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Researching organic matter & volatiles in astromaterials ✨ @NHM_London @RoyalHolloway @ARIES_DTP | #Astrobiology #Cosmochemistry | Don't Panic! ☄️ Views my own.

London, England
Joined August 2012
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Our proposal has been accepted! ✨ We're thrilled to be part of a team that will be studying water & organic matter in samples from #asteroid #Ryugu returned by @haya2e_jaxa! @AshleyJKing85 @peter_krizan @NHM_Meteorites @NHM_London @NHM_Science @RHULEarthSci @_RHResearch
[News] 40 proposals from around the world have been accepted to receive grains from the sample returned from asteroid Ryugu by #Hayabusa2 (@haya2e_jaxa) for scientific analysis! Read more 🔗: isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/00310…
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The Perseids, an annual meteor shower, will be peaking overnight August 12–13. 🌠 Find a dark spot away from city lights and look up. How to watch the best meteor shower of the year:  asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/… 📷: NASA/Bill Dunford
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AbGradCon2026 starts in just over a month! We will have @JHUAPL / @NASA Dragonfly’s Deputy PI Jason Barnes and @NASAJPL @OHLlab’s Laurie Barge joining us at our pre-conference Proposal Writing Retreat (PWR). We are lining up a few other speakers for PWR to be confirmed shortly!
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Replying to @MarinaPurkiss
Dear Reform-voting men… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Hand massive tax cuts to the rich, lifting thresholds, slashing corporation tax to 15%, and raising inheritance tax to £2m, while working families get the crumbs ❌ Create a £250k “Britannia Card” golden visa for wealthy foreigners to dodge UK taxes on overseas income and inheritance ❌Weaken workers’ rights by rolling back day-one sick pay, zero-hours protections, and making it easier for bosses to exploit staff ❌Push deregulation and private healthcare handouts that let the wealthy jump NHS queues while ordinary families face longer waits and higher costs ❌Deliver trickle-down economics dressed up as patriotism - big wins for the top, squeezed services and bills for the grafters Do you hate immigrants more than you love your family’s security and a fair deal for working people?
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Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn ❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment ❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape ❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home I guess the question is… Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?
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[#CosmosBlog] Friday 13 April 2029 is when an “unlucky” day will become legendary. Asteroid #Apophis will make a rare but safe skim past Earth. ESA & JAXA are launching the #Ramses mission to rendezvous for a journey only seen every few millennia. Read 🔗: cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-…
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Come hear about my research at the @KNI_Caltech Nils Asplund FAST Prize Seminar on Wed, Dec 3 @ 3 pm in @CaltechEAS. “Porous Silica Scaffolds Enable Mechanically Robust Simulated Hydrothermal Chimney Growth” @ACS_Langmuir 2025, 41, 29, 19111–19126 @Caltech / @NASAJPL
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[ELSI Research Highlight] プルーム解析と実験室シミュレーションが示す、エンケラドス内部海の化学的多様性と生命起源の手がかり elsi.jp/news_events/highligh…
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If the isn’t a case for: (1) increasing @NASA’s budget and (2) doing better patenting and licensing of govt research to fund long term endowments for the sciences, technological development, and engineering R&D… then I don’t know what is!
This is insane to me.
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Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Luke Daly (@Daly_Planet) to give our departmental seminar - a great talk on meteorites as a possible origin of terrestrial water.
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From a million miles away, NASA captures Moon crossing face of Earth. (Yes, this is real) Credit: NASA/NOAA
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A wonderful act of recognition of a simply superb researcher and human ✨️🪐 Congratulations, @Magna_Giulia! You deserve it 🥂👏🏼
Quite humbled to receive the @RoyalAstroSoc Early Career Award 🙏 grateful to the inspiring and generous people who have been supporting my work and providing me the opportunities for exploring new paths 🧡
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Quite humbled to receive the @RoyalAstroSoc Early Career Award 🙏 grateful to the inspiring and generous people who have been supporting my work and providing me the opportunities for exploring new paths 🧡
Replying to @RoyalAstroSoc
The Early Career Award in Geophysics goes to Dr Giulia Magnarini, of @NHM_London, in recognition of "her pioneering research using a multi-disciplinary approach to further our understanding of long runout landslides across the Solar System". Well done Dr Magnarini! 👍 👏
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Reports of a bright, blue-green fireball over the UK tonight around 7:30pm. Sightings from Aberdeenshire down to Surrey. If you saw or recorded something please submit a report/footage to: ukmon.imo.net/members/imo/re…. @UK_Fireball
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Stunning images of the recent aurora events captured by our #fireball cameras at @EarthSolarSystem @RHULEarthSci, processed by @ardsmedley @SCAMP_Meteors & @UK_Fireball cameras monitor the sky, helping us to learn about the formation of the Solar System and recover #meteorites
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Liftoff of Europa Clipper! The #EuropaClipper spacecraft lifted off at 12:06pm ET Oct. 14 from Launch Pad 39A aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The mission will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet.
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Our new paper @AAS_PSJ on making Martian spiders and plumes in the lab @NASAJPL is out and we've made it to the @NASA website! Younger me, who lived on this site dreaming of being a planetary scientist all the way back in Ireland, is pinching herself 🕷️ nasa.gov/solar-system/planet…
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A brilliant 🚨 #NewPaper 🚨 from @CryoGray on the intriguing Glacier-Like Forms on #Mars published in @jgrplanets. "GLFs are #ice-rich landforms located in the mid-latitudes of Mars and are similar in appearance to valley glaciers found on Earth". 🧊 🛰 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Large Glacier-Like Forms (GLFs) on Mars: Insights From Crater Morphologies and Crater Retention Ages. buff.ly/4cUIEwP The surface ages, crater morphologies, and metrics of the 100 largest GLFs on Mars were explored; surface ages range from 3430 to 2.88 Ma.
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