Physicist/planetary scientist/astrobiologist based at Harvard. Soccer dad in training. Social media native since 2024.
Robin Wordsworth
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It's inspiring to see this result and speech from the Green party in the UK today!
AGU petition to save NCAR. Please share widely! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) community webinars are starting this week! Please join if you're interested in contributing to NASA's next astrobiology roadmap.
Sign-up link is here: science.nasa.gov/astrobiology...
Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.
https://cnn.it/49FLkR0
We have a new paper out in PNAS led by Charlotte Minsky! Our research indicates that around 700 million years ago, Earth's climate may have been just One Snowball After Another.
sciencex.com/news/2026-04...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
A pretty good idea!
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Next week, March 31st at 6:00 pm EDT, head to the Harvard Geological Museum to hear Andrew H. Knoll discuss his new book, Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation. He will be in conversation with @rdword.bsky.social.
RSVP is required for this free, in-person event: buff.ly/8Qm7Ahz
Robin Wordsworth
Katie Mack
Princeton University Press
This is lunacy. The Chinese scholars I know are among the hardest working, most selfless people I've ever encountered. They want to contribute to our intellectual endeavors, and they make our research teams better.
I'm a day late with this because I was at the National Academies for this briefing. The big takeaway is that the search for life should be the top science priority when we send humans to land on #Mars! 🪐🧪🔭 #Astrobiology www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-...
The NASA Astrobiology Strategy from 2015 has been an excellent document for NASA planning and advancement of astrobiology. In the past 10 years, the National
During the Sturtian glacial period during the Neoproterozoic Era, Earth underwent periods of global glaciation, which have been described as either "Snowball" and "Slushball" Earth scenarios. In Snowb...
When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of discovery on another planet. A new National Academies report identifies the highes...
www.nationalacademies.org
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
