used bookstore haul again :)

Coding at the airport again

Haul from a used bookstore, also yugioh cards

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

politico.com

nO one told me there were cows at the vla

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO@thenrao.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy National Cow Appreciation Day! 🐄 📍 Very Large Array (VLA), New Mexico 📸 Credit: Kurt Liestenfeltz, 2025 VLA Star Party

Fun times at the GRC Origins of the Solar System conference at Mount Holyoke!

I successfully defended my thesis and am now Dr. Caprice Phillips (its got a nice ring to it!). So thankful for my advisors and mentors including Jackie Faherty and @ohdearz.bsky.social and friends who were here to support me. Im the 2nd Black women to get a PhD from my department. Full of joy.

My PhD defense is approaching quickly! Eeep! The public oral talk will be June 16 at 11am EST. If anyone would like to sign up to receive the Zoom Link to watch the public portion please fill out the Google Form here: forms.gle/o49ZQi8nPcun... 🌌🔭 #BlackInAstro

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews

More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

forbes.com

If you're an incoming Doctoral candidate to a top US University in 2025/2026 but are reconsidering/considering Canada please see this initiative at Queen's University. www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new. Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... Just cruel.

Dave Baltrus 🦦@surtlab.bsky.social · last yr.

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Federal grants to universities are almost entirely on a Letter of Credit basis. Most universities will submit weekly or biweekly drawdowns from the Payment Management System to reimburse recent expenditures. Without those reimbursements universities will be burning through cash unsustainably.

Very hard to go to work normally when every day this administration keeps rolling out horrific policies that threaten the lives of marginalized people everywhere.

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

Paper day! Excited to share our new paper (my first First-Author haha~) where we examine Gaia-confirmed YSOs in the Taurus star forming region with VLASS & find a really cool radio luminosity-spectral type dependence :D!! Here’s the arxiv preprint link: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06188

The Radiowave Hunt for Young Stellar Object Emission and Demographics (RADIOHEAD): A Radio Luminosity${-}$Spectral Type Dependence in Taurus${-}$Auriga YSOs

We measure the radio continuum fluxes at the locations of all Gaia${-}$confirmed members of Taurus${-}$Auriga using Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey data (VLASS; 2${-}$4 GHz, $σ_{\rm{VLASS}}...

arxiv.org

Caprice is an outstanding scientist, a great speaker, and on the postdoc job market this year! 🔭🧪⚛️

Emily Rauscher@astronemly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here at U Michigan Astro we were privileged to host the 2022 Beth Brown Award winner, @capricephillips.bsky.social, who gave TWO great talks: one about her awesome research and one about community and @blackinastro.bsky.social 🤩🥳👏

Follow our bsky account ^ ^!!

AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy@aascsma.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello, bluesky!! The AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (members shown below) is happy to join you here, including @ohdearz.bsky.social, @capricephillips.bsky.social, @that-astro-chic.bsky.social, @ramistarblob.bsky.social, @rmartinez.bsky.social! 🔭🧪⚛️

wavefunctions when you observe them

Frying eggs in this >>>>

Terminally Online Leftist 🥂@terminallyol.bsky.social · 2y ago

Man, i remember how stressful class registration used to be in undergrad. Now it's just beep boop boom *registered instantly*

grad school lately

Spoke with the kids this morning about how important it is to try and make the world better, even if other people try to make it worse.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2y ago

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

Organize and care for each other in your communities, fund libraries and mutual aid centers. Be there and fight for your trans friends. Continue fighting more than ever for Palestine.

Ramisa Rahman | রামিসা ☁️✨@ramistarblob.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't think I can explain the palpable horror I'm feeling right now. The rights of marginalized people are in jeopardy, just like that. And US bombs will continue to be sent to Israel.

I don't think I can explain the palpable horror I'm feeling right now. The rights of marginalized people are in jeopardy, just like that. And US bombs will continue to be sent to Israel.

Yeah so I'll probably permanently switch to bsky soon enough

love how i completely forgot about my bluesky account for a few months

Finished submitting my last grad app :). No matter how everything turns out, I'm proud of myself for coming this far.