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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan

@suchitra.bsky.social
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Center for Astrochemical Studies Postdoc @MPE-garching 𑁍 formerly: NSF Fellow @UHIfA/@CenterForAstro ❀ @astrobites author ✿ chemical & biomolecular eng/astrophysics @UCBerkeley ✾ @AAS_SC ❁ my views

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
From @qwasistellar.bsky.social: Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/10/tell-me-why-a-case-for-humane-astrophysics/
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Tell me why? A case for Human(e) Astrophysics
Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? Or because ast...
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Aw! Likewise, excited to join you!!! 🙂
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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics @mpe-garching.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My advisor, Karin Öberg, says you’re ready to graduate once you start dressing like your advisor. It’s therefore fitting that yesterday we matched (unplanned) during my dissertation talk :) Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!
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Joanna Drążkowska @astrojoanna.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Almost 14 years ago, I started developing a Monte Carlo code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is now publicly available! 🚀 This was possible thanks to the hard work of @turbulenthuman.bsky.social ‪and @nereagurru.bsky.social‬ 🙌
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
thank u Huei and astrobites 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🩵 I’m so glad you get meaning from it. I also have to look back on it and confront these feelings daily 🥲
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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
visiting this piece by @suchitra.bsky.social today as I'm having trouble focusing on my astronomy work in light of... all that's going on 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬 #womeninSTEM
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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
reason # 1,000,000 why i love @astrobites.bsky.social sm: whenever one of passes our PhD defense we post in #random a congrats and shower them with fun emojis. I think it speaks the strong community and care of each other in the collaboration. ❤️ p.s. congrats to Dr. @suchitra.bsky.social !!! : )
A Slack screenshot of me (Huei Sears) posting a congratulations announcement to Dr. Suchi Narayanan.  There are at least 18 different Slack emoji reacts selected with at least 5 people having clicked each.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/06/2025
SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS! I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science. h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.
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Fund astronomy, not genocide.
You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I was reminded of an outreach thing the Rosetta team did: They hired a perfumer to recreate the "smell of a comet" - www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m.... It was distinctive.
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What Do You Think a Comet Smells Like?  – Europlanet
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Omg this is really neat, thanks for sharing!
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today on the #arXiv: Narayanan et al. 2025, "Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices" - arxiv.org/abs/2504.01102 If you were wondering what a protoplanetary disc might be said to smell like.
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Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices
Organosulfur species are potential major carriers of sulfur in the interstellar medium, as well as interesting ingredients in prebiotic chemistry. The most fundamental question regarding these species...
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Haha, this made me laugh! Thankfully i don't have to smell my reactants :)
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arXiv bot (astro-ph) @krxiv-astro-ph.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102 Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01102
arXiv abstract link
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Aw thanks for thinking of me Mark! And happy to chat Kate! :)
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 21/01/2025
#AAS245 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 245th AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD. It was a GREAT week of science & we couldn't have done it without you. See you in Anchorage for #AAS246 (call for proposals opens soon!). #ExploreAstronomy ✨
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
go see Suchi today !! 🔭
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Hi #AAS245! I'll be giving my dissertation talk today, Mon, 1/13, 3:10pm (142.07D) in Maryland Ballroom D! :) I'm excited to share that my work received the AAS Doxsey Prize. Also thank you to #ExoPAG31 for the opportunity to give an early career research talk yesterday!
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Ilaria Pascucci @pascucci.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Great presentations, engaging discussions, and valuable community inputs at the ExoPAG 31 meeting! A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed 📸👏
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
@suchitra.bsky.social's dissertation talk: Understanding organosulfur chemistry in star- and planet-forming regions using experiments, observations, and theory on Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:10–3:30 PM in Maryland Ballroom D
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
so neat!! can't wait to see your results :)
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I wanted to be abundantly clear re: my values and hope that this platform can be what Twitter once was. I care about Earth and its people/species, first and foremost. 💙 If you care about similar things (incl. space/chemistry/origins of life!) please follow along :) ~now, back to post-doc apps.
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As I wrote, "As astronomers, we reckon with the fragility, beauty, and utter chance of our existence on a daily basis. All of the groundbreaking research we are privileged to do and are surrounded by does not matter unless we have a planet to live on."
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Beyond just astrochemistry, I am passionate about using our understanding of other planets to better understand our own (and advocate for) Earth. A few years ago, I published an article in @astrobites.bsky.social on astrophysics and eco-anxiety (astrobites.org/2021/06/04/a...).
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The “Pale Blue Dot” Blues
This Beyond Astrobites post discusses reconciling a career in astrophysics with eco-anxiety. When surrounded by our Earthly problems, specifically climate change, how can we find fulfillment in our…
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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hi! I just wanted to introduce myself on here officially. I am Suchi(tra) Narayanan, a fifth (& final)-year #astrophysics PhD candidate/NSF Fellow studying the chemistry of planet formation using experiments, observations, and theory to reconcile what is known as the missing sulfur problem.
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