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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Aug 14

Aw! Likewise, excited to join you!!! 🙂

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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics @mpe-garching.bsky.social · Aug 14

We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗

Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Aug 14

My advisor, Karin Öberg, says you’re ready to graduate once you start dressing like your advisor. It’s therefore fitting that yesterday we matched (unplanned) during my dissertation talk :)

Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Aug 14

My advisor, Karin Öberg, says you’re ready to graduate once you start dressing like your advisor. It’s therefore fitting that yesterday we matched (unplanned) during my dissertation talk :)

Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!

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Joanna Drążkowska @astrojoanna.bsky.social · Jul 30

Almost 14 years ago, I started developing a Monte Carlo code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is now publicly available! 🚀 This was possible thanks to the hard work of @turbulenthuman.bsky.social ‪and @nereagurru.bsky.social‬ 🙌

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Jul 30

thank u Huei and astrobites 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Jul 30

🩵 I’m so glad you get meaning from it. I also have to look back on it and confront these feelings daily 🥲

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · Jul 29

visiting this piece by @suchitra.bsky.social today as I'm having trouble focusing on my astronomy work in light of... all that's going on

🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬 #womeninSTEM

Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Nov 25

Beyond just astrochemistry, I am passionate about using our understanding of other planets to better understand our own (and advocate for) Earth. A few years ago, I published an article in @astrobites.bsky.social on astrophysics and eco-anxiety (astrobites.org/2021/06/04/a...).

The “Pale Blue Dot” Blues

This Beyond Astrobites post discusses reconciling a career in astrophysics with eco-anxiety. When surrounded by our Earthly problems, specifically climate change, how can we find fulfillment in our…

astrobites.org

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · Jul 29

reason # 1,000,000 why i love @astrobites.bsky.social sm: whenever one of passes our PhD defense we post in #random a congrats and shower them with fun emojis. I think it speaks the strong community and care of each other in the collaboration. ❤️

p.s. congrats to Dr. @suchitra.bsky.social !!! : )

A Slack screenshot of me (Huei Sears) posting a congratulations announcement to Dr. Suchi Narayanan. There are at least 18 different Slack emoji reacts selected with at least 5 people having clicked each.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 2

SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science.

h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.

Fund astronomy, not genocide.

You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...

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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · Apr 3

I was reminded of an outreach thing the Rosetta team did:

They hired a perfumer to recreate the "smell of a comet" - www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m....

It was distinctive.

What Do You Think a Comet Smells Like? – Europlanet

www.europlanet.org

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Apr 3

Omg this is really neat, thanks for sharing!

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · Apr 3

Today on the #arXiv:

Narayanan et al. 2025, "Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices" - arxiv.org/abs/2504.01102

If you were wondering what a protoplanetary disc might be said to smell like.

Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices

Organosulfur species are potential major carriers of sulfur in the interstellar medium, as well as interesting ingredients in prebiotic chemistry. The most fundamental question regarding these species...

arxiv.org

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Apr 3

Haha, this made me laugh! Thankfully i don't have to smell my reactants :)

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arXiv bot (astro-ph) @krxiv-astro-ph.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102
Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01102

arXiv abstract link

arxiv.org

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Apr 3

Aw thanks for thinking of me Mark! And happy to chat Kate! :)

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · Jan 21

#AAS245 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 245th AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD. It was a GREAT week of science & we couldn't have done it without you. See you in Anchorage for #AAS246 (call for proposals opens soon!). #ExploreAstronomy ✨

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Jan 13

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · Jan 13

go see Suchi today !! 🔭

Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · Jan 13

@suchitra.bsky.social's dissertation talk: Understanding organosulfur chemistry in star- and planet-forming regions using experiments, observations, and theory on Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:10–3:30 PM in Maryland Ballroom D

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hi #AAS245! I'll be giving my dissertation talk today, Mon, 1/13, 3:10pm (142.07D) in Maryland Ballroom D! :) I'm excited to share that my work received the AAS Doxsey Prize.

Also thank you to #ExoPAG31 for the opportunity to give an early career research talk yesterday!

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Ilaria Pascucci @pascucci.bsky.social · Jan 12

Great presentations, engaging discussions, and valuable community inputs at the ExoPAG 31 meeting! A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed 📸👏

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · Jan 13

@suchitra.bsky.social's dissertation talk: Understanding organosulfur chemistry in star- and planet-forming regions using experiments, observations, and theory on Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:10–3:30 PM in Maryland Ballroom D

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Nov 29

so neat!! can't wait to see your results :)

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · Nov 25

I wanted to be abundantly clear re: my values and hope that this platform can be what Twitter once was. I care about Earth and its people/species, first and foremost. 💙 If you care about similar things (incl. space/chemistry/origins of life!) please follow along :)

~now, back to post-doc apps.

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