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My last official bite as a regular author 🥹 so grateful to have written for astrobites over the past few years & excited to see what the new generation of authors brings! 🧪 Another case of using gamma-rays to track down cosmic rays, but this time from starburst galaxy M 82, aka the cigar galaxy 🚬🌟

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Registration ends Feb. 15! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬 We encourage all professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)! More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium

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Neutrino of the energy of 120 PeV (Petaelectron-volt)! That’s a lot. Got a theory for that? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This paper has been in the works since very early in my MSc (I’m now a second year PhD) — after like 18 months of reviews by a lot of large collaborations, we finally got this out into the world!! Summary below but tl;dr: do gammas and neitrinos come from the same place? Not this time! 🧪🔭

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Another astrobite in my series of “where are we making all these cosmic rays??” themed bites. This is a theory paper that looks at modelling a scenario where all the cosmic rays at really high energies are made in our nearest AGN, Centaurus A 🔭🧪

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Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947

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Astronauts are currently on an EVA to repair NICER! 🔭✨ #AAS245 plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...

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flying to the us today 🙃

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+ highland cows ofc!!

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happy new years i made my cat a hat and she hates it

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can light travel faster than the speed of light? probably not but we can use all the times we saw light travelling at regular speed to constrain that new physics probably isn’t happening

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yes I am a “100 tab across multiple browser” person but I don’t think I’ve ever closed a phone tab and now I’m scared

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Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

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i reallllly want a work/life balance so badly but like how do I do that if I have a conference the first week of january??!! my unfinished slides and buggy code are actively haunting me

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as someone in Montreal (-15 C) who’s going to Tucson for a meeting in 2 weeks, this is very exciting

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Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!

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pls appreciate that I put a hat on the observatory (and pray for me that it is somehow not cloudy for my event :))

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addressing some anti-DEI bs - here’s just some of the DEI work I’m fortunate to do: - making teaching resources that include underrep. physicists - establishing a food pantry for grad students w/ financial stress - bringing telescopes and physics labs to remote and underserved communities

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observing day 10/10(!) terrible weather, sat in the control room all night to follow up a gravitational wave through the clouds ☁️

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observing day 9/10: my American colleagues keep thanking me so much for being here to operate the telescopes on thanksgiving (I’m Canadian and literally had no idea today wasn’t just a normal day)

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Observing day 5?/10 (losing track tbh) and finally spotted a coati (a desert raccoon)!!

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Observing day 3/10! Venus sighting while looking for ringtails 🦝 before observations

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Just started day 1/10 of a yearly observing shift! gamma-ray observatories are different than others, so wanted to share a day in the life! Winter shifts are pretty brutal —we’re working 15h sunset to sunrise and drive back up the mountain to get to the dorms (the telescopes are at the bottom).

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Hi everyone! I’m Sam and I’m a PhD student at McGill university in Montreal, Canada! I study pulsars and their environments in very high energy gamma-rays. I’m a current @astrobites.bsky.social author and I’m also involved in DEI efforts and run a small outreach observatory 🔭

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Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 27th. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2024/10/27/a...

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From Samantha Wong: Today’s authors take a look at (possibly) the brightest flare from a supermassive black hole that we’ve ever seen! 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/11/13/s...

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From Samantha Wong: We have a new EHT image of a supermassive black hole, but that’s not all! Today’s paper gives us a multiwavelength view of M87 during a gamma-ray flare. 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/05/13/e...

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From the astrobites collaboration: Astrobites Authors bring to you firsthand accounts of the action on the path of totality and the surreal experience of watching the celestial shadow. 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/04/11/2...

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From Astrobites: Chandra needs our help! #SaveChandra astrobites.org/2024/04/11/s...

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