Alex
Planetary geologist @planetaryscience.bsky.social
alexmmorgan.github.io
- Reposted by AlexPlanetary Exploration Newsletter Volume 19, Number 42 (October 19, 2025) The latest newsletter is posted at: planetarynews.org
- EPA loses its entire research division. seems important? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c... NYT front page: "this guy was crazy" and "rich people eat croissants"
- Reposted by Alexah yes, you were using gemini-4o-xx1-beta-2, of course you got bad results, you have to use openai-o3-mini-xxl and toggle on the 'do it good' button
- Reposted by Alex🌐 Introducing GRIT: the First Global Bifurcating River Network 🏞 developed by Michel Wortmann as part of the NERC Large Grant EvoFLOOD, in the Hydro-Climate Extremes group @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
- Reposted by AlexToday, we're launching a dedicated action hub for the crisis threatening NASA science. Find actions, latest news and up-to-date resources at: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc... #ProtectNASAScience
- Reposted by AlexThis is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
- Classic ChatGPT
- Reposted by AlexNOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
- Reposted by AlexPLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 19, Number 15 (April 13, 2025) The latest newsletter is posted at planetarynews.org
- Reposted by AlexPLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 19, Number 13 (March 30, 2025) The latest newsletter is posted at planetarynews.org
- this meme is too real
- Reposted by Alex🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
- Reposted by AlexPLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 19, Number 10 (March 9, 2025) The latest newsletter is posted at planetarynews.org We are in the process of broadening our delivery platforms.
- Reposted by AlexSTAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
- Reposted by AlexPLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 19, Number 9 (March 2, 2025) planetarynews.org/archive25/pe...
- Reposted by AlexMy colleagues are using ChatGPT to source data and plot analyses for them. I'm literally reviewing papers written this way. Meanwhile....
- Reposted by AlexWe're hiring! New position at UNR now open in Economic Geology (nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...). I know there's a lot else going on out there, but I did want to plug this. I've been really happy in Reno and with our department. Feel free to reach out with Q's.
- Reposted by AlexEncyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by AlexThis is a statement by PSI CEO Mark Sykes, on the importance of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for science, and reflects the values and principles that guide the daily management of this Institute under his leadership. Read it here:
- Reposted by AlexEntirely unsuprisingly, it looks like the Trump administration wants to cut the NSF budget by 2/3. I'm an NSF-funded researcher. Let's talk about what this would look like. Because there are unintended consequences you might not be aware of. 1/ www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by AlexPLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 19, Number 6 (February 9, 2025)
- Reposted by AlexExciting new preprint by Zilu Meng, Greg Hakim, and @ericsteig.bsky.social where they reconstruct Earth's climate over the last 1000+ years at **seasonal** timescales. resolutionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14130 🧪⚒️❄️
- Reposted by AlexWithout a doubt the most authoritative and scientific map projections alignment chart there is
- New paper: Linear dunes erode into the Lake Caroline, Simpson Desert, Australia, challenging the linear dune extension hypothesis. Erosion dates back 24 ka. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Geology #geosciences
- Check out our new(ish) paper in PSJ, where we used deep learning to map brain coral terrain in 58,000 HiRISE images on #Mars @uahirise.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
- New paper in Icarus, where we explore global trends in martian valley morphology and argue that valleys may have formed prior to (or during) the growth of the Tharsis volcanic province www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Check out our new paper led by Anna Grau Galofre where we describe (relatively) recent glacial erosion on Mars www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Hey that's me! (from NASA's Mars Science Update and Budget Overview)
- 34th anniversary of Pale Blue Dot: "That's here. That's home. That's us....It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world." -Sagan
- First solo author paper: fluvial erosion on Mars may have intermittently persisted for 100s of Myrs www.psi.edu/blog/water-m...
- Reposted by AlexHiPOD: A Sedimentary Fan in Southeast Gale Crater This image covers a fan of sedimentary rock on the southeast crater floor. Ridges on the fan surface may be composed of coarse-grained sediment deposited in ancient streams. More: uahirise.org/ESP_079699_1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona #Mars
