Hello, and welcome! 👋

We're the Forming Worlds Lab at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen. We study how rocky planets form and evolve, and what makes a world habitable, from early magma oceans 🌋 to the atmospheres of distant exoplanets 🪐. We model planetary interiors and atmospheres together, and we build the open-source PROTEUS framework our science runs on, in the open. 💻

Over the coming days, we'll introduce our group members one by one, and the research projects each of them leads.

After that, expect regularly:
🪐 the wonder of rocky planets and alien worlds
📄 recent papers and science results
🎤 conference updates and talks
📸 life in the Forming Worlds Lab

It's an exciting time to explore other worlds. Glad to have you here, follow along! 🌍

Web: https://formingworlds.space
Code: https://github.com/FormingWorlds
PROTEUS: https://proteus-framework.org

#Exoplanets #PlanetaryScience #Astronomy #Astrodon #OpenScience

You want me to tick the verification box to prove that I am a human...

To pay my water bill????

Why would a bot be paying my bills?

CHARGE, in the glorious name of Karl the Killer Kumquat!

You can call me Richard.
You can call me Rick.
You can call me Ricky,
but I am not a Dick.
#jokes #bad

If you follow this path, it may lead to the faerie realm... 💚

📷 by Greenwitch Tea

#Photo #Photography

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If you spot an account you think might be AI-generated, click ⋯ on one of the account's posts and select "report". Remember to give your reason for reporting, so that the admin knows what to look for.

#FediTips

How would you describe your sense of style?

#WritersCoffeeClub 3/7: What's the sign of a good critique?

An emotional response beats responses along the lines of "It's good" or "you misspelled this word". It means I reached my reader!

I just made this silly but accurate thing. I'm silly too and i love it, but also i'm serious in my silliness.

Here's the heart of why we need to be cautious with #AI . It's not just about jobs and inequality; it's about losing our intellectual agency.

Sweet peas hold a special place in my heart.
The whole wall of my childhood home was covered with garlic growing side by side with sweet peas. The blossoms extended above the single story roofline in a brilliant display of mixed colors.
My mother didn't know much about mothering but she could grow flowers like a champ.
Our old Victorian house (no gingerbread) was very tall but there was a single story addition built when we got a real indoor bathroom with a giant bathtub and a washer. Perfect for growing sweet peas.
She trained them on cotton strings.
We were the last house on the block to give up the outhouse and well. We even had a hitching post until we got a sidewalk.
I'm not sure if this implies that I'm really old or that we were really poor. Probably both.
Last year I tried to replicate that sweet pea display without the garlic.
It was beautiful.
This year I am trying again and am off to a good start.

Just printed a paper on cognitive impairment. My printer is having a laugh.

In the big inning,
God created baseball.
God then created snoring
because baseball is boring.

#joke #baseball

Instead of fireworks, why not scare your neighbors the old fashioned way?
Grow out your antlers and fangs, cultivate a thunderous beard of moss, haunt the night, and become a terrifying creature of legend and lore.

@FluentInFinance thanks. Link:

<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260612021604.htm> via <https://masto.deluma.biz/@dogzilla/116743016954646190> @dogzilla

Don't put off until tomorrow what you could do today.
Like folding some life-sized origami wolves, animating them with dark magic, and becoming the coolest scariest person in your neighborhood.

The Onion's takeover of Infowars has launched and it rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6PTSXiI0

Grateful Dead - Crimson White & Indigo | Independence Day Watch Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sddU9RxWwe4&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #music #gratefuldead #deadheads

Just throwing it out there. I'm asking for a Vietnamese neighbor who is writing her memoir. Does anyone know of a legit book editor who speaks fluent Vietnamese and could help this 80-year-old woman tell her exciting story of fleeing North Vietnam during the war? The details of her life are amazing, but she needs help with the writing and editing. I would hate it if someone tried to scam her. Thanks. #vietnam #editor #writingCommunity #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #writers #writer #editorial #publishers #author #mastodon #fediverse #social #scribesAndMakers #editor #AmEditing #editing

Cool, I have two books in here. Thanks, folks!

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3141-the-104-most-popular-fantasy-science-fiction-books-of-the-past-three-y