Hey #exoplaneteers (and other early career folks) - applications for the 2026 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program are open! www.stsci.edu/stsci-resear...

The bechdel test for astronomy should be whether a department has a higher number of professors that are women vs professors that are named Dan

Definitely using the novel Ji (@alexji.bsky.social) mass-based dwarf galaxy classification scheme moving forward 🔭

🔭 25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061...

The proposed NSF and NASA budgets would absolutely decimate astronomy. I wrote about for @astrobites.bsky.social you can check it out here: astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...

From Abby Lee @abigaillee.bsky.social : As a part of AAPI month, we interviewed Dr. Janice Lee, an astronomer who uses space telescopes to learn about star formation! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/28/i...

"I've had to go through so much... just in order to become a child again and begin anew." - Hesse Life is a journey. Thank you to the (newly minted!) Dr @abigaillee.bsky.social for reflecting on it with me. 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2025/05/28/i...

So excited to share an interview with Dr. Janice Lee ( @janiceleeastro.bsky.social) I wrote with @astrobites.bsky.social to celebrate AAPI month! Read about her journey and amazing work with the Habitable Worlds Observatory and PHANGS here: astrobites.org/2025/05/28/i...

Need a break from daily worries? How about taking a moment to ponder the incomprehensible nature of "infinity" from the perspective of an ape-descended lifeform on a tiny rock in space! See? Don't you feel better already? www.popsci.com/science/is-t...

So proud of Caprice, a brilliant scientist & a tremendous leader! She is the 2nd Black woman to earn their PhD in the OSU astronomy department; the first was Dr. Kiersten Boley last year. I am excited to see all the great science they will do in their careers! artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/astrono...

Congratulations to my advisor Wendy Freedman for making the Time 100! Wow, right up next to Adam Scott, Simone Biles, and Ed Sheeran! time.com/collections/...

Action items: 1) Call reps to explain how NASA funding impacts you; 2) Urge reps to sign the bipartisan Congressional letter advocating for $9B in NASA SMD FY26 funding; 3) ask rep to support NASA SMD budget through a constituent appropriations request; 4) set up meeting with staff of your rep. 🔭🚀🧪

Did you know NASA science is facing a 50% budget cut??? Please read this @astrobites.bsky.social post to learn more about it and what you can do astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...

Check out this post I wrote with some other astrobiters for action items on how to contact your congresspeople to support NASA funding!

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

The "empty space in plots could be used for advertisements" April Fools paper got me to literally laugh out loud 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.24254

Today’s arXiv confirms it: Astro x Taylor Swift is emerging as a vibrant field of research 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2503.22795 arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188

7 weeks left to decide!!

HR-Diagram Loaf 🔭🧪

The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. The program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA astrophysics: bit.ly/4c2ZJpI 🔭 🧵

www.stsci.edu/contents/new... 🎶 bing-bop-boom-boom-boom-bop-bam 🎶 #BlackInAstro Super excited!

I'm so excited I'll be starting as a Hubble + Miller fellow at Berkeley this Fall! I've never lived in an area with a large population of Asian-Americans so it's always been my dream to move to California. Can't believe it's actually happening this year 😱 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

Is dark energy weakening over time? That’s what the newest DESI data hint at! Further data and confirmation needed, but this could be the start of something very exciting in #cosmology. 🧪

Yeah @stevegoldman.bsky.social!

@abigaillee.bsky.social's dissertation talk: The Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program: The JWST J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) Extragalactic Distance Scale on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 10-10:20AM in Chesapeake D/E

I'm going to be at #AAS245 next week! Come watch my dissertation talk on wednesday 1/15 from 10-10:15AM in Session 369 in room Chesapeake D/E. 😱 See you there! 🙋🏻‍♀️

‪From Alex Masegian @spiralgalexy.bsky.social : Proton ingestion events in AGB stars are thought to trigger i-process nucleosynthesis. Today’s authors construct detailed stellar models to investigate this phenomenon! 🔭✨🥧 astrobites.org/2024/12/19/a...

Waiting for postdoc decisions to come back

Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 27th. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2024/10/27/a...

The expansion rate of the universe is one of the biggest questions that the JWST set out to answer. In a preprint posted Monday evening, three different data sets from the Webb telescope fail to nail down the answer. For now, the Hubble tension lives on. www.quantamagazine.org/the-webb-tel...

It's been a long time coming... I'm super excited to announce the CCHP's local measurement of the Hubble constant via the JAGB method, a standard candle I have been developing during graduate school. We find H0 = 67.96 +/- 1.85 km/s/Mpc. arxiv.org/abs/2408.03474

Two Small Magellanic Clouds Are Better than One @astrobites.bsky.social's @abigaillee.bsky.social reports on the recent exciting discovery that the Small Magellanic Cloud is actually composed of two distinct star-forming systems. aasnova.org/2024/01/30/t... 🔭

Say hello to Abby (@abigaillee.bsky.social)! Our newest feature for ✨ Meet the Authors ✨ 🔭🧪 www.instagram.com/p/C2SN2_iu8Z...

From Abby Lee (@abigaillee.bsky.social): Today's paper explores the recent exciting discovery that the SMC is actually composed of two distinct star-forming systems. 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2023/12/23/t...

From Abby Lee: Today's bite explores how we can look at the stellar haloes of galaxies to reconstruct their past merger and accretion events. 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2023/11/21/m...

apply to write for astrobites !! truly only positive words for my time with this collab !!