Harriet George

SCIENTISTS QUARREL OVER MARTIAN WOMEN One Says Ladies Have Two Thumbs and X-Ray Eyes ANOTHER SAYS BIG EARS --The Commercial Appeal, 22 Oct 1928

We used to do real science

discovered that there’s a herd of goats right next to the new office

bye boulder 👋

Look at how round this bird is!!! Bird of the year!!

vote for takahe!!!! www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Bird of the Year voting opens tomorrow, and it is an outrage the takahē is yet to win. I'd like to take this opportunity to urge you to vote for the hide-and-seek legend from Fiordland, the roundest birb, and the one true pick for all you railfans out there

Life update - I’m moving to Sweden in a couple of weeks to work at the Swedish Institute for Space Physics! Def not easy to say goodbye to Boulder, I’ve had a great time at LASP and will really miss everyone here, but it’s time for a new adventure and I’m very excited to go back to the Nordics 🇸🇪

kicks off today! can’t wait to see everyone 🪐🔭

Woman wearing traditional Finnish conferment outfit (full length black dress, top hat and sword) standing in front of a courtyard.

Woman wearing traditional Finnish conferment outfit (full length black dress, top hat and sword) with the sword unsheathed.

Two zoomed-in photos showing the conferment of the doctoral hat and sword respectively during the official ceremony.

Doctoral sword being sharpened in champagne. Three people are in the photo; one turning the whetstone, one pouring champagne and one holding the sword.

I was officially conferred my doctoral degree! The hat symbolises liberty and the sword symbolises the scientist’s fight for truth, very special Finnish tradition 🎩 🗡️ 🇫🇮

@astrodave2.bsky.social yay lucky you!!

Incredibly exciting! Very happy that we’re able to provide student travel for this workshop 🛰️

International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions - 6 Boulder, Colorado, August 4-6, 2025

Indication of Interest Deadline: April 30
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 12

See lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm... for more information.

Image of a planet and moon with the following text overlaid: International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions - 6, August 4 - 6, 2025, Boulder, Colorado

Abstract submission is now open for the sixth International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions (IPM-2025)! This workshop will be hosted in Boulder, CO, on Aug 4 - 6 2025. We are soliciting abstracts on instrumentation and enabling technologies for planetary missions.

dust particles that orbit the sun are planets! interstellar dust is just dust though

we should exclude mars and neptune and include every asteroid and comet 👍🏻

this ignores my planet definition that anything that orbits the sun is a planet

yay new plasma data in near-Venus space!!

my program officer already replied, twsc proposals are not being reviewed until they have reviewed the program. our timeline was also tight so this is really bad for us too :/

yeah this is pretty concerning, I need to get in touch with our program officer and see if / how this amendment will affect the review process :/

A phone picture looking at an apartment building with a few palm trees in front of it, near dusk. The sky is still blue, but looming behind the building in the distance is an enormous cloud of smoke from the Palisades Fire near Los Angeles. The smoke is stained orange from the sun behind it.

🧵 I live in Los Angeles. We have not had to evacuate and are safe, but like many people here, I have friends who have lost everything. I realize I can't combat the firehose (see what I did there?) of bullshit spewing about this disaster from internet and media sources, but I'll say this:

JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

Capture of an ancient Charon around Pluto - Nature Geoscience Numerical simulations suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon was captured intact, in a scenario in which the two bodies temporarily merged in a collision but did not coalesce due to solid strength effects.

My new paper is out! Come check out how Pluto and Charon sealed their relationship with a cosmic kiss: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

I talked to @nbedera.bsky.social about her devastating research into Title IX offices & new book On the Wrong Side: “There’s this myth men’s lives are ruined when they’re accused of sexual violence—it isn’t just untrue, it becomes justification for giving them benefits to compensate for that."

"Thank you for getting in touch with New Zealand. We're at the beach until the sun stops being hot. Chur."

auckland’s alright 🌞

holiday time 🎉 one last proposal to wrangle then logging off for the year!

GitHub - belindathemoon/planetaryHandbook: Handbook for Becoming a Planetary Scientist Handbook for Becoming a Planetary Scientist. Contribute to belindathemoon/planetaryHandbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dear planetary scientists of #AGU24, I've been working on a crowd-sourced handbook for students and early career scientists for the hidden curriculum, helpful tips, and best practices of our field. Please al check it out, and add to it if you can! github.com/belindathemo...

yeahhh

After calling them out as content scrapers I have been blocked by @nasauniverse.bsky.social @nasahubblenews.bsky.social and @marscuriosity.bsky.social

All three blocked me in the span of two minutes, confirming
they are scrapers and probably run by the same person.