Isabel Swafford
@isabel_swafford
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science communicator 📝 🎥 📱 🎓: @UCSC_scicom 💛 & @Caltech 🪐 astronomy nerd, artist, swimmer, indie music lover
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2022
IT'S HERE! "Seeing the Universe Without Sight," my feature for Sky & Telescope's March 2024 issue. My deepest thanks to my sources who shared their lived experiences with me and allowed me to tell a part of their story. #sonification #accessibility
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High above thunderclouds lies a secret electrical zoo full of sprites, elves, and jets. read all about weird lightning in my latest piece for @NatGeo ⚡ 🌩️..#lightning #weather #transientluminousevents.
nationalgeographic.com
Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms.
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Hello #AAS245 ! I'm attending the meeting with my @caltechipac colleagues. Come check out our booth in the expo hall! . It's also my first AAS meeting, so I'd love to meet new folks 😁
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We're having a blast producing this show, so I'm sure you'll have a blast listening to it! 🎧🤓.#sciencepodcast #exoplanets.
#ExploreExoplanets: Vanishing Vulcans 🌋💨👻. Spock's home planet is probably one of the most famous exoplanets, thanks to #StarTrek lore. But is #Vulcan a real planet that actually orbits the real star called 40 Eridani A? Tune in and find out!
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RT @caltechipac: Happy holidays from IPAC! 🎉. As we look forward to supporting new and on-going missions, including the anticipated launche….
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IPAC's first official press release!! .Science writers and content creators hit me up for scientist contacts, hi-res images, and more cool stuff 😎.
After over 26 million images and nearly 200 billion sources detected by the telescope, the NEOWISE team has delivered the final data release. To commemorate this milestone, IPAC has shared 6 new, undiscovered images using data from the NEOWISE archive.
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RT @caltechipac: NEOWISE took its 26,886,704th and final exposure!. This movie shows the final image compared to the same region with all 1….
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“What does someone studying the brain have in common with someone studying weather patterns?” asked data scientist Laura Gwilliams. “Answer: Complex spatio-temporal patterns in data!”. Read my Q&A with Stanford's first data science faculty:.
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Apollo moon rocks reveal secrets of the moon’s thin ‘atmosphere’ in my latest story for @NatGeo 🌚. #exosphere #moon #spaceweather.
nationalgeographic.com
A constant rain of tiny meteorites kicks up dust on the moon and helps generate the thin layer of atoms that form its exosphere.
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What's too big to be a planet, but too small to be a star? And not actually brown, but magenta (to the human eye)?? A brown dwarf!.Read about them in my latest piece for IPAC 👇.
A team of researchers and citizen scientists have discovered 13 new brown dwarf and red dwarf binary pairs that highlight a gray area between planets and stars 🪐❓⭐. Learn about these bizarre objects known as brown dwarfs here:
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Here are a few ways to bring some science into your California beach day 🏖️🔍🌊😎. My latest for Stanford:
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"It [was] like a big greenish cake,” says Keisuke Hosokawa @hksuke_uec 🎂. Read about this rare aurora at the North Pole in my first(!!!) article with @NatGeo: . #spaceweather #plasmaphysics #solarwind.
nationalgeographic.com
Scientists have identified the phenomenon as a polar rain aurora, never seen before from the ground.
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6 reasons why citizen science can be a powerful research tool 🔎.In my latest piece for Stanford, I spoke with the @StanfordDeptMed Our Voice team about community-driven research practices.
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Moon dirt inspired magenta? 🩷 My new favorite color and latest article for Ceramic Tech Today:.
Inspired by the structure of existing pigments, Oregon State University researchers developed a magenta pigment based on divalent chromium.
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‘Ceramic textile’ offers fast way to cool buildings, my latest for Ceramic Tech Today:.
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is a focus for sustainability efforts. A ceramic façade called Flexbrick is a fast cooling option.
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Do you love cheese? Turns out ancient Europeans did too! 🧀.Read my latest article here:.
University of York researchers led a study that suggests early farmers used dairy products from multiple animals and made it into cheese.
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My favorite image in the story is this illustration of the black hole at the center of the Perseus Cluster by @koivulart. Adara originally created this for my story in a collaboration between @UCSC_SciCom and @CSUMB Department of Science Illustration!
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New @Stanford research adds to evidence that the seasonality of respiratory illnesses, like COVID-19 or the flu, can be linked to indoor humidity levels. Read my latest article here:.
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My latest article for Ceramic Tech Today! #metalens for #astronomy 🔭.
Harvard SEAS researchers developed a method for creating 100-millimeter-diameter metalenses, opening the door to applications in astronomy.
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My video is also featured here, in this @NASAJPL article! Check out the section discussing the impact of IRAS 🔭.
jpl.nasa.gov
The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
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