Rachel Kirby

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💫 Studying a PhD in space science while learning to live gently on our own special planet 🧶 sew / knit / make 🪐 she/her
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My new book with Simon Clews: 'Be visible or vanish' is in the last stages of the publishing pipeline. The book is for researchers to communicate with wider audiences. The publisher agreed, at the last minute, to let us pull the chapter that had a lot of content about how to engage on Twitter (thank goodness). The production manager has given us until Monday to do a rewrite 👀 ... I feel so unprepared as I have only been here for days, so beg your indulgence to read this new version if you want to and offer feedback. I avoided a Mastodon 'how to' which I am not qualified to write and tried to keep it high level. I trust this is a safe space to share work in progress. Interested particularly in what PhD students and postdocs think, but open to all feedback. Thanks in advance if you engage with it. PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d4Y1nzGEHe_x636IqtCWNK-1It1eQB0M/view?usp=share_link - you can email on [email protected] if you don't want to offer feedback here.
Want to read more? Check out the publication below! And a huge thanks to all the coauthors and everyone who supported me though this process. 3/3 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g1UN3p4ZQgL4
This design is based on our model for the formation of IIE iron meteorites. It shows an asteroid being impacted and the formation of a series of melt lenses and dikes made of metal and silicate melt through the impact structure. 2/3
I #KnitMyPhD! Asteroid impacts, molten metal and 4.5 billion year old space rocks - you can read all about it in our recently published article 1/3