Tidal (and other) heating aplenty inside icy bodies, but life scuppered by geo-mechanical modellers? Paul Byrne Faculty of STEM, The Open University AstrobiologyOU theconversation.com/why-there-may-…

Very clear and thorough rebuttal of the Rwanda plan by Tim Farron.

'I ask you to ask yourself what you would want if this country was an unliveable, intolerable basket case and Libya wasn't.'

[Also, note Liddle muttering 'send them all to Ascension island.'] ~AA #BBCQT

No longer Mr Man Benjamin Man Congratulations

Look at this!! I feature in this episode of the wonderful eponym podcast, the Allusionist. Get your lugs roon it if you fancy! Plus, if I have any Canadian friends out there, there will be a live event next Thursday at the HR MacMillan space centre theallusionist.org/events

#lpsc2024 Waterway1 slides are not showing on webcast (talk 2)

📢: My latest #Mercury #map is out now in ESS Journal!

📰: doi.org/10.1029/2023EA…

ℹ️: We use #datafusion to distinguish impact melt and volcanic plains around the Rachmaninoff impact basin, and more!

🙏: PlanMap and ESA Science

#openaccess

I'm delighted that the The Open University and FutureLearn Moons MOOC (free 8 week course about moons) that I have recently finished updating starts again on 4 March. I have a great team of mentors to help you learn. #FLmoons Sign up at futurelearn.com/courses/moons/…

Look at this awesome animation made by Jason Major based on ZCam images acquired by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover of Mars' moon Deimos transiting in front of the Sun. Because, we can also do astronomy from the red planet's surface 😍

BREAKING: Lay-offs in Port Talbot are due to Brexit and not Net Zero says Ex First Minister, Carwyn Jones.

“The Net Zero argument is utter nonsense”

#FLMoons the The Open University and FutureLearn Moons MOOC will run once again starting Monday 4 March. See futurelearn.com/courses/moons
8 weeks free learning with mentor- and peer-support (3 hrs/week).

Not a great start to the year: M7.5 #earthquake right on the west coast of Japan with 5m #tsunami warning earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev… Fortunately much less severe than the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, so hoping no lives will be lost.

This is the eruption that has been anticipated since October. It looks like a classic fissure eruption. It will probably soon localise to one main vent, and much will depend on where that happens to be.

A great #OUMoonNight orchestrated by Mahesh Anand. Here’s The Open University Vice Chancellor Tim Blackman with meteorites from the Moon and Mars in either hand.

'Rest assured as soon as woman are missing from the narrative, other forms of diversity will be as well.'

Aberdeenshire scientist Annie Lennox (she/her) has called out the naming of planet's surface features for being 'biased towards men.'

An update on the situation in #Grindavik #Iceland #Reykjanes #eruption #volcano

Are traces of the Moon-forming impactor recognisable inside the Earth? My latest Conversation article theconversation.com/is-some-of-the…

Happy Halloween! Nothing is spookier than the underrepresentation and undervaluation of women and marginalised groups in STEM, and my Springer Nature World View for Nature Astronomy has just been published on the matter: rdcu.be/dpQgN

Well played OU Students on University Challenge. Now go and read some David Lodge :-)

One of our top rated articles on Altmetric this past week was published in Nature Geoscience. You can read 'Widespread small grabens consistent with recent tectonism on Mercury' here: go.nature.com/45AB86Z

Delighted to share that my article titled 'Widespread small grabens consistent with recent tectonism on Mercury' has been published by Nature Geoscience. You can read the open access article here: nature.com/articles/s4156…
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