This week, first year MSc student Izzy Marincic recounts her first big conference at EPSC in Helsinki, Finland last fall: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2026/02/dpse... From an advisor's perspective it is always so great to see these moments of growth in my students. It really takes me back...

A neat new result from the Curiosity mission about the persistence of liquid lakes on the surface of early Mars, protected beneath ice. Press release here: news.rice.edu/news/2026/th... paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

In the final blog post of 2025, @transmartian.bsky.social reflects on their writing journey as a graduate student. york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/12/inse... This is a key skill: it's not science until it has been shared!

You only get one first conference presentation. It can be a stressful experience, but ultimately it's rewarding too: a big step along the pathway to becoming a scientist. This week, MSc Abigail Newton describes her experience at the IPM Workshop last summer york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/11/baby...

With graduate school application season coming up quickly, MSc student Milena Markovich offers some advice to those trying to select a program, lab group and project. Read more over on the PVL Blog: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/10/say-...

New research from PhD student Elisa Dong! Could Dragonfly detect airbursts on Titan? To find out more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This is Elisa's 2nd paper published this year - @planetneish.bsky.social and I are very proud advisors!! If you're looking for a postdoc, consider reaching out

We'll be back with a whole new season in 2026! In the meantime, why not respond to this message and tell us which of your favorite films and TV shows we should review next? Until then, you can catch up on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/3TARKhL... and Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

The booth is set up!

Join me and Jesse at Word on the Street toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca today from 11-6 and tomorrow 10-5 in David Pecaut Square in downtown Toronto! We’ll have copies of Daydreaming, art from the book, stickers and other merch. Come and say hi!

This week on the PVL blog, undergrad Ella talks about her second summer in research: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/09/anot... Kudos to her for a banner term in which she published her first paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... and had her first media interview!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ4k...

Don't forget that you can catch Deep Impact (Ep 11) and all of our other episodes over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify too! In two weeks we will be back with our Season 1 Finale. We wanted to do something special so we reached back to the 1960s for a classic, reviewing it only 24 years too late

This week on Popcorn Science, we go back to the summer of the killer asteroids. In 1998, both “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon” hit the big screens. We cover the lesser known (but better) movie as we discuss comets, impacts, and Elijah Wood’s obsession with rings. popcornscience.ca/deep-impact/...

If you're looking for more EJO after listening to us this week on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p... or Spotify open.spotify.com/show/3TARKhL... , don't fret! Next time on PSP we'll review a film that features Olmos' early career as an origami-enthusiast detective in dystopian 2019 Los Angeles

This week on Popcorn Science, John and I discuss the 2003 Battlestar Galactica Miniseries. Could Cylons really kill everyone with nuclear bombs alone? What kind of crazy solar system do the colonists live in? Grab your gun and bring this podcast in! popcornscience.ca/battlestar-g...

Warnica apologizes to the Canadian Space Agency for having a Mars rover bumper sticker, but I work with plenty of great Canadians on MSL, like @conorwhayes.bsky.social @transmartian.bsky.social @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social who manage the cloud observations @martianclouds.bsky.social.

PhD Student Elisa Dong examined the spatial variability of methane microseepage in the Canadian Arctic and found that you can detect changes as small as 3.5 ppbv over 10 m of travel with a simple laser gas detector (ABB ICOS). This will come in handy on Mars! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't forget you can check out this episode (and all the others) over on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... and on Spotify! open.spotify.com/show/3TARKhL... May the force be with you until next time when @planetneish.bsky.social and I discuss the '03 re-imagining of a '78 TV classic

Popcorn Science is now on Spotify! You can find our first seven installments here: open.spotify.com/show/3TARKhL... There's lots more scientific analysis of your favorite films and TV shows coming your way in the weeks ahead from @planetneish.bsky.social and I.

Take a listen and let us know: did we nail it? Or did our bolt of inspiration go astray on this one? As always, you can find us over on Apple Podcasts as well! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

Sometimes a group meeting can be seven grad students, three undergrads, a postdoc, and their advisor all working on Mariner 4 inspired art. (Original image: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...)

This summer marks 60 years since the first detailed image was sent back from another planet (Mariner 4). The scientists on Earth were so keen to see it that they hand coloured the telemetry. In their honour, today @conorwhayes.bsky.social led our group to do the same with a more recent mars pic!

Summer is a time to recharge. Freed of distractions, it can be the perfect opportunity to dive into an exciting scientific problem! But it can be hard to remember to come up for air. This week's blog, MSc student Isabelle Marincic writes about finding balance: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/07/athl...

Ella Ordinaria, a 3rd year biochemistry student working in my lab, just published her first paper over at the Research Notes of the AAS. How many terrestrial microbes are likely to survive Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter? To find out, read: doi.org/10.3847/2515... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

This week, John and I take a deep dive into the most pretentious film about exoplanets I have ever seen. But with an advisor like @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social, there’s lots of good science to admire.

Last week, @planetneish.bsky.social and I had some critical words about the science in "The Core" so we thought it only fair to examine 2018's "Clara," a film where I served as the science advisor. Here, I have no one to blame but myself for the science gripes! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

As a prof, it's wonderful when you can help to create moments of inspiration for your students! On this week's PVL Blog, PhD student Grace Bischof talks about deepening her fascination with exoplanets and their atmospheres during a recent internship at Harvard: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/07/swap...

#DaydreamingInTheSolarSystem by @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social and Jesse Rogerson spotted in the wild at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

In this week’s episode of Popcorn Science, Catherine and John live long and prosper as they discuss their love of Star Trek, and marvel at how both Spock and Jadzia Dax can calculate exponential growth in their heads. 🖖🏻 @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social popcornscience.ca/tribbles/ind...

A Microbial Survival Model for the Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon Shows Long-Term Survival of Terrestrial Microbial Contamination astrobiology.com/2025/06/a-mi... #Astrobiology #Moon #Artemis #extremophiles

New research from @transmartian.bsky.social hot off the presses! Using measurements of methane in the Canadian Arctic, Alex showed that variability in methane concentration is a better predictor than absolute concentration of how far away you are from a source: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/06/unra...

This week over on the PVL blog, Elisa reflects on her experience at the AGU meeting last December with over 20,000 of our closest friends and colleagues. Read all about it here: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/06/post...

This week on Popcorn Science, @planetneish.bsky.social and I take a look at a beloved classic: Contact. How does this Carl Sagan-advised description of first contact with aliens hold up more than a quarter century later? If you're "ok to go," take a listen over at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

New episode just dropped! Listen as John and I try to figure out if we need to fear human sized insects, and whether a creator’s personal views should influence how you engage with their media.

How does science translate when adapting a classic SF novel to the silver screen? @planetneish.bsky.social and I recently put our theories to the test with the 2013 film Ender's Game. You can listen to our discussion over on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... or at popcornscience.ca

I recently started a podcast with my friend @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social. In "Popcorn Science", we take a critical look at the science portrayed in our favourite movies and television shows. Today, I'm excited to announce that we have released our first episode! Check it out: popcornscience.ca

New research out in ASR from my time at the CSA, led by colleague Victoria Hipkin! While it's well appreciated that you need to develop technology to fly a space mission, did you know that science needs to be developed also? This paper gives us a framework: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week, PhD student @conorwhayes.bsky.social talks about their experience collaborating with other scientists outside of our research group from across the world. Read more about how Science is a team sport here: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

There's nothing like your first scientific conference! (I still fondly remember mine from 2004) This week, new MSc student Milena Markovich reflects on her experience at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/04/rode...

Had a fantastic time talking all about the science of our solar system on @skiffyandfanty.com last night - thanks so much for having me!

We are being joined by @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social . Come watch! Live! We start in a couple of minutes!

It's Tuesday poster day at #LPSC2025! Come find me at 395 tonight to talk about NIR–NUV observations of ice deposition on regolith stimulants or microbial survival in lunar PSRs (564, for @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social in absentia).

Come daydream with us as we chat with Dr. Jesse Rogerson for Part II about science, science-fiction, and gaming! Oh, and please buy the book. It's wonderful. @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social @jesserogerson.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #science #solarsystem #scifi podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Just out, a long form review of Daydreaming from the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

This week's PVL blog post by Postdoc Kevin Axelrod considers what it's like to attend a conference focused on a single topic, perhaps one a little outside of your area of expertise! york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ni... spoiler: you might end up learning more than you expect!

Come daydream with us as we chat with Dr. John Moores about science, science-fiction, and gaming! Oh, and please buy the book. It's wonderful. @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social @jesserogerson.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #science #solarsystem #scifi

Had a great time chatting about our exploration of the Solar System on The Podcast for Inquiry the other day! Check out my conversation with Leslie Rosenblood at the link below: centreforinquiry.ca/everything-y... @mitpress.bsky.social

In the PVL's 12th and final published paper of 2024, @transmartian.bsky.social adds an extra martian year to our record of observing cloud at Gale Crater, finding little inter-annual variability in cloud particle shapes (all irregulars, in cloud µphysics terms) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I spoke with Al Scott over at therationalview.ca about space exploration this week - listen to our conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... www.podbean.com/wlei/pb-udt9... open.spotify.com/episode/50s3...

Home from my first AGU in 12 years. It was a great conference - I still recognize why I stopped going (overwhelming scale!), but with more experience now perceive the value (accessible lectures from across geoscience; decentralized convening empowering small disciplines). I think I’ll be back!

Love Bluesky & its variety of people with great book recs @rhi.bsky.social for Hero Interviews by @andiewington.bsky.social @moudhy.bsky.social for Assyria @mattpope.bsky.social for Silbury Hill @weinersmith.bsky.social City on Mars @arcticsaxifrage.bsky.social Daydreaming Feeding all my interests🤓