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astrophysicist. cosmologist. maker of universes, surveyer of the skies. professor of physics , director of . talks: bit.ly/risamovies
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Applying to STEM grad programs? Know someone who is? 🎓
Sign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2023!🤩
The GSMI program supports applicants from minoritized backgrounds through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, & more!
Applications due 6/15
cientificolatino.com/gsmi
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Stunned, humbled, and deeply honored to be elected to the alongside such an incredible group of creative and accomplished people!!!
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Congratulations to our new members! Just announced! We are honoring the excellence of extraordinary leaders in an array of disciplines and professions. The first members were elected in 1781. Learn who was elected in 2023: amacad.org/news/2023-memb
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Curious about how stars, galaxies, black holes, and the whole universe work? Join us today at Stanford 1-5pm, bring your friends!!
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The best science party in the bay area is happening tomorrow @KIPAC1 @stanford. Join us!! news.stanford.edu/report/2023/04
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The best science party in the bay area is happening tomorrow . Join us!! news.stanford.edu/report/2023/04
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Thrilled that is hosting a new postbac program starting this summer. Please pass on to graduating phys/astro students who would benefit from research experience before applying to grad school. kipac.stanford.edu/join-or-visit-
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Tonight at 7:30 in SF!
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Hey San Francisco! Come see yours truly at the Cal Academy Planetarium next Monday! The tiniest galaxies ever seen! The largest maps ever made! All on the big dome! calacademy.org/events/benjami
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Hey San Francisco! Come see yours truly at the Cal Academy Planetarium next Monday! The tiniest galaxies ever seen! The largest maps ever made! All on the big dome!
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Filing deadlines for 2023 start as early as the first week of January. If you're looking at election results today and thinking "huh, maybe I *could* do this," there is absolutely no harm in looking up what your options are:
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Two days left to apply for postdoctoral fellowships ! We have many opportunities, and are considering all areas of astrophysics and cosmology (just one application for all KIPAC opportunities). See more details here: kipac.stanford.edu/join-or-visit-
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This was a super fun conversation! What an amazing group of creative postdocs across so many areas of science, with fantastic questions about the best ways to manage their careers and work effectively across disciplines.
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Fellows heard from Director of @KIPAC1 @RisaWechsler and Professor Rosamond Naylor @Stanforddoerr about the importance of communication when managing large interdisciplinary teams and how to facilitate collaboration across those teams.
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🌌 Check out this public lecture on 10/25, when Wren Suess will discuss some of the exciting science results from the #JWST, including insights into previously invisible giant galaxies AND the most distant galaxies humans have ever seen.
🔗: stanford.io/3eJxy5V
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If 80% of eligible people get their bivalent shots by the end of the year, deaths would decline even further, saving 90,000 lives by the spring.
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Last day to apply to this fantastic program! :)
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Postdoc applicants (all science areas!): check out the Stanford Science Fellows program, apps due **this Friday**. Opportunity to design your own research program, work with multiple faculty, join a supportive community! Astro folks can also join @KIPAC1!
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
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Postdoc applicants (all science areas!): check out the Stanford Science Fellows program, apps due **this Friday**. Opportunity to design your own research program, work with multiple faculty, join a supportive community! Astro folks can also join !
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
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CO2 at ~2500 during boarding, and just about 3% of people on a full plane wearing masks 🤨😬
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Postdoc applicants (all science areas!): check out the Stanford Science Fellows program, apps due **this Friday**. Opportunity to design your own research program, work with multiple faculty, join a supportive community! Astro folks can also join !
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
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Excited about this upcoming workshop! Join us next summer at to discuss all of the excitement about high-z galaxies from .
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Hey astros! I wanted to let you know that there will be an Aspen workshop in Summer 2023 from Aug 20 to Sep 10, focused on learning about early (z>2) galaxy formation and evolution using JWST. (1/3)
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"I understand the gravity of being a woman and now a #Nobel laureate in the sciences. There aren't that many of us—yet."
Prof. on chemistry, mentorship and representation ⬇️
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So delighted by this choice for the Chemistry Prize. In addition to her groundbreaking science, is an inspiring leader working tirelessly and *effectively* to build inclusive environments and broaden participation in science. Congrats 🎉
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BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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Can't wait! Hope many of you will join us tomorrow in person or remotely to hear talk about the ways the Universe might end! Details below.
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Beautiful work by and the DELVE team. Was proud to play a small part cheering from the sidelines, always so happy to find new Milky Way satellites!!
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Tonight, I'm excited to share the latest results from the DELVE survey: we found six more ultra-faint Milky Way satellites at D < 105 kpc! Introducing: DELVE 3, DELVE 4, Virgo II, DELVE 5, Bootes V, and Leo Minor I! Check out our preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2209.12422
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Are you thinking about applying to PhD programs in physics or astronomy this year? If you could use more help navigating the process and are a member of any group that is underrepresented in these fields, check out the student-led Stanford PIE program!
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We did it! #NeverGiveUp Help the ride raise $1M to support and support our team here: secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/TR?p
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We are half way through our #napavalleyrideALS You can help motivate our ride here! secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/TR?p @alsassociation #ChallengeALS #NapaRideforALS2022 #NeverGiveUp #brakeALS
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We are half way through our #napavalleyrideALS You can help motivate our ride here! secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/TR?p #ChallengeALS #NapaRideforALS2022 #NeverGiveUp #brakeALS
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The Amazon Rainforest’s biodiversity impacts weather patterns around the world.
However, gold mining in the area is having a devastating ecological effect.
In an NBC News Investigation, @CynthiaMcFadden travels to Peru to report on the issue: nbcnews.to/3UoNTNn
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This picture and all its gorgeous galaxies just make me giddy! Can’t wait to see all the mind-blowing science that comes out of it. 🔭 🌌 😍
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Be still my beating heart. 😍👀
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What we get from the ground (using the excellent Dark Energy Camera) vs the first JWST image.
To be fair, we also observed 10 million times more area :)
Also #RenameJWST
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🌌😭totally. fricking love those little weirdos. little high-resolution high-redshift weirdos!!
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Me: zooms in on all the galaxies “hello you little weirdos” *starts sobbing*
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This is a truly incredible image. For non-experts, there are galaxies in this image that are likely more than 13 billion light yrs away, and some of them have mind-blowing detail. Will teach us tons about the early universe, galaxy formation, and dark matter. Can’t wait for more!
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The first image from the Webb Space Telescope represents a historic moment for science and technology. For astronomy and space exploration.
And for America and all humanity.
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Ready to learn how astronomers combine simulations and observations to figure out properties of the Universe? Join us TONIGHT at 7pm PDT for the public lecture! A quick RSVP at bit.ly/KIPAC_2022July5 and we hope to see you there! 💻🌌
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"In order to solve a problem, you first have to see it, name it, contend with its truth." What we are facing is big and will not go away quickly. But coming to terms with what it is, and with the scope of everything it will take to defeat it, is a first and essential step.
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Thoughts on the end of this term. steady.substack.com/p/a-hard-right
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Local and state elections matter.
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Safety has been an issue for marginalized groups making academic job decisions for a long time. The reach of this effect has broadened significantly this week and may broaden much further. We all must think more deeply about how we can support all members of community better.
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Please answer this poll if you're in academia, and not a cis het white man.
Have you ever "opted" out of job/school opportunities related to your identity/safety?
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Wow, so grateful for the heroic work of the firefighters working on Kitt Peak this week. Looks like the telescopes (including the Mayall, which hosts the ) are doing well. Thank you🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏
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Planning Ops. Section Chief said none of the 20+ telescopes at the Kitt Peak observatory in Arizona were affected when the #ContrerasFire ran up the steep brush-covered slopes to the site Friday. The firefighting was "heroic," he said.
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As we wait to learn the fate of the telescopes on Kitt Peak under threat from fire, read this gorgeous piece from about , the power of mapping the universe, and what it means to find our place in it.
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