Astronomy prof @UW, author of #TheLastStargazers, 2022 @FulbrightPrgrm Scholar & @GuggFellows, weird star enthusiast, human exclamation point
Seattle, WA
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Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 retweeted
What resonates with me about why to work in AI, and why you should stay in and hold yourself to the harder standard edave.substack.com/p/the-res…
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🚨New book announcement!🚨 Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque’s (@emsque) STARLIGHT IS FALLING, coming 2027, offers an expansive, eye-opening account of cosmic discovery through one of the greatest scientific debates of all time: the precise value of the Hubble constant.
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🎉Friends! Today is the day!
Celebrate with me (by going to your favorite bookseller)! 🎉
We're celebrating the release of @ProfKelsey's INTO THE UNKNOWN 🎉 A wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions about the origins, destiny, and fundamental nature of our universe
“A mind-bending inquiry"—@PublishersWkly
Learn more: bit.ly/3TNgBc5
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@emsque Your book in pride of place in Blackwell’s bookshop in Edinburgh! :)
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Dr. Jane Rigby, AAS Trustee, is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.
Rigby is being honored for her role in the success of the JWST mission, as well as her longtime support of diversity and inclusion in science. aas.org/press/aas-trustee-ja…
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Eclipses aren’t just opportunities for incredible sights. Generations of researchers have used them to study phenomena ranging from the sun itself to the fabric of the universe. @UW @emsque talks about what scientists have learned by studying eclipses.
washington.edu/news/2024/04/…
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The #JWST Cycle 3 General Observer Program selections have been made. Find out what JWST will observe in its third year of science: bit.ly/49vlBYL
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October 4-10 is World Space Week, & our displays are out of this world! Browse some of our favourite fiction and non-fiction about space exploration & astronomy #WSW2023 @WorldSpaceWeek @emsque @margotshetterly @Lauren_E_James @IBJIYONGI @Nnedi @MaryRobinette @catvalente
ALT World Space Week Logo & space books: The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque; Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly; The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter; The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall; The Secret Lives of Planets by Paul Murdin; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie; Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles; Binti by Nnedi Okorafor; The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal; The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
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Congratulations to Professor Henny Lamers @UniUtrecht and Emily Levesque @emsque on winning the @AAS_Office 2023 Astronomical Writing award with their book, Understanding Stellar Evolution🎉
Discover more about their book here- ow.ly/HKvN50P02XH
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Today is the day! We are so proud to introduce the 2023 Fulbright NZ grantees! Go to fulbright.org.nz to find out more. Congratulations to you all!
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This event with @janerrigby @MITMuseum sounds so awesome! I wish I wasn't out of town! And wow, massive kudos to organizer @christinaeil for going above and beyond, even working with @LamplighterBrew to make a new @NASAWebb-themed beer. Boston folks--check it out! 🌌🍻
The Webb Telescope: A New Era in Astronomy, Jane Rigby, astrophysicist and JWST operations project scientist explains how astronomers use advanced telescopes, shares a few stories about how the Webb started, and the people who made it a reality.
calendar.mit.edu/event/the_w…
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Auckland Airport Rainfall, back to 1963. Thick line is 2023 (doh) Today's effort so far (55mm) in purple...
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Associate professor of #astronomy @UW, Emily Levesque @emsque, will present the Mitchell Lecture “The Last Stargazers: True Stories and Adventures of Astronomy” at our #TAMUPhysicsFest on April 1, 2023 @ 3:30 PM CT. #space #tamu #stem ✨ 🔭 – at College Station, TX
ALT Flyer for Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington Dr. Emily Levesque. Presenting Mitchell Lecture "The Last Stargazer: True Stories and Adventures of Astronomy" On Saturday, April 1st, 2023 At 3:30 PM-4:30 PM In the Mitchell Physics Building Lecture Halls 203-205
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Henny Lamers, emeritus professor at the API, UvA (@UvA_Amsterdam) & Emily Levesque (@emsque), associate professor at @UW have won the 2023 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, for their textbook "Understanding Stellar Evolution".
api.uva.nl/content/news/2023…
Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 retweeted
On Tuesday, 9/20 at 7pm we're so excited to welcome @xkcd back to our Lake Forest Park location to discuss his highly anticipated new book WHAT IF? 2! @emsque will join him in conversation!
@riverheadbooks
Tickets available at: thirdplacebooks.com/event/ra…
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On Tuesday 9/20 I’m so excited to chat with Emily Levesque (@emsque) in Seattle at @ThirdPlaceBooks! thirdplacebooks.com/event/ra…
ALT WHAT IF? 2 tour event with Randall Munroe and Emily Levesque 9/20 in Seattle at Third Place Books. xkcd.com/events
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Are we alone in the universe? How’d we get here?
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope help us #UnfoldTheUniverse & answer the questions above 🌌
Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates the deepest infrared photo of the universe ever taken → goo.gle/3PlwbHm