Breaking, from the Red Planet
The Mastcam-Z team at ASU has just released a new batch of 45 Martian sols of images, captured by Perseverance, and treated with their natural color processing. Check out these otherwordly wonders!
@Sonic_urticant@ocre_rouge De Beauvoir et Veil sont bien moins connues l'รฉtranger que Curie. Les statistiques de consultations de leur page wikipedia anglophone sont respectivement de 45 000, 21 000 et 170 000 durant les 30 derniers jours.
Is astrobiology serious science ?
For sure, if your job looks like aliens hunting, it might somehow be affecting your scientific credibility.
https://t.co/SS7bsWF9OA
More specifically, I address 3 major criticisms often encountered when astrobiology is involved: that astrobiology (1) has no proper subject of study, (2) is more science fiction than science and (3) is merely just a buzzword for funding and recognition.
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Grad Students: please don't listen to stupid advice. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, enjoy your day(s) off. Watch a movie, go for a walk, play some video games, even make some fun of weird people on X, including those who have a toxic work culture problem.
Great article by the ever lucid and insightful @cat_gillen in @IAI_TV on scientific realism vs instrumentalism, prompted by recent discussion between me and @skdh@iai
https://t.co/daoM7OfwPz
Is high-risk research really needed in astrobiology ?!
Itโs a great pleasure to share my last paper on the study of the astrobiology community, based on reflections with the co-authors @petejvickers, @SeanHMcMahon , @cat_gillen and Martin Ward !
https://t.co/YdZQRD6xae