Joe O'Rourke

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 did not bind the billions of tons of material naturally exchanged between the terrestrial planets.

Congratulations! 🌖 🫨

Very excited to be at the Envision Science Working Team meeting this week! (currently posting from a Wizard of Oz bar in Amsterdam, lol)

I am happy to be one of 36 former NASA Astronauts endorsing Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA Administrator. I think he will bring renewed energy to NASA, and I encourage the US Senate to confirm him as soon as possible. #nasa #jaredisaacman

Need a moratorium until it’s figured out entirely and forever. The next Nature paper I read about the origin of the Moon should be the last one I ever need to read 😤

Well clearly it’s a great path! Irritate all your constituents while your funding gets cut anyways! Genius!

ROFL — My understanding is that no one ever asked them to censor anything; they’re just doing so on their own initiative. They should try doing nothing… it’s very easy…

If you look closely you can see the aliens. Closer... Closer... CLOSER! PUT YOUR EYEBALL RIGHT ON IT! 👁️ 👾

Back in MY DAY you could submit an LPSC abstract for a handful of cranberries and use certain words

One like and I‘ll send a straight-faced email demanding they take down any abstract that mentions “Gulf of Mexico”

USRA/LPI has failed to censor abstracts that use the fake/woke name “Gulf of Mexico”! They are themselves out of compliance!

Want a great job? Think I deserve raises and promotions? Please apply to be Director of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration 🚀🥺

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You’d want to be the first to float in their pressure vessel, right?

Imagine someone was pitching you on a Venus cloud city and you googled their last investment and it was… the OceanGate sub 🙀🙀🙀

Hahaha I had this exact reaction last year when they first presented 🐠

Received an email perched perfectly on the razor's edge between academic spam and news I can use. What an artifact.

I’m looking for a post doc! Come join us at ASU! apply.interfolio.com/176300

I realize I may have misunderstood the scope of the approval. How awkward. I'll just return the ones I've already collected...

Got my first IRB approval for human subjects research! Now I get your SKULLS! 💀 🔍 👨‍🔬

Berry-poaching is treated very seriously up there!

Opportunities matching 'earth' Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

The funding preference is diluted to ~zero as colleges sign, but the costs and partisan political control always remain. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

UT Austin Astro is hiring! It's an open call, but definitely interested in getting another exoplanet person! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the department or living in Austin! aas.org/jobregister/...

You are loved. You are valued. You are invited to the 48th semi-annual conference on AI in recycling management in Estonia.

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

Postdoctoral Positions From the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences

Hey planetary science PhD graduaters: I know thinking about applying to postdocs this year seems daunting, so I am here to remind you that we have some REALLY GOOD prize fellowship at Caltech. Come work with me. Or Katherine. Or Heather. Or Konstantin. Or someone. Seriously. These are good. 🔭🪐

Waiting for the @agu.org website to stop crashing so I can congratulate my PhD student for winning a section award 🏆

Sketch by JT Keane of a talk at 2025 LPSC (True Polar Wander of Venus as an explanation for misaligned parabolas). Impacts on Venus loft material into the atmosphere. As the material falls back through the atmosphere, winds push it downrange — forming a parabola. This parabola should point west... but old parabolas aren't. Perhaps Venus reoriented! Parabolas are effectively paleo-west indicators. Old, misaligned parabolas might record TRUE POLAR WANDER.

Our new survey of parabolas on Venus, and evidence for True Polar Wander at ~1°/Myr is now published! (TLDR @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social was right. nananana BAT region) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

wow this is really escalating!!!!!!