The Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe Senior Fellowship programme is now open. Further details and how to apply www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/lclu-se... @leverhulme.ac.uk
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The Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe Senior Fellowship programme is now open. Further details and how to apply www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/lclu-se... @leverhulme.ac.uk
BBC News: Scientists find 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Happening Today! Join us for a live talk with Professor Nikku Madhusudhan 14:00 BST
www.youtube.com/live/yc0757j...
Been hearing rumours of this discovery for some time. At any other time in history, this would dominate the news cycle. These days, it probably won't even make the monologues of late night talk shows.
📰Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system. #NikkuMadhusudhan will be giving a live talk about these results 📆 17 April 🕑 14:00 BST www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc07.... 📖 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/stro...
Fully Paid Scholarships available for women in #astronomy. #TaughtMPhilPSLU @cambridgeastro.bsky.social is excited to 📣 scholarships for Home-fee status female students. #theParasolFoundation and #MurrayEdwardsCollege
www.pslu.masters.cam.ac.uk.
...and it's a wrap. What an incredibly memorable and scientifically stimulating day all participants have had...until the next time!
@egmitchell.bsky.social making the concluding remarks to the engaging audience & thanking to Selen Etingü and Alison Read for their excellent management & to the co-organizers Ross Findlay, Bence Csakany, Tuhin Ghosh and Abhishek Upadhyay.
Best poster & presentation awards by popular voting goes to Skyla White & Tereza Constantinou, respectively.
Moreover, a symbolically honorary award to William McMahon for his talk amidst the only one technical glitch!
One of the many highlights of annual day symposium has aptly been Didier Queloz's wonderful sciency socks 👌 #Planetary #ArtScience
Jose Devienne from Physics presents the last talk of the symposium on "You spin me round – Exchange-driven reorientation of magnetic states in magnetite by chiral molecules and (potential) implications for the origin of life".
S. Furkan Ozturk from Physics speaks on the Origin of Life's Homochirality: From Magnetic Minerals to a Homochiral Genome.
Euan Furness from Zoology Department talks about Invaders in the Garden of Ediacara: the evolution of the first predatory ecologies.
Fantastic day ahead at the @lclu.bsky.social Annual Science Day with talks from 9 different departments @cambridgeuni.bsky.social 👌
Ziwei Liu speaks on Fractionation of Carbon Isotopes in Carboxysulfitic Chemistry.
Sai Shruthi Murali from Institute of Astronomy talks about Investigation of Stability of HCN Under Wide Range of Geochemical Conditions.
Princess Buma-at from the lab of @egmitchell.bsky.social speaks on "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada".
2nd poster session and a coffee break is underway!
Catriona McDonald from Institute of Astronomy talks on Determining the efficiency of volatile delivery via cometary impacts.
Ross Findlay from Department of Earth Sciences speaks on "Is there a comet hiding in our meteorite collections?"
Tuhin Ghosh from Institute of Astronomy talks about giant impact ejecta driving enhanced atmospheric loss!
Joshua Shea from Department of Earth Sciences speaks about mantle melting on Mars with applications for sample return!
Keynote speech by Alex Archibald about what can we learn from bio-signatures on Earth about life in the Universe?
Participants discussing over the poster session with coffee break and lunch break!
William McMahon from Department of Earth Sciences, Terrestrial silicate weathering and the emergence of land plants!
Tereza Constantinou from Institute of Astronomy talk about Comparative Biosignature!
Edouard Barrier from Institute of Astronomy talks on Atmospheric dynamics and climates of sub-Neptunes
