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Exoplanet astrophysicist. Currently a postdoc at Geneva Observatory, working on TESS follow-up with NIRPS and ESPESSO. She/her.
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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

Custom bowl: a little family on Mars. #pottery #sciart

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

The MEME2025 Exhibition is already around the corner! We have switched things up a bit this year: we will open the doors to the exhibition already next Monday at 4 pm CET and keep them open all the way until our closing ceremony on Friday‼️ This way you have all week to vote for your favorite memes 🪐

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.  This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/ 🔭  📷 ESO/P. Horálek

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

Would you like to help astronomers name a (quasi)moon around earth? I teamed up with panelists around the world to whittle 2,700+ name suggestions down to just 7! And you can vote for your favorite until January 1st. Visit radiolab.org/quasi-moon to #NameThatQuasiMoon!

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

submitted 71 days ago • 789 comments

OH MY GOD!! WE HAVE THE COMBINED WEBB AND CHANDRA VIEW OF NGC 602!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL 🤩🌌

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments

✨#JWST jewelry giveaway time! 🤩 Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨ 💫 How to participate: 1) follow me 2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway 3) like & repost 🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :) 🔭🐡🧪🎨

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

This is fantastic 😂 (and completely accurate)

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments