After a decade of work and an exciting+challenging academic journey, I am going to be a professor! Next year I will join Oregon State University as an assistant professor of physics!!!⭐️🦫

how it started // how it’s going

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday for our event at Aeronaut Brewing Co. , and special thanks to our speakers, Kaley Brauer 💫 and Dr. Soderblom! We learned so much from you and the exciting wonders inside our own Solar System! 🪐

We hope you’re getting excited for next week’s event at Aeronaut Brewing Co. ✨ Introducing one of our speakers - Dr. Kaley Brauer: Kaley Brauer 💫 is going to tell us about NASA’s first asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx mission!

Continuing my tradition of tweeting every ~2 years--

I'm excited to share that our result on detecting and characterizing the lowest metallicity stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has just been published in Nature Astronomy!

Details in🧵
link: rdcu.be/dBRPn

Happy Pub Day to the next book in my Meet the Universe series, “I’m a Black Hole”!!

With beautiful, immersive illustrations by Jessica Lanan 🌍, “I’m a Black Hole” teaches the basics in approachable rhyming text, w/a deep dive in the back for curious kids (and adults!)

MIT Kids Press

Teaching rocket science to middle schoolers on Pi Day! 🚀🥧
We also had other space and science activities including making moon craters, gravity well, trivia, miracle berries, and robotics

Thrilled to announce an event I've long been thinking about! Join us at Yale University for a 'Hack Day Conference,' in which a group of educators come together to build resources and exercises for teaching research methods in astronomy. See astrocodex.github.io for more. A 🧵

Excited to be in Vienna for the Building Galaxies from Scratch conference #astrobugs2024 - keep an eye out for my poster to learn about nuclear star clusters in the EDGE simulations ✨

Awhile ago a friend found a very solid dinosaur coprolite (on private leased land, Judith River fm) that I got and had sliced and polished. What's really cool is there are chunks of broken dinosaur bone in the middle of the coprolite.

Are you an #HPC grad or postdoc student in Australia, Europe, Japan or the United States? Then you have until the end of January to apply for the 13th International High Performance Computing Summer School in Kobe, Japan in July.

Full details: ss24.ihpcss.org

Are you an astronomer or aspiring astronomer wanting to improve your software engineering skills? Applications for Code/Astro 2024 are open! More info at semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/. Application is linked at the bottom of that page. Apply by Feb 16! (Copied from Sarah Blunt :))

A press conference from Michael Calzadilla shows for the first time that the entropy threshold for cooling in galaxy clusters (the “trigger for star formation”) has existed for the last 10 bill years! The trigger for black hole feedback, on the other hand, may be recent #AAS243

Our new simulation suite models early chemical enrichment in dwarf galaxies with feedback/enrichment from individual stars! & detailed treatment of stellar yields with 10 different metals!

Keep an eye out for the first two Aeos Simulation papers coming out soon (🤞) #AAS243

.Dr. Mia de los Reyes shows us that we have to revisit conventional methods of measuring dwarf galaxy properties such as stellar mass! Many empirical relations under predict dwarf galaxy masses #AAS243