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Meg Schwamb@megschwamb.bsky.social |
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Planetary scientist & astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast: KBOs, Planet Four(Mars), exoplanets (Planet Hunters NGTS) ,LSST SSSC co-chair. Opinions posted are my own. Pronouns: she/her
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ErrantScience
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This is one of our most popular cartoons which we're sharing for the end of Pride Month, we've also got some new pride cartoons which we'll share next month because we love pride all the time 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #PrideMonth #Pride
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Meg Schwamb
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Playing the obligatory Neil Diamond and Lenny Kravitz songs today. #americanexpat
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸
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PhD students who will be enrolled in UK programs as of autumn 2024: come to planet school this summer. It’s free, it’s virtual, it’ll be fun.
Register by August 2: tiny.cc/PlanetSchool2024 🧪
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Meg Schwamb
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"The final components of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), including its foundation, silver geodesic dome, and on-site buildings, have been removed from a valley atop Maunakea in Hawai‘i, and the land at the site has been restored."
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James Davenport
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Long live Gaia!!!!!
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Meg Schwamb
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ten minutes before the deadline, but I have submitted the required draft of a proposal to my university while having to write it while attending a big conference. I will be sleeping on the plane.
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Meg Schwamb
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I ended my #TNO2024 summary talk with a video message from Mario Jurić who welcomed everyone to the next meeting in the series. #TNO2027 will be in Seattle!!!!
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Meg Schwamb
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We’re almost done with #TNO2024. I am humbled and honored to be asked to give the closing plenary summary talk
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Meg Schwamb
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I also liked Patryk Sofia Lykawka's talk on the orbital structure in the distant Kuiper Belt: Evidence for an Earth-mass planet iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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I really enjoyed Yukun Huang's talk on the Primordial Orbital Alignment of Sednoids iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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Pinilla-Alonso - the CO2 lines on KBO surfaces suggest evidence for distinct compositional gradients within the primodial disk #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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Noemi Pinilla-Alonso presenting on the DISCO TNO JWST program - ~90% of targets have CO2 with ~50% having CO (methanol is found on ~40 % of the surfaces) #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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Joshua Emery - analysis of JWST data finds no nitrogen ice on Sedna, Gongong, and Quaoar although previously suggested from ground-based data. #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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Day 1 of #TNO2024 in Taipei, Taiwan - the gathering of outer Solar System astronomers, planetary scientists, dynamicists, mission specialists, and ice lab researchers - A great intro talk to kick things off by Ana Carolina De Souza Feliciano giving an overview of the latest JWST results
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Meg Schwamb
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I felt that small earthquake in Taipei #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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Ni hao - In Taiwan from the TNO 2024 meeting (tno2024.org). It's been 8 years since I've been back. #TNO2024
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Meg Schwamb
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I'm within an order or magnitude.. Good enough for astronomers ;-)
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Meg Schwamb
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Happy Northern Hemisphere Summer Solstice!
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Tim Onion
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Hi! The Onion is bringing back our Writing Fellowship.
The fellowship has produced some of the biggest names in comedy, at The Onion and elsewhere.
It was a casualty private equity. We are reviving it.
The program is six months long and includes health insurance.
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Meg Schwamb
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Thanks!
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Meg Schwamb
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Just finished my British Planetary Science Conference plenary talk on all the awesome Solar System science coming in the next few years with the start of @vrubinobs.bsky.social Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) #BPSC2024
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Meg Schwamb
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Yep. On my way to Leicester for the British Planetary Science Conference
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Meg Schwamb
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On travel today. Where I am at the moment?
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Meg Schwamb
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Today I'm helping to run Girls in Maths and Physics where 200 students from local schools are coming to campus today.
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Meg Schwamb
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Check out all the events that are part of Black Space Week 2024 #scicomm #blackinastro #blackspaceweek 🔭
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Meg Schwamb
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A Python Project Template for Healthy Scientific Software iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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Meg Schwamb
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I agree, but I also think it's the spin that higher ups and funding agencies can accept because they often don't get it.
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Meg Schwamb
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Timely paper - One of the topics for my research group meeting was about resilience. I am not sure I did my best job talking about, but I hope talking about failure and developing support systems was helpful in some way.
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Andy Rivkin
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🧪🔭
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
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Grad students!! Do you want to come and work at Caltech/IPAC for six months? Beautiful Pasadena, wonderful mentors, rich datasets and exciting science?
Check out next year's projects here and come join the 2025 Visiting Graduate Student Fellows!
AMA!
www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...
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Meg Schwamb
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I am finishing up tonight some of the planning docs for the folks that will be helping with our "Girls in Maths & Physics" event next week (~200 local school female & gender minority students coming to campus for physics & math
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Chris Lintott
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Publication day for ACCIDENTAL ASTRONOMY in North America! Now my friends across the Pond can read about how astronomers stumble into discovering the cosmos. 🔭 🧪
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Meg Schwamb
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I found out that some observations and analysis my research group has been performing are useful for a theorist's interpretation of another dataset. That makes me very very happy as a through and through observer.
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Meg Schwamb
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This proposal I am writing is finally shaping up. It might be all the fast beats per minute music I am listening to while working at home this morning (apologies to my neighbors for playing phonk and techo with some taylor swift and megan the stallion mixed in at 9 am)
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Meg Schwamb
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Nice to see @vrubinobs.bsky.social featured in this month's BBC Sky at Night
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Meg Schwamb
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I'm on the science organizing committee for #TNO2024 which is in 2 weeks in Taipei. We're finishing up the last minute things on the todo list for the meeting. We're also in the midst of selecting the host and city for TNO 2027 (present and future planning 🙂 )
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Meg Schwamb
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All good. Feel free to report it to the feed if you think it's useful. I didn't want to flood the feed with very technical stuff
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Meg Schwamb
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Thanks. This post I didn't want to put on the feed.
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Meg Schwamb
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Just learned about the nifty-ls a new package python package which accelerates the Astropy's LombScargle module github.com/flatironinst...
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John Debes
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Original post is deleted but we can still do coronagraphy with STIS with just one gyro. Scheduling gets a bit tougher but it’s premature to say coronagraphy might be dead now…
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Meg Schwamb
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A nice summary here as well of the gyros, HST pointing, and one gyro mode. Looks like HST will not be able to observe moving objects that are closer to Earth than Mars' orbit. #HST
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Meg Schwamb
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A quick search found this article. Seems like a nice summary of what is capable and not capable in one gyro mode. www.stsci.edu/files/live/s...
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Meg Schwamb
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Hubble moves to single gryo mode. This moves ensures the space telescope can keep on observing well reserving/saving one of the good functioning gyros for the future. #HST
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Meg Schwamb
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Had the privilege to sit on a thesis viva (defense) panel this week. I have to say, one of the best parts of the job is being able to be one of the first people to congratulate a new PhD in astronomy/planetary science/astrophysics by referring to them as Dr.
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Margot Finn
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Very interesting, and arguably also relevant for the British Academy's pilot on partial randomisation for the small grants scheme. @hetanshah.bsky.social
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Meg Schwamb
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If you're having issues access github pages sites today, see github.com/orgs/communi...
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
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🔭🪐👩🔬 #jobs
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Meg Schwamb
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‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join NASA mission to Uranus
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Meg Schwamb
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I am so glad to hear that. I hope the kitties are being the best nurses
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