Back to Boston after 8 years! Oh my…it’s pretty warm 😂

Fairy ring on Rice’s football court 😮

Set up and running the first experiment with cold seal! 🥳 #experimentalpetrology

What powered the Moon's late-stage volcanism? 🌙🌋 Our experiments & modeling published in EPSL with Rajdeep Dasgupta show garnet in the young lunar mantle, pointing to deep fertile material by mantle overturn or prolonged mantle convection. @riceeeps.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

Thrilled to share that my first paper was published today 🎉 We performed low pressure experiments on 9 alkaline compositions, at a wide range of redox conditions, and used this data to calibrate new equations for estimating equilibrium Kd(Fe-Mg) for Ol-melt & Cpx-melt in alkaline systems

We have a new paper. This one is about generating highly differentiated, low F melts through a series of interconnected magma chambers, each undergoing only moderate crystallization (moderate F), with the effects compounding after each successive staging. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oxygen fugacity is so confusing in geology but is quite appealing in atmosphere chemistry, here the definition of oxygen fugacity as the partial pressure of oxygen makes more sense and is measurable with a sensor that responds to the voltage. #experimentalpetrology

Recalibrating our 10-yr old gas mixing furnace, here is a small bizarre set up I made but perfect return voltage from TC to we can convert to a temperature (room temperature right now). #experimentalpetrology

The Moon fully eclipsing the Sun, captured by Artemis II. ....shot on Nikon Z9!!!!

Awesome image from Artemis. Big!

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

New work challenges the idea of a “wet” Moon🌙💧 Our GCA study, with Raj and @cintylee.bsky.social, shows water-rich lunar melt inclusions form via magmatic recharge, instead of requiring a wet mantle! The Moon may still be strongly volatile-depleted. @riceeeps.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

Thermodynamics: 10% physics, 90% unit conversions

#Mercury is unusually S-rich. Could #sulfur play a role similar to #volatiles on Earth in shaping melt generation and differentiation? Here, Raj and I combine spectros and expts to show how S dissolves in Mercurian melts affects Mercury’s interior evolution. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are excited to annouce both our returning and new IAVCEI ECR-Net Working Group officers (2/3)! Stay tuned for updates, events, and opportunities ahead 🌋!

We are excited to annouce both our returning and new IAVCEI ECR-Net Working Group officers (3/3)! Stay tuned for updates, events, and opportunities ahead 🌋!

What happened if a planet has weight-percent-level S in the mantle melts and how such large amounts of S affect melt generation in reduced planet like Mercury? Stop by my poster tomorrow morning at V21B-0069 and let’s chat! #AGU2025

Next Monday @riceuniversity.bsky.social we have a panel discussion on the geopolitics of critical minerals for the energy transition. Geology does not distribute natural resources fairly. This leads to a complex web of trade and geopolitical tensions. events.rice.edu/event/415347...

We r having a panel discussion on critical minerals Dec 8 @riceuniversity.bsky.social in conjunction with the French Consulate of Houston.

Find our new model to calculate post entrapment crystallization of melt inclusions @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social open access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

w/ Oli Shorttle, @johannateske.bsky.social & Eliza Kempton we reviewed our current understanding and prospects for peaking on the inside of small #exoplanets in "Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres": www.science.org/stoken/autho... & arxiv.org/abs/2510.08844 🔭🧪⚒️☄️

🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT! 🚨 It's time to talk scientific illustration in the world of volcanoes and geology with @geologytalk.bsky.social , Annabelle Foster! Full episode available to watch or listen now! (Link in bio) #geology #art #artist #stem #steam #illustration #science

The Mt. Hood is stunning #volcano

Some facts: as a postdoc, I haven't started my research career yet 😂 #postdoc

Lab made lunar analogs, the color matches really well with the lunar soil #Moon #Experiments

Going to conferences as a postdoc: 3x the cost, 1/3xxx the travel grant opportunities. #postdoc #research

Hi all, especially ECRs! My Department is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Geoscience. We are a small liberal arts college with a small but engaged geo department. Looking to interview and hire immediately. Please apply! ⚒️ careers.geosociety.org/job/visiting...

Cool opal collection here at Jackson school of geosciences at UT Austin #mineral #geology

Rarely use the Mn in the silicate glass then why do we still keep measuring it in the EPMA campaign 🤔

A nice visit to UK and catch up with old and new friends. Finally back to H-town tomorrow!

Want to know the lunar sulfur evolution from Apollo to Chang’e-5 mantle? Check out our new GCA paper! A new sulfur content at sulfide saturation (SCSS) model is also attached that is suitable for sulfides with variable metal-sulfur ratio. doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...

👀I still like the idea of explaining your paper in a thread, bsky seems have more words too

If you missed my talk, here is the thread of the paper bsky.app/profile/yish...

Where and how the lavas in farside South Pole were generated? In this work led by Rice Uni, together with Raj Dasgupta @dianji.bsky.social @cintylee.bsky.social and collaborators, we explore the possibilities with a petrological approach 1/5 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ice breaker should be renamed as friend reunion 😂 #LPSC2025

Tomorrow at 8:55, waterway 5, I will talk about our recent work about at what conditions the farside mantle melted to generate the surface lavas of South Pole-Aitken basin #LPSC2025

What is the origin of the young Chang’e-5 mare basalts? -Tomorrow (Monday) at 2:50 in the #LPSC2025 Waterway 1, I'll present a joint study that reveals the presence of garnet in the young lunar mantle, as a consequence of lunar cumulate mantle overturn.

Happy to see the first paper of Ephrem Kamate published today. Congrats Ephrem. @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Waiting over two weeks for an editor's decision on a paper feels oddly similar to tracking a lost Amazon package #research #postdoc

A very interesting paper by Keeley in 2021 Science Advances. They analyzed all Santa Ana Wind (SAW) events and associated fires in Southern California between 1950s and 2020. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How did Mars have flowing water on its surface when its surface is too cold to support liquid water? Did Mars have a warmer climate long ago or…? Our new paper sheds light on this dilemma www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glad to report that our #FWOVlaanderen project with Kaustubh Hakim about #exoplanets was supported. We’ll be recruiting soon #kuleuven_fwet

Happy to share that Leuven was selected as host for the BepiColombo Mercury2026 conference! Looking forward to organizing it! @BepiColombo @KU_Leuven @leuvenresearch #Mercury

How did S inventory evolve in the lunar mantle? - Tomorrow (Friday) morning Board 3015 at #AGU24, I'll present a new model designed for lunar fO2, that can calculate the S solubility of silicate melts in equilibrium with sulfides of different metal/sulfur, and its application to the lunar mantle.

📣open PhD Position📣 We’re looking for a PhD student to experimentally investigate the role of aqueous fluids in the transfer of carbon in subduction zones at @unimuenster.bsky.social🇩🇪 in collaboration with the University of Perugia🇮🇹. More info here stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/7...

My first JPET paper out with editor’s choice! We extended the calibration of Ol-Sp Al thermometer, and re-evaluated the constraints of mantle melting and mantle lithologies for LIPs! See more in the link academic.oup.com/petrology/ar...