@astroamaya
PhD Candidate at the University of Utah | ✨galactic archeologist studying star clusters and binaries ✨ | astrobites author | SLC Astronomy on Tap Organizer | she/her | "some say i practice homosexuality, i say i've perfected it" ❤️💙💜
omw
saw them earlier this year! theyre doing great
Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
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“It could happen at any time”
very confused why im seeing so many people devastated after ut's loss,
i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team
are we allowed to have outro music for out phd defense?
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
one of my all time favorite stories is sam having a bear walk right behind her on zoom during her valedictorian speech and her just being completely oblivious to it
i would crash juno into jupiter before letting this happen wtf
Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19
podeez nuts
B R U H
wait what happened w/ them this time
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just found out my conference poster got printed in the wrong dimensions brb gonna die
hi bestie!
From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
Welcome to June. Here’s a diagram illustrating how stars’ colours depend on their temperatures as approximated by their equivalent black body curves. #astronomy #PrideMonth
me: i finally turned in my latest manuscript draft.
11yo: i already read the abstract.
me: oh?
11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”
forbidden tron sequel
in the fanfiction community we have a tag called "period typical bigotry" thats humorously applied a *lot* to stories set in the 2000s
Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....
found a catastrophic error in my code so basic that im considering how my brain might actually be the smoothest material in the known universe
went straight from high dry desert utah to fullbore spring thunderstorms in texas
felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is
Thank you for all your action today! Keep sharing how you are engaging in advocacy using #SaveScience and #WeekOfAction. We have many more advocacy actions to look forward to this week: aas.org/posts/news/2...
get the rotisserie chicken
MOND-loving twelve year olds no doubt
bro it looks like they assembled the legion of doom ☠️☠️
yknow i knew it was the 2005 pride and prejudice
and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005
but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week
Every astronomer on socials for the next 24-48 hours will now be spending their time highlighting the importance of:
- peer review system
- awaiting astro community feedback
- not inflating/sensationalizing headlines
- independently reproducing results
- multiple lines of evidence
- unlikely aliens