ASU is eager to host more 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellows. (We've had 4 in the past 3 years.) People focused on the Solar System (i.e., not exoplanets) are VERY ALLOWED. Happy to chat with anyone about this opportunity 🥳 www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci...

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.

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Fun fact: ~20% of meerkats are murdered by meerkats, making meerkats the most murderous mammals. www.nature.com/articles/nat...

The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence - Nature

The percentage of human deaths caused by interpersonal violence reflects our membership of a particularly violent clade of mammals, although changes in socio-political organization have led to marked ...

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Yvette Cendes@whereisyvette.bsky.social · 3w ago

Working on some proposals for the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa (deadline tomorrow). It forever makes me happy that instead of shying away from the name some astronomers said "screw that, we ARE gonna name our telescope after meerkats because life is more fun this way!" 🧪🔭

Hello! We have a very-off-cycle postdoc fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. Open to any area of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Applications are due July 15th. It is funded by the Moore Foundation. Looking for someone to start Oct 1, 2026 (!, approx), see details below. aas.org/jobregister/...

Icy satellite dynamos >> oceans 😈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A modern dynamo at Triton as a consequence of its capture by Neptune - Nature Astronomy

Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is presumed to be a trans-Neptunian object that was later captured by the ice giant. Thermal evolution modelling shows that the capture may have provided energy to gene...

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📣 Extremely premium PhD opportunity available with @planetaryanna.bsky.social: uni-freiburg.de/enr-geodynam...

Rachel Maxwell—Io doesn’t have a dynamo, but could Io have remnant crustal magnetism? Maybe! Lava flows on Io may freeze in the magnetic field from Jupiter. A low flying spacecraft with a magnetometer might be able to see this. (Io Workshop 2026)

Here we claim ... 👾 LIFE 👾 ON 👾 VENUS 👾 ... for at least a few hours every century 🔥 ☁️ 🔥http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009296

A Panspermia Origin for Venus Cloud Life

Impacts have ejected billions of tons of material from Earth and Mars that subsequently reached Venus We compute the fraction of that material that could survive atmospheric entry and then disper...

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Excited to see Allyson's awesome paper highlighted in the planetary research & analysis town hall! 🌋 #LPSC2026

Chase Million@millionconcepts.com · 5mo ago

Science highlights. [Really notable, for me, to see software highlighted here.]

Today is a good day to reread this @jerusalem.bsky.social piece on Paul Ehrlich, Zero Population Growth, the Green Revolution, ecofascist immigration politics, and NIMBYism.

The People Who Hate People

Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.

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Not at #LPSC2026 myself — but my group has 7 talks! Psyche, Venus, Venus, Venus, Venus, Triton, and Io! 📣🧑‍🔬

Imagine, hypothetically, that this faculty position didn't have a lot of applications so far. In that case, it might be worth one's while to apply!!!! Your mineral is critical to YOU.

Joe O'Rourke@geojgo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 JOB: ASU SESE is hiring a (open rank, TT) professor in—you guessed it—Geoscience of Critical Minerals: apply.interfolio.com/179443

📣 JOB: ASU SESE is hiring a (open rank, TT) professor in—you guessed it—Geoscience of Critical Minerals: apply.interfolio.com/179443

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

do you believe in panspermia? (life was delivered to earth on meteorites or comets) ☄️🧬

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

ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · 8mo ago

A mission like #Envision takes years of planning and a huge amount of teamwork between scientists and engineers. It's a process we want to share with you through a new series that follows the development of the mission. Here's a teaser of what's to come 👇 🔭 🧪

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

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

Alexandra Witze@alexwitze.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system... This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️

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

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 9mo ago

Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it. But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.

Want a great job? Think I deserve raises and promotions? Please apply to be Director of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration 🚀🥺 apply.interfolio.com/176991

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

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

🚨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 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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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...

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

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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/...

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

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. 🔭🪐

Postdoctoral Positions

From the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences

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

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/...