It is paper day today, and boy JWST is a gift that keeps on giving. We report the discovery of BOOMING Lyman-alpha emission from an EXTREMELY FAINT galaxy at a redshift of 7.3 (GS-z7-LA) from JADES, lying deep in the reionization epoch! arxiv.org/abs/2302.12805

PhD defended! Congrats 🎊 DOCTOR Francisco Mercado Francisco J. Mercado - an absolute honor to advise. His leadership & personality have made UCI Physics & Astro UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine better. We’ll miss him like crazy - he’s off to fly w Jorge Moreno Pomona College Caltech UCI Graduate Division

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

I ♥️🤯🫶💘❤️‍🔥😻💞 you JWST arxiv.org/abs/2308.02750

Ryan’s awesome paper will be out soon! And direct metallicity measurements soon thereafter!

Wenjun Chang presents comprehensive SED, gas content and AGN analyses of two UMGs at z~3 in MAGAZ3NE Survey to constrain quenching mechanism. One is in quenching process, one is dust obscured SF. #KSM2023

Check out the very first WERLS paper from the awesome Olivia Cooper !! Excited to see 11 new z = 7-8 Lyman alpha emitters and evidence for an ionized bubble at z=7.68!!!!

Very excited to see Ryan Rickard Vaught's paper on electron temperatures in HII regions up on the arxiv! arxiv.org/abs/2309.17440 More tweets incoming soon about this! Beautiful Keck-KCWI observations combined with the incredible The PHANGS team MUSE data!

Proud of this new paper led by UCI Physics & Astro PhD student Courtney Klein Courtney Klein - compares ‘true’ stellar mass-size relations to those inferred from mock observations w FIRE simulations. Pic shows mass map, light map & M/L map for example gal (1/3) arxiv.org/abs/2404.02373

Too much, too young, too fast? The first results from mine and Fergus Cullen's EXCELS JWST Cycle 2 programme are out today. We show beautiful new spectra for 4 ultra-massive galaxies that formed way too many stars when the Universe was way too young 1/3 arxiv.org/abs/2405.02242

Congratulations to Cal-Bridge program Alumna, Dr. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly, on receiving the NSF MPS-Ascend Faculty Catalyst Award! This grant supports both her #astrophysics research and her work as the Cal-Bridge Director of Mentorship! #STEM #mentoring

#BreakingNews Space oddity: Most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. 🌀Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old 🔗almaobservatory.org/en/press-relea…

🚀 Excited for #AAS245? Join the NOLP splinter session: 📅 Tuesday, Jan 14 ⏰ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 📍 Session ID 199: Deepening Broader Impacts: Mentorship, DEI, & Career Advancement Learn about NSF’s evolving broader impacts guidelines & participate in an interactive workshop!