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We also provide several #OpenSource internet services that aim to foster interactions among planetary scientists and that will allow researchers to share their work with the public. We currently run a Mattermost server and a Mastodon instance, and we will launch a Peertube video server later this year.

All of our services are free to use for association members, so sign up and become a member today. Membership is free!

https://coop.planetary-research.org

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The Planetary Research Cooperative is happy to announce our new home on Mastodon! 🎉

We are a new community-run non-profit organization that will serve the interests of the #PlanetaryScience community. Our primary mission is to publish the journal Planetary Research, which will be the first #DiamondOpenAccess journal devoted to our field. This journal will launch at the end of this year and it will be free for authors and free to access.

Cover image of the Planetary Research Cooperative's web site at https://coop.planetary-research.org. The background is an image of #Saturn taken by the #Cassini mission.

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Why I will be boycotting meetings sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

An open letter to the LPI executive board

#LPI #USRA #LPSC #BoycottLPSC #BoycottLPI #PlanetaryScience

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.

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In response to the Trump executive orders, the Lunar and Planetary Institute (#LPI) is removing abstracts from previously held meetings that used to be archived on their website.

Here is an example of one that was removed from the 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#LPSC).

Example of an abstract that was removed from the 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

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If you want to learn more about the Planetary Research diamond open access journal that will launch in January 2026, we just wrote a FAQ that answers the most common questions we get:

https://planetary-research.org/faq.html

#PlanetaryScience #OpenAcces #AcademicPublishing

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Would you like to work with the #BepiColombo mission that is about to arrive at #Mercury?

#ESA has just put out an announcement for interdisciplinary scientists. The letter of intent deadline to apply is May 20!

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/bepicolombo-ids-gi-2025

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

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A french researcher going to the #LPSC conference outside of Houston wasn't allowed to enter the US. After a "random" control at the border, the police searched their phone and computer and found compromising statements about Trump.

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

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Planetary Research: Open call for editors

Planetary Research is a community-led #DiamondOA journal for #PlanetaryScience that will launch in January 2026. We are looking for an editor-in-chief, 5 editors and 10 associate editors. The deadline to apply is July 1 2025. Further information can be found on our website https://planetary-research.org.

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.

The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) is looking for a new director!

The deadline to apply is July 15.

https://www.ipgp.fr/actus-et-agenda/actualites/poste-de-directeur-de-linstitut-de-physique-du-globe-de-paris/

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Nous avons participé à l'#eXit massif de X. Grâce à #OpenPortability nous avons transféré nos 1673 anciens abonnés vers Mastodon. Retrouvez automatiquement vos communautés via https://openportability.org !

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Bultel, @mrak et al: "Aqueous Alteration as an Origin of Martian Magnetization"

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE008111

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On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the sixth time, successfully completing the final ‘gravity assist manoeuvre’ needed to steer it into orbit around the planet in late 2026.
Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby

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The planetary science community is creating a diamond open access journal that will be free to access without a subscription and that won’t charge authors article processing fees. Following a community vote, we now have a name!

Planetary Research

#DiamondOA #PlanetaryScience

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 #PlanetaryScience community is in the process of creating a new diamond open access journal that will be free for authors and free for readers. Check out the video of our second meeting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rap9a3P7Y&list=PLPXeplhp1d03WmrwwDFMjy5y0S6eiyeFE&index=2

#DiamondOA

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Mural of the Croatian scientist Andrija Mohorovičić in the city of #Osijek where he once taught. He is best known for his discovery of the crust-mantle interface using seismic data from a 1909 earthquake. This interface is now known as the Moho, as no one can pronounce or properly spell his name.

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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📅 Mardi 17 décembre, nous vous proposons 2 rendez-vous.
🎙 Vous êtes en région parisienne ? RDV dès 19h30 au Vieux Châtelet, pour un mardi de l'espace consacré à la mission BepiColombo. Comme chaque mois, l'événement sera enregistré et disponible sur podcast.cnes.fr.
🎁 Vous êtes ailleurs ou vous préférez le confort de votre canapé ? RDV à 20h sur https://twitch.tv/cnes_france pour un quiz rétrospective de l'année. Des petits cadeaux sont prévus pour les plus rapides... à condition de répondre juste 😉

Un monsieur hésite beaucoup entre 2 boutons rouge : le premier indique "mardi de l'espace" et le second "quiz avec des cadeaux"

Affiche des mardis de l'espace indiquant l'heure (19h30 - 21h30) et les lieux (Au vieux châtelet à Paris, au Grand café le Florida à Toulouse)

jeu : quiz de l'espace spécial actu 2024, mardi 17 décembre à 20h sur twitch.tv/cnes_france. Photo d'Alice au pays et des étoiles et de SpaceExplorerW

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If you are a planetary scientist who is part of a #Slack community using the free plan, consider migrating your team to #Mattermost on the Solar System Social #PlanetaryScience server. Slack will start deleting your content that is older than 1 year starting January 28, 2025!

Solar System Social offers free, privacy respecting services to the planetary science community. We run a Mastodon instance and a Mattermost server, and we will soon have a Peertube video server!

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European Universities started …
.. leaving X

#Universities in #Amsterdam, #Vienna, #Berlin, #Karlsruhe, #Aachen and other cities in Europe have left microblogging service X during the last week(s).

They justify this step with the systematic lack of moderation on the platform, which has resulted in a flood of hate speech, disinformation and cyberbullying.

Some of them have already started to run channels on Mastodon: @univienna, @tuberlin, @KIT_Karlsruhe, @UniOldenburg @unibremen, @freieuniversitaet, @UniUlm , @HTW_Berlin, @uni_paderborn.

X is not a suitable medium for communication in #research and #education. Help get the other #universities to follow suit and sign the petition
👉 https://openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon
#unis4mastodon 🌻 👩‍🎓 #eXit