🌌 Brine Evolution and Habitability in Icy Moons The chemistry of brines trapped in the ice shells of ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus could create life-supporting environments. This #LPSC2025 study by A. K. Schultz & A. Murdza explores how brine freezing

The number of psych NSF GRFP awards decreased from 139 in 2023 to 49 this year (-65%). This is hard to stomach -- not even GRFP per se, but that things in general will be like this for years

NSF GRFP #'s cut in half year-on-year 2022: 2193 awards, 1,377 Honorable Mentions 2023: 2555 awards, 801 Honorable Mentions 2024: 2026 awards, 1718 Honorable Mentions 2025: 1000 awards, 3008 Honorable Mentions The gutting continues apace. research.gov/grfp/AwardeeLi…

I'm excited to announce I will be attending Brown DEEPS for my PhD starting this fall :-)

Officially Dr. Trinh! So glad to be surrounded by amazing people along the way. 🎓🌕❄️🚀

Congratulations to Professors Kim Cobb and Karen Fischer for this well-deserved recognition!!

TODAY, in AGU's new lawsuit, our plaintiff’s coalition filed to temporarily restrain the government from implementing Pres. Trump’s Executive Order for "large scale” RIFs, including at NOAA, NSF and others. fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-files-new-…

The National Climate Assessment's authors and support staff were dismissed this week. AMS and AGU (American Geophysical Union) are stepping up to continue the momentum of vital U.S. climate research and analysis with a new open-access publishing effort. Read more here: bit.ly/4m3zRi8

The amount of spin here is remarkable.

This budget is, pardon my language, shit from a butt.

Basically nuking long-term R&D investments (propulsion, discovery science, aeronautics, workforce) for potential short term gains (boots on the moon) 🫠

List of 190 Harvard NSF grant terminations ($148 M). Includes 27 CAREER awards, even a Waterman prize. ~ 75 are in math and physics. grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html (also check the link for a broader list of NSF award terminations. Figure and link from Dan Garisto).

Yuqi Qian Good news: LPI has committed to host LPSC regardless of any support from NASA. hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2…

Hello, everyone! Thanks for the supportive comments on my post last week about the President's budget request and proposed cancelation of the NSF GRFP program which is funding my Ph.D. studies. All of this is really unnerving and sad. I worked hard to win a competitive NSF

First day of my PhD with Brown DEEPS!

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how do you ask people to be on your committee asking for a friend

Being an ex college radio person is awesome because every so often you wake up to see a poster that says hotline tnt is playing in your friends old basement across the street from your old basement

On the morning of March 10, 2025, David Draper sat down for what would become one of his final meetings as NASA’s Deputy Chief Scientist. He had no idea what was about to happen. For the first time, plainclothes security stood guard at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

If you are a snowball earth ball knower (especially a snowball earth as an analog for icy moons ball knower) please message me I have many questions