Joe O'Rourke
@geojgo.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Barnes & Noble Premium Member.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Received an email perched perfectly on the razor's edge between academic spam and news I can use. What an artifact.
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Received an email perched perfectly on the razor's edge between academic spam and news I can use. What an artifact.
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I’m looking for a post doc! Come join us at ASU! apply.interfolio.com/176300
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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! 💀 🔍 👨🔬
October 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Got my first IRB approval for human subjects research! Now I get your SKULLS! 💀 🔍 👨🔬
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🚨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 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
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Opportunities
matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨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 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
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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
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
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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/...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society
The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicati...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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/...
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👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications
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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
www.gps.caltech.edu
September 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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. 🔭🪐
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/...
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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/...
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Venus is a Solar System enigma.
Although Venus is similar in size and distance from the Sun to Earth, it has evolved very differently from our planet.
Our #Envision mission will aim to solve some of the puzzle by thoroughly studying our closest neighbour.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭
Although Venus is similar in size and distance from the Sun to Earth, it has evolved very differently from our planet.
Our #Envision mission will aim to solve some of the puzzle by thoroughly studying our closest neighbour.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭
Top five Venus mysteries Envision will solve
Venus is a Solar System enigma. Similar in size to Earth and orbiting the Sun at a similar distance, it is remarkable how the two planets evolved so differently. While conditions on Earth allowed life...
www.esa.int
September 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Venus is a Solar System enigma.
Although Venus is similar in size and distance from the Sun to Earth, it has evolved very differently from our planet.
Our #Envision mission will aim to solve some of the puzzle by thoroughly studying our closest neighbour.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭
Although Venus is similar in size and distance from the Sun to Earth, it has evolved very differently from our planet.
Our #Envision mission will aim to solve some of the puzzle by thoroughly studying our closest neighbour.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭
Let’s go, baby, I’m taking the safeties off my thermal evolution models 👊🏻🔥🇺🇸
It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.
Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."
nbcnews.to
September 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Let’s go, baby, I’m taking the safeties off my thermal evolution models 👊🏻🔥🇺🇸
Very interesting article, and I thought it was fun that the kicker quote is almost exactly what I said about Venus lightning at AGU 2023, haha: eos.org/articles/lig...
September 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Very interesting article, and I thought it was fun that the kicker quote is almost exactly what I said about Venus lightning at AGU 2023, haha: eos.org/articles/lig...
Venus lightning digression 👍🏼
I would stop, but I have to put in a good word for NASA and how it selects and funds science. I'm starting to think maybe Avi Loeb doesn't know what he's talking about?
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Science goals and science teams
After having scored all the goals for the faculty in the first half of our annual soccer game against the graduate students, I decided to…
medium.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Venus lightning digression 👍🏼
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NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear.
Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.
Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.
Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Say Goodbye to Juno, NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission to Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight
www.scientificamerican.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear.
Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.
Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.
Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
No laws on Ceres, just yummy electrons. (>2 Gyr ago, maybe.) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Core metamorphism controls the dynamic habitability of mid-sized ocean worlds—The case of Ceres
More than 2 Ga, metamorphism of Ceres's rocky interior released hydrothermal fluids that could have fed microorganisms.
www.science.org
August 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
No laws on Ceres, just yummy electrons. (>2 Gyr ago, maybe.) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
📣 PAPER ALERT. Title says it all. I've been super excited about this project for years 🌋😍https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1621
The importance of carbonatite lavas in outgassing Venus’ modern-day atmosphere
The erosion of canali on Venus by carbonatite lavas transformed Venus’ atmosphere within the recent past.
www.science.org
August 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
📣 PAPER ALERT. Title says it all. I've been super excited about this project for years 🌋😍https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1621
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I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026
Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...
docs.google.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Looking into Wright's publication record, it looks like most of his published research was done with Jonathan Pruitt, a disgraced behavioral ecologist who lost his faculty job at McMaster for manipulating and fabricating data across many papers. I suspect that would be his real problem.
July 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Looking into Wright's publication record, it looks like most of his published research was done with Jonathan Pruitt, a disgraced behavioral ecologist who lost his faculty job at McMaster for manipulating and fabricating data across many papers. I suspect that would be his real problem.
Looked this guy up on Google Scholar and his top 2 papers were retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author). Womp womp 🕷️
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.
www.wsj.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Looked this guy up on Google Scholar and his top 2 papers were retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author). Womp womp 🕷️
ASU SESE is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Astrophysics: apply.interfolio.com/170951 🧑🏫 🔭
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July 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
ASU SESE is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Astrophysics: apply.interfolio.com/170951 🧑🏫 🔭
Comments I have never before written on a manuscript draft: "I appreciate that a memento mori might be salutary even if unwelcome." 📣 🔜 👻
July 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Comments I have never before written on a manuscript draft: "I appreciate that a memento mori might be salutary even if unwelcome." 📣 🔜 👻
All hail the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body (tm)
Senate appropriators fund dozens of threatened NASA science missions
A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the administration’s 2026 budget request but is silent on one flagship program.
A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the administration’s 2026 budget request but is silent on one flagship program.
Senate appropriators fund dozens of threatened NASA science missions
A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the administration’s 2026 budget request but is silent on one flagship program.
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July 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
All hail the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body (tm)