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barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social · 20h

Planetary scientists - we have a continual lament that goes like, waaah we have too many meetings how can we work and put in so many abstracts! Here's a solution! Choose a different meeting!

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

It's really disheartening to try to talk to colleagues about boycotting a conference that removed all its records of abstracts pertaining to DEI, only for the response to largely be "I don't want to go, but..." But what??? Each of us has agency! You can choose not to go!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

"Going to LPSC" is not an inevitability, and treating it like some kind of cost incurred for participation in the field at large is absurd to me! We can change that, and it would not be hard to do. And to go, but go guiltily, and tell me how bad you'll feel for going, doesn't help anyone.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

LPSC is already in a state that's unsafe for large portions of the community, and now the conference itself is erasing traces of marginalized groups and efforts to make the field better. We could let them know how much we dislike those choices! We could demand our scientific organizations help us!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

It's really disheartening to try to talk to colleagues about boycotting a conference that removed all its records of abstracts pertaining to DEI, only for the response to largely be "I don't want to go, but..." But what??? Each of us has agency! You can choose not to go!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 2d

It is likely that we have other types of samples from this asteroid, called the acapulcoites and lodranites, as well as unmelted precursor material. This sample set thus provides us with a unique opportunity to investigate melting of the first protoplanets! 🔥☄️

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 2d

In the paper, we studied a magmatic meteorite called Néma 001, which was found in 2021. By looking at the mineralogy, geochemistry, and chronological information on Néma 001, we propose that it comes from an asteroid that melted within a few millions of years after the start of the Solar System..

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to see this paper out in @weareagc.bsky.social! We finally have a great journal where we can publish cosmochemistry papers that are free to read, and free to publish. No need to provide free labour to Elsevier, Wiley and co. so that they can make billions of $$$ and feed ChatGPT..

Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry @weareagc.bsky.social · 2d

New paper alert!

Tartèse et al. just published their new work in AGC:

"Petrogenesis of Néma 001, an alkali-rich meteorite from the acapulcoite-lodranite parent body"

Full free article available here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

The cosmochemistry is well represented this week, thanks for your trust!

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Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry @weareagc.bsky.social · 2d

New paper alert!

Tartèse et al. just published their new work in AGC:

"Petrogenesis of Néma 001, an alkali-rich meteorite from the acapulcoite-lodranite parent body"

Full free article available here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

The cosmochemistry is well represented this week, thanks for your trust!

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 3d

Musk FRS.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 4d

As an aside, "Excellence" must be the single-most overused, empty, boilerplate word used in academic bureaucracy and it's typically a stand-in for "We don't know what we want so you should do everything".

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 4d

Admin email from university: "Share your ideas: Help shape operational excellence at U of I"

Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.

Except...

The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.

Yeah.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, 3 men 🙄

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water. Susumu Kitagawa, of Kyoto University, Richard Robson, of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, of the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 3d

Can't wait for it to pop! 🍾

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Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

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Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry @weareagc.bsky.social · 3d

New paper alert!

Oliveira et al. just published in AGC:

"A petrological, geochemical, and geochronological study of Ramlat Fasad 532: An Omani addition to the Antarctic `YAMM' lunar meteorite group"

Here you can read the full free article: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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MarcA Millet @marcamillet.bsky.social · 4d

New @weareagc.bsky.social publication!

This time, Oliveira et al. present a study of a new lunar meteorite and investigate its parentage and transit to Earth.

More here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

A petrological, geochemical, and geochronological study of Ramlat Fasad 532: An Omani addition to the Antarctic ‘YAMM’ lunar meteorite group | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry

Anders, E., & Grevesse, N. (1989). Abundances of the elements: Meteoritic and solar. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53(1), 197–214. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(89)90286-x

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 4d

3/3 here 😬

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 5d

At some point, an important function of the Conservative Party as it used to be has gone into reverse. What used to happen is that hard-right but bright MPs were given responsibilities as junior ministers and taught that slogans were all very well but governing involved the real world…

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 5d

The Tory Party has gone mad..

He insisted the Conservatives had a plan to cut spending, including £8bn of annual savings from reducing the civil service, £6.9bn from cutting the aid budget and £23bn from slashing the welfare bill.

Stride told the BBC that to save money, only UK citizens would have access to the welfare system and that people with "low-level" mental health problems would also lose access to benefits.

Asked what would happen to people living legally in Britain who are not UK citizens if they fall into hardship, he said: "They've come from other parts of the world and they would have the option to return."

The Conservatives failed to back the Labour government's proposed £5bn of welfare savings this year. Stride claimed that the Labour plans were rushed and "not considered and principled".

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 5d

😂 what a long pathetic end of reign for Macron

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

French prime ministers resigns three weeks after appointment on.ft.com/4pXeLDS

French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns

Macron ally was appointed just three weeks ago

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t answer any calls from +33 numbers today. It’ll be Manu trying to tempt you with a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to be prime minister for a week.

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