Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 did not bind the billions of tons of material naturally exchanged between the terrestrial planets.

Very excited to be at the Envision Science Working Team meeting this week! (currently posting from a Wizard of Oz bar in Amsterdam, lol)

I am happy to be one of 36 former NASA Astronauts endorsing Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA Administrator. I think he will bring renewed energy to NASA, and I encourage the US Senate to confirm him as soon as possible. #nasa #jaredisaacman

If you look closely you can see the aliens. Closer... Closer... CLOSER! PUT YOUR EYEBALL RIGHT ON IT! 👁️ 👾

USRA/LPI has failed to censor abstracts that use the fake/woke name “Gulf of Mexico”! They are themselves out of compliance!

Want a great job? Think I deserve raises and promotions? Please apply to be Director of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration 🚀🥺 apply.interfolio.com/176991

Received an email perched perfectly on the razor's edge between academic spam and news I can use. What an artifact.

I’m looking for a post doc! Come join us at ASU! apply.interfolio.com/176300

Got my first IRB approval for human subjects research! Now I get your SKULLS! 💀 🔍 👨‍🔬

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

The funding preference is diluted to ~zero as colleges sign, but the costs and partisan political control always remain. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

UT Austin Astro is hiring! It's an open call, but definitely interested in getting another exoplanet person! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the department or living in Austin! aas.org/jobregister/...

👏 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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Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh dislike

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 😹