Physicist/planetary scientist/astrobiologist based at Harvard. Soccer dad in training. Social media native since 2024.
Robin Wordsworth
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A pretty good idea!
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
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
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
AGU petition to save NCAR. Please share widely! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
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It's inspiring to see this result and speech from the Green party in the UK today!
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/...
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...
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.
Robin Wordsworth
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! đȘđ§Șđ #Astrobiology www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-...
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
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The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
âWe donât have to fight dirty to fight for change,â says Green partyâs new MP after Gorton and Denton byelection win
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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...
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
When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanityâs greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of discovery on another planet. A new National Academies report identifies the highes...
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
