🔔 #MEPAG kicks off today. Stay tuned for some highlights from the exciting world of Mars Exploration.

🧪🔭 #PlanetarySci

🔬Carbonatites from Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania — An unusual rock as analog for Mercury as potential species for hollow formation | www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ICB blog
Here are three examples from #SICB2026 ( @sicb.bsky.social )
of how academic societies and #conference organizers can successfully integrate #art into the conference experience:

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@e-v-griffith.bsky.social

See video of Earthset that an Artemis II astronaut filmed on his iPhone while circling the moon "Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos," Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman wrote about the video.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman captures the view of Earth disappearing behind the moon during the Artemis II mission.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Plans for huge expansion of Meta data center advanced by Louisiana electricity regulators This new generation would come on top of three gas power plants that Entergy is already building for Meta's $27 billion data center.

I remember blocking someone here because they quoted my woodfire post and talked about how we need to stop doing little hobbies because of their carbon footprint, meanwhile Meta is getting approval from my state to build 10 gas power plants for one useless data center
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I have two outlooks and neither of them are working

Roman Space Telescope Science Platform Will Open New Frontiers in Space Science

My team and others at @stsci.edu are working to make this work for you. 🔭 #astrocode

The San Andreas Fault produced major earthquakes long before 1906. Here’s what we know about them Scientists say the northern San Andreas Fault produced 19 strong earthquakes over the past 3,000 years.

Wow. It’s the 120th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and the Chronicle has a pretty good write-up on Northern San Andreas earthquake mean recurrence intervals.

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...

I hate scammers of all kinds. But scammers who prey on people's dreams get a special loathing from me.

NASA FINESST announced, due July 14! Does not include astro or planetary science yet, but it says "NOTICE: Applicants to Astro ^ Planetary may not be able to create proposals on the day of release but please be patient while we get everything set up for you." 🔭 nspires.nasaprs.com/external/sol...

Currently playing an Eldritch Horror game “Arkham Horror- Under Dark Waves” campaign and even reading this sent me into a temporary bout of madness

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the single most sanity-warping print error ever committed to print.

The gnawing, eldritch, Lovecraftian horror of this Peterborough Standard society page from April 18, 1980.

Theremony at tremony at the liremony indeed.

Nooooooo ewwwwww 🤦‍♀️

Back to work to save science funding! All you need to know about the FY2027 Budget Request The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science...

From Tori Bonidie and Skylar Grayson: The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/04/16/budget-request-fy2027/

Scan convention “invites” are hilarious. Sure, my paper on Pluto glacial activity can totally fit within the Congress of Biomedical Research of Fish 😂

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

Victor Glover on Artemis II crew dynamics:

“Yes, we get along well, but we ALSO disagree well.”

Love this framing! I tend to approach disagreements with an open mind for resolution, but I like this slight pivot in mindset.

This administration really hates Goddard Space Flight Center.

I hope we can save it.

🧪 #planetsci

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An annotated telescopic image showing white stars on a grey background. The locations of the Artemis II Orion spacecraft and the ICPS are marked.

NOT ONE, BUT TWO | Further examination of my Artemis II images reveal not one but two objects in motion. The two objects are the crewed Orion spacecraft capsule (3.3m x 5.0m) and the larger (hence brighter) Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (13.7m x 5.1m). 🔭
#space #Artemis #astrophotography

Water Vapor Around a Sizzling Supergiant: High-Resolution Spectroscopy of B[e] Supergiant LHA 115-S 18 Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18.

Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18. 🔭🧪 aasnova.org/2026/04/17/w...

Asking #EduSky realm: email newsletter for educational resources, video links, activity ideas, career advice and educational opportunities. K-12, museums, community colleges, libraries. Specific toward applying technical skills to beyond Earth (e.g. construction on planets!).
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Three bunnies chase a red slinky down a long flight of stairs. They are in a cozy house, with some family photos on the wall.

Daily bunny no.3291 is skipping steps

“Following the success of Artemis II, scientists will shape what comes next for Lunar Exploration” www.nationalacademies.org/news/followi...

NASA Heliophysics Spacecraft Witness Comet’s Demise - NASA Science On April 4, comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) plunged toward the Sun — flying about twice as far from our star as the Moon is from Earth.

Cool to see so many #heliophysics missions participating in the tracking of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS). It's a shame it didn't survive. The coronagraph movies are pretty awesome, showing the approach and the departure (as a disintegrated puff of material newly entrained in the solar wind). 🧪☀️🛰️🔭🪐☄️

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Thoughts? 💭 🤔

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Thoughts? 💭 🤔

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.

HUMMINGSAUR

Here’s a feed cleanser.
Dogs catching treats.

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In addition to what Casey reports, this is happening as NASA has ended support of the community groups that have given formal and informal feedback to the agency for decades, and the process by which the space science community identifies NASA and NSF's scientific priorities is threatened.