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Emily Hunt@emily.space |
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Astronomy postdoc in Heidelberg, 🇩🇪. Works with machine learning & star clusters. Maintains the Astronomy feeds (signup.astronomy.blue).
Bi 🏳️🌈, trans (she/her), Ⓥ
Website: emily.space
GitHub: github.com/emilyhunt
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Emily Hunt
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There was a lot of food under and around it, cigarette ash, and it smelt so so strongly of cigarettes. So I couldn't sleep in it 🫤 I am glad I have done so many talks in the last few years, if I was still a less confident PhD student it would've ruined it for me completely 😭
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Emily Hunt
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I somehow kept it together on 4 hours of bad sleep on the floor + a big coffee. It was pretty stressful 😅 but the slides were similar to talks I've done before, so I survived
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Emily Hunt
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Heading home from a very busy week at #EAS2024. The train ride back to Germany through Austria has some gorgeous views =)
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Emily Hunt
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Happy birthday! 🎂 Leavitt's work on variable stars was absolutely foundational to much of modern cosmology and distance measurement.
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Emily Hunt
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It's only on Mac for now 😭 I'm curious to see what you think, though! VS Code has broken in a new and exciting way pretty much every single time it updates as of late... that + Microsoft's very meh approach to FOSS make me want an alternative.
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Emily Hunt
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Congratulations!!! That looks like so much fun. Light-hearted ways to make science accessible are really important!!
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Now hearing about star formation regions in the solar neighbourhood from Ronan Kerr! #EAS2024 🔭
Our galaxy is full of huge star formation regions that can be traced and studied in exquisite detail thanks to the Gaia satellite!
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Emily Hunt
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Sound engineering! I did it much more in undergrad, but I mixed a lot of shows and bands. Now I mostly just mix recorded stuff whenever the opportunity comes along. I really like it because it can be super analytical and technical (like science), but the best tool you have is just your own ears.
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Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️
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Certainly one of the most spectacular things in the sky, the Andromeda Galaxy as seen from my driveway.
🔭 #astrophotography
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Emily Hunt
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I'm at the young star clusters session today at #EAS2024
Mario Giuseppe Guarcello is showing us his group's work on Westerlund 1. They have this *gorgeous* image of the cluster with JWST! 🔭
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Emily Hunt
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Pompeii is great! I went there on a school trip in 2010, and it was such a cool place with history basically being frozen. See also Herculaneum, which is closer to Naples and smaller but much better preserved
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Emily Hunt
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Vesuvius has been very well behaved for the last 2000 years or so, making it a great choice to visit if you're near Naples! Only a very small chance of erupting if you go to the summit 😅
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Adrian Price-Whelan
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We're hosting a small meeting Oct 14–18 at @flatironinstitute.org to help coordinate efforts in astronomy software built with JAX! Most time will be devoted to co-working on projects. 🔭
More details:
github.com/JAXtronomy/O...
If you are interested, please register here:
forms.gle/2oKpzaosWWvd...
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Astrobites
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From Alexandra Masegian: Gaia’s fourth data release won’t be publicly available until the end of 2025. Today’s paper reports a discovery from the preliminary data that was just too exciting to keep secret! 🔭✨️
astrobites.org/2024/07/01/g...
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Emily Hunt
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Now hearing about RR Lyrae stars in Gaia! The difference in the size of sample between Hipparcos (blue below) and Gaia is huuuuge #EAS2024
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Emily Hunt
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Sadly not - fuel is needed for it to maintain its orbit at L2, and it also needs fuel (though I think it uses cold gas?) to desaturate its reaction wheels sometimes too. They did a study and unfuelled operations just wouldn't be useful, as precise rotation is very important to how Gaia works.
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Emily Hunt
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The status of Gaia DR4 data processing #EAS2024 🔭
- Gaia proper motions will be ~4x better
- systematics in parallaxes are better controlled
- reducing systematics is really hard, but very important!
- it means DR4 release will not be before mid-2026, but they're trying very hard to keep it in 2026
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Emily Hunt
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Four papers a day (!!!) use Gaia and the archives see an increasing number of users every year!
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Brooke Simmons
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Really excited about this paper! New, larger samples have made it possible to show that there is a statistically very significant correlation between bars and AGN in the local galaxy population. And stronger bars are more likely to host AGN. @izgarland.bsky.social led this excellent work! 🧪🔭
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Emily Hunt
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The little space top hat that could 🥲 my whole PhD used Gaia data and I'll miss it so much! 🔭
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Emily Hunt
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The status of the Gaia mission at #EAS2024 from Timo Prusti 🔭
Gaia will run out of fuel 6.5 months from now, on January 15th 😭 and it will be switched off ~3 months later.
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Emily Hunt
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Now hearing about the selection function of the open cluster census from Tristan Cantat-Gaudin! (A cool project I'm on :D ) #EAS2024 🔭
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Emily Hunt
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Open clusters (my favourite astronomical object!) are a big part of helping to measure it! 🔥
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Emily Hunt
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Next up at #EAS2024 's Gaia session, hearing about using Gaia measurements to improve the cosmological distance ladder 🔭
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Emily Hunt
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This is absolutely unhinged and it is brilliant
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Emily Hunt
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Yes! It's so cool (and quite under-rated in the wider public still.) The data it produces isn't as immediately shiny as e.g. Hubble data is, but it is huuuugely useful and revolutionary in its own way
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Emily Hunt
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Oop sorry, yeah the slides are really small in this room 😭
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Emily Hunt
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Forgot the pic
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Emily Hunt
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GaiaNIR is suuuuuch a cool potential mission! Would take the number of known stars in the Milky Way with accurate astrometry from ~1% to ~10% of the galaxy
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Emily Hunt
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Gonna try and live post what I have the energy for at #EAS2024!
Starting off with a talk by David Hobbs about GaiaNIR, a potential follow up to the Gaia mission! 🔭
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Emily Hunt
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Ok, new hotel acquired 😅 doing a talk this morning on four hours of bad sleep after travelling straight here from a wedding in Denmark was rouuuuugh, but I survived!
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Emily Hunt
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I might have to check it out, thanks! Currently complaining to booking.com and hoping they'll move me, but will have to seeee
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Emily Hunt
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It's a lesson in what not to book in the future 😂 I think their booking.com review score is probably gamed to be honest, looking on other sites it is MUCH lower. I am never trusting booking.com again and had to learn that the hard way 😅
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Emily Hunt
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Thank you! This is the last time I ever try to save travel budget when doing work travel, it's so not worth the added stress 😂
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Emily Hunt
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too exhausted to try and deal with this right now, but argh. not sure I could even get a refund anyway as I'm already here. will harass them tomorrow for some basics like toilet paper and pillows that don't smell of cigarette smoke... ... I really messed up booking this hotel 😭
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Emily Hunt
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Oh nooooo, my hotel in Padova for #EAS2024 is absolutely horrible 😭 it's late on a Sunday (my flight was delayed! yay!) so it's too late to find anything else. and I have a talk tomorrow morning 😭
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Emily Hunt
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Amazing!!! Thanks :D
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Emily Hunt
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Is there API access for the Bluesky starter packs? I'd love to make a way to rotate the people included in them over time automatically 👀
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Emily Hunt
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The Rocky Worlds meetings are now on Blue sky - #exoplanet folks, go give them a follow! 🪐
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Emily Hunt
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I just made it quickly while eating ice cream in an ice cream parlour (currently on holiday 😂), at some point I'll make a more equitable system for who to include!
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Emily Hunt
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At EAS next week I am going to push this *so* hard 😈 It's just the perfect thing to have at the end of a talk, especially with the QR code!
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Emily Hunt
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Yes! :D I think it's an amazing way to improve onboarding here, it's better than anything I thought up myself when I said a couple of months ago that the app needs better onboarding. It's really awesome!
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Emily Hunt
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Feel free to share it far and wide, astronomy folks! I'm going to be plugging Bluesky at the end of every single talk I do from here on out. 🔭
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Emily Hunt
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Ok, starter packs are SERIOUSLY cool. I am so happy with this feature! Thank you, @bsky.app!
Here's my v1 Astronomy starter pack: go.bsky.app/KfuFR5s
(N.B: when I'm back from holiday I'll make the list of included accounts more equitable, for now it's just people who I can remember post a lot)
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Emily Hunt
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This is really, really cool!!! I think being able to give people a starter pack is a great way to make onboarding easier. Thank you Bluesky team! I think I'm going to put a starter pack link at the end of every talk I do from here on out, and I encourage others in scisky to do the same 👀
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Emily Hunt
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May be of interest to #astronomy folks! ⬇️🏳️🌈
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Emily Hunt
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Yay! It ran perfectly for about 4 hours 😁 Has taken quite a while to reach this point and took a lot of development, but the framework should be super flexible now for me to add more functionality to it!
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Emily Hunt
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Congratulations!!!! 🎉
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Emily Hunt
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how about a big fucking dodecahedron dodecahedrons never get any love and appreciation
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Emily Hunt
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Ooooh this looks really interesting! The Apollo 13 film is one of my favourite bits of space media ever, I hope this docu is good. While you wait, there's this Apollo 11 documovie from 2019 - it's reaaaally good, the footage they got for it and remastered is amazing.
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