I don't always do black tie...but when I do, I go all in. Had a wonderful time at the The Karman Project Space Peace Prize Gala dinner tonight. Amazing endeavors are afoot. 🚀✨️ #IAC2025 #karmanproject #space #astronaut #sydney #australia

IAC Sydney 2025 is on! Looking forward to presenting my paper on programmatic & mission updates from our upcoming IIAS-02 suborbital research mission & IIAS Flight Opportunities Program. Come check out my presentation Sept 30 at 1125 in C3.3! 🚀✨️👩🏽‍🚀

There are not many women heading up major space agencies across the world, but the Canadian Space Agency's Lisa Campbell offers so many lessons in strong leadership around intelligence, eloquence & knowledge. What a great example in quiet confidence and competence. 🇨🇦✨️🚀

Astronauts versus aliens? By popular demand, I'm back with @setiinstitute.bsky.social CEO Bill Diamond trying to tell him how amazing human spaceflight is...but man is it hard to impress a guy who measures distance not just by light-years...but hundreds of millions of light-years 🤯🌌

One of my roles as a research astronaut is to educate as to the value of space for scientific advancement & return for Earth. It was my honor to write the foreword & help launch the Forrest Research Foundation's Perth Dialogue on The Case for Space. 🚀🌏🌌👩🏽‍🚀 Read it here: share.google/gfLpWYCav09n...

My time here in Perth has been full of highlights, including spending time with the one and only @setiinstitute.bsky.social Institute CEO Bill Diamond...so of course I had to ask him where they hide the aliens. He had something to say in turn... 🤔

This job is an absolute joy, and I count myself extraordinarily lucky to be able to connect with and inspire future space explorers like Jack and Emily through my work. Maybe I'll see you in space someday? Thank you to the Forrest Research Foundation for organizing this wonderful opportunity. 🚀🏥👩🏽‍🚀✨️

Traveling for 31 hours so far with 7 more to go but I think the smile says it all. Grateful for this job that lets me travel the world that lets me talk science, exploration and innovation across borders, disciplines and cultures. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️

So excited to leverage my background in space medicine to pitch a new concept for this year's @xprize.org Space & Exploration track. Amazing experience to work with an organization that I've admired for so long to catalyze exponential change against grand challenges. 🥰🩺👩🏽‍🚀🚀🏥✨️

Your friendly doctor-scientist-astronaut here, just to reassure you that I don't just hop on and off planes, sometimes I do meaningful work at my destinations, too. Here is my @xprize.org work explained in 80 seconds. 🌏🚀🏥👩🏽‍🚀✨️ #science #xprize #astronaut #medicine #spacemedicine

Another crazy weekend in the ER (apparently it's me, hi, I'm the black cloud 👋🏽🌫), so I got to thinking about how it is that I thrive in chaos- inside the ER and out. I think it's like my dad says, it's the same way you eat an elephant: one bite at a time (also pls don't eat elephants 🐘🫶🏽).

Women's health doesn't stop when the gravity does...so how might we diagnose gynecological and pelvic pathologies that happen mid-space mission? Check out our new study on PoCUS for pelvic organ imaging in microgravity! 🚀🏥🚺👩🏽‍🚀 Link to study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40706033/

Visited my friends at Cooper & O'Hara Photography today and walked in to a familiar sight, so I had to take a picture! 👩🏽‍🚀🚀📸

🚨PSA🚨 Are you just super healthy...or have you just put off seeing a doctor for WAY too long? Late presentations to the doctor can mean catastrophic consequences for your health. Save this, share this, send it to whoever needs to hear it. You may just save a life.

Space is hard, and space is trying to kill us. Thanks, @vox.com, for including me in your write-up on the challenges of space medicine in the era of commercial spaceflight and exploration-class missions. What is space medicine? www.vox.com/future-perfe... 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🏥

I could literally be on the Moon and my mom will still send me this ❤️🥺💖

As I come off a steep timezone shift from a quick trip to India, entering straight into an 87-hour long weekend ER call shift, while juggling space medicine research and astronautics duties, I took a moment to remind myself of this...so I thought I'd remind you, too. Look after yourselves. 💖🫶🏽✨️

I love this shot of the World Extreme Medicine Space Medicine Faculty, because between myself, Dr. Mike Barratt & Dr. Kjell Lindgren, it encapsulates the collaboration between space agency & commercial astronautics that needs to happen to create an inclusive future of humans in space for us all. 🚀🏥👩🏽‍🚀

What better way to celebrate National Space Day in India than to keynote on space medicine and astronautics at the first-ever Extreme Medicine & Space Medicine conference by the Society for Emergency Medicine of India in Bengaluru? A pleasure delighted to represent IIAS & World Extreme Medicine! 🚀🏥

Kicking off keynoting for an extreme, space and emergency medicine conference by tending to an in-flight emergency (everyone is okay!) and then *finally* watching the first 6 episodes of the Pitt on my flight seems pretty on brand. 😅🏥🛫🛬🛬

India-bound! Delighted to be headed to Bangalore to keynote at the Society for Emergency Medicine India's inaugural Space and Extreme Medicine conference to discuss my work in space medicine and astronautics. See you there? 👩🏽‍🚀🏥🚀

I can't believe it's been a year since my spaceflight assignment already, and truly, my journey towards space has been a lifetime in the making. I'm so grateful for every moment I get to spend finessing our science, deepening our team bonds, and preparing for the journey of a lifetime. 🫶🏽🏥✨️🚀👩🏽‍🚀

Between astronautics and medicine, I end up working 7 days a week. I'm usually on call for 63 hours Friday-Monday for rural Emergency Room coverage, up to 111 hours if it's a long weekend. So how do I stay sane on call? Here are my 5 top tips - enjoy! 👩🏽‍⚕️🦜☕️🏋🏽‍♀️💻 #astronaut #physician

RIP to a legend. Today, the world lost the incomparable Jim Lovell, NASA astronaut and veteran of Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 & Apollo 13, the first person to fly to space 4 times, and the first to fly to the Moon twice. Ad astra and godspeed, Captain Lovell. 🚀

Set the vision, make the plan, show up, work hard...and where you end up will surpass even your wildest dreams. 🏥✨️🚀

Well AIAA ASCEND is a wrap! Today, I served on a panel on establishing effective frameworks for science communications. Takeaways: 1. Think of communication as the beginning of an ongoing conversation & a potential to collaborate 2. Make sure you are speaking English- but also the same language 1/

Day 2 at AIAA ASCEND is a wrap! I attended the speed mentoring session to connect with young professionals & students, and make it a point to do so any time my schedule allows. Some advice that helped me when starting out: - Look for the permissive environments that will support your ambitions 1/2

Thanks, AIAA ASCEND for inviting me out to take part in the AstroDebates. I had a figurative blast! 🚀 #debate #AIAA #ASCEND #publicdebate #space #astrodebate #astrodebates

It's time for AIAA ASCEND! I'll be here this week as a member of the ASCEND Guiding Coalition and also taking part in various sessions, including as a panelist with the AstroDebates and a workshop on Science Communication. See you around! 🚀✨️👩🏽‍🚀 #AIAA #ASCEND

My family got me this mini-me for my birthday. I can't but help think how fitting it is to receive it on the anniversary of the July 20th 1969 Apollo Moon landing, not only as a reminder of where we've been, but also as a promise of the vision of space exploration that we can choose to create. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🌕✨️

Dress for the job you want? Say no more...I always was an overachiever. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️

This is the stuff dreams are made of

If you told me I'd someday be throwing the opening pitch at a ball game in my flightsuit surrounded by Darth Vader & Jedi Knights...I'd say that's pretty on brand - then again, I have a wild imagination. Thanks to the @edmriverhawks.bsky.social for having me out at Star Wars night! ⚾️👩🏽‍🚀🚀

It's my birthday! This year, I'm doing something different. Typically, I work a ton; I'm still doing that, but this year, I'm focusing on deep work, deferring all meetings & actually taking the weekend off for once to spend with loved ones. I'm recharging & it's been magnificent. ❤️

AN EXTRAORDINARY DAY FOR INDIA 🇮🇳🚀. Massive congrats to ISRO Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla for completing his mission aboard the ISS on th Ax-4 mission. Thanks NewsX for having me on to share my commentary & celebrate this milestone for Indian spaceflight. Full interview: youtu.be/EcaIwt1f15I?....

I've got every reason to smile these days, not the least of which is because every day of my life includes space, medicine or space medicine. Grateful for it all. 👩🏽‍🚀🏥🚀🚺

All I can say is - it's really cool to be able to blend my expertise in medicine, women's health, and space to be able to make meaningful, lasting contributions to space medicine and space exploration, and I feel lucky to be able to get to do what I do. 🚺👩🏽‍⚕️🏥🚀👩🏽‍🚀 #spacemedicine #womenshealth

Time for the ultimate art x science experiment, using some good old Freddie Mercury: what happens to my singing voice in 1g vs 0g? The last time I was in an extreme environment, I compared my singing voice at 1atm vs 1.6atm. What do you think: any differences? 👇🏽🎤🎶

Sometimes reality - and gravity- catch you by surprise. Good thing I have teammates like Kellie and Norah who have my back - figuratively *and* literally. 💖🚀🫶🏽 #teammates #Astronauts #researchastronaut #IIAS #parabolicflight

Here is me & IIAS of Bioastronautics Dr. Aaron Persad at the tail end of our latest parabolic flight together. We've worked together for 10 years now, and it all started with his intro to microgravity sciences course. Crazy to think how far we've come since then! 🚀

What do we do in our IIAS parabolic flights? 20s, when stacked over multiple parabolas, lets us study physiology, practice procedures, coordinate jointly operated payloads & let's us optimize our movements as a team- plus it's a lot of fun! Check out what we were up to this past week! 🚀

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

It's not quite as easy as hitting the off switch on gravity, but the 20-second microgravity periods afforded to us in parabolic flight allow us to perform science, test protocols, and advance technology readiness for spaceflight testing. Plus...we get to float (❤️)! 🛫🛬🛫

Just capped off teaching a semester of Space Medicine, and man, did the students ever bring it. This course involves over 55 hours of virtual and on-site instruction, skills, drills, sims & a design project. Can't wait to see what they do with their newfound knowledge.

One of the neatest parts about our work is the international ties we foster. Norah & I were hosted at the Irish Embassy in Canada on a public panel showcasing our research. There's a lot going on in the world today, but collaborations in science are an opportunity to build bridges. 👩🏽‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀🚀🇨🇦🇮🇪

HappyCanadaDay!🇨🇦❤️ 《Courageous🙌Cndns》 #CanadianAstronaut #Astronaut Credit 👏 @shawnapandya.bsky.social Literally doing my lifelong dream job. I dreamt of doing since a little girl. #CANADADAY2005 #CANADADAY #CANADA #PROUDCANADIAN #CANADIANPROUD #CANADIAN #OHCANADA #CANADALOVERS #CANADASKY #Bluesky

Happy Canada Day! Thank you to the country that embraces hard work, humility, diversity, resilience, and trailblazing. I'm reminded of that every time I wear this flag and try to uphold these values in all that I do. 🇨🇦 #Canada #happycanadaday #CanadaDay #astronaut #canadianastronaut

So you've mastered handling sharp objects and scalpels in 1g? How about 0g? Continuing our IIAS team's work on women's health in space, I led this study demonstrating the successful implantation & removal of a subcutaneous medical implant in a microgravity environment, as well as the successful...

Not everyone has the good fortune of having ties to two countries with rich, layered cultures & histories. I do, and I'm absolutely aware of the two backgrounds I represent - and I promise to do you proud. 🇮🇳🇨🇦❤️ #parabolicflight #research #astronaut #canada #canadianastronaut #india #indianastronaut

Ten years. 13 parabolic flights. Countless payloads & experiments. And as of this week, 205 parabolas...and more to come. So grateful for this life and this team. ❤️🛬🛫🛬 #parabolicflight #spacemedicine #spaceflight #humanspaceflight #commercialspaceflight #research #astronaut #astronautics #medicine