brits! Please share around! The Govt has an open call for evidence on their proposed changes to fit notes. This is open to disabled people, carers and medical professionals. It's open until 8th July.