!!! Jane's medalling here: youtu.be/aqBVADKnNzM?t=…

Yesterday, I successfully defended and can finally say that I am Dr. Kiersten Boley! I'm so thankful to everyone that helped me along the way! ❤️☺️😄

Congratulations to Dr. Kiersten Boley!!!! Kiersten is an immensely talented scientist, and I am so excited to see what she does next as a Hubble/Sagan Fellow at Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory!

For those unfamiliar: we received a list of potential major weaknesses, and we had 72 hours to respond to each point, with specific guidelines (<2 pages, only 2 new references) on how we are allowed to respond. It felt like a candidacy exam!!

Woohoo, Jane Rigby!!!!!! Jane is a social justice champion and an exceptional leader in our field. This award is so well deserved!

Researchers at OSU Astronomy played a major role in analyzing the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s survey into the history of the universe. news.osu.edu/first-year-of-…

I have seen some profs in OSU Astronomy still use pine. 😄 (To be fair, I did until ~2014, and I may prefer pine over Outlook!)

The OSU Astronomy chair and dark matter rapper himself!

I agree with the OSU Department of Sociology.

The Lantern (OSU newspaper) deleted their tweet, but the news story is still up here: thelantern.com/2024/04/univer…

They aimed rifles at students exercising their first amendment rights in a public space. This is not okay.

An OSU veterinary epidemiologist and a grad student went road tripping and found 40% of cow milk in stores has viral RNA of #H5N1 / bird flu. 😬

Created an ADS library of all my publications, and it gave me this AMAZING graphic of my frequent co-authors and their connections. This is like my career in astronomy in one diagram! I love it.

I know It is the ALMA deadline, but do not miss new images from JWST, NGC 2775! A galaxy located 75 million light-years away.

PI: Adam Leroy and PHANGS collaboration. NASA Webb Telescope

Annual request to please respond with any post-bacc positions in astronomy you know of! Grad admissions was rough this year, and there are lots of awesome undergrads now looking for research positions to help prepare them to apply again.

My PhD advisor gave me the sage wisdom that conference proceedings (as non-refereed papers) are great places to be more speculative and fun. Indeed, it is where David Weinberg first published the dark matter rap: arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9…

I heard from OSU Astronomy grads that David Weinberg performed his dark matter rap in class today. For those who haven't had the pleasure of witnessing this, here is a youtube recording with lyrics. youtube.com/watch?v=ys3C1H…

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'So Long, London' found all my heartstrings and is now on repeat. 😭😭😭😭😭