Mark Wieczorek on Nostr: The number of abstracts submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

The number of abstracts submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#LPSC) this year is down by almost 50% when compared to normal years.

It's hard to say what is the main cause, but big factors are Europeans who don't want to travel to the US, reductions of US research budgets, censorship of abstracts, and just your average hatred of Texas.

(Image posted by Michael Aye on the OpenPlanetary (npub199n…gj2e) Slack).