So happy to see Dr. Raga Pucha's awesome work on identifying black holes (and candidates) in low-mass galaxies using the DESI data!

Excited about this press release on Raga's great work finding elusive intermediate-mass black holes in galaxies! This project started during her PhD. Nice to see it come to fruition & also a glimpse of what the future holds with now much more DESI data in hand 🤩🔭 noirlab.edu/public/news/...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

There is no LGB without the TQIA+ We stand together or we fall together. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

It was really nice to come back to Pittsburgh to see friends and talk about the SAGA Survey.

(Just realized that I haven't advertized the Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist on this platform.) If you are an LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 astronomers/astrophysicists (or an ally) and are comfortable of being out, you can join the Astro Outlist to help increase LGBTQ+ visibility and connect with local community!

It's very fitting that my first post here is about this important milestone for the SAGA Survey and for myself personally! The SAGA Survey characterizes satellite galaxy systems around Milky Way-mass galaxies, and we just posted our major results from our Data Release 3! Check arXiv & our website!

This is a really rich analysis and data set, made possible by Elise Darragh-Ford, @yymao.bsky.social, Risa Wechsler, @jegpeek.bsky.social, and many others! You can now access some of the data from the the DESI Early Data Release. Stay tuned for even more!