Emma Johanna Puranen

Please do!

NO SUNSET TODAY

Ya girl is EN ROUTE to the Ross Sea!

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

Wow, thank you for reposting!! 🙏🙏🙏

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!

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...

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!

Royal Astronomical Society today!!

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

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...

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!

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 🎅

For anyone wondering what it is I do!

📣 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...

Oh absolutely!! Good one

A classic

Working on a list here, if anyone has more!

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.

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

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.

From the South Pole to the stars: Antarctica and outer space The histories of Antarctica and outer space share relational trajectories. In our modern era of increasing commercialisation of space and discussion o…

Very happy to announce the latest In Vivo article in Endeavour from @spacesword.bsky.social! Now available to read open access #polarhistory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Crossroads of Science and Fiction

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."

(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!)

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!

@astrobiologyou.bsky.social

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…

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 💪🏼

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

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.

Re: Frankenstein directors: Lauren Shippen & Emma Johanna Puranen

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

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!!

Nothing changes, huh?