Joe O'Rourke

The importance of carbonatite lavas in outgassing Venus’ modern-day atmosphere The erosion of canali on Venus by carbonatite lavas transformed Venus’ atmosphere within the recent past.

📣 PAPER ALERT. Title says it all. I've been super excited about this project for years 🌋😍https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1621

Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026 Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
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Yep I should’ve googled further before posting! It took 30 seconds to catch the scent; another 2 minutes to solve the mysterious mystery!

University investigation found prominent spider biologist fabricated, falsified data Co-authors of now-retracted papers from Jonathan Pruitt were sent summarized findings that the scientist violated McMaster University’s research integrity policy

I guess this is infamous in the community! Mystery solved! <sad spider sounds> www.science.org/content/arti...

Looking into Wright's publication record, it looks like most of his published research was done with Jonathan Pruitt, a disgraced behavioral ecologist who lost his faculty job at McMaster for manipulating and fabricating data across many papers. I suspect that would be his real problem.

Screenshot of the top Google Scholar results for CM Wright, both retractions of publications due to scientific misconduct

Having two papers retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author) can be awkward to explain in a highly competitive interview process…

Looked this guy up on Google Scholar and his top 2 papers were retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author). Womp womp 🕷️

YOOOOO CONGRATS 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

ASU SESE is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Astrophysics: apply.interfolio.com/170951 🧑‍🏫 🔭

Comments I have never before written on a manuscript draft: "I appreciate that a memento mori might be salutary even if unwelcome." 📣 🔜 👻

[GreyCris Voice] They made the lyrics inaccurate on purpose because it’s a bad show 😛

[Joe voice] the theme song is the start of my running playlist

All hail the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body (tm)

I know a place with carbonatites where it never snows 😆

51 Pegasi b Fellowship The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.

ASU has been *the* top destination for 51 Peg b fellows in the last 2 years. Continue the tradition! Note that Solar System science is totally fair game. Feel free to contact me 😀 www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci...

Congrats to Mini 🥳 But also now ASU SESE needs a new Director. Help, for I am Direction-less and adrift! 😶‍🌫️

Good news: With a single flyby, we could discover something WAY BETTER than an ocean (a dynamo)!!!!!

I don’t think it can be done in a single flyby (paper alllmost ready to submit)!

TL;DR If 3I/ATLAS whips out a railgun and blasts apart Callisto, that might be evidence of hostile alien technology.

Hah, yeah my lightning detector is a great fit for uh uh Moon uh astrobiology uh uh it’s AI ???

I have a draft PICASSO that I’d been procrastinating finishing and submitting… whoops 😬

MATISSE was every other year, but PICASSO has been annual 🧑‍🎨

Omg, amazing! Classic my mom… she loves (1) meeting people and (2) details. And thank you! 😊

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We *do* make it much harder, via zoning, to have population growth in productive cities, and it costs us a lot for all the reasons you say.

It’s a great time to give the Challenge a big, warm hug 🤗

Compare him to the person they pick next!

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh dislike

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

Before I deleted it to write this joke (serious proposal), I did draft something serious and bitter! 💆

Let's start a secret society of Venus researchers. The Order of the Ashes or some such. We work in the shadows, not because we lack the funding to pay page charges or collect new data, but because we're cooler than you.