I am not above saying that today is my birthday, if that sweetens the pot 🎉🥳

I’m going to Antarctica in less than a month (😱)!! I’ve been privileged to earn a scholarship to travel to the Ross Sea and make a dream come true. However, I’m crowdfunding to help with the flight and gear costs—are you able to chip in or share? www.gofundme.com/f/emma-get-t...

Are you working on problems at the intersection of astrobiology and philosophy? Submit an abstract to the session that @spacesword.bsky.social, Emilie Lafleche, and I are convening at #AbSciCon26!

Royal Astronomical Society today!!

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

There was something of a strange and special joy in opening our Midsummer Night’s Dream production yesterday, on the first day we saw snow this season!

For anyone wondering what it is I do!

📣 Come and work with us! FOUR PhD vacancies are now open in AstrobiologyOU for Oct 2026 start. Funding is via the Central England NERC Training Alliance @centa.bsky.social For details and how to apply see the project descriptions. centa.ac.uk/projects/?_s...

List of words that are actually fairly neutral in Britain but sound alarming to Americans: 1) Manifesto. Means a platform (like a political platform or plan for something) in the UK but sounds like the crazed writings of a serial killer to Americans.

Very happy to announce the latest In Vivo article in Endeavour from @spacesword.bsky.social! Now available to read open access #polarhistory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When Star Trek first aired in 1966, it posited a universe bursting with planetary possibilities—a bold move at a time before anyone knew of a single planet beyond our Solar System. Read more of Michael L. Wong's review of "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact."

Conquered a big personal fear (seasickness) taking the ferry to and from Spain over the weekend and spending three days and nights at sea—and I was completely fine!

Paper out today in Space Policy! An academic riff on Christopher Stone’s seminal environmental law paper “Should Trees have Standing?” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... first paper of my postdoc 💪🏼

A Guardian piece by a fellow Emma that reads almost scarily targeted at me 😭

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

We're so excited to have @laurenshippen.com and @spacesword.bsky.social directing Re: Frankenstein!

Got tix to see Taskmaster in the studio audience!! The email gods were kind to me today 🙏 happened to see the email ten mins after it was sent; by forty mins after it was all waitlist. SO EXCITED!!

Nothing changes, huh?

Working on eating greener/more local. There’s an urban farm not 200m from my flat where you can pay a fiver for a mystery bag of seasonal veg. Today I got courgette, runner beans, and spring onion!

When the year you started your PhD is the only one not available on the dropdown menu…the 2020 curse continues!

If you won't believe me, here's Paul musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

For real though, why is is ALWAYS Reviewer 2? (Addressing comments on two papers this week lol)

Really need to start being more active on this platform, so many of the cool kids are here!

New blog post! Today in my #CosmicStories #ScienceandSF blog, I'm returning to #Astronomy and looking at red dwarf stars and their planets in science and science fiction. Including works by Blish, Chambers, Asimov, Latham, Steele and others. www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstorie... Comments welcome!

Started the day with an 8am call with someone in Australia and ended it with a 4pm call with someone in California. Such is the academic life!

As an American living abroad, this is my day-to-day: ‘What the hell’s happening to your country?’ Traveling as an American under Trump 2.0 | Shanti Nelson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

March 4th For Democracy!! 🚨 Get more info, resources, or find a protest: fiftyfifty.one (check back next week for protest listings). 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social FAQs + talking points + other ways to act next. 🪡🧵

New slogan for Milton Keynes 😢

Interested in polar archives? A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal. Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...

Gave a talk at Nottingham today; they have a blackboard Einstein wrote on in 1930!

I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us. slate.com/technology/2...

😱 I’m on the Wikipedia Did You Know for today! (The page it links to cites my paper)

People don’t change, exhibits A and B: a memo at Bletchley Park during WW2 and an e-mail I received at college.

The mirror when my phone is at my eye line 😒

My first non-2020 Christmas in the UK and I made a GRAVE miscalculation about the availability of caffeine for purchase (none in the house because I move in 2 days). God bless the Costa Express machine in the 24/7 Shell station ☕️

Perhaps I get too emotional about personified objects but i HAD to give them a hug 🥰

Got bopped on the head with a 400 year old piece of cloth, and thus have graduated with my PhD from St Andrews!

🥳 Congratulations to the Dundee Astronomical Society who have successfully fought tooth and nail to save the #Mills Observatory! By securing charitable funding+sponsorship & showing the Council just how special it is, the recommendation is that Mills remains open!!🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's time for a new blog entry! Today is a bit different to my normal focus - instead I'm revisiting my study of the relationship between professional astronomers and SF... astronomer-ology. Comments (and new examples) always welcome! www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/astronomerology_ii