Applications are now open for the 2026 EarthScope Student Career Internship Program! This 11-week internship offers paid, real-world work experience for undergrads, grad students, and recent grads (within 1 year of graduating). Learn more about each position & apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/6rXaoKw

Congrats to the selected PRISM instruments! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

M 4.9 earthquake 19 km NNE of Indio, CA Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Tonight's M4.9 north of Indio is the largest quake in SoCal since the M5.2 near Julian last April.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant exoplanets and their host stars.

Applications open for Inspiring Girls* Expedition! “It took courage to challenge ourselves in so many new ways on this expedition. Confidence came after learning we could do these amazing things.” past participant www.inspiringgirls.org/about-apply #glaciology #sciart 👩‍🔬 ❄️🥼 #kayaking #Alaska

It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.

12 months after the 2024 election: National Science Foundation lost 29% of its staff. NOAA lost 20%. NASA lost 6%. Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SpaceX has launched the Twilight mission at 5:44am PST (13:44 UTC) aboard Falcon 9 booster B1097-5 from SLC-4E at the Vandenberg SFB in California, sending the Pandora satellite and 39 other rideshares south toward a dawn/dusk sun-synchronous orbit. [Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]

Deployment of Pandora

Finally, a long-overdue update on Artemis 2 preparations including a rollout date (no earlier than Jan. 17) and launch periods in February, March, and April. www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Good luck to LPL's Professor Daniel Apai and his team leading the Pandora mission! The mission launches this Sunday, January 11 at 6:19am Tucson time. Launch coverage details can be found at the link below. www.spacex.com/launches/twi...

House Passes Final FY2026 Funding Bill For NASA, Senate is Next spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-p...

The first full-fledged private space telescope could launch as early as 2029--here's a thoughtful look at what that might say about and mean for astronomical science: www.scientificamerican.com/article/schm... 🧪 🔭

House Approps has released a pkg of FY2026 approps bills including CJS (NASA & NOAA). appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Planetary friends: The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year. If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.

NASA finally has an administrator

The Senate is now voting to confirm the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next Administrator of #NASA

Hi friends, please help me spread the word on the open professor position in #planetaryScience we have in Bern 🔽

New paper out! Thanks to Laura for leading the efforts! 🔭🪐🧪 A Roadmap for the Exploration of Enceladus - Rodriguez - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

M 7.6 earthquake 73 km ENE of Misawa, Japan earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

NASA revealed they found some of the building blocks of life in a sample brought back from an asteroid (on a University of Arizona-led mission, by the way). It raises some big questions about whether there’s other life somewhere out there in the universe. According to my math, probably.

More seismometers are heading to the Moon!!

Testimony from Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman at his confirmation hearing www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Learn more about the LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science! 🔬🪐 This program offers undergraduate students a unique opportunity to engage in hands-on research alongside leading planetary scientists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcA0vgmHdWc

M 4.3 earthquake 8 km E of Gilroy, CA earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

New paper alert!‼️ Thanks to awesome Jessica Weber for leading this effort 🔭🧪🛰️🪐 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's our captioned release: www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08...

Great postdoc opportunity at LPL w/Sukrit Ranjan on exoplanet atmospheres including "hydrodynamic atmos. escape from rocky exoplanets, N & S cycling on early Mars & Earth, chem kinetics of early Earth, Venus, Mars...& interior-atmosphere interactions on rocky worlds" arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions. hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

I swear there is no better feeling than fighting with a code all day and having it finally work 10 minutes before the end of the work day. I will be enjoying my evening and not debugging, thank you very much.

And once again Jared Isaacman is the nominee to be #NASA Administrator.

The Arizona Astrobiology Center (AABC) is hiring! 🔭🧪⚒️ arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

University of Arizona is not signing the compact!

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

Make sure the next LPL Evening Lecture is on your calendar! On October 22, Dr. Jack Holt will present "Studying Earth's Glaciers to Unlock Martian Mysteries." We encourage in-person attendees to come early to see special exhibits! www.lpl.arizona.edu/events/lpl-e...

Happy 5th Gotcha Day, Squiggles. You’re the goodest girl

Paper submitted and a small grant was selected. Time to end the work week before something ruins it

The OWWG has a new home at workforce.psi.edu/owwg/ ! We also have a new mailing list hosted by PSI. You can subscribe by sending a message to [email protected]. Thank you to PSI for hosting our new webpage and mailing list! 🧪🔭🪐

In case anyone is curious how the US health system is going, I made a new patient primary care appointment in 2024 and it’s now been rescheduled twice. The earliest they can see me is August 2026.

mRNA technology, which powered life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and is now rocketing new cancer therapeutics forward, will soon undergo a scientific slowdown in the U.S.

Uranus has a new moon.

The Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship supports innovative postdoc research in planetary science. This prestigious 3 year award includes up to $450,000 to cover salary, benefits, and research expenses. Applications are due Oct 3.

New analysis: NASA is awarding new grants at a significantly lower rate in 2025 than in prior years:

Magnitude : 6.1 Region: *Türkiye* Time: 2025-08-10 16:53:47 UTC Epicenter : 28.05°E 39.28°N Depth: 10 km *First posted at: 16:56 UTC* https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025ppbq/general ##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude

The M6.1 shallow #earthquake near Bigadic, Turkey, occurred on a normal fault system, possibly the Sindirgi-Sincanli Fault Zone. A similar event occurred near Simav in 2011 and generated significant damage around the epicenter. ⚒️🧪

Rest in peace James A. Lovell Jr., Commander of Apollo 13, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...

Will I ever remember the emojis...history indicates no 🔭🧪

Looking for a space sciences postdoc? The 51 Pegasi b fellowship applications are now open! www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci... 51 Pegasi b Fellowship - Heising-Simons Foundation