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astroerika.bsky.social
Sometimes I think about geriatric stars that eat dead planets | PhD Student at UMontreal and Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets 🇨🇦
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Had an absolute blast last week observing at @keckobservatory.bsky.social for the MEAD Collaboration led by the amazing @johndebes.bsky.social!! Super interesting results about white dwarf planetary systems to come, stay tuned! 🔭

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USA #HigherEd colleagues, What can Canadian academics do to help you sustain your research programs? Let's find the loopholes! 🌎🧪🧑‍🔬

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📣 Reminder that pre-registration for #ExoClimesVII is open until January 24, 2025 11:59 PM EST! This year’s edition is held in Montreal on July 7–11, 2025. The #ExoSLAM summer school on low- and high- resolution data analysis will be on July 3–5. 🔭 If you have questions and/or comments, DM me!

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Pre-registration for #ExoclimesVII is now open! 🪐 This edition will be held in the world’s bagel hot spot, Montreal (Canada), from July 7 to 11, 2025. There will also be a joint summer school for early career researchers (ExoSLAM) on July 3–5. Pre-registration ends on January 24, 2025 11:59PM EST.

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It's been an honour to work on this project. Please do check out the posters.

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Ngl, this is what many conference talks feel like to me, lol. They are not even hiding that they don’t care about others’ work.

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I’ve seen so few detailed images of galaxies that are not the Milky Way that I need time to process what we’re seeing here lol

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Petition to name the astronomy community #NightSky. I mean, it’s right there.

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I think one of my favourite fun fact about astronomy is that the Cosmic Microwave Background, direct proof of the Big Bang, was discovered by mistake by two scientists trying to tune a radio antenna. 📡

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Hello new friends! 👋🏻 I’m Érika, a PhD at Université de Montréal studying polluted/dusty white dwarfs and what they can tell us about exoplanet interiors! 🪨 ☄️ I’m currently working on solving many detected unknowns in the UV spectra of polluted white dwarfs. Hopefully, I’ll soon have answers!

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Thought I’d ride the algorithm’s obsession with cats by showing you this 17 years old diva! ✨🐈

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I totally forgot what it felt like to be on an app without ads and bots.

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