If your milk hotel is neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the milk hotel of the oppressor.

👁️ Gaze at these ghastly new Galaxy of Horrors posters - artists’ interpretations based on real NASA science of exoplanets and dark energy. Download the posters (and virtual backgrounds, too) at exoplanets.nasa.gov/galaxy

My latest astrobite is posted today! Check out some amazing visualizations of the 3D dust mapping that is apparently possible with Gaia data and Gaussian processes 🤯

New astrobite day! A different sort of bite this time. Part of an upcoming series diving into how astronomy research produces a LOT of greenhouse gas emissions, HPC usage (yikes) and international conferences in particular. There are ways we can fix these problems as a community!

Paper day! Come with me on a fun lil journey of instrumentation and multiwavelength analysis that revealed a candidate tidal dwarf galaxy (progenitor) right in our backyard! (cosmically speaking). Now accepted in ApJL! arxiv.org/abs/2112.07052

From Olivia Cooper: How can we format science meetings to better serve all of us? Recent studies have a few recommendations astrobites.org/2022/01/10/vir…

From H Perry Hatchfield 🌌: Making a star cluster from scratch is no easy task. Today's paper addresses the big question: what does it take to get the recipe right? astrobites.org/2022/01/17/rec…

From Graham Doskoch: Pulsars have many applications, from testing general relativity to searching for gravitational waves. Today's paper explores an unusual one: cryptography! astrobites.org/2022/03/03/pul…

I never expected to come across a paper mentioning using pulsars to enforce international arms limitation treaties . . . but here we are. Many thanks to H Perry Hatchfield 🌌 for help during the editorial process!

From @SabinaAstro: Maybe physics in high school should not be abstract? Maybe we should discuss climate change in schools? The authors of today's paper did research on how to make physics education less abstract and more valuable! astrobites.org/2022/03/06/the…

A bit of a different article summary this time... astrobites.org/2022/04/02/apr…

From H Perry Hatchfield 🌌 and @MarkPopinchalk: there is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We've collected this year's and provided some "peer review" astrobites.org/2022/04/02/apr…

Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation and became Dr. H! I'm so so grateful for everyone who has supported me over the last 6 years, most of all my incredible advisor Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby who guided me the whole way with unparalleled expertise and compassion

Happy Earth Week! Check out all these exciting astro/climate events!!!

feeling so inspired after our convo on climate change in the classroom today with as part of #EarthWeekxAstrobites2022 !! wanted to share some of the ideas that stuck with me:

From H Perry Hatchfield 🌌: Dust mapping with Gaia has changed our perspective on the sun's neighborhood, but how do revelations about the nearby structure of dust fit in with our understanding of the Milky Way's large scale skeletal structure? astrobites.org/2022/06/22/gal…

My latest astrobite is up! I may not really understand turbulence in the interstellar medium, but I sure do enjoy reading and writing about it 😵‍💫

Updated #PaperDay with V2 of our paper "Towards the impact of GMC collisions on the star formation rate" being published by MNRAS and on the arXiv today! Complete with new soothing plots and further analysis. arxiv.org/abs/2109.06195

I'm really excited to have started a new position as a NASA postdoc fellow at JPL! I'll be continuing to work on studying our Milky Way's enigmatic center! I've already made some deer friends 🦌

New astrobite! I couldn't resist writing about some of the exciting (extra)galactic center science from jwst, it's just so cool that these kinds of observations exist now 🤩