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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · May 12

The PRELIFE project of the Origins Center Netherlands has 15 PhD projects!

Are you a MSc graduate in Physics, Earth Science, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Maths, Education? Want to reconstruct the conditions on Earth when life originated in the Hadean? Come join us!

www.originscenter.nl/prelife/

PRELIFE network - Origins Center

The origin of life remains one of the greatest mysteries in science. While many theories have been proposed, no single explanation has yet gained universal agreement. That’s where the PRELIFE consorti...

www.originscenter.nl

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Tim Lichtenberg @timlichtenberg.bsky.social · May 14

Within the context of the interdisciplinary PRELIFE consortium me and Wim van Westrenen are advertising a joint PhD position on the surface water levels and atmospheric composition of the earliest Earth: www.formingworlds.space/phdposition2.... Deadline: 10th June. Please share! 🌋🌏🧬

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · May 16

Are you a geophycisist/petrologist with a taste for numerical modeling and transdisciplinary collaboration?

Apply now, and until June 10, for our vacant PhD position on Hadean Paleogeography, in context of the Origins Center's PRELIFE project!

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD: Geodynamic Exploration of Emergence and Evolution of Hadean Paleogeography

Do you want to geodynamically model what Earth's surface may have looked like when life emerged? Join us in this PhD project!

www.uu.nl

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Sonja Geilert @xsteinlausx.bsky.social · May 17

Ever wondered what the Hadean ocean looked like? 🌊🌊🌊

Come work with us on 🧪silicate weathering experiments🧪 simulating the geochemistry of the first ocean and be part of a large consortium investigating the origin of life #prelife.
@ingeloes.bsky.social

Apply here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Feb 24

a group of cartoon dogs wearing flower crowns standing next to each other

ALT: a group of cartoon dogs wearing flower crowns standing next to each other

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 19

First group done! One more to go. #SciComm #Astrochemistry #ALMA #Weekendschool

$A screen showing a slide "Wat doen wij vandaag?" Below is paper plates with plastic atoms, worksheets showing spectral lines of different elements, diffraction glasses, and Orion Nebula worksheets and stickers.$

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

So I was more or less offline (playing Horizon Forbidden West) from December 25 til January 7, and I missed the end of the competition, but I'm happy to see that Io won!

Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · Dec 30

🚨🚨🚨
What a ride!
The winner of #planetaryScience image of 2024 is:

1/2 Phobos over Mars (139 votes = 48%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

2/2 Io, the volcanic moon of Jupiter (148 votes = 52%) 🎉🎊🥳
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

Total votes: 287

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill, @kevinmgill.bsky.social

A true color image of Io as imaged by Juno on December 30, 2023 during its closest flyby. This is the closest a spacecraft got in the past 20 years. North is up and this side of Io faces Jupiter. The ↄ-shaped black spot is Loki Patera, to its north is the black spot Amaterasu Patera volcano and further north is the Dazhbog Patera also a black spot.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Io_imaged_by_Juno_spacecraft.png
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

My favorite astronomical object 😍

Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · Jan 16

The Pillars of Creation as you've never seen them before 🤩

It's a 3D Multiwavelength Exploration using Hubble and JWST data 🔭

Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · Jan 16

Attachez vos ceintures: je vous propose un voyage à 7000 années-lumière, dans les piliers de la Création. On va visiter une pouponnière d'étoiles. Des nuages de gaz et de poussière s'effondrent et forment des étoiles.
(Images reconstituées à partir d'observations des télescopes Hubble et JWST)

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

Then, I spent some time chopping my little transparent images out by phone-light. Hopefully, the students don't mind some weird ones!

A paper cutter with a transparency waiting to be chopped on it. 2 stacks of already cut images are in the bottom right.

Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

I did manage to get the transparancies to work, but I had to alter the images a little since there is no white ink....

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

Fortunately, someone at the institute decided not to throw out old-school transparencies, and I'm Millennial enough to remember they exist... so I decided to street-fight the printer.

A fairly old looking box of transparency film

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

It's a good thing I checked my supplies because I'm really short on some of the stickers. I have an activity where we use stickers of the Orion Nebula created by @livwithoutlimit.bsky.social to show the importance of using different wavelength observations.

A worksheet showing a broad and closeup shot of the Orion Nebula surrounded by 5 stickers. The stickers show artistic representations of observations from submm, x-ray, near-, mid- , and far-infrared telescopes

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Jan 18

Tomorrow, I'm teaching a guest lesson for IMC Weekendschool students about light and telescopes. This is the third year in a row, and it's always a lot of fun, but I didn't have a chance to go check my supplies until today. The uni turns the lights off out of hours, which is great for energy 😅

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Nov 28

today's vibe:

a watercolor painting of a hamster pouring water into a coffeepot from a blue kettle, next to him on the table is a hand crank coffee grinder

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 20

One of my favorite possessions is a population science book from 1893 that talks about Vulcan, but raises doubts that it's real.
There's also an entry about the aether (!!)

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · Dec 20

MINDS. JWST-MIRI Reveals a Peculiar CO2-rich Chemistry in the Drift-dominated Disk CX Tau
astrobiology.com/2024/12/mind... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy #JWST

MINDS. JWST-MIRI Reveals a Peculiar CO2-rich Chemistry in the Drift-dominated Disk CX Tau - Astrobiology

Radial drift of icy pebbles can have a large impact on the chemistry of the inner regions of protoplanetary disks.

astrobiology.com

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 20

Oh damn, I missed a whole week! Well the comment is still true, but voting is closed

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Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · Dec 18

1st semi-final of ✨ #planetaryScience image of 2024 ✨

Mars vs. Earth 🧪⚛️

In the thread below, vote by ❤️ing the image you want to see advance to the final.

🗳️ Voting ends on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 4 p.m. CET/10 a.m. EST/7 a.m. PST/midnight JST.

Bracket for the Bluesky Planetary Science Image of 2024" contest, featuring small icon close-ups of 16 images grouped into four quarter finals. The 1st & 2nd quarter-final has been decided. There is a dashed box highlighting the four images of the 4th quarter-final. The four semi-finalists have been chosen. There are finalist placeholders against a lunar surface backdrop.

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 20

Vote vote! Arguably, the first image was prettier, but I love OSIRIS-REx more than any comet 🤩😍

Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · Dec 15

3/4 ORISIS-Rex sample from asteroid Bennu

Image taken by Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold on January 17, 2024.

Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center / Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold

A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Erika Blumenfeld, creative lead for the Advanced Imaging and Visualization of Astromaterials (AIVA) and Joe Aebersold, project management lead, captured this picture using manual high-resolution precision photography and a semi-automated focus stacking procedure. The result is an image that can be zoomed in on to show extreme detail of the sample. The remaining sample material includes dust and rocks up to about .4 in (one cm) in size. Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold

Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center / Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold
Source: https://images.nasa.gov/details/jsc2024e006057

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 14

Don't forget to vote before tomorrow! I'm super pleased that Io won the last round, but this one was a tough choice

Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · Dec 12

3rd quarter-final of ✨ #planetaryScience image of 2024 ✨
This round features the Earth-Moon system 🧪⚛️

In the thread below, vote by ❤️ing the image you want to see advance to the semi-final.

🗳️ Voting ends on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. CET/10 a.m. EST/7 a.m. PST/midnight JST.

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James Trayford @trayford.bsky.social · Dec 13

Check out this article from STFC about our sonification of astronomical data, and beyond! including a new sonification at the end - perceive multi-scale information about galaxy formation in our cosmological simulations... 🧪🔭⚡🐡. medium.com/big-science-...

The sound of silence: how sound brings space to life

The vacuum of space is famously silent, but what if you were able to use sound to help you visualise the Universe? What would a black hole…

medium.com

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 14

I hope the response is good because school doesn't work for so many students, and teenagers should have their burnout recognized too. I had my first burnout when I was 14, and no one around me was even aware enough to recognize it.

Dr Naomi Fisher @drnaomifisher.bsky.social · Dec 11

I was scared to write my latest book with Eliza Fricker, The Teenagers Guide to Burnout, and now it’s out, I’m afraid of the response. 1/

Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 10

Maybe it's just that I'm looking for a silver lining, but I'm glad that about half say there's no difference

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Astrochemist Veronica (she/her) @astrochemist-v.bsky.social · Dec 10

Super cool study *and* it has all of the good open science practices built in 😍

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨

After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!!

In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything...

doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map

ALT: a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Dec 10

🗃 🧪 #medicine #law #anthropology and more - fully funded PhD places at Bristol University for Black UK students. Please share!

Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Dec 8

**Black UK PhD students**

Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend

-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

**Tell everyone**

www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Black heritage PhD scholarships | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol

We welcome applications for full scholarships to postgraduate research programmes starting in 2025.

www.bristol.ac.uk

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