Mark Wieczorek

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Planetary geophysicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). https://mrak.solarsystem.social 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://solarsystem.social/@mrak, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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A row of old power Mac desktop computers, ready for the trash.
Screenshot of the new AI chat assistant for the android OpenWeather app.
Number of abstracts submitted each year to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. (Image by Michael Aye.)
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The Mussolini façade, 1934. The "SI" (Italian for "yes") refers to the 1934 Italian general election, which was a simple yes-no vote on the Fascist Party list. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Braschi)
US Embassy in Uzbekistan (.gov) Removal of Uzbekistanis from the United States
Abstract submission criteria for the #LPSC2026 conference: All submitted abstracts must comply with Administration Executive Orders. Any non-compliant abstracts will be removed from consideration for the conference program.
Cover art for "Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2000). Check out in the inside cover art here: https://www.filmsfatale.com/blog/godspeed-you-black-emperor-and-cinema
Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock (hard cover) is 5 cm thick. How long will it take to read?
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PETITION: CONDITIONS FOR ATTENDING LPSC 2026 Concerned members of the community have penned and signed an open letter to USRA/LPI and USRA outlining steps that we feel must be taken before we will consider attending LPSC 2026. These steps include restoring all purged abstracts (except those where NASA has specifically directed or first authors have requested removal), and committing to preserving academic freedom of speech at the conference. You can find out more here, and add your name (anonymously if you wish) at this link: https://forms.gle/G1yAxZqmDujbVDHR7 This petition will be open until the end of July. [Source: PEN newsletter]
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Dear Author, Thank you for publishing in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. With your help, we have delivered essential research to further advance planetary science. Let’s continue to make an impact together Prepare to make an impact by publishing open access in a growing journal. Our fees are $4,070 so you can enjoy the benefits of open access for less*. We’re going places and would love your next work to be part of our journey. Publish with us again An AGU journal publishing original research articles spanning planetary geology, geophysics, geochemistry, atmospheres, and exoplanets. Publishing in a high-standard journal may come at a cost, but did you know your fees may be covered? You can find out if your article publication charges (APCs) are funded here. What are you waiting for? Prepare to submit *Our APCs are, on average, lower than our competitors.
An open letter to the Lunar and Planetary Institute executive office, I am writing to ask that LPI provide a public statement concerning their ongoing attempt to both censor and rewrite history by removing previously published community meeting abstracts from their archives. LPI is a trusted organization that plays an integral role in the planetary science community. They organize not only the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, but also a multitude of smaller community meetings and workshops. It thus came as quite a shock to learn that LPI has decided to remove any trace of abstracts that contain certain non-offensive keywords or that are on topics that could be related to the federal executive order attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Considering the 2025 LPSC alone, almost 100 abstracts have been removed from the program, being replaced with the text "item removed". Entire sessions have been deleted from the program, and the PDFs for the removed items are no longer accessible. In total, over 1000 LPI hosted abstracts are no longer accessible from the NASA ADS archive.
Example of a 2023 abstract indexed by NASA ADS.
Example of an entire session that was removed from the previously held 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Example of an abstract that was removed from the 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Some of the images acquired of Mercury by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its fourth Mercury flyby on 4 September 2024. Many geological features are visible, including the peak ring basins Vivaldi and newly named Stoddart. The images were captured by the onboard monitoring cameras, which provide black-and-white 1024x1024 pixel snapshots. See the article for annotations and more detailed captions for each individual image. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_s_best_images_yet_highlight_fourth_Mercury_flyby
Planetary Research A diamond open access journal for planetary science Open call for an editor-in-chief, editors, associate editors Planetary Research is a community-led journal that is being developed by the international planetary science community. The journal will use the diamond open-access publishing model, which means that there will be no article processing fees for authors and no subscription fees for readers. The journal, run as part of a non-profit organization, will operate with a transparent governance and will promote the work it publishes to the scientific community and the general public alike. Manuscript submissions are expected to open in January 2026. We seek candidates for the journal's editorial board, including the editor-in-chief, editors, and associate editors. We are also seeking candidates for the journal's media and technical teams. Interested candidates should provide a CV, a publication list, and a short letter motivating their interest in the position to the chair of the search committee (mark.wieczorek@cnrs.fr) before July 1, 2025. No prior experience is required. Additional information about the journal can be found on our website https://planetary-research-journal.online.
“As NASA continues to review and ensure compliance with presidential actions, we are requesting that you please pause all meetings and activities of Planetary Science Analysis/Assessment Groups. This includes ExMAG, LEAG, MAPSIT, MEPAG, MExAG, OPAG, OWWG, SBAG, VEXAG, the cross-AG EDIA Working Group, and any other groups or activities that have been developed by the AGs. Please make your communities aware of this request.” These presidential actions may include, but are not limited to, the following Executive Orders and Presidential memoranda: * Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing * Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders * Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions * Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government * Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order * Defending Women * Unleashing American Energy Thank you and we will reach out regarding next steps.
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry is a community-led diamond open access journal that aims to publish innovative and globally relevant articles in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry. Regional studies put in the context of a wider research question will also be considered. Articles published in Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry are both free to read and free to publish. Authors retain all copyrights of the published material under CC BY 4.0 licence. We welcome all contributions that use geochemical data and models to study chemical, physical and biological processes on Earth and other planetary bodies.
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This is a picture of a diamond. From wikipedia: The term "diamond open access" was coined in 2012 by Marie Farge ... The reference to "diamond" was a hyperbolic pun on the "gold" metaphor that aims to suggest that non-commercial/free model were ultimately the best: "I have proposed to call this third way 'Diamond OA' by outbidding the 'Gold OA' terminology chosen by the publishers."
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The Apollo 16 seismometer on the surface of the Moon, along with the central station and radioactive power source that relayed the data back to Earth.
A mural of the Croatian scientist Andrija Mohorovičić next to the central market in the city of Osijek, along with a depiction of the layering within the Earth.
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The #Nebra sky disk. This disk is about 30 cm in diameter and has been dated to the early bronze age at about 1800-1600 BCE. It represents the first depiction of the cosmos, and may represent a rudimentary calendar for predicting the solstices.