I am SO excited to be presenting on Adele + the CMB at AoT East Bay this June with Prof. Raf !!! Erica Hammerstein (@gymleadererica.bsky.social) has been the leading charge on organizing and relaunching this, + I'm so so so excited to be a part of it !! hope to see u there on June 10 : ) 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬🦖🦕✨

New feature on work led by Yuhan Yao !! ft. work from @gymleadererica.bsky.social (+ others offline) too!

For the first time, a tidal disruption event (where a supermassive black hole tears apart a star) has been detected outside the centre of its host galaxy. This suggests that galaxy has two supermasive black holes, with the second likely being left over from a merger with another galaxy 🧪🔭

!!! new on work led by U.C. Berkeley postdoc, Yuhan Yao 🦖 incl. comments from @gymleadererica.bsky.social et al. "Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found 'Space Jaws.'" 🧪🔭☄️ #womeninSTEM #highenergyastro science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

this nail polish is giving matplotlib inferno {polish is butterfly wings by penelope luz} #nailpolish #womeninstem #matplotlib #inferno #python

me trying to relearn how to work with radio data #womeninstem

I had an experience recently where a senior scientist in a group of postdocs expressed that “postdocs are basically just glorified/grown up grad students” and it made me uncomfy. Whether that statement is true or not is beside the point. (1/)

🎶 “so make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it” 🎶 I’m at the “Celebrating 20 Years of Swift Discoveries” conference & to make nod to another famous Swift, I made friendship bracelets to share! It’s been a very fun way to introduce myself and bring some joy. :) 🔭🧪☄️ #womeninSTEM

Wasn’t sure whether the hotel I was staying at was haunted or not, but I guess they have a ouija board in the elevator so that answers that

a quick summary of Vikram Ravi's AAS talk -- the Platypus looks like an FBOT and a TDE; v cool transient !! #highenergyastro 🔭