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/

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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We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗

Dr. Suchitra Narayanan@suchitra.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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!

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!

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 🙌

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

Dr. Suchitra Narayanan@suchitra.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...).

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 !!! : )

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.

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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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

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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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.

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.

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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Thermal Desorption Kinetics, Binding Energies, and Entrapment of Methyl Mercaptan Ices https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102 Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.

🚨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.

#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 ✨

go see Suchi today !! 🔭

Astrobites@astrobites.bsky.social · 2y ago

@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

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!

Great presentations, engaging discussions, and valuable community inputs at the ExoPAG 31 meeting! A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed 📸👏

@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

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.