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astrofaezeh.bsky.social
Galaxy enthusiasts | Astronomy PhD student @UC Riverside | Talk to me about the sky and aliens| she/her https://faezehmanesh.github.io
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Everyone! The winner of the #DanceYourPhD comp. (physics) is sooooo worthy! Great original track (ear worm!), and awesome vid. Congrats Arfor Houwman, University of Innsbruck: “Collective Phenomena in Ultracold Dipolar Quantum Gases” Cannot recommend this enough — what a great form of #SciComm 🧪

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Join us in person or on Zoom!🤩

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Thinking about teaching after grad school? Check out this great talk by Dr. Christina Manzano King (UCR alum!) on launching a teaching career at community colleges—she covers everything from portfolios to interviews to tenure. Super practical and encouraging. youtu.be/hoHFrfqz61Q

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From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : What do you get when baby galaxies crash and light up in UV? A surprising early signature of cosmic dust. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/21/dust-ahead-of-schedule-uv-bump/

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Living our best life inside the generous PRISM error bars. Who needs higher-res data anyway? (Definitely not still sad about that rejection)

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My absolute favorite day to check arXiv!

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From Bill Smith: Are you a graduate student interested in making your department or university a better place to grad school? Today, one of our authors shares his advice about how to make positive change from his experiences this past year as a Graduate Student Council President 🔭🧪☄️ #AcademicSky

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Nowruz, Happy Spring!

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Lunar Eclipse from UCR last night.

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Lunar eclipse at UCR tonight!

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Pretty amazing stat from the JWST proposals this year: “For your information, 2377 proposals requested over 75,000 hours in Cycle 4, compared to the 8500 hours available.” 😱 🔭🧪

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From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : A tiny galaxy, barely metal-enriched, is packed with massive stars. Could it hold clues to the universe’s first stars? ✨🔭☄️ astrobites.org/2025/03/10/e...

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Fantastic paper! Well worth a look!

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@astrokatie.com gave a great talk on dark matter here at UCR—why it’s mysterious and why we think it’s there. Super interesting!

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From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how JWST reveals a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy, challenging what we know about cosmic dust! 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/02/18/a...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

In more sabbatical news, I finally had time to post some recent articles to arxiv, so it's a (double) paper day....

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Hey, women in science roll call! We’re not invisible and we can’t be erased. RT if you’re a woman in science!

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I love this explanation of the Monte Carlo computer method! It’s excellent.

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A BEAUTIFUL NEW JWST NIRCAM IMAGE OF A PORTION OF THE LEO P DWARF GALAXY!!! 🌌

submitted 125 days ago • 43 comments

“Beasts in the Bubbles” were in #AAS245! Stay tuned to hear more!

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My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

submitted 147 days ago • 127 comments

At least, after spending nearly the whole day on it, my webpage is finally out of "under construction"!

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Note to self: never underestimate what a toxic environment can do to you!

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Turns out JPL also made a model of Curiosity!! 7/10. Pretty accurate but tastes awful.

submitted 168 days ago • 3 comments

It looks really cool! “Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists” arxiv.org/abs/2312.04041

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️ 1/2

submitted 174 days ago • 5 comments

Your real legacy as a mentor is your holiday drink recipe that got generations of grad students drunk and happy.

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

I have this feeling I probably shouldn’t start with this question, but here it goes: Is the sky the same shade of blue everywhere? And just so you know, I’m not actually talking about the sky.

submitted 186 days ago • 2 comments