I successfully defended my thesis and am now Dr. Caprice Phillips (its got a nice ring to it!). So thankful for my advisors and mentors including Jackie Faherty and @ohdearz.bsky.social and friends who were here to support me. Im the 2nd Black women to get a PhD from my department. Full of joy.

Happy to announce that our work on field dwarf galaxies is finally out on @ojastro.bsky.social !

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

i just think trans people should have basic respect and be able to have a fun lil time. but idk im weird like that ✨💅

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Hi all, I'm glad to announce that our latest work is finally up! It's concerning the abundance of actively star-forming field galaxies comparable to the LMC and SMC (~0.1-1 billion solar masses). Using the TNG50 simulation we investigate the role that their environments play in this phenomenon. 🔭

Happy Lennard-Jones day, everyone!

love these kantha quilts and bedspreads at 11.11 / eleven eleven.

Making my slides for the "25 Years of Science with Chandra" conference, and here's the supernova remnants imaged with Chandra in the first two years of the mission in the order they were observed! 🔭🧪 #SaveChandra

should be required viewing for physics majors youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc?...

Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

and that’s how the legacy of the empire lives on 🫡

WAKE UP BABE, A NEW JWST IMAGE OF THE SOMBRERO GALAXY DROPPED!!! 🌌

I wonder how many students who are women, trans, queer, or racial minorities have had to choose between moving to/staying in a red state to build their career and being in a safe place in recent years

Another TDOR without Mira. Raise hell for her and all the bitches still out here who need our love, support, and fucking money.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way galaxy's nearest neighbors. This dwarf galaxy looms large on the southern nighttime sky at 20 times the apparent diameter of the full Moon. And it survived a crash with our galaxy’s halo. (1/6)

finally deleted twitter 🥹

New paper I lead with the Dark Energy Survey collab just dropped! 🔭🧪 It's about faint dwarf galaxies and how they are influenced by the presence of massive galaxies like the Milky Way near them. arxiv.org/pdf/2312.007...

It is Trans Day of Revenge. Remember the dead and fight for the living. Trans rights are human rights! 🔥

new handle!! friendship ended with obscure pun iffygenia, hello new bff polyommata and all the freaky lil angels i keep seeing in art

Gorgeous annular eclipse in west Texas today!

Doll under the blue skies.

📷✨ Hii I am sharing my art/ photography to make my timeline more wholesome. Hope you enjoy.✨🌿

mercury doesn't get enough credit for being one of the most interesting planets. mars and jupiter are stealing a lot of mercury and venus valor

“Tori has become so trans that she can enter every single bathroom in the continental United States simultaneously, and there’s absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop her,” said Cincinnati city officials... From @theonion.com www.theonion.com/increasingly...

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no film debut more visually arresting or richer in enduring mythos and iconography

A post by @rosalarian.bsky.social about the gentrification of the Internet that really hits home. rosalarian.tumblr.com/post/7303652...

Breakfast from @endoeartha.bsky.social 's garden: fresh ajvarski sweet pepper fried eggs and southern fried Okra 😋

The venture capitalists have us in a sick game of distraction, cult of personality and social media ops. When we make fun of them, minimize them, obsess on their every word, they are in control. The only thing they fear is a serious materialist resistance. The one thing we aren't doing.

“haha im such a bimbo” - the smartest girl you’ve ever talked to

if this makes AI people mad it's not because of the message it's because I had an idea and drew it

women only want one thing

need AI eyebleach after seeing AI art

Stolen from the other side. Anne L’Huillier at Lund University continues teaching after having been notified of her Nobel prize in physics. Photo credit to her student Aron.

if i ever post something that can be interpreted in more than one way, then i definitely wrote it with the intention of grievously wounding you, a stranger i have never spoken to before and whose existence i was previously not aware of

twitter is like the internet version of when they make public benches really uncomfortable so people can't sleep on them

If you are wondering why Elon Musk is subservient to the Russian fascist, CCP and Saudi regimes, transforming Twitter in the pro-fascist, pro-dictatorship misinformation machine - just remember who is lending money to Elon.

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Reminder that I'm a transsexual :,) Birthed myself from the ashes. gender is such a modern concept, we are so much more than an idea originating w John Money to describe people he couldn't accept. It has nothing to do w HRT or surgery, it is tearing down of the rigid binary of western sexuality

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only transition timeline of mine that i care about 🥰

me waiting to be noticed.

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pressure cooker carnitas moment 🍽️

Me learning any ancient history: "wow this is just like Age of Empires"

me: *describes abstract and complex idea poorly with little connection to reality* audience, before my transition: ooooh! ahhhh! audience, after my transition: *severe skepticism and doubt*

safe spaces for trans women of color can never exist on social media because people from reddit and 4chan will always show up 😒 (X or bsky it’s all the same)