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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ya girl is EN ROUTE to the Ross Sea!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Wow, thank you for reposting!! 🙏🙏🙏

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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...

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Donate to Help Emma get to Antarctica--with proper gear!, organized by Emma Puranen

For those of you who don't know....I've been just a bit obsessed with Anta… Emma Puranen needs your support for Help Emma get to Antarctica--with proper gear!

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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!

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Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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...

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Earned settlement

The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

4) Grotto. What it sounds like to Americans: a cold, wet, slimy sea cave. What it means to Brits: the place where you meet Santa 🎅

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

For anyone wondering what it is I do!

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AstrobiologyOU @astrobiologyou.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

📣 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...

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Projects – CENTA

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Working on a list here, if anyone has more!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

3) Devolved. In the UK devolution/devolved powers means to the governments of individual countries within the UK, like the devolved government of Scotland for example. To an American, sounds like you’re insulting one’s intelligence or talking about cavemen.

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

2) Warden. This one might be specific to certain unis, but basically means an RA (Resident Assistant). Sounds like a jailer to Americans.

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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.

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American Scientist @americanscientist.org · 30/09/2025

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."

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Crossroads of Science and Fiction

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

(To be clear, the fear was that I should never go to sea because anything would make me sick. I’m sure I’d feel rotten in a big sea but I’ve proved to myself I can function fairly normally in 2-3m waves which is a huge victory!)

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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 💪🏼

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Who speaks for extraterrestrial ecosystems?: Why ET should have standing

Christopher Stone's pioneering 1972 paper “Should Trees Have Standing?” proposed legal rights and standing for the environment under a guardianship mo…

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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.

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Re: Frankenstein | Re: Dracula | Re: Carmilla @redracula.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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

Re: Frankenstein directors: Lauren Shippen & Emma Johanna Puranen

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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!!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I feel your pain from the other end of the spectrum!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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

Screenshot from blog post that reads: Nor, especially, can they be addressed by American researchers moving abroad. When someone suggests that researchers just move abroad, I smile wanly, because I know that whoever is suggesting it has no idea of the scale of U.S. higher education relative to other markets nor of the difficulties other countries are facing. (What, just move to the many financially secure institutions of the United Kingdom? If you don’t keep up with UK higher ed news, then you may not recognize that’s a darkly bitter joke.) Some folks will find moving abroad attractive but it is simply not possible for the 1.4 million U.S. post-secondary instructors to just move to Canada.

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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

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Elizabeth Stanway @tiylaya.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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!

AI-generated view of a planet under a red dwarf sun, with title and link to blog.
www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/scarlet_skies

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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!

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

And then of course there’s all my complex feelings about the extent to which I do or don’t even identify with certain places…

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

“Everything happening over there sounds like satire but it isn’t.” “I can’t believe that’s the country I admired as a kid.” Two statements from coworkers recently.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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. 🪡🧵

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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...

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The mirror when my phone is at my eye line 😒

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Emma Johanna Puranen @spacesword.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

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 ☕️

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