Astrophysicist at @AMNH. Enthusiast for bringing the cosmos to the public @backyardworlds #womeninscience #BDNYC #manhattanhenge #astronomy #scicomm

New York, NY
Joined March 2009
Congratulations to our #RCSAFellows, and many thanks to the Facilitators, advisory committee members, panelists, host institution representatives, and other participants who helped make the 1st Annual RCSA Fellows Conference a success!
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Curious if a future total eclipse will be viewable from your backyard? You can see all the total solar eclipses forecasted for the next 20 years in this video! >> youtu.be/MySb6YbM-cY
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Jackie Faherty retweeted
For the first time since the Apollo era, new NASA science instruments and tech demonstrations are operating on the Moon after @Int_Machines' Odysseus lander arrived on the lunar surface: go.nasa.gov/4bNOUqS The IM-1 mission team expects to receive images in the coming days.
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The Solar System has some new lunar members—the first new moon of Uranus discovered in more than 20 years, and likely the smallest, as well as two new moons of Neptune, one of which is the faintest moon ever discovered by ground-based telescopes. carnegiescience.edu/new-moon…
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Expand your horizons! Come travel the #universe with us - most Wednesdays at 3 pm. Tickets here: ccnyplanetarium.org
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Yale has a paid 1-year postbacc program that includes astronomy (ESI PREP), through which recent undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds may gain research experience, take classes, and receive mentoring. Applications due February 28th: gsas.yale.edu/programs-of-st…
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Yes - Geminids should be good tonight. Here's a simulated view showing the asteroid responsible, 3200 Phaethon, along with a few thousand of its companions in the Apollo Asteroid Group. #lookup #astro
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Jackie Faherty retweeted
The full Beaver Moon passes over 42nd Street as it sets while the sun rises in New York City, Monday morning #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #fullmoon #moon #beavermoon
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Hi everyone! The postdoc job ad is up!!! jobregister.aas.org/ad/314b9… Please apply by Dec 15 and email me with questions! Come work with me at Amherst! :)
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(!!) Attention to all recent grads or soon to be PhD: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me at @AmherstCollege and the FCAD on all sorts of brown dwarf/exoplanet/low-mass stars science, HST, and JWST! Ad will post soon. Send me an email if you're interested. Can't wait to chat!
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We are officially a month away from #BlackSpaceWeek and we are buzzing! We can't contain our excitement for all what we have planned so here's our calendar of events! More info on these and links to register will be out very soon! Can you guess what the surprise will be?
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Getting ready to watch the launch on 13 April? Then you should check out our launch kit — everything you need to know about #ESAJuice in one place. Explore it here 👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
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We are excited to launch the BiR + @Google Ph.D. award! Website link: blackinrobotics.org/bir-goog… Details and Eligibility: For Ph.D. students enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the United States, we will be giving three awardees $25k each to use for tuition/stipend 1/n
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Congratulations to Dara Norman! An exceptional voice in astronomy both for science and for diversity. We look forward to following what happens under your leadership.
Congratulations to Dara Norman of @NOIRLabAstro for being elected the next AAS President! @AAS_Office aas.org/posts/news/2023/02/r…
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Hi, I wrote a book. Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space is about all the ethics & human rights challenges facing us in space. It asks: What can we learn from our past mistakes to build a better future in space? mitpress.mit.edu/97802620475…
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The AMNH is searching for tenured Curator and Chief Conservation Scientist! Biodiversity research is open; patterns of global change, conservation strategies, climate change impacts and adaptation, biocultural conservation, or social-ecological systems. careers.amnh.org/postings/34…
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Congrats to #blackinastro ! The first salon of 2030STEM highlighted the power of social media movements for accelerated diversity in STEM. You can read more (including a shoutout to #blackinastro) here: arxiv.org/pdf/2212.03245.pdf Recommendation is to FUND these new organizations.
Replying to @RoyalAstroSoc
The 2023 Annie Maunder Medal is awarded to @BlackInAstro, a grassroots organisation and community that was founded after the police violence upon Black people within the USA. It focuses on inspiring, developing, and enriching Black space scientists.
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#NASAWebb has taken its first direct image of an exoplanet, a gas giant named HIP 65426 b. Webb’s ability to capture worlds beyond our solar system will help us learn more about exoplanets: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/09/… #UnfoldTheUniverse
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. @johannamvos with a tale of two low gravity substellar objects at the OWL Exoplanet Summer Program, week 4!
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