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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bye bye London, time to catch the train to #EPSC2026 🚅🇪🇺💫

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🟦🔵🔷🦋🐟👖🥏🧢🐳 All kinds of blue going on at the British Planetary Science Conference up in St Andrews last week. 🟦🔵🔷🦋🐟👖🥏🧢🐳 I got to talk about how we map CaSSIS channels to colours we can perceive, and what is gained and what is lost when we do this. 🟦🔵🔷🦋🐟👖🥏🧢🐳

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Seeing all these nice processing efforts on the Psyche Mars images has me returning to Frederic Hanusch's essay on how colour representations of our planet reflect back on our society, and how we could design a new "planetary palette" www.noemamag.com/the-politics...

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The Politics Of Planetary Color | NOEMA

Color once taught us to see and value our planet. It now records how we are altering it.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Meeting some other robotic explorers of the museum this evening. This is a model of ROV ISIS, that can dive over 6km deep into the blue.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I've never met him, but I love Hiro Ono's heart-on-sleeve blogging, where he shares his views from the bleeding edge of robotic solar system exploration. Today he's posted on why he's chosen to leave JPL for Georgia Tech hiroono.com/en/2026/04/2...

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My Next Phase | Hiro Ono's Odyssey

TR;DL: I’ll leave JPL and join Georgia Tech as an associate prof in July. Looking for students and post-docs in robotics, AI/ML, and space systems. If interested, LMK via this form. Dear my six-year-o...

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Today I Learned about David MacKay, his book "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms", it's influence, and it's dedication. What a guy. www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book....

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

They’re playing bossa nova from the tannoy, everyone’s lunching in the sun. It’s a beautiful day for writing methods up from the southbank, central London.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Another reason I love visiting Aber is they always have the BEST MERCH! Check out this goody bag - including v rare ExoMars mission and v cute PanCam Calibration Target pin badges!

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It was all hands on deck to run these bulk and powdered samples through the suite of goniometer and integrating sphere setups, to make sure we know our diffusive from directional reflectance measurements!

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A focus of the week was the practicalities rock reflectance spectroscopy. The St Andrews team brought down a diverse collection of clay bearing samples, collected from Mars analogues across Iceland and Scotland, for measurement with some of Aber's spectrometers

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

UK Space Agency has been great for funding early career researchers to get involved in all aspects of Enfys. Here are some snapshots of these stellar student projects from a group talk we gave to the Aber. Materials and Space Physics groups:

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Our host for the week was the legendary Matt Gunn, architect and PI of Enfys. Here he's showing me an early prototype of the sensor readout board, designed in-house at Aber Uni.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Since I last visited Aber *croaks* way back in 20-18 *croaks*, what used to be the rover test pit has been converted into a flight-instrument development lab. A whole team of engineers are running life-cycle tests and charaterizing the optical and electronic components over extreme temperatures.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Wow what a week at Aberystwyth! There's a whole village of planetary surface spectroscopists brewing in the UK, tackling everything from instrument stray-light through to phyllosilicate formation paths... and last week we came together to understand each others niches and how we all fit together!

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I’m on the long train to Aberystwyth today - my first visit this decade! Looking forward to being by the sea and talking all things Enfys with the UK PhD cohort. Hoping for some more west coast sunsets like this one

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This week I handed in our first deliverable for our ESA SKP grant, a software simulator for Enfys observations. So I celebrated with an afternoon playing every single Strat on Denmark Street

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Music for Iran Volume 4 is out now - featuring unreleased material from Mary Lattimore, White Fence, Holiday Ghosts and 23 others! Proceeds the Iranian Free Them Now charity, supporting political prisoners and displaced families in Iran wlfmusicforiran.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

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Music For Iran - Volume 4, by Music For Iran

26 track album

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Did a big thing and sold my P-Bass yesterday. Haven't used it for years, and it will go to a good friends studio. It's for the best. But here's a good memory of playing it, on dad's cover of an acid anthem, Mickey Finn's Foghorn 1992 Remix of Egyptian Empire's Horn Track: youtu.be/GvpJdNg7zNw?...

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The Horn Track

YouTube video by Stonephace - Topic

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you get one of these Bluetooth transmitters and plug it into your hifi output you can listen to your music without any phone/laptop volume limiting trickery and you will feel like you’re listening to The Bends for the first time in your life

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Started 2026 by meeting the southern ocean. Ocean Beach, Tasmania, 2026/01/07

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Had a warm return to Rikkyo University, Tokyo, this summer on a Daiwa Foundation grant, this time looking at images of asteroid Bennu captured by the Laboratory OROCHI Simulator in prep for MMX

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

On the way back from EGU I stopped by the Ries Crater and helped out with some AUPE (Aberystwyth University PanCam Emulator) image processing with the Canadian and UK space agencies. We took a lot of pictures of pre- and post-impact clays in prep for ExoMars Rosalind Franklin

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Back in May I cycled to EGU in Vienna, and gave a talk about the Supervised Spectral Parameter Learning method we've been developing, and have been applying to the CaSSIS multi-band imager on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Got to play some city pop on the Brilliant Corners soundsystem last week. First time publicly djing for a long while, and first time on turntables!

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

pov you take a break from the Martian solstice party to go see Deimos before the sun comes up

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Day 11 of cycling London-> Vienna for EGU2925: the last day! Grateful for blue skies this morning. Took a side quest finding breakfast by the abbey at Melk, didn’t hit the road till noon and ran straight into a mighty headwind. Last few ks into Vienna were in land and got the speed back. I made it!

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Day 10 of cycling London->Vienna for EGU2025: rain all day from Linz to Melk. Found an old warm lunch stop in Grein, and the owner told me I need to go back up river to the bridge and take the south bank. Was a good move - nice views of the built up north bank I was avoiding. 🤞 for ⛅️ 🚲 into Vienna

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Day 9 of cycling London->Vienna for EGU2025: rain to start the day and sodden gravel. Got drier towards Obernzell where I caught a ferry across the river into Austria. Big valley walls of forest either side, and the track followed the waters edge. Very gradual downslope most of the way down to Linz

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Day 8 of cycling to EGU2025 Vienna from London: Day 1/4 of the Danube - the last stretch! Skipped from Mainz to lovely Regensburg by train on my off day. 20C no wind and super smooth eurovelo 6 track, but it’s mostly inside the banks so not much view of the big blue. Played Joni’s Blue all the way.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Day 7 of cycling to EGU2025 Vienna from London: The wind either blows up the Rhine or down it, and it was against me all day. When it wasn’t windy it was raining. Things turned up after turning the corner at Bingen, crossing over the crop fields. Entered Mainz via a fairground around 1730.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Day 6 of cycling London->Vienna for EGU2025: After a day off in Cologne it was time for my buddy to catch the train home, and I pressed on down the Rhine to Koblenz on Easter Sunday. The river path was packed with cyclist enjoying the good weather away from traffic - barely touched a road all day.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Day 5 of cycling from London to Vienna for EGU2025: perhaps the best ride yet, out and over the hills where the pros were getting ready for the Amstel Gold Race. The sun came out over the rolling fields, and there were lots of long straight descending cycle paths for good speed into Cologne.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Day 4 of cycling from London -> Vienna for EGU2025: after a rest day in Antwerp, a cold and grey start getting out of the city, then nice canal side riding before the rain set in and the path merged with the roads. Some relief through some kind of national park. Slid into Maastricht at around 1830

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Day 3 of cycle to EGU 2025 London -> Vienna: Hit the cycle superhighways connecting Bruges -> Ghent -> Antwerp. Refined our aero drafting against the southeasterly headwind blowing in across the fields. Managed to cover our 100 km in about 4 hours of riding time. Ate a lot of sugars.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Day 2 of cycling London to EGU 2025 Vienna: calm seas for the Dover -> Calais ferry crossing. Flat roads through Dunkirk and into Belgium and another flat tire on the other bike this time. Beautiful evening through luxury woodland suburbs and into Bruges for 1900.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Day 1 of cycle to EGU2025 London -> Vienna. Had a nice stop in Rochester by the castle. Went through 2 tubes outside Canterbury. Rolled over the hills in the quiet early evening and down to the sea.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Last week the cherry trees bloomed all over the parks I cycle home through, and I’ve been playing Neneh Cherry with Hiroshi Fujiwara and Dylan’s version of wild mountain thyme from the Isle of Wight show

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Did the big ol’ London->Brighton cycle for the first time this fine spring day. That Ditchling Hill is something, reckon MSSL is somewhere along those north downs on the horizon.

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Dr Roger Blue Stabbins @rbstabbins.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🌞 🔴 🔵 Hello @bsky.app I love blue skies and I love red skies and all the things they shine on 🌋🦕🐋 I'm a post-doc in the Planetary Surfaces Group at the Natural History Museum 🚀 📷 🪨 I develop methods and instruments for spectral imaging and spectroscopy in and around the Mars system

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