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Ilsa Cooke

@Ilsastellar

Astrochemist & physical chemist from downunderer ❄️💫 | Asst. Prof @UBCChem 🇨🇦 | @astrolabIPR 🇫🇷 | PhD @UVA 🇺🇲 | BSc @otago 🇳🇿 | she/her 📚🚴‍♀️🌲

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Ilsa Cooke
Ilsa Cooke@Ilsastellar·
Really honoured to be a part of this cohort!! This is such a unique award that not only helps early career faculty enhance their research programs, but also innovate in teaching and learning!
Research Corporation for Science Advancement@RCSA1

RCSA welcomes 24 early career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2026 #CottrellScholar Awards. Each awardee receives $120,000. Congratulations to this outstanding class! wp.me/pgj04D-aAu

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Green Bank Observatory
Green Bank Observatory@GreenBankObserv·
NEW from #AAS246: Largest Aromatic Molecule Found in Deep Space Discovery (using GBT data!) of seven-ring cyanocoronene in a star-forming cloud challenges assumptions about the abundance and formation of complex organic molecules in the universe. greenbankobservatory.org/front-page-new…
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Gabi Wenzel
Gabi Wenzel@gbwnzl·
And last but certainly not least: Our detection of the 7-ring PAH cyanocoronene came out today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters! We’re extra excited to see this molecule in high abundance in TMC-1 but don’t understand how it got there! Wanna know more? iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…
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The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss
The Astrochemistry Research Group @ Ole Miss@UMAstroChem·
Dr. 410 is presenting at @UBCChem today, "The Molecular Building Blocks of Planets (& Other Star Stuff)." Thanks to @Ilsastellar for the invitation! It's a beautiful place and a beautiful day to be on the Pacific Coast!
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Łukasz Tychoniec
Łukasz Tychoniec@ltychoniec·
Missing sulfur problem? Solved! Well... 20% of it. New results from our #JOYS collaboration points to sulfur-bearing salt as a possible hiding place of this crucial atom! Work led by Katie Slavicinska.
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Ilsa Cooke
Ilsa Cooke@Ilsastellar·
@AzizaS I'm not amo or quantum but I have used a few different companies for custom UHV. MDC, KJL and Pfeiffer are reliable but expensive. We have bought custom UHV from Ancorp a lot, which is priced well but have had varying results. There's also Vacgen(UK) and Huntington Vac
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Aziza Suleymanzade
Aziza Suleymanzade@AzizaS·
Hey quantum/amo experimentalists, any good experiences with custom small UHV chambers aside from Kimball? 🔏
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Ilsa Cooke@Ilsastellar·
The origins of biological homochirality on Earth are not well understood. Moore et al. measure a large asymmetry in the photolysis of the amino acid leucine in p-H2 matrices, providing new clues to this mystery 🧬💫pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
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Keith Smith
Keith Smith@DrKeithSmith·
This paper is now available in the final nicely-formatted journal layout, and with my editor's summary. science.org/doi/pdf/10.112… (PDF version, HTML version is in the previous tweet)
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Ilsa Cooke@Ilsastellar·
Those of you who followed our recent detection of 1-cyanopyrene may have wondered about the other two cyanopyrene isomers. In this paper, we report detections of the other two isomers, 2- and 4-cyanopyrene! We discuss what this means for CN addition reactions in TMC-1.
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Gabi Wenzel@gbwnzl

We detected all three cyanopyrene isomers in the cold dark cloud TMC-1. Their observed abundance ratio of ~2:1:2 reflects the available carbon sites for CN addition to pyrene. 👀 We discuss this further in our recent article appearing in @NatureAstronomy today. ✨ #astrochemistry

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Nature Astronomy
Nature Astronomy@NatureAstronomy·
.@gbwnzl et al. detect the radio signatures of two forms of cyanopyrene, a small molecular sheet of carbon, in a cold interstellar cloud known for its rich chemistry. Their findings shed light on the origin and fate of carbon matter in interstellar space: nature.com/articles/s4155…
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Gabi Wenzel
Gabi Wenzel@gbwnzl·
We detected all three cyanopyrene isomers in the cold dark cloud TMC-1. Their observed abundance ratio of ~2:1:2 reflects the available carbon sites for CN addition to pyrene. 👀 We discuss this further in our recent article appearing in @NatureAstronomy today. ✨ #astrochemistry
Nature Astronomy@NatureAstronomy

.@gbwnzl et al. detect the radio signatures of two forms of cyanopyrene, a small molecular sheet of carbon, in a cold interstellar cloud known for its rich chemistry. Their findings shed light on the origin and fate of carbon matter in interstellar space: nature.com/articles/s4155…

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UHMReactionDynamics
UHMReactionDynamics@UHMRxnDynamics·
Pacifichem Symposium Announcement: Astrochemistry and Astrobiology beyond the Second Period Honolulu, HI, USA 15-20 December 2025 #physical" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pacifichem.org/technical-prog… This symposium features 20 invited, and 20 contributed, and poster talks.
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Emily J Chin
Emily J Chin@e8chin·
One of the things they don't tell you about being a PI is how much you'll worry about funding. Actual, deep, visceral worry. It's not so much for *myself* (since I'm funded 9 months), but for students and postdocs. And in this current environment, the worry is only increasing.
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Ilsa Cooke@Ilsastellar·
And we found it lurking in Taurus! Not only that, we found it was surprisingly abundant, containing a large portion of the carbon in this region of space. Our findings offer another piece of the puzzle about the lifecycle of carbon in our galaxy!
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