Emma Johanna Puranen

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!

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

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

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.

If you won't believe me, here's Paul

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For real though, why is is ALWAYS Reviewer 2?

(Addressing comments on two papers this week lol)

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

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

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!

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!

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…

“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.

‘What the hell’s happening to your country?’ Traveling as an American under Trump 2.0 | Shanti Nelson My American accent inspired pity, empathy and utter confusion. I feel the same: it’s as though we’ve entered hospice care

As an American living abroad, this is my day-to-day: ‘What the hell’s happening to your country?’ Traveling as an American under Trump 2.0 | Shanti Nelson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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. 🪡🧵

New slogan for Milton Keynes 😢

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...

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

There Is Basically One Point to Space Exploration. Right Now, We’re Missing It. Efforts to scrub DEI from NASA's websites get it all wrong.

I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us.
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😱 I’m on the Wikipedia Did You Know for today! (The page it links to cites my paper)

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

The mirror when my phone is at my eye line 😒

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 ☕️

Perhaps I get too emotional about personified objects but i HAD to give them a hug 🥰

Got bopped on the head with a 400 year old piece of cloth, and thus have graduated with my PhD from St Andrews!

🥳 Congratulations to the Dundee Astronomical Society who have successfully fought tooth and nail to save the #Mills Observatory! By securing charitable funding+sponsorship & showing the Council just how special it is, the recommendation is that Mills remains open!!🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Slide with text: Astronomerology II Revisiting the relationship between professional astronomy and science fiction on the Cosmic Stories blog www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/astronomerology_ii

It's time for a new blog entry! Today is a bit different to my normal focus - instead I'm revisiting my study of the relationship between professional astronomers and SF... astronomer-ology.

Comments (and new examples) always welcome!

www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/astronomerology_ii

Thank you, glad to be here!