Check out this article from National Geographic to hear from @caganze.bsky.social and other scientists who worked hard to make the @vrubinobs.bsky.social and its massive camera a reality: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Black In Astro is a grassroots organization that offers support and networking for Black people working in or studying astronomy and space-related fields internationally. Now 5 yrs old, it is established & looking to grow the range of support it offers. www.nature.com/articles/s41... / rdcu.be/esaqr

We are t-10 days from Rubin first light! www.scientificamerican.com/article/bloc...

Listening to Angèle during an observing to keep me awake

A Nice write-up by Astrobites of our preprint that went up on Axiv last week astrobites.org/2025/05/02/c...

I'm unfortunately not at #aas245, but here are some awesome student talks to catch! Kiyan Tavangar (Galactic dynamics, 125.02) 10:20 today Micah Oeur (Cosmo sims, 147.03) 14:30 today Ella Mathews (binary stars, 352.07) poster Wednesday @tomwagg.bsky.social (multiple stars, 449.07D) 15:00 Thursday 🔭

Folks who follow me but aren’t astronomers—you might not realize how MANY astronomers live in Pasadena—home to JPL, CalTech, & Carnegie Observatories, among others. Of 3 close friends, at least 2 have lost their houses. Many non-astronomers (including support staff like janitors) have also. 1/

🚨Calling astronomy graduate students! Want to build your data science skills while preparing for the deluge of Rubin data? Applications are open for the 2025 LSST-DA 2025 Data Science Fellowship Program! 🔭🧪 Apply by Jan. 22: https://lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/programs/data-science-fellowship

Something to look forward to in 2025 www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/01/1...

I can’t believe it’s 2025. 2015 was just two weeks ago!

Hi everyone, I'm looking to hire a postdoc this upcoming year, so if you're interested in coming to San Diego to work on low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, please apply! aas.org/jobregister/...

Caprice is an outstanding scientist, a great speaker, and on the postdoc job market this year! 🔭🧪⚛️

Beth Brown Memorial Award Winners for 2024 Three winners of the AAS-sponsored Beth Brown Memorial Awards announced at the recent joint meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists. aas.org/node/245460 🔭

I remember my first southern observing run as a young pup grad student, going out to check the sky and coming back in to tell my advisor: "It's pretty clear, just a few small clouds up in the south...."

From @astrolamb.bsky.social: What’s better than a single gravitational lens? A double gravitational lens! Learn about how light from a distant quasar zig-zags across the universe because of the first double gravitational lens to be observed! 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/11/20/z...

I enjoyed giving a public lecture at Lick Observatory last night

After the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches—by May 2027—astronomers will use its images to explore what exists between looping tendrils of stars that are pulled from globular clusters to potentially reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before: www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

Our paper has been accepted to ApJ ⬇️ Using mock observations, we show that Roman will detect gaps in streams created by subhalos with masses > 5 x 10^6 Msun in galaxies within 3 MPC, for ~1-hour exposures. Counting these gaps will help constrain the subhalo mass function. arxiv.org/abs/2305.12045