👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

Hey planetary science PhD graduaters: I know thinking about applying to postdocs this year seems daunting, so I am here to remind you that we have some REALLY GOOD prize fellowship at Caltech. Come work with me. Or Katherine. Or Heather. Or Konstantin. Or someone. Seriously. These are good. 🔭🪐

Waiting for the @agu.org website to stop crashing so I can congratulate my PhD student for winning a section award 🏆

Our new survey of parabolas on Venus, and evidence for True Polar Wander at ~1°/Myr is now published! (TLDR @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social was right. nananana BAT region) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Venus is a Solar System enigma. Although Venus is similar in size and distance from the Sun to Earth, it has evolved very differently from our planet. Our #Envision mission will aim to solve some of the puzzle by thoroughly studying our closest neighbour. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭

Where does this hotel keep the coffee mugs? All I see at this buffet are tiny thimbles. #EPSCDPS

Let’s go, baby, I’m taking the safeties off my thermal evolution models 👊🏻🔥🇺🇸

Very interesting article, and I thought it was fun that the kicker quote is almost exactly what I said about Venus lightning at AGU 2023, haha: eos.org/articles/lig...

Venus lightning digression 👍🏼

NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear. Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky. Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

No laws on Ceres, just yummy electrons. (>2 Gyr ago, maybe.) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 PAPER ALERT. Title says it all. I've been super excited about this project for years 🌋😍https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1621

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Looking into Wright's publication record, it looks like most of his published research was done with Jonathan Pruitt, a disgraced behavioral ecologist who lost his faculty job at McMaster for manipulating and fabricating data across many papers. I suspect that would be his real problem.

Looked this guy up on Google Scholar and his top 2 papers were retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author). Womp womp 🕷️

ASU SESE is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Astrophysics: apply.interfolio.com/170951 🧑‍🏫 🔭

Comments I have never before written on a manuscript draft: "I appreciate that a memento mori might be salutary even if unwelcome." 📣 🔜 👻

All hail the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body (tm)

ASU has been *the* top destination for 51 Peg b fellows in the last 2 years. Continue the tradition! Note that Solar System science is totally fair game. Feel free to contact me 😀 www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci...

Congrats to Mini 🥳 But also now ASU SESE needs a new Director. Help, for I am Direction-less and adrift! 😶‍🌫️

I don’t think it can be done in a single flyby (paper alllmost ready to submit)!

TL;DR If 3I/ATLAS whips out a railgun and blasts apart Callisto, that might be evidence of hostile alien technology.

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The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

Let's start a secret society of Venus researchers. The Order of the Ashes or some such. We work in the shadows, not because we lack the funding to pay page charges or collect new data, but because we're cooler than you.

"Days ago, the Administration’s nominee to lead NASA called for a “new golden age of science and discovery” at the agency. The proposed budget from within the White House — which cuts NASA science by 47% — would plunge NASA into a dark age instead." www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Bought a Mustang Mach-E last December before <gestures broadly> What's the opposite of buyer's remorse? 💸🔌🚙

Today & tomorrow: Virtual meeting from 3am to noon, then in-person meeting from noon to 8pm LET'S GOOOOO 🚀🚀🚀

If there is a terrible A*i L*eb preprint (never published) about something I'm writing up, do I need to cite it? Or I can I just obliquely explain that microbes would not survive on the outside of an impactor because that part gets very hot?

These sketches go at the top of the “Awards and Honors” section of my CV 😻😻😻

#LPSC2025 Thanks to the Hilton fire alarm for making us all go see the lunar eclipse I guess 🥱 😪

Next up is Joseph O'Rourke on True Polar Wander on Venus as an Explanation for Old, Misaligned Parabolas #LPSCHaiku (not) Venusian winds point west (mostly) Old parabolas point oddly poleward (sometimes) Is True Polar Wander the cause? (maybe) Is this a haiku? (no). #LPSC2025

#LPSC2025 pssst I hear the Venus session right now is really… special!

#LPSC2025 "We just heard about salts on Venus, but I'm going to end on a sour note. Ah, laughter. Sweet."

#LPSC2025 Only got my poster half-unrolled before someone started asking me questions about it 😹

#LPSC2025 Need a Time Lord at NASA Night! Our virtual speaker is stuck in a time loop! Free him from his temporal prison!

Trevor laments that his study was not completed 30 years ago, in the immediate aftermath of Magellan. But the low-hanging fruit is now still his to pluck 😂😂😂

#LPSC2025! Come to Waterway 6 at 4:50pm for Trevor Austin’s talk about secondary craters on Venus!

Best conference logo?!? ☄️ 🦘 #LPSC2025

Planning to randomly shout “fight! Moon fight!” from the audience during the next few talks #lpsc2025

Water Damage xkcd.com/3059

Proposed Science Themes for NASA’s Fifth New Frontiers Mission - a NASEM CAPS report nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2799...

Are you a scientist whose work is being affected by changes in the Trump administration? Get in touch with @nature.com reporters @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & yours truly. Let us know what's on your mind & what we should be writing about.

Enjoyed giving SESE’s first post-RenFest “cloakuium” today 😹

Shoutout to the journal that refused to publish a summary of our 2019 VEXAG docs because we’d “published” it on our website! Oops, the attachment to impermanent things is the root of all suffering…

I emailed a bunch of people, and we all filled out a when2meet 🤗

The professorial urge to finish every class by asking everyone "do you hate me? was that good?" 👨‍🏫

Any mistakes in this landmark study are the reviewer's fault 🙈