Dr. Suchitra Narayanan
@suchitra.bsky.social
PhD candidate/NSF Fellow @UHIfA/@CenterForAstro ❀ astrochemist ✿ @astrobites author 𑁍 chemical & biomolecular eng/astrophysics @UCBerkeley ✾ @AAS_SC ❁ my views
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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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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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We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗
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!
Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!
August 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗
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!
Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!
August 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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!
Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!
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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 🙌
July 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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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
🧪🔭☄️👩🔬 #womeninSTEM
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...).
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…
astrobites.org
July 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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
🧪🔭☄️👩🔬 #womeninSTEM
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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 !!! : )
p.s. congrats to Dr. @suchitra.bsky.social !!! : )
July 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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 !!! : )
p.s. congrats to Dr. @suchitra.bsky.social !!! : )
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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.
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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June 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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.
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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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
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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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May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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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.
They hired a perfumer to recreate the "smell of a comet" - www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m....
It was distinctive.
What Do You Think a Comet Smells Like? – Europlanet
www.europlanet.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
They hired a perfumer to recreate the "smell of a comet" - www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m....
It was distinctive.
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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.
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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April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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.
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
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102
Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102
Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01102
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01102
Suchitra Narayanan, Elettra L. Piacentino, Karin I. Öberg, Mahesh Rajappan.
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🚨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.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨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.
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#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 ✨
January 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#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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go see Suchi today !! 🔭
@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
January 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
go see Suchi today !! 🔭
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Great presentations, engaging discussions, and valuable community inputs at the ExoPAG 31 meeting! A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed 📸👏
January 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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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@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
January 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
@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.
November 25, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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.