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geophyswags.bsky.social
planetary geophysicist and geodesist | postdoc at Brown University | i make fake numbers match real numbers for a living
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Imagine being obliterated in a rocket explosion 11,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico because you picked McNeese State over Gonzaga in the Sweet 16.

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Morning after #LPSC2025 🔭⚒️ Current status:

can i put this on my CV (friends did guest awards at their wedding and apparently i was the one who travelled the furthest)

#LPSC2025 was my last LPSC as an undergrad/active member of Baylor’s Planetary Research Group. I’m grateful for these people who have poured into me so well! Onto the next! @alyssacmills96.bsky.social @peterbjames.bsky.social @geophyswags.bsky.social

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

they wouldn’t let me in here

hell yeah

Day 2 of #LPSC2025 ⚒️🔭 Current status:

Post 1/2: Hi LunaSCOPE friends!!🌝 We're headed to Texas for the 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference to talk planetary science with other academics and planetary science enthusiasts! Check out our bio Linktree to access the projects our team will be presenting! #lunarscience #LPSC2025

little displays of kindness on the #LPSC2025 “artistic creations” board

NASA briefing telling folks to get through tough times, stay positive, and focus on the science. I CAN’T FOCUS ON THE SCIENCE THAT I DO WITHOUT A JOB #LPSC2025

A rare example of #DemsDoingSomething: Senator Chris Murphy laying out the first six weeks of the current regime’s corrupt behaviors on the Senate floor. Worth the watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...

Ok… assuming I did this correctly (!), a feed for LPSC2025 posts: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Francis Nimmo—Early tidal heating of the Moon may have turned it into a “super Io” with a long-lived magma ocean and extreme heat pipe volcanism. This may explain the distribution of ages of the oldest lunar zircons. #LPSC2025

its like i always say, spring loaded MT deployment beats digging a hole for the Z axis magnetometer

the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

Water Damage xkcd.com/3059

Planetary Research: Open call for editors Planetary Research is a community-led #DiamondOA journal for #PlanetaryScience that will launch in January 2026. We are looking for an editor-in-chief, 5 editors and 10 associate editors. The deadline to apply is […] [Original post on solarsystem.social]

one of the undergrads i helped mentor while in grad school just got accepted to a top tier phd program and im so incredibly proud of them 🥹

If you are going to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#LPSC) next week, please take the time to reflect on the future #PlanetaryScience and to use the time at the conference to organize and prepare for the future.

it’s monday

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

broke: the earth is flat woke: the earth is a weird lumpy shape like phobos

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

logging on

modest? likely way for a mouse to be

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

the distance by cake and she wolf by shakira have the same energy

A nugget of good news: I am very pleased to share that our paper describing a novel NASA mission concept - an orbiter at Saturn's moon, Titan - has been published to the Planetary Science Journal! You can check out the full paper detailing the THUNDER mission here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

hell yeah