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  Keith Smith drkeithsmith.bsky.social · May 10
  The @science.org journalists have an update on the recent claim to have found DMS in the atmosphere of #exoplanet K2-18b - explaining some of the community backlash 🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
  

  Claim of alien life on distant world meets swift scientific pushback

  “The simplest explanation is just that it’s kind of a boring planet like Neptune or Uranus”

  science.org
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    Keith Smith drkeithsmith.bsky.social · Apr 17
    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Issuing a press release that claims to have found "an ocean that is teeming with life" should require much stronger evidence than this spectrum. Even if the detection is correct, that doesn't tell you how the molecules formed. 🔭🧪
    
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  Keith Smith drkeithsmith.bsky.social · May 9
  LPSC abstracts - two-page conference proceedings - have been retrospectively disappearing from the meeting archives. The organisers say it's because the abstracts are "DEI content". In an email yesterday, the ADS database reported "around 1,000 broken links to ... LPSC abstracts". #planetsci 🧪
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    Nature nature.com · May 9
    Researchers say that a NASA-funded institute is over-interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order go.nature.com/3YD039e
    

    ‘Orwellian’: planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records

    Researchers say that a NASA-funded institute is over-interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order.

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