My partner is out of town so I am throwing the wild party to end all parties:

- me, home alone

- watching Kiki’s delivery service

- drinkin TWO cans of black cherry fizzy water

- loaded the dishwasher in a haphazard fashion

- might fuck around and find out what happens if I fall asleep with an extra fuzzy blanket

#yoloooo

Let me tell you about the greatest color-by-numbers of all time.

The first up-close photo of Mars was taken #OTD in 1965 by the Mariner 4 spacecraft.

But it doesn't look like much, right? Grainy and blotchy and hard to tell what exactly you're looking at.

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

Welcome to several new followers!

Instead of a typical intro, I'll reveal something unique about myself: I started in planetary science as an amateur.

I am what happens when spacecraft missions release their data to the public.

I went from image processing, to reading up on Titan literature, to going to planetary science conferences during vacations, to transitioning from a 20-year pharma career to a NASA senior postdoc in planetary science at JPL, to current job as scientist at JPL.