Priyamvada Natarajan
@SheerPriya
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@Yale astrophysicist, works on exotica in the universe: dark matter, black holes; #TIME100 2024; Author: Mapping the Heavens •
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Excited to see our work written up in the
@overbye
- validation of our 2017 prediction - its one of the most exciting discoveries from
@NASAWebb
this year - transforming our understanding black hole formation
@Yale
@chandraxray
@CenterForAstro
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TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world is out. I'm honored, delighted, and grateful to be a part of this incredible group
#TIME100
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OK friends -- its's official -- the embargo just lifted on our super exciting new Science paper --
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Ahem...here here - all Universities who only recognize scientists who bring in grant money - take note!. That's the reason why Katalin's work was undervalued. Time to value intellectual work maybe?
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023
@NobelPrize
in Medicine
#nobelprize
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One of the most spectacular photos of the solar eclipse taken by Prathap Kedilaya - Solar Eclipse reflection from Thalaguppa pond, shivamogga district, Karnataka State, India...stunning and beautiful...
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Trip down memory lane - sorting office - as we just moved…, finding old preprints… missing Donald Lynden-Bell. This little paper was the result of question he asked me during my PhD qualifying exam….i wrote 2 papers from the calculations I did during that exam
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My Op-Ed piece in the
@nytimes
discussing the power of astronomical images and how they have the capacity to transform our cosmic view just came out...I invite you all to read it --- as we wait for the real deal --
@Yale
@YaleAstronomy
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I got that dreaded phone from home in the middle of the night - it is with great sadness and indescribable grief that I share the news that my darling dad - Appa - passed away earlier this week peacefully in his sleep. So grateful for my mother's strength and love holding us now
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Thrilled for this early Deepavali present (festival is next weeknd). Throwback to the Deepavali party hosted by
@JoeBiden
@DrBiden
at their home 4 years ago now. Excited to finally have a woman of color - of Black and South-Asian heritage - as Veep - many congrats
@KamalaHarris
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Just a note to express my solidarity to all my friends who like me are worried sick and terrified for their parents and families in India as Covid ravages through...The isolation has been the hardest part of this pandemic - and to be thousands of miles away is unbearably hard....
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Dear Friends --
This just happened yesterday....thrilled and deeply grateful for this recognition. Excited to be in such illustrious company with so many people I admire in Science and beyond...wow! gob-smacked! Thanks!
@americanacad
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Just got inducted into
@americanacad
- lovely events, missed not having my parents there… felt the warmth of old friends and new ones
@RisaWechsler
@AdrianaBriscoe
@JossBlandHawtho
Lisa Kewley, Keivan Stassun, Eve Ostriker, Matias Zaldarriaga…..
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EINSTEIN RULES! HE MUST BE REALLY CHUFFED -- HIS THEORY HAS BEEN STRESS TESTED AND UNDER CONDITIONS OF EXTREME GRAVITY AND HOLDS UP --
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Thrilled and deeply satisfied at this awesome discovery of UHZ1 that provides compelling evidence for the existence of direct collapse black holes - nature has more than one way to make the first seed black holes
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Thrilled to be at the
#TIME100
Summit - wow! It finally feels real - how wonderful to be in the incredible company of brilliant thoughtful empathetic people impacting the world in their own unique way - so honored and humbled
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OK - astro colleagues - I have just had it - could you please let me know what I need to do for you all to *cite* my work and papers. Should I send everyone who works in the relevant area candy? flowers?
@AAS_Publishing
@RAS_Journals
& referees - this is a larger problem than me
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Grateful to have been able to visit parents and family in India - longest time away after 18 months of pandemic isolation - was lovely and reassuring to see the gulmohar tree in my parents house flower like it always does every year! Hope everyone gets to see their families soon
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Just dropped - our awesome team's paper on
#JWST
"cosmic magnifying glass" mass model for SMACS 0723 led by
@GuillaumeMahler
@Mathougalinett
@kerensharon1
@kukiniloa
,
@jpkneib
@dyonysos
,
@alastair_edge
B. Beauchesne D. Lagattuta, A. Clayessens, B. Clément, D. Eckert & A. Niemiec
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This image has stunned me into sombre silence -- this is Yale gym in preparation...beds are empty now, hope and pray they remain so as they are not needed...
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I wonder how much of a bifurcated universe others are living in right now? do share, mine consists of trying to stay safe as Covid rages in Delhi while tracking
@NASAWebb
's every reported deployment move - dealing with the grim terrestrial by staying focused on the fab celestial
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I find it *really* infuriating that now many astronomers are waxing lyrical about inclusion and belonging - how about citing people's work carefully and attentively and making them feel like their work is seen & valued. This is the first step to foster belonging in the community
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Delighted to see lovely conversation with
@nattyover
a couple of months ago become this thoughtful piece - many thanks! You helped me open up more than I usually do —— love the photos too!
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Wish me luck folks for my appointment with the retina surgeon this morning 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
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It has been a year since Covid-19 rendered me in solitary confinement- its been challenging- so here’s a shoutout to everyone muddling thru this difficult year - positive celebratory news is that my parents in 🇮🇳 got their first jab - yay!
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For my astro peeps who might have missed my paper on the arXiv today
Here's the gist of this new channel to make IMBHs *throughout cosmic time* in dense, gas-rich nuclear star clusters (NSCs) via accretion (1/n)
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Its such an honor to be on the
#TIME100
list with my remarkable colleague
@VirusesImmunity
whose far-reaching work on COVID19 and the immune system has been guiding us as we emerge from the COVID-19 epidemic
@TIME
so stoked to see that scientists are seen as influential people --
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Had the privilege of attending an early screening followed by a wonderful panel discussion of
#Oppenheimer
w/ brilliant minds - ChristopherNolan,
@kipthorne
@carlorovelli
@Kaibird123
in NYC last weekend. The film is beautiful & terrifying- do not miss this very important film
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Woke up to the sad news of the loss of another parental figure/mentor in my life. The brilliant, and warm Evelyn Fox Keller - my constant cheerleader since my STS days passed away this morning. I had the good fortune of spending time with her this summer....RIP
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Happy Deepavali everyone! From darkness to light..missing being with my parents right now....
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Went to my office after more than a year yesterday.....everything was pristine including whiteboard scribbles though sadly my plant died 😪
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Awesome discovery! - second ever multiply imaged supernova Type Ia lensed by dark matter of an intervening galaxy
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My comments on CTV on Branson's flight - Exciting milestone, we need to pause & question our deeper motives for cosmic travel. We cannot give up on Earth only to find new habitats to destroy. We need to rein in our imperialist impulse to conquer and pillage new territory 1/2
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Thanks so much
@samayanissanke
and everyone for your kind words of congratulations! Grateful for all these accolades - Am really excited to chair to one of the most vibrant Astronomy departments in the country
@YaleAstronomy
Huge congratulations
@SheerPriya
on the appointment of the Joseph and Sophia Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, and also becoming the chair of Yale astro! So well deserved & such inspiring news!
@YaleAstronomy
is v lucky
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Been over 30 years since I first left India, I go back very regularly, yet its heart-wrenching to leave every time, the bidding goodbye to loved ones has not gotten easier, the adjustment back to my own life in my adopted land takes time. Do others feel this kind of hysteresis?
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Excited and looking forward to a successful launch and exploration of the moon by the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 go
@isro
! countdown has began
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Many Congratulations! to Andrea Ghez, Reinhard Genzel and Roger Penrose - missing Stephen Hawking this morning - 3 years too late😪😪
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020
#NobelPrize
in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
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Fantastic photo of aa meteor hurtling down from the skies! wow!
It is really hard to photograph a meteor. Even though some 25 million of them hurtle toward Earth each day, most of them are too small to track. Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav managed to get one anyway, entirely by accident:
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sad news -- just heard of the passing of Charlie Misner of MTW fame...brilliant scientist and lovely human being
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Found my notes with detailed calculations that went into the two papers with Rob Crittenden et al. on intrinsic alignment contamination to weak lensing observations. Rob and I would calculate independently and then cross-check… painful but fun work
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Am delving into the history of the naming of constellations, and the myths associated with them..and I have to say it gives me immense satisfaction to know that an African queen (Cassiopeia, queen of Ethiopia) figures prominently in the Greek heavens....!
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Look out for the JWST image of this lensing cluster SMACS 0723 coming next week --- here's the HST image, part of the RELICS cluster sample....complex mass distribution with 10 faint high redshift bgd galaxies magnified into view
#JWSTfirstdata
#UnfoldTheUniverse
#Clusterlens
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What lifted my spirits in an otherwise down-in-the-dumps week was going back to my neighborhood cafe and drinking a coffee sitting outside on a table...
#simplejoys
of life
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Very exciting news from LIGO-VIRGO detection of GW190521! - remarkable event in my opinion for 4 reasons: 1/ final merger mass of ~ 140 solar mass is at the low mass end of the elusive IMBH mass range which spans 100 - 10^5 solar masses (see thread)
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Thrilled to be the first guest on
@QuantaMagazine
's new podcast series The Joy of x hosted by
@stevenstrogatz
We had a wonderful conversation and talked about science and life...and a life in science! Do listen in and subscribe.....
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So excited to be on the
#TIME100
list with these amazing Indians and diaspora Indians - looking forward to meeting them next week
@Asma_KhanLDN
@satyanadella
@JigarShahDC
@bestofpatel
@aliaa08
#SakshiMalik
#AjayBanga
@TIME
gala
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This was *the* emotional moment for me with
@jwstlaunch
- JWST in the sky with diamonds! the glittering moment of separation dispatching our little technological marvel to its celestial duties...What was it for you all? lift-off?
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super disorienting day -- please send positive wishes and thoughts....one of those days when trying to be really brave
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Hey all - guess what! All dressed up and waiting to get my first jab at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven... super super excited - fingers crossed....
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Deeply honored and grateful to be recognized at the New England Choice Award Ceremony yesterday...wonderful event - missed my parents and thanks to luggage not arriving - missed wearing the gorgeous saree I had recently purchased in India for the event
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Was lucky to eat
@TheVikasKhanna
‘s new gem of a restaurant BUNGALOW a couple of weeks ago - took me right back home to Delhi! Congratulations Vikas on a wonderful menu and incredible execution - feast for the eyes and palette - check out the dessert plate 👇
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Guess whose fantastic book I saw recently at a bookstore window... and no I am not talking about Michelle Obama... many congratulations Chanda
@IBJIYONGI
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Excited to be speaking next Friday Sept 3 at 3 pm EST at the Golden Webinar Series hosted by
@AstroUC
@ucatolica
on new insights from lensing studies of substructure in the cold dark matter model - you are all invited! See ya there -
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Soon heading to my first official visit to ICTS (International Center for Theoretical Physics) in Bangalore in India, to give a set of lectures on Supermassive Black Holes and give the C.V. Vishveshwara Lecture that is open to the public see you Bangalore friends!
@Yale
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Stunning image and wonderful multi-wavelength analysis of M87 from the EHT + multiple collaborators across the EM spectrum. Congrats
@ProfSeraMarkoff
and collaborators for this very nice work ---
@ehtelescope
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Exciting day - one of my PhD students Angelo Ricarte successfully defended his thesis today - many many congratulations! 🎊🎈🎉🍾 a newly minted
@YaleAstronomy
grad!!!
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And oh this is what DALL-E came up with to represent my research on gravitational lensing, mapping dark matter....weird right?
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Anyone else really restless and not able to focus on work or anything really today?
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OMG! --- the countdown has begun --- we are less than 2 days away....and I vividly remember this Friday afternoon 3 years ago when Shep and I were talking about black holes on
@scifri
and I was gushing about how iconic this image is likely to be....yada yada yada....
This Wednesday, we're anticipating that
@ehtelescope
will reveal the event horizon of the black hole.
In 2016, Event Horizon Telescope director Shep Doeleman and
@SheerPriya
discuss what it takes to photograph one.
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As the mode of working is shifting to large collaborations who cite each other, folks like me who work in small groups/by themselves are getting short-shrifted in citations -these flawed metrics are still taken seriously - for perceived impact/influence, promotions, salary raises
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Wow! wow! -- sounds like a major breakthrough with serious implications for the search for life and probability of life elsewhere - like wow!
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And this was the second paper that came out of my qualifying exam…. I wrote it up later…
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Excited to see the beautiful Italian edition of my first book Mapping the Heavens published by
@BBEditore
come out...missed being in Italy for it though - thanks
@yalepress
@josephcalamia
- italian friends please do spread the word
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Here’s wishing everyone a happy new year - may 2021 bring happiness, health and joy
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New independent estimate of the Hubble constant from LIGO-VIRGO - very nice paper! congrats Suvodip Mukherjee, Archisman Ghosh and collaborators including Mansi Kasliwal,
@samayanissanke
Ben Wandelt
Powerful new measurements on the Hubble Constant from the new LIGO discovery of intermediate-mass black hole. By Mukherjee, Ghosh,
@samayanissanke
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Thinking of the brilliant late Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan - as I mull over the palindromic number (# of current twitter followers) 13031 - special as it is a product of two primes 83 and 157...just the kind of thing that Ramanujan would just know about this number!
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Exciting early universe find -- light of a very distant galaxy bent out of shape & magnified into a ring by a massive galaxy between it and us - gravitational lensing - revealing this galaxy from the young universe that would never be seen otherwise
@ESO
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Honored to be recognized by the Tamil National Foundation yesterday....
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Wonderful overdue obit for the tour-de-force of modern astro Beatrice Tinsley, first woman tenured at
@YaleAstronomy
, whose intellectual legacy lives on & she would be proud to know that we are nearly 50-50 female-male ratio of faculty today - all tenured!
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By choosing to not cite (notice my careful wording) relevant work that you are building on, but refuse to acknowledge, you are actively performing an act of exclusion, by ensuring that their work does not get due attention & credit - adds to making people feel like outsiders
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So excited to give a talk
@Perimeter
next week (Wed eve March 3, 7 pm EST) - wish I could have visited this exciting Institute in person....reminiscing about how I almost moved there 13 years ago ;-)
Learn the latest about dark matter and black holes during a live webcast with
@Yale
astrophysicist
@SheerPriya
! Join us on March 3 at 7 pm ET for our first public lecture webcast of 2021!
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Finally wrapped up semester responsibilities
@YaleAstronomy
- finished grading, submitted them and now prepping for my talks at
@ictstifr
and heading to Bangalore tomorrow....excited! A hectic week coming up with a workshop on Supermassive Black Holes and a public talk...
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Simply pleasures in life - joy at having found just the right cushion covers for my red sofa during the recent visit to Delhi
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Amazing images - first glimpse - from Chandrayaan-3
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Am stunned that we have an ongoing war yet again- have we just not learnt anything? Disappointed with our species….heartbreaking to think of the innocent that are going to face tragic consequences - feeling super terrible today, hard to teach and go about routine per usual 😪😪
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Many many congratulations Katalin and Drew… Katalin you are an inspiration and see as we discussed at
@LibertySciCtr
gala its your turn !!! Yay!!!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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So excited to share this -- will be on
@CBCideas
tonight - this is a recording of the McLennan Memorial Lecture that I gave last October at
@StMarysU
hosted by the wonderful and warm
@DrRob_Thacker
memorable trip as I got visit the lighthouse at Peggy's Cove again!!
.
@Yale
astrophysicist
@SheerPriya
explores radical scientific ideas unveiling the
#Cosmos
in Mapping the Heavens:
Podcast:
#blackhole
#DarkMatter
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Come on folks! feel free to ask you favorite dark matter and lensing questions - several of us authors on this new paper are on call to answer questions! Send them to
@HUBBLE_space
right now! happening live ----
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Pantsuits are back!
@KamalaHarris
you just rocked it....thinking of your Amma too - she would be so proud...
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Enjoyed writing
@nyrbooks
essay about 3 wonderful books by
@SciTech_Cat
@AstroKatie
and
@FrankWilczek
, slipped in quotes from Greenblatt's Swerve, fav lines from Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet - Queen Mab), Vaisesika atomism, latest Fermilab muon-g2 results!
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Many who heard
@QuantaMagazine
@stevenstrogatz
's Joy of X podcast have asked about my first star map- here's my old Commodore 64 floppy disk with my star map calculations circa 1980's - I still have it! alongside a more recent DM map of a cluster of galaxies...
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Congrats to the brilliant cosmologist Joanne Cohn for helping set up the sharing of physics preprints, to make exciting scientific results accessible to many more scientists - thanks
@arxiv
for acknowledging her early contributions
The precursor to arXiv was a preprint exchange email list started and curated by Joanne Cohn, who is now a UC Berkeley cosmologist. She distributed the preprints on BITNET.
#arXiv30
#WomenInSTEM
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Happy birthday, Vera…..
#BirthdayVeraRubin
Vera Rubin encouraged all
#WomenInSTEM
, & Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan (
@SheerPriya
) is no exception.
That encouragement was welcome as she went up for tenure, and Vera Rubin called to reassure her that her “work was original and that it would all work out fine.”
#BirthdayVeraRubin
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Celebrated
@NANOGrav
results with a treat last night - listening to a private concert
Sir Andras Schiff playing at the beautiful
@SchlossElmau1
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What an incredible photo ---- wow!
Glowing lava inside Chile's Villarrica Volcano created this searchlight through a snowstorm, with the Large Magellanic Cloud in the background. What a shot!
(Credit: Cristobal Saavedra Escobar)
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Down memory lane -- looking through old papers found this telegram that informed me of my admission to MIT
@MIT
way back when...before the inter-net, email and even fax....the fastest way to send urgent news was a telegram....also found copies of my college essays :-)
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Delighted to have gotten the largest chunk of time on Chandra (led by Akos Bogdan) exciting quest for early BHs behind lensing clusters continues - marrying my two key science interests dark matter mapping and black holes - grateful to the TAC 🙏
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momentous mission - awesome to see jubiliant friends in the control room! Go Chandrayaan-3...cannot wait for Aug 23 to see the rover land on the moon...Fantastic pitch-perfect launch -congratulations
@isro
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