iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 16/09/2026

Weather and climate models are evolving, so are the skills needed to use them The new LFRic Atmosphere Training course supports the modelling community by building the skills, confidence and shared expertise needed for next-generation weather and climate models. 🔗 More in our blog bit.ly/3T6N5AQ

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Learning LFRic: a new modelling system for weather prediction and climate projections

LFRic advances weather and climate modelling through supercomputing innovation, collaboration, and next-generation training programs.

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Massive Exoplanet MEME Exhibition @exomemeevent.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🚨 The schedule for the MEME 2026 main event is ready 🚨 Join us on January 30th at 17:00 (CET) to hear the talks by Anja C. Andersen and Adam Dipert 🔭🧪 ✨ If you want your memes featured in this year’s exhibition please submit them through our website asap ✨ massiveexoplanetmemeexhibition.com/home

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My cat's face when he is farting

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Jaws 🦈 @gonejoshin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Monday 😮‍💨

An owl drenched in water making it look forlorn and exhausted

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ExoMars-OU @exomars-ou.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Our group have been awarded another grant from the UK Space Agency to continue to develop detector technology that will contribute to a new imaging instrument for Mars, as part of the International Mars Ice Mapper and ESA Lightship-1 missions. tinyurl.com/588z4ews

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Planetary Research Cooperative @coop.planetary-research.org · 01/12/2025

🎉 Planetary Resarch, our diamond open access journal for #PlanetaryScience, will open for submissions on January 1, 2026 (or earlier for beta testers)! 🎉 planetary-research.org

Screen shot of the Planetary Research landing page.

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Hannah Wakeford @stellarplanet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

CDT in Aerosol Science is welcoming applications for fully-funded PhD studentships as part of our 8th cohort to start in autumn 2026: www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/ Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships! #PhD #academicjobs

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2026 projects | Aerosol Science CDT

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Laura Kreidberg @lkreidberg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Exoplanet atmosphere characterization is built on a foundation of lab data and chemistry. We need more reaction rates, cross sections, & line lists, at a broader range of conditions than the Solar System. Got together with Earth/planetary scientists to comment on this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical da...

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paulmolliere.bsky.social @paulmolliere.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Seeking PhD candidates that want to do a thesis on exoplanet atmosphere retrieval + machine learning inference. Please apply by 31 October to Dr. Max Dax's and my shared project here: is.mpg.de/news/new-max... . Abstract for the thesis project is attached to this thread below!

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New Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network Starts Call for Applications for its Ph.D. Program

The Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network is a Ph.D. Program that provides doctoral researchers with fully funded Ph.D. fellowships and a pool of outstanding faculty comprising directors and inde...

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

First week @esa.int and they're setting up for an open day which sold out in 6 MINUTES! Didn’t get any but I still got to go in the virtual ISS module.

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Day 1 as an archival research visitor @esa.int in Madrid! We're looking at data from the Venus Express mission collected during the 2000s.

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Duncan Christie @astroduncan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Dr. Anjali Piette of the University of Birmingham gave a wonderful talk on connecting sub-Neptune atmospheres to their interiors as a part of the BOWIE+ Seminar Series. The video is now available on Youtube. #exoplanets #astronomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHrT...

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Demystifying the Sub-Neptune Frontier with JWST by Anjali Piette

YouTube video by BOWIE+ Seminars

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Your Friday night weird Venus simulation plot... guess everyone gets dry patches sometimes 🙃

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Most Finnish day: Suomenlinna, Fazer liquorice, and heavy metal #EPSCDPS2025 #EPSC2025

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

On my way to Helsinki for #EPSC2025 - one of my favourite places in the world! I'm giving a talk on Monday afternoon in the Venus atmospheric dynamics session

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Your last saved pic is your philosophy

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ExoMars-OU @exomars-ou.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Several of our team members will be attending #EPSCDPS2025 in Helsinki next week to present our latest research including the latest NOMAD-UVIS ozone retrievals, optimising lander networks on Mars, exploration of the martian chlorine cycle and atmospheric dynamics on Venus.

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Just a little Thursday evening Lagrangian trajectory analysis. Venus causes me soooo many headaches by rotating backwards.

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Funky stuff happening with carbon monoxide under the clouds on Venus... 60 hours of 6 hourly simulation output

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I found a 20 Jamaican dollar coin on my desk this morning and I have no idea how it got there

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/06/2025

US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

At this point it would be a relief to find out the world is actually being run by a shadowy cabal of space reptilians

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chuck 🐦💐 @chuckdrawsthings.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

a drawing of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak. the background is a bunch of dollars. purple text says "yeah can i get a uhhhhhhhhh crumb"

a photo of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I need this cat !

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Every year THE PEOPLE have to come in and fix the jury votes

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is my favourite Eurovision ever!! So glad the power ballad obsession seems to be waning

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I can't believe Milkshake Man didn't make it through. They must be disqualifying AUS on purpose so they don't embarrass the continent by winning all the time. #Eurovision #ESC

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Guy Watkins @guywatkins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Open University academic, Professor Mahesh Anand, is the first UK scientist to be given Moon samples from the Chang'e-5 China mission. @openuniversity.bsky.social #openuniversity #planetaryscience 🪐 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Open University scientist given Moon samples from China mission

Prof Mahesh Anand is the first UK scientist chosen to receive samples from the 2020 Chang'e-5 probe.

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Robin Wordsworth @rdword.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Sub-Neptunes shrink and oxidize as they cross the radius valley and become rocky planets, in a new paper led by Collin Cherubim arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05055 #astronomy #science

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Under the Midnight Sun - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/226G5h9

In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. Just weeks later, the berg named B-44 shattered into more than 20 fragments. On December 15, 2017, the Landsat 8 Earth-orbitng satellite took this image of the broken berg. An area of relatively warm water, known as a polyna, has kept the water ice free between the iceberg chunks and the glacier front. The polynya’s warm water could have caused the rapid breakup of B-44.

This image was acquired near midnight local time. Based on parameters including the azimuth of the Sun and its elevation above the horizon, as well as the length of the shadows, it is estimated that the iceberg rises about 49 meters above the water line. That would put the total thickness of the berg—above and below the water surface—at about 315 meters.

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Denis Sergeev @meteodenny.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely! More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

3D visualisation of dust and wind currents in the atmosphere of Mars as simulated by the UK Met Office Unified Model. Image credit: Danny McCulloch (U. Exeter).

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

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Trump cuts threaten measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices

The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Why isn't there a band called The Multilayer Perceptrons?

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Maureen Cohen @maureenjcohen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

NIST's atomic spectra are a cornerstone of scientific research around the world. Laying off this research group does nothing but undermine fundamental science to no benefit! chng.it/vYdSkb9bHP

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