So much astronomical excellence in this picture from @astrosociety.org gala! 🔭 L to R: Kate Daniel (Arizona prof), Angela Twum, @astrolatinaa.bsky.social, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon (UCSC grads), @katycosmiq.bsky.social (CSUSB prof), @capricephillips.bsky.social (Sagan Fellow at UCSC), and me.

Need more amazing astronomy pictures and science in your life? You can watch the live press conference about the Vera Rubin Observatory's first images here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1g... #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪

🗣️ Astro enthusiasts, educators, and researchers! Check out the excellent virtual workshop and 1-day conference opportunities coming up 👇🏽🔭🧪👩🏽‍🔬

Check out our new work on ultra-faint dwarf galaxies! We explore adjusting mass estimates of these tiny galaxies based on new evidence that they have extended stellar structures and how that impacts our understanding of key characteristics in these systems. Thanks for leading this Coral!! 🔭🧪

Hooray for APS Global Physics Summit! It was a big full day yesterday – giving a talk, chairing a presentation session, WATCHING MY STUDENTS PRESENT, meeting old friends, and starting potential collaborations! Also made my girls the coolest kids in school with NASA stickers 💫🌌 #apssummit25

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𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 #𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 #𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? In this 2-hour interactive, online workshop, participants will gain an understanding of basic techniques & considerations when engaging with public audiences. #SciComm #education 🔭🧪 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-co...

The @astrosocietypac.bsky.social extended their Awards Nomination Deadline — more time to nominate awesome friends and colleagues! They have a wide variety of awards for everyone from research astronomers to amateur astronomers! Educators too! Check it out. 🏆🌌🪐 astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a... 🔭🧪

Saturday morning revelations by the 5 y.o. - “well ya never know, the cold can melt a gummy bear, by science.”

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Happy 136th Birthday to the @astrosocietypac.bsky.social!!! Check out this fun short video from our new CEO —> vimeo.com/1054293499?s...

Glorious it was!

Just resurfacing this classic.

It’s a question we ask all the time.

Here are some nice mushrooms

remembering this gorgeous image of the orion nebula from jwst 🌌

One of the neatest way you can have fun with space images and data is to process it yourself, as it is easily available and open! It's not as hard as you might think - I wrote a piece on processing JWST images here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/process... Super fun activity for students too! 🔭

As promised, McFACTS paper II is out! arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590 Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭 1/

Shout out to all the undergrads nearing the end of their 1st semester and deep into THE HARDEST couple weeks to push through. Remember that your grades do not define you. I am cheering for your curiosity, creativity, and stewardship of humanity and the planet. #college #stress

Newskies! Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently Can’t recommend it enough

Today's peachy #moonrise from Portobello, Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I'm a big fan of the (almost) full moon, but its stunning brightness is going to make it extra difficult to spot the #leonids meteor shower which peaks overnight 🤔😠 If you're out walking the dog #dolookup 🔭🌠🧪 ℹ️: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) measuring chemical abundances in 6 MW UFDs 2) ARE THERE PLANETS IN UFDs?! (I’m v excited about this thing I may never find out) 🔭🧪

so I’ve made some infographics and note taking templates that explain to you what these study strategies are, and how to implement them in your studies you can find them here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ missneutrino.com/evidence-bas... 4/5

actual goldmine that I feel like everyone who is learning or teaching should know about: using evidence-based study methods. like, I know reading over your notes boosts your confidence babe, but it won’t boost your grades 🧵/5

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And here's a slightly broader one go.bsky.app/7AYfSd1

Here's a gravitational waves starter pack I made go.bsky.app/HrAJX35

@jbertolotti.bsky.social made one! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Here is cosmology, astrophysics, particle physics list - I update it daily bsky.app/profile/did:...

I should write a book called “Shit Scientists Say” cause I heard 2 fantastic entries just today: 1) The stuff I don’t know could fill a book! 2) I was floundering with how numbers work. #shitscientistssay 🔭

My 5-year old has suddenly become a Texas Vegetarian: “But I don’t want meat, I just want chicken nuggets.” 😳😂

🔭🧪🎢🧑‍🔬 The deadline's soon! Educators: Do real research with NASA Astronomers! The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) invites US-based teachers to apply for its 1-year program. Travel costs included! Deadline: Sep 13, 2024 for the 2025 program year. nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu

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If you thought Hubble was impressive, wait until you meet the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (due to launch ~late 2026). It has Hubble quality imaging over a field of view 200x larger 🤯🔭🧪

Introducing The Tiny Old Galaxies Lab (TOGL)! It’s been an amazing first year leading my research team BECAUSE my students are awesome - motivated, curious, and dedicated. I can’t wait to see what we do over the summer with ample research time. 🔭

Huge congrats to my student, Gisselle Jimenez, on her excellent talk discussing the initial stages of our work to refine the metallicity and stellar mass of the UFD, Boötes II! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🔭

Here’s a fun bonus! I got to see a great presentation on ML methods in computational fluid dynamics by Aaron Massey, @cal_bridge Scholar and LAMAT Alumni (poke @astroenrico). They started the talk by relating the flow of blood in our veins to the flow of dust in our galaxy! 🤩

Un más! My student, Daniel, also presented some of our work today! This time focusing on a new project calibrating RR Lyrae radial velocities to their pulsation periods between SDSS and GAIA datasets. He gets extra applause for gracefully dealing with a power outage mid-talk! 😳‬

💖 Astronomer Achievement Unlocked! 💫 For the first time one of my fantastic research students presented our work! Abe’s working with Keck DEIMOS spectra of starts in UFD Willman 1 to measure chemical abundances. Yay galaxies and stars and awesome undergrads! 🔭

🔭 Cool astro news. www.seti.org/press-releas...

It’s a beautiful word “equinox”. Nox meaning night and equi for equal. So today does exactly what it says on the tin. 🔭👩‍🔬🧪

In about 4.5 hours it will be the March Equinox (11.06pm Eastern time) marking a point in Earth’s orbit where our rotation axis is in line with our orbital motion. Today everywhere on Earth gets 12 hours daylight and 12 hours sunlight. 🔭👩‍🔬🧪

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Astronomers! If you’re looking for a seminar speaker - look no further! Justin Bracks (UPenn 5th astro-instrumentation grad student) is great!! Thanks for visiting, Justin! Your talk was fantastic - engaging for astronomers & condensed matter physicists alike!

Went to a pour over coffee class with my sissy today. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful, expensive, and tasty hobby. 🤗☕️🫖

Warnings from the physics hall. 😳

Overheard in a Physics Department: “No flame thrower unless you have a good experimental justification!” It’s good to be back. 😹

Hey Californians, all next week the faculty of all the CSUs are on strike. Want to hang out with us on the picket lines? There is a CSU near you you're welcome to support us in person. Wear red! Contact a professor on campus for guidance about where/when to meet up.