Astrobonology

'Give us what you stole from us,' Indigenous Australian senator yells at King Charles Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones.

“You committed genocide against our people," she shouted. “Give us what you stole from us — our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty.”

Exploring Hydrothermal Vents: Earth's Deep Ocean as a Model for Alien Worlds The INVADER project researches ways to improve life detection in ocean worlds by studying alien worlds in Earth’s deep ocean. We seek to understand how we ca...

My live with @setiinstitute.bsky.social
Is up! We talk about all things ocean worlds and field work and i do my best fighting crab impersonation, watch here - www.youtube.com/live/9-eSIhL...

A picture of a building with the word "science", someone stuck a picture of a rocket at front

Got into work at JPL today, and laughed way more at this change to my building than i should have

A big pan filled with pumpkin, chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, spinach, parsley and dill and creamy sauce

I love travelling but i also love coming home and cooking my own food. Lemon chickpeas and veggies with fresh herbs and butter rice 🤤🤤

Just submitted my first big NASA grant 😁🎉🎊🍷
What a learning experience! I wrote a lot of grants in grad school, but this was so much more intense and so many moving parts. So glad to have the support to be able to develop this skill

A selfie of a woman standing in front of a completely black house with a pink and purple house right next to it

I found the meme barbie and emo house IRL! Best find for a very online person

Pretty surreal!!

A clear blue sky with a lot of skyscrapers and an ice rink in a park

Ice skating in Central Park, NYC

The illustration is separated into three main sections: perceptions highlighted by the work, themes drawn from the data and conclusions. Perceptions - many perceptions highlighted that geology was just about describing and cataloguing rock, the poor diversity amongst geologists was highlighted, the discipline was described as being niche, and boring. Themes - "what is geology" - there is a struggle to define the discipline. "Geology is boring" there was an overwhelming number of instances that the subject was described as boring (mostly byn-geologists). "Employability and destructive practices" - this theme highlights that many only see outdoors, remote and often hydrocarbon linked jobs available for geologists, geologists themselves describe a huge variety of occupations and opportunities. "Diversity and Inclusivity" - the lack of diversity amongst geologists is highlighted as a barrier to entering the field. Conclusions - highlights storytelling, inclusivity, interdisciplinarity

New paper: “you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of Geology From the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Analysis From an Online Survey.

We explore perceptions of geology from both 'Non-geologists' and 'Geologists', who describe the subject very differently! ⚒️🧪

doi.org/10.3389/esss...

Privatizing 💃🏼 science 💃🏼 is not cheaper 💃🏼 and does not 💃🏼 make us safer 💃🏼

If God created the night & the day & the dawn, of course & the dusk & the tangerine rosepink sunset & the infant bright of morning & the deep amethyst twilight then to perceive the world in binary is to forego knowledge of the divine.

A poem by Asheville, NC poet David Gate written for Nex Benedict:

Picture of a burger on a plate, inside the burger is sriracha mayo, spinach, tomato, just egg, beyond patty, cheeze, hashbrown, beetroot, pineapple

Burger cut in half, with sriracha mayo, spinach, tomato, just egg, beyond patty, cheeze, hashbrown, beetroot, pineapple

Made Aussie burgers with the lot for dinner - sriracha mayo, spinach, tomato, just egg, beyond patty, cheeze, hashbrown, beetroot, pineapple 🤤🤤

Screencap of Wikipedia article titled "Depression (geology)"

Me and my friends' experiences in grad school:

100!!!, but and of us will convince ourselves that it's not real and we need to try harder! Do you remember about that cycle as much as i do? I mean, hypothetically obviously, not that i, a potential immigrant, would have any potential disabilities that would render me ineligible for immigration

I cannot believe we have to work today as if yesterday wasnt truly horrific and heart wrenching :(
I love my job, but this week aint it

💔 what a future

What a day to be a planetary scientist 💔

Hahaha no! Sampling bias!! Two academics answered 😂

I worked upto three jobs at a time on top of my undergrad, and then about the same on top of my PhD - i was very lucky as well, just before PhD i met my partner who had a job with a salary and he helped me a lot

I know! And yet those call centre and retail/hospo jobs had so many tranferrable skills to academia. Every time I get a bad paper review back, I think, this is nothing compared to the seven years i spent getting eviscerated working the Kmart returns desk

I just had the strongest visceral flashbacks to my call centre days. RIP

Trynna distract myself from life rn by planning for AbSciCon - any Astrobiologists, planetary scientists or Precambrian Geologists looking to meet an aussie who is a solid collaborator & wants to talk fun science & education? I'm still a baby in the US and really want to meet some more people!

How do people's brains work after having so many meetings? I had 5 hours of back to back meetings and forgot the word "hammer" an hour ago

I'm halfway through Elantris and it's not half bad - took me a bit to get into it and now I'm invested enough that I'll finish this book and probably read the others set in this world. Its a little bit more fantasy forward than i like (i usually like a Robin Hobb situation) but its enjoyable

A close up of an e-book cover which is decorated with a variety of dinosaurs and planetary bodies

Absolutely obsessed with my new Kindle cover which captures my two great loves, palaeontology and planetary science

I'd like to be added to the feed please! Here's the link to page science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/bonni...

Thank you!

Im sorry, its wild that the Mad Max Director is otherwise famous for Babe and Happy Feet

Ps. Fang it

Watching Mad Max: Fury Road with my partner who has never seen it, and all the broad regional Aussie accents and sun burnt country making me long for a schooie at my local

New kindle arrived, but new cover has not yet arrived, so I cannot bring it with me out of the house :(