As a PhD student, all I focused on was getting a PhD. As a PhD supervisor, I focus on training students on the long-term process that leads to getting a PhD. Here's some examples🧵

My first first-author paper has been accepted for publication! We use a stacking analysis to quantify the total stellar mass and total star formation within Planck-selected galaxy protoclusters, including the contribution from faint, undetected galaxies. arxiv.org/abs/2308.00745

🎉🎉Paper day 🎉🎉 Ever been confused by all the direct imaging terms and acronyms? Wanna know how it works and why you should care? This PASP tutorial article is a beginners guide to high-contrast imaging. I hope those new to the field find it helpful! arxiv.org/abs/2308.01354

This. Wholeheartedly, this. ❤️❤️

Hey #astrotwitter! The AAS Early Career Engagement Task Force wants to hear your opinions about AAS services and how to improve them. Please take 5-10min to complete our survey and spread the word to others, especially EC folks who may not be AAS members. bit.ly/AAS_ECETF

We are excited to present new HST/WFC3 observations of the intriguing AB Aurigae system. These observations result in exquisite UV and optical images of the AB Aur disk. The observed colors of AB Aur b suggest a scattered-light origin of the UV and visible-band flux.

I think this might be my last post on here, but at least I'll go out doing what I love: yelling into the void about how academic institutions need to change

🦣💜💾 All the congratulations should go to my amazing collaborators and mentors over the years, including the #datamammoths, my group of fantastic undergraduate research&learning students . acdmammoths.github.io. #undergradinthelab #datascience

A recent open-access tutorial published in Publications of the Astron Society of the Pacific by Kate Follette provides an introduction to high contrast differential imaging of exoplanets and disks. This fantastic tutorial comes with a companion Jupyter notebook! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…. -JGM

🎈Congratulations🎈 to Professor Alison Coil on being appointed the inaugural chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. bit.ly/46fxO1A UCSDAstro

Apply to & advertise the AAS CSMA Micro-grants program! Offers grants of >$500 to support BIPOC undergrads to pay grad school app fees, GRE testing fees, virtual conference registrations, or to purchase textbooks & research supplies. Deadline is Oct 13! aas.org/posts/news/202…

(!!) Attention to all recent grads or soon to be PhD: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me at Amherst College and the FCAD on all sorts of brown dwarf/exoplanet/low-mass stars science, HST, and JWST! Ad will post soon. Send me an email if you're interested. Can't wait to chat!

Congratulations to the fabulous Cailin Plunkett for her incredible, incredible thesis and this well-deserved honor. aps.org/programs/honor…

Want to join the Department of Astronomy faculty at UMass Amherst and become my colleague?!?! 👋 We are hiring! **All** application encouraged! jobregister.aas.org/ad/dc887fa0

Amazing image of edge-on protoplanetary disk with JWST by Marion Villenave et al. Look at all those background galaxies in the ~40x40 arcsec field 😮 arxiv.org/pdf/2311.07668…

NEW AAS Journal Author Series Video! Maggie Thompson Maggie Thompson (@ETH_ERDW) chats about her article on a meteorite: youtu.be/9l60ushD56c This series connects authors with their article, their human story, and the larger #astronomy community. #ExploreAstronomy

We have to dispel the myth that people are either good at math/logic or more creative. This is not how our brains work. We are ALL capable of developing both sets of skills. Challenge these self-limiting beliefs before they become self-fulfilling!

The deadline for nominations to the #ExoPAG Executive Committee is January 31, 2024: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/ex… exoplanets.nasa.gov/internal_resou… #NASA #AAS #DPS #exoplanets #COPAG #PhysPAG #VEXAG #OPAG #astrobiology