@karenannedevoil.bsky.social
Former Marketing Dir, Marketing Outreach Officer at Center for Planetary Sciences at UCL/BBK, RAS Trustee, RAS diversity committee, UKPF leadership committee, Space Inspirations STEM Ambassador.
Read a report of the recent Wonders of The Dark Sky Stargazing event held at @woodoaksfarm.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the astronomers, organisers, volunteers & everyone who made this event possible
📷 Sue Lacey
@chilternsnl.bsky.social @WestLondonAstro
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/wonders-of-t...
Registration and abstract submission open! Calling all UK-based Early-Career Planetary Scientists 🪐 🌒 ☄️ 🚀
Please join us for the 19th UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting on 9th January 2026, hosted by the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, in London.
www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
What a wonderful evening Stargazing at the Wonders of the Dark Sky event at @Woodoaksfarm@bsky.social. Clear skies and amazing volunteer astronomers. Thanks to WOLAS, SWHAS, Chiltern Society, Woodoaks and Colne Valley Park.
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Advert for the 19th UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting on an ombre blue background with black-fine line ink graphics of solar system planets and satellites across the top, text below that with the meeting title and then saying: Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, London; and below that: Friday 9th January 2026. The logos of the CPS show on the left and the UKPF on the right.
🗓️ Save the date! Calling all UK-based early-career planetary scientists 🪐 🌒 ☄️ 🚀 The UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting will be held on 9 January 2026, hosted by the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, in London. Registration opening in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned!
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Professor Michele Dougherty.
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐
Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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We are delighted to announce that the UK Planetary Forum is now officially affiliated with the Royal Astronomical Society.
The UKPF was first founded in 1996 as a representative body for the UK planetary science community with the primary aim to promote planetary research in the UK.
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A successful CPS Summer Meeting 2025! Really enjoyable annual get-together of all these wonderful planetary scientists at UCL and Birkbeck 🤩 🌔🪐☄️🚀🛰️
25.06.2025 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Congratulations to CPS colleagues Steve Miller and Karen Anne Devoil @karenannedevoil.bsky.social on their recent RAS elections to Vice President (G) and Councillor (G) respectively! 🌟👏👏
13.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We’re thrilled to announce our exhibition, Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?, opening 16 May 2025. 🚀
Rooted in the latest cutting-edge scientific research from the Museum, the exhibition will uncover evidence that life could exist beyond our planet.
Professor Steve Miller, of UCL, was also elected as a vice president (G) and the University of Sheffield's Professor Paul Crowther as a vice president (A).
Karen Anne Devoil (G), Dr Cyrielle Opitom (A), Dr Mike Peel (A) and Professor Andrew Curtis (G) were elected as councillors.
Light-grey half globe of icy moon Enceladus, criss-crossed with aqua blue lines and cracks, with a few scattered small craters, sat centrally on a dark starry backdrop with wisps of blue nebulae. The logos for the Centre for Planetary Sciences and the APEX seminar series are shown in the left and right corners respectively, and toward the top-centre, above the moon, the title APEX and subtitle underneath Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration Seminar Series.
APEX this week: We are delighted to welcome Dr Sebastiaan Krijt @exeter.ac.uk to talk about his research on 'Planet formation with ALMA & JWST: Signatures of past and ongoing pebble migration in protoplanetary discs' 📡 🛰️ Fri 21st March, 1pm
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Including another fabulous Mars Week event!
'Astrobiology - The hunt for alien life on Mars and beyond' A public lecture by research scientist, presenter & author, Prof Lewis Dartnell @lewisdartnell.bsky.social
Fri 7th March, 6:15pm at UCL
🎟️ your-universe2025-ucl-fri-astrobiology.eventbrite.co.uk
Join us next Sat 8th March from 6pm at UCL to hear from our experts about Missions to Mars: current and future exploration of the Red Planet! A FREE public outreach event with talks + panel Q&A 🚀 🔴 🛰️ 🪐 ✨ #MarsWeek
Book your tickets at: mars-missions-ucl-cps.eventbrite.co.uk
Photo of History of Science Museum in Oxford, UK with a bike to the right and pretty white clouds and early morning light above the building.
UKPF Early Career meeting sign in grounds of Oxford Physics
Inside of lecture theatre showing UKPF ECM title slide on screens
UKPF logo with cartoon image of Earth, Mars and the Moon sitting within white amphitheatre.
Excited to be at the UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting today (UKPF ECM) @ox.ac.uk! 🪐 ☄️ 🛰️
In preparation for us hosting in 2026! 😊
