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Astronomer looking at rocks in space. Currently at Royal Observatory Edinburgh. PhD. she/her. Asteroid 63440
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Join us at @nam25-durham.bsky.social session #82: "Solar System Insights from Small Body Populations" organised by Abbie Donaldson, Alan Fitzsimmons, Charlotte Götz, yours truly, and Colin Snodgrass Abstract deadline 30th March! 🧪☄️🔭 conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/prog...

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Starting Day 4 in the Asteroids, Comets and Moons session. First up is Lance Benner on the Status of Near-Earth Asteroid Radar Observations at the Goldstone Solar System Radar. Abstract 1803: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps... #LPSC2025

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And we're live! Anna Kimmel from @edinnovations.bsky.social getting us ready for the Exhibition

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Next week I will be in London for Space-comm Expo to connect with industry on issues of space sustainability 🚀 www.linkedin.com/posts/agatar...

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Paper day! 🔭☄️🧪 Come meet this space-faring ⛄️or 🥜-shaped pile of rocks. A distant cousin of Selam, contact-binary asteroids like this one are often seen in radar #TeamRadar (Also, the first first-author paper for Richard, who happens to be the first PhD student I am fully officially supervising)

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It's paper day! Led by grad students Rosemary Dorsey and Matthew Hopkins, we bring you a beautifully detailed study of how interstellar objects will be visible to @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭🧪

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For planetary scientists & astronomers: #TeamRadar is holding a workshop on asteroid radar shape modeling this year, if you know any interested students or post-docs - sites.google.com/view/armw25. The workshop is being done primarily virtually; with in-person sessions in Spain and Finland.

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Today on the #arXiv: White et al. 2025, "Development of Radar and Optical Tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids at the University of Tasmania" - arxiv.org/abs/2502.02890 Describing CW transmit from Tidbinbilla and receiving at Hobart, Katherine, and Ceduna. #TeamRadar It's great to see this published!

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JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

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#TeamRadar presentations at #SBAG 32: Aaron DeLeon describes the unusual binary asteroid system Atira: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... Patrick Taylor gives an update on the ngRADAR project at Green Bank: ngradar.nrao.edu

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Vote #TeamRadar

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It's been an honour to work on this project. Please do check out the posters.

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Applications close Jan 5; if interested let us know sooner though, as people do start to go on summer break from mid-Dec

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anywho here's my "types of comet paper" that I made in 2019 or so that I made with my buddy John

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The perils of a postdoc #AcademicMentalHealth What people might be struggling with behind the scenes

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Hey scientists, don’t use AI generated artwork. Hire an artist. #OPAG2023

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All* of your favorite** planetary scientists on Bluesky, collected into one starter pack for your convenience! Sometimes, we'll even discuss planetary science! Is your favorite planetary scientist missing? Have them DM me to be added. :) 🧪🔭 go.bsky.app/SdZsrfw *OK, many of **plus me

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Much needed sunny day in Scotland. What an amazing place to call home 🥰

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[Curses at clouds in astronomer] 🔭

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Obligatory aurora photos, from my backyard in Scotland 🔭

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This kestrel crash landed in my garden yesterday after successfully catching a starling (and then proceeded to feed on it for a couple hours). Is there a conservation website or something to report it?

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