Just found a summary of the huge cuts to Hubble science funding, from the April STUC meeting. HST US observing community grants remained above $25M/year for Cycles 16–30 (which started in years 2007–2022), reaching over $35M in Cycle 30. There was a cut […] [Original post on solarsystem.social]

I am so sick of #email. Email clients are getting worse. Messages aren't being delivered because of "spam filtering". Email providers refuse to explain why messages aren't delivered when the raw email is fine. There is a high percentage of DKIM failures on microsoft-run servers. US government […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hannorein/116507328480121395 If the AAS can afford to pay a ridiculous salary like this for a CEO, they can certainly make their publications and job announcements website free to the community.

I'm thinking of setting up an email list server, and the two top contenders are Sympa and GNU Mailman. I've used Sympa before, but never Mailman. Does anyone have any thoughts on Mailman?

@numerique_gouv Où se trouve votre serveur peertube ?

It turns out that the Vatican has one of the highest crime rates in the world. This is a result of the high number of visitors divided by the small number of inhabitants. They really should build a wall to keep foreigners out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Vatican_City

Trash day. Probably was my favorite design of all the Apple computers.

Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of experimental planetary science? Do you have a background in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, or Earth and Planetary Sciences in general? The ERC Starting Grant group ELMO led by Christian Renggli @bsky.app.profile.renggli.bsky.social is […]

Of all three reviews of a recent Science Advances submission, mine was the one that was paricularly critical of the methods, with numerous questions about documentation, references, data, sample sizes, etc. Guess which reviewer was the only one not invited for a second round of reviews and now […]

Here's a new one. "I hadn't paid much attention to the paragraph divisions while writing" @academicchatter

I just learned that NASA is using a new acronym: SaaS - Science as a Service (commercialized, of course) Here's one more as a counterbalance SffS - Science for fucks Sake

Mathematicians are threatening to boycott the field’s largest, most prestigious gathering this summer if it takes place in the U.S., as currently planned. Every four years since the turn of the twentieth century, the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) has brought together […]

The north shore in Oahu was just repaved, and all the divider lines look like this, for many miles.

All #IPGP planetary science videos can now be found on our peertube channel! @[email protected]

pyshtools 4.14 is released 🎉 * Support for Boule ellipsoids when computing shape, gravity, and magnetic fields. * Fixed a bunch of small bugs that have accumulated since our last release in 2024.

Call for Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics The number of papers submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics continues to rise, as demonstrated by this nice graphic which shows the stats for new submissions for the last five years: It's very clear that the thicket is getting thicker! […]

Just declined another review request for a journal that publishes closed-access content. It is very easy to say no. Just forward this letter to the editor: https://signatories.planetary-research.org/no-reviews-for-closed-access-journals

There is a lot of intersection in the Venn diagram of "Internet privacy" and Scott Galloway's anti-ICE "Resist and Unsubscribe" campaign (https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/). Unfortunately, he only advocates unsubscribing from tech-bro services for 1 month for US political reasons, and he is […]

If you have been using the Android OpenWeather app because you don't like adds and tracking, you will be surprised that the latest update has an extremely obtrusive AI chat assistant.

Here is my presentation from today at COS on: "The sorry state of scientific publishing and how we could move to an open and resilient infrastructure" https://jekelylab.github.io/COS_goes_FOSS_publishing.html#/title-slide #publishing #foss #openscience #opensource

Maynooth off X! Following on from my post earlier today, I was sent a copy of a letter (below) instructing those people who run its social media accounts to desist from post on X/Twitter.: It stops short of deactivating accounts, but that is probably just to prevent someone else using the […]

@arks_org Do you have any suggestions on how to assign ARKs to videos on a @peertube video server? We have 1000+ videos, so this would have to be automated. Maybe someone has done this before?

The number of abstracts submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#LPSC) this year is down by almost 50% when compared to normal years. It's hard to say what is the main cause, but big factors are Europeans who don't want to travel to the […] [Original post on solarsystem.social]

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I like #duckduckgo. But this simplistic poll about #ai ("yes" v. "no") doesn't help anyone. https://voteyesornoai.com/ My answer is: "yes" for some purposes, "no" for some purposes, and "maybe/testing" for other purposes. By excluding people who don't want to oversimplify, DDG has decided to […]

It's hard to believe that this existed. Palazzo Braschi (1934, Italy).

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/115893925865570064 The Royal Society still exists? Is FRS a thing they still do?

I have been trying to live with the new macOS 26 (Tahoe) user interface on my main desktop for a bit now, and its not easy. This is the worst version of macOS that I've ever seen since the introduction of OS X. I've slowly been transitioning to Linux and Android, and this convinces me not to […]

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else. Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings […]

Is Google news using Grok? How else do you go from the tragic gun death of a student at Brown University to the "Removal of Uzbekistanis from the United States"? Is this really their removal strategy???

Wow! Big Science organization leading the way on #openscience ! Well done! "The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science" https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science h/t @louisvgn

Nature confirms what I have suspected for a long time: their obscene article processing fees are not used to hire qualified editors or copyeditors. They all but admit that this paper was not even peer reviewed !

"‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order." https://www.science.org/content/article/censorship-conference-requires-abstracts-comply-trump-anti-dei-order "Planetary scientists planning to attend a prominent conference may soon face a difficult […]

@issi_media hosted me for an online seminar a couple of months ago: https://solarsystem.video/w/cn9pZHLdFd7wHx537e3Fif

#lpi and #usra are happy to announce that they will be continuing their successful censorship campaign for a second year in a row! #lpsc2026

How should you refuse invitations to review manuscripts for journals with exorbitant #apcs? I see a lot of people who post their responses to the editor explaining why they refuse to take part in an unethical business enterprise. But what does this really accomplish?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/115503346777349951 Awesome!

davx5 is great. What does @davx5app mean?

Waiting for "vibe science". Or is it already here?

✅ still good. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026 "Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

Update. Next month the #royalsociety will reopen the question of expelling #elonmusk. This time the provocation is Musk's "violence is coming" address to a far-right rally in London last week. https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-royal-society-to-debate-throwing-out-elon-musk/ More on the […]

All of OpenPlanetary's video content is now accessible on #peertube! https://solarsystem.video/c/openplanetary/ We have migrated our entire youtube channel to SolarSystem.video, which is a #planetaryscience server run by @planetary_research_cooperative Our channel has nearly 100 videos […]

“Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors” Straight from Elesevier's own mouth, in a letter sent by a "Customer Experience Champion" in response to Professor Iris Van Rooij's enquiry: Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is […]

AI prompt: "How long will it take to read Neal Stephenson's Termination shock?" Response: "The time it takes to read the book will depend on the reader's speed and engagement with the content, but given its length and complexity, it is likely to take […] [Original post on solarsystem.social]

Instead of the newspapers putting their stories under headings like "Business," "Lifestyle," "US" etc., I think they should start putting them under the headings from this US Holocaust Museum poster.

There is 82% less funding available for new NASA Planetary Science research, in the newly released 2025 proposal announcement. https://research.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mikewong/blog_14.php#roses25

Should #lpi and #usra restore all censored abstracts? Should they commit to preserving scientific freedom of speech at #lpsc? And should they commit to not censoring #lpsc2026 submissions? If the answer is yes, then sign this petition! https://forms.gle/G1yAxZqmDujbVDHR7

The #Trump admin wants to revoke the tax-exempt status of #universities that it decides are too political. But the Trump #IRS now wants #churches to keep their tax-exempt status even when endorsing political candidates from the pulpit […]