Katy Rodriguez Wimberly, PhD

2027 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship IPAC at Caltech partners with NASA, NSF, JPL and the world-wide research community to advance exploration of our Universe.

Big news drop on a Friday afternoon. 😅

@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.

www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...

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7 women astronomers sitting on a stage at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific gala. Left to right: Kate Daniel (Arizona professor), Angela Twum, Naunet Leonhardes-Barboza, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon (UCSC PhD students), Katy Rodriguez Wimberly (CSUSB prof), Caprice Phillips (Sagan Fellow at UCSC), and Laura Lopez (OSU prof).

So much astronomical excellence in this picture from @astrosociety.org gala! 🔭 L to R: Kate Daniel (Arizona prof), Angela Twum, @astrolatinaa.bsky.social, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon (UCSC grads), @katycosmiq.bsky.social (CSUSB prof), @capricephillips.bsky.social (Sagan Fellow at UCSC), and me.

Need more amazing astronomy pictures and science in your life? You can watch the live press conference about the Vera Rubin Observatory's first images here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1g... #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪

🗣️ Astro enthusiasts, educators, and researchers! Check out the excellent virtual workshop and 1-day conference opportunities coming up 👇🏽🔭🧪👩🏽‍🔬

Check out our new work on ultra-faint dwarf galaxies! We explore adjusting mass estimates of these tiny galaxies based on new evidence that they have extended stellar structures and how that impacts our understanding of key characteristics in these systems. Thanks for leading this Coral!! 🔭🧪

Hooray for APS Global Physics Summit! It was a big full day yesterday – giving a talk, chairing a presentation session, WATCHING MY STUDENTS PRESENT, meeting old friends, and starting potential collaborations! Also made my girls the coolest kids in school with NASA stickers 💫🌌 #apssummit25

It me! 🥰

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? In this 2-hour interactive workshop, participants will gain an understanding of basic techniques and considerations when engaging with public audiences. 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: https://learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-courses

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 #𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 #𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? In this 2-hour interactive, online workshop, participants will gain an understanding of basic techniques & considerations when engaging with public audiences. #SciComm #education 🔭🧪

𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-co...

ASP Annual Awards The ASP recognizes individual achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach each year. Recipients of our awards have included luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Vera Rub

The @astrosocietypac.bsky.social extended their Awards Nomination Deadline — more time to nominate awesome friends and colleagues! They have a wide variety of awards for everyone from research astronomers to amateur astronomers! Educators too! Check it out. 🏆🌌🪐 astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a... 🔭🧪

Saturday morning revelations by the 5 y.o. - “well ya never know, the cold can melt a gummy bear, by science.”

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Dr O 136th Birthday Video Feb 7 2025 This is "Dr O 136th Birthday Video Feb 7 2025" by Astronomical Soc. of the Pacific on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Happy 136th Birthday to the @astrosocietypac.bsky.social!!! Check out this fun short video from our new CEO —> vimeo.com/1054293499?s...

#lolsob

Glorious it was!

Just resurfacing this classic.

It’s a question we ask all the time.

An overturned stick is held upright in an autumn forest and covered in mature Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of their gills radiating above the next

Here are some nice mushrooms

An image of a young star-forming region filled with with wispy purple, green, and red nebulosity. The purple ionised gas is seen mostly towards the centre, with browns, greens, and reds behind, while the periphery is mostly bright green and darker brown to the left. There is a large spray of yellow, orange, red, and purple towards the top centre, and the nebula fades to near black to the right. There are thousands of stars sprinkled across the field, concentrated towards the centre, but they generally appear fainter at longer wavelengths, with some exceptions. The brightest sources in the field have extensive diffraction spikes characteristic of Webb.

remembering this gorgeous image of the orion nebula from jwst 🌌

One of the neatest way you can have fun with space images and data is to process it yourself, as it is easily available and open!

It's not as hard as you might think - I wrote a piece on processing JWST images here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/process...

Super fun activity for students too! 🔭

As promised, McFACTS paper II is out!

arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590

Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭

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How college students perceive academic stress affects their mental well-being Academic stress takes a toll on the mental well-being of certain groups of college students more than others⁠—a correlation further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Rutgers New Jer...

Shout out to all the undergrads nearing the end of their 1st semester and deep into THE HARDEST couple weeks to push through. Remember that your grades do not define you. I am cheering for your curiosity, creativity, and stewardship of humanity and the planet.

#college #stress

Newskies!

Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed

It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently

Can’t recommend it enough

A sandy beach, calm blue sea and a pink moon on the horizon.

Today's peachy #moonrise from Portobello, Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I'm a big fan of the (almost) full moon, but its stunning brightness is going to make it extra difficult to spot the #leonids meteor shower which peaks overnight 🤔😠
If you're out walking the dog #dolookup 🔭🌠🧪

ℹ️: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) measuring chemical abundances in 6 MW UFDs

2) ARE THERE PLANETS IN UFDs?! (I’m v excited about this thing I may never find out) 🔭🧪

Evidence-Based Notetaking - miss neutrino These note paper templates support you to incorporate evidence-based study methods into your studies, helping you achieve your full potential as a student. They’re based on the study methods outlined ...

so I’ve made some infographics and note taking templates that explain to you what these study strategies are, and how to implement them in your studies

you can find them here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
missneutrino.com/evidence-bas... 4/5

actual goldmine that I feel like everyone who is learning or teaching should know about: using evidence-based study methods.

like, I know reading over your notes boosts your confidence babe, but it won’t boost your grades

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And here's a slightly broader one go.bsky.app/7AYfSd1

Here's a gravitational waves starter pack I made go.bsky.app/HrAJX35