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📣 Join Black In Astro for our 1st professional development speaker series featuring Black scientists, engineers and educators in the space-sciences. This 1st session will feature a talk and Q&A with Dr. India Jackson🌍
More information and registration
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#HappyBlackHistoryMonth
. Today we are highlighting and celebrating the rock star that is Naia Butler-Craig (
@astronaia
) . Naia is an Aerospace Engineering PhD Student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also a co-organizer of
#BlackInAstro
!
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Meet the team for
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
! First up is
@That_Astro_Chic
an incoming Atmospheric Science PhD student at
@HowardU
studying astrochemical phenomena in planetary atmospheres within our solar system. She is also the co-founder of
@BlackInChem
and
@BlackinPhysics
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Congratulations to Dr. Manning who just became the first Black person to receive a PhD in Astronomy from UT Austin! 🎉🎊🎊🥳🥳
#BlackInAstro
Check out the new handle y'all!!!! YA GIRL GOT HER DOCTORATE!!!!!!
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And we are off!🚀 We are so excited to share this year's
#BlackInAstroWeek
flyer. The dates for this year's event are June 20- June 26! We've got a lot of cool things planned so stay up-to-date on the website and our social medias!
#BlackInAstro
. Are ya'll as excited as we are?!
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@astronaia
a 3rd year Aerospace Engineering PhD student at
@GeorgiaTech
with a research focus in electric space propulsion. Her goal is to study and optimize electric propulsion devices, specifically Hall Effect Thrusters, for deep space exploration mission applications
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@keshawnrants
is a PhD student at
@VanderbiltU
studying dark matter haloes and large scale structure. Outside of academic matters, KeShawn loves to sing and arrange music and has sung in various ensembles since he was 10 years old.
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It would be a great way to celebrate
#Juneteenth
and kick of
#BlackSpaceWeek
if we could get to 5k followers today 👀 Spread the word and let everyone know the party has begun! 💃🏽🚀
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Also on our team is Dr. Nia Imara! Dr. Nia Imara is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at UCSC. She studies stellar nurseries, galactic mass, star formation and detecting exoplanets. She's an artist, activist, and founder of Onaketa.
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
#BlackInAstro
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Carl E. Fields is an RPF Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
@carlnotsagan
focuses on simulations of massive stars, stellar explosions, and astrophysical sources of gravitational waves
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Meet Dr. Tana Joseph!
@TanaDJoseph
is a South African astronomer, entrepreneur, science communicator and decolonization/EDI advocate. Her research is focused on X-ray emitting double stars, called X-ray binaries, in galaxies outside the Milky Way.
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@CheyennePolius
is a St Lucian Astrophysicist & Science Communicator who completed an Integrated Master's degree in Physics and Astrophysics at The University of Sheffield in the UK. She spends her free time creating Space-related content on various social media platforms.
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It's almost
#BlackSpaceWeek
! Here's a thread of everything you need to know for the events coming to you all of next week!
#BlackInAstro
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It’s
#BlackSpace
day ✨ and today we want to hear from our
#BlackInScicommers
who use their talents to communicate astronomy and space related topics to the public! Whether you use social media, or communicate to the local community, we wanna hear ya roll call
#BlackSpace
!
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@KathinatedDrink
is an incoming
@UCBerkeley
graduate student and is interested in computation and modeling and how it can be used to create a stronger understanding the formations of complex organic molecules.
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We are officially a month away from
#BlackSpaceWeek
and we are buzzing! We can't contain our excitement for all what we have planned so here's our calendar of events!
More info on these and links to register will be out very soon! Can you guess what the surprise will be?
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Happy Pride Month from the
#BlackInAstro
Team 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#Pride2021
. Image credit: Laurie Raye.
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#HappyBlackHistoryMonth
Today we highlight and celebrate Dr. Tana Joseph
@TanaDJoseph
, one of our amazing co-organizers! Dr. Tana Joseph is a South African astronomer, science communicator, decolonisation and transformation advocate and entrepreneur.
#BlackInAstro
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📣📣 It’s June so you know what that means!
#BlackSpaceWeek
is on the way! Here’s a sneak peak into the vibe we have for each day of the week. Events dropping soonnnn👀💃🏽
#BlackInAstro
#BlackInSpace
#BlackInAstroweek
#MultiverseofBlackness
#BlackInAstroweek2022
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Dakotah Tyler (
@DTstarkid
) is a former football player for the University of Kentucky and current 2nd year graduate student studying exoplanet atmospheres and demographics at
@UCLA
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We wanted to re-share our promotional poster with included alt-text for accessibility. We are so excited to share this week with you all!
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
And we are off!🚀 We are so excited to share this year's
#BlackInAstroWeek
flyer. The dates for this year's event are June 20- June 26! We've got a lot of cool things planned so stay up-to-date on the website and our social medias!
#BlackInAstro
. Are ya'll as excited as we are?!
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Next we have
@CapricePhillips
who is the lead-organizer of
@BlackInAstro
Caprice is a rising third year Astronomy PhD student at
@OSUAstro
working on detectability of biosignatures on gas dwarfs with the upcoming JWST and
@twinkle_mission
space missions.
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@BryneHadnott
is the the founder of Space Out STEM, a science education consulting practice focused on creating decolonized and anti-racist science curriculum for communities of color.
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Tomorrow, we will begin highlighting Black Astronomers for BHM UK!! 🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿
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Join us in congratulating our winners from the first ever Black In Astro undergraduate research competition! They did amazing!
#BlackInAstro
First place 🥇: Jasmine Ramirez -
@bestjazzhands
Second place 🥈: Marcus Dormena
Third place 🥉: Carissma McGee
@carissmatic_
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We are so honoured! Shoutout to
@keshawnrants
and
@CheyennePolius
for representing us! More pics & vids from this crossover coming soon! 🥹
The
@BlackInAstro
team have won the
@RoyalAstroSoc
Annie Maunder Medal for Outreach.
@keshawnrants
and
@CheyennePolius
here in Cardiff on behalf of the amazing team to accept the award.
#BlackInAstro
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One of our newest co-organizers!! 💫🌟👩🏾🏭
This
#HiddenFigures
tribute definitely understood the assignment. 🤩
Ph.D. student and
@NASA
trainee Shelita Reneé Hall recreated the looks of famous Black women in STEM.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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THANK YOU
@RoyalAstroSoc
for this incredible recognition! We are truly honoured to receive this medal🥹
This only pushes us to continue to show up for our community in the ways that matter most!
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#BlackHistoryMonth
Next up is an amazing history maker, who will soon be the FIRST Black woman to receive a PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University in a couple of months. The astrophysicist, storytelling science communicator Moiya McTier
@GoAstroMo
!
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WAKE UP!
#BlackSpaceWeek
has officially begun! Some of you may remember the beloved
#BlackInAstroWeek
that we renamed to
#BlackSpaceWeek
last year to include ALL the amazing things our community does! So let the celebrations begin! 💃🏽
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Get ready for an OUT OF THIS WORLD EXPERIENCE as we get ready for Day 4
#AstroWorld
of
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
! We're calling for ALL the exoplaneteers, planetary scientists, astrobiologists, planetary geologists, etc.!
We have a special
@SETIInstitute
TAKE-OVER via Twitter & IG!
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Naia Butler-Craig (
@astronaia
) is our Aerospace Chair! She's an Aerospace Engineering PhD Student, NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow and GEM Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Naia is also a member of the High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab
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This thread has ALL the information you need to join the fun of
#BlackSpaceWeek2023
!
#BlackInAstro
made a special effort to make the week’s events as accessible as possible for all to enjoy. Thank you to
@VidmanBarber
for this video to kick off this thread! Everyone is welcome🫶🏼
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#BlackInAstroRollCall
but make it a thread of the amazing
#BlackInAstro
team that's been working hard to bring you
#BlackInSpace
week! 🧵
#BlackInSpaceRollCall
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We at
#BlackInAstro
are disheartened to hear our board member & co-organizer Naia Butler-Craig is being subjected harassment. We stand in solidarity with our sister and in distinct opposition to all forms of sexual harassment. Trust Black women. Believe and Support Black women.
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This is why
#BlackInAstro
is so important.
Each year, the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates releases the demographics of new PhDs in STEM, and data is important to show trends quantitatively. For example, here's the data of Black, Latinx, and Native American astronomy & astrophysics PhDs vs total in the last 5 yrs.
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The only Monday we’re happy about is the Monday of
#BlackSpaceWeek
and Juneteenth!
Today is all about amplifying the amazing work we do everyday and how we show up as ourselves in Space fields. It’s time for the
#CiteBlackInSpace
Bingo challenge! More info in this thread 🧵
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We’re starting off
#BlackSpaceWeek
as per usual with our roll call.
If you’re a Black person who does Space-related things, introduce yourself and tell us what cool things you do using the hashtag
#ShoutoutBlackInSpace
!
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KeShawn Ivory (
@keshawnrants
), our Events Co-Director -an astrophysics PhD student at Vanderbilt University studying dark matter haloes and the galaxies that live inside them. He likes singing, and thinks about suddenly moving to Martinique to teach English at least once a week😂
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You might want to bookmark this! Black In Astro’s mission is to support our community and we’re SO EXCITED to be able to give travel scholarships for the next AAS meeting in January 2022! 💃🏽
For more info and the link to the application form, visit
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Congratulations to the winners of our
#BlackSpaceWeek
2024 Graduate Research Showcase!
🥇 1st place - Everett McArthur |Incoming PhD student The Ohio State University
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On the last day of
#BlackSpaceWeek
2024, we pay tribute to Octavia Bulter on her birthday! She was an American Science Fiction writer born in 1947 and considered the mother of afrofutirism✨ Learn more here:
📸 source:
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We are truly devastated by the news of Roe v Wade being overturned. This is a direct act of negatively controlling the quality of life in the country by the Supreme Court. As upsetting an issue this is, we must fix it together.
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ROLLLLL CALLLLLL! All members of the Black Space community, report for duty! Introduce yourself and tell us what you do using the hashtag
#BlackInSpaceRollCall
and/or
#BlackInAstroRollCall
✨🔭🪐🚀
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Happy Black History Month!!! We'll teaming up with
@astrobites
all month long to celebrate some amazing folks in the field!
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📣📣📣📣 We’re so happy to be able to award our BlackInAstro folks travel grants again this year! Applications are O P E N!
Link to apply 👉🏼
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In honor of
#BlackInPhysicsWeek2021
meet our stellar team here at
#BlackInAstro
#BlackinPhysicsRollCall
Meet the team for
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
! First up is
@That_Astro_Chic
an incoming Atmospheric Science PhD student at
@HowardU
studying astrochemical phenomena in planetary atmospheres within our solar system. She is also the co-founder of
@BlackInChem
and
@BlackinPhysics
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We are less than a week to the start of
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
! For
#BlackXploration
Day Monday June 21, we've put together an amazing panel discussion with leading professionals in the aerospace community 🚀🛰️ Mark your calendars and register to attend at:
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Our Public Relations Chair, Robert Washington (
@exoplanetist
) is a graduate from Planetary Science at Purdue. Rob is now a research assistant at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center studying exoplanet atmospheres and will be going to Howard University for a Planetary science PhD
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STARTING OFF THE NEW YEAR STRONG!!!
Thank you
@RoyalAstroSoc
for such an honour! 🥹🙌🏼
The 2023 Annie Maunder Medal is awarded to
@BlackInAstro
, a grassroots organisation and community that was founded after the police violence upon Black people within the USA. It focuses on inspiring, developing, and enriching Black space scientists.
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This photo from Chanda
@IBJIYONGI
is a composite of images taken of the Milky Way from Cholla Garden in Joshua Tree National Park, June 2024, using a mirrorless full frame camera and 24 mm lens.
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It's only right to start with the Queen who brought this week to life! Our Founder & President, Ashley Walker!
@That_Astro_Chic
is a 1st year Planetary Science PhD student at Howard University studying atmospheric processes and evolution of the Ice Giants (Uranus and Neptune)
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Wishing Dr.
@maejemison
a stellar birthday 🚀🎂🥳 from the
#BlackInAstro
crew!
“I just always assumed, despite the fact that the U.S. hadn’t sent any women up and there, or people of color, that I was going to go.”
Dr. Mae Jemison (
@maejemison
) was born
#OTD
in 1956. Doctor, peace corps volunteer, first Black woman in space, first astronaut on Star Trek.
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#HappyBlackHistoryMonth
. Today we are highlighting and celebrating the amazingness that is Cheyenne Polius, one of our amazing co-organizers!
@CheyennePolius
.
#BlackInAstro
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An image by Eileen
@Egonzales788
of the Sun during the partial solar eclipse in SF on April 8th. At the bottom of the Sun you can also see a solar prominence!
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🔭🔭🔭🔭🔭🔭🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oi pessoal, tudo bem? Sou a Ana, estudante de bacharelado em física na USP, e atualmente atuo na área de Astropartículas e Cosmologia.
Este perfil é uma mistura de divulgação científica, conteúdos sobre literatura e questões racias.
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We at
#BlackInAstro
are saddened and angered by the violation of and violence committed towards a Black woman in the birding community. We will not make space for serial sexual harassers and rapists.
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We're wrapping up day 4
#AstroWorld
. Tomorrow is
#BlackWhole
for
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
So get ready for an exciting day filled with a special
@SETIInstitute
LIVE with
@That_Astro_Chic
&
@DTstarkid
, and an amazing poet/astronomer that you won't forget!
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Happy Friday and Happy
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
. Today is the official start of our
#astroart
themed competition judging for our amazing prizes from our
#BlackToTheFuture
Day. We've got some amazing art entries and we are excited to share them with you!
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Can I get a drumroll please?! 🥁 The winner of our
#CreateBlackInSpace
Astro art competition is Erin with the Andromeda Galaxy photographed with a DSLR and Star Tracker 🤩
They will be getting a gorgeous custom art piece from
@amyraehill
. So jealous! 🤩
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This piece from Qiana
@QosmicQi
, "Ascension," is a celebration of personal triumph.
“I play with the themes of creation and self-determination, inspired by my journey through grad school.”
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Let’s
#ShoutoutBlackInSpace
and get a glimpse into the lives of
@BlackInAstro
Executive Board as we go through
#BlackSpaceWeek
!
Day in the life of our Events Co-director
@keshawnrants
🫶🏼
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Did you know that there's more than 7
@BlackinPhysics
and
@BlackInAstro
PhD students graduating this year? ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
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It's
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
!!!! While there's no roll call today, we'll introduce our founder, the amazing team, and our mission! We also encourage you to read some of the
#BlackInAstro
posts from
@astrobites
! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
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Our Social Media Director is Cheyenne Polius (
@CheyennePolius
), a St Lucian Astrophysicist, Speaker & Science Communicator. She did her Astrophysics Integrated Masters at The University of Sheffield in the UK where she researched Planetary Disc Enrichment by Supernovae
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Bryné Hadnott (
@BryneHadnott
) is our Journalism Director! She is a data curator and storyteller at Stanford University. She writes about the strangeness of dark matter, figuring out ways to visualize the density of black holes, and pleading with her computer to make her code work
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This is so heartbreaking💔 BlackInAstro offers our deepest condolences to Sammy’s family, the BlackInChem Executive Board and the BlackInChem community 🙏🏼 🤍
It is with utmost sorrow and heavy hearts to announce the passing of our President and Co-Founder of BlackinChem, Samantha “Sammy” Mensah. She was a phenomenal activist, leader, inventor, science communicator. and a doctoral candidate in chemistry at UCLA. (1/3)
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We are so excited to announce that we have received the ASC Student Success Grant through The Ohio State University! We are excited to bring programs through partnership with OSU. Special thank you to
@ohdearz
,
@CapricePhillips
and the help of
@That_Astro_Chic
and
@BryneHadnott
!
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Today is Day 5
#BlackWhole
of
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
. The day entails and is for gravitational waves, black holes , galaxy, dark matter, particles, cosmology alike. Use the hashtag
#BlackWholeRollCall
and don't forget your Haiku of your research for a chance to win special prizes!
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AJ Link (
@knilirabaj
) is our Space Law and Policy Chair! Among other things, he is the inaugural director of The Center for Air and Space Law Task Force on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Aerospace and an adjunct professor of space law at Howard University School of Law
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📣📣📣 ATTENTION BLACK IN ASTRO UNDERGRADS 📣📣📣
Sorry, I didn’t mean to shout but we’re so excited to be hosting a
#BlackInAstro
undergraduate research competition in November! 💃🏽
Please see the tweet below to find out more about how you can win some coins with your research!
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📣 Keep your eyes peeled for
@BlackInAstro
’s Fall travel grant applications opening soon!
📌 Important dates 📌
Sep 4 - Applications open & application form will be posted
Sep 18 - Applications close
Sep 29 - Winners will be announced
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We’re starting off
#BlackSpaceWeek
2024 as per usual with our roll call.
If you’re a Black person who does Space-related things, introduce yourself and tell us what cool things you do using the hashtag
#BSWRollCall
!
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This is definitely what
#BlackInAstro
is all about! 👩🏾🚀✨🚀
Rye is so excited for
@DrSianProctor
and the entire
#Inspiration4
crew. Have a safe and amazing trip today 🚀 (Video was shot last night)
@inspiration4x
#blackinastro
#RepresentationMatters
#shesnumber4buttherewillbemore
#shelookslikeme
#SpaceX
#Falcon9
#dragon
#countdowntolaunch
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📣 We’re so excited that the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy has sponsored us to host a networking dinner at the 2024 AAS meeting!
🗓️ Register your interest by filling out this form by 5pm EST Dec 13, 2023!
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Dakotah Tyler (
@dtstarkid
) is our 2nd Events Co-Director! He was a college football player before injuries and curiosity led him to an Astronomy PhD at UCLA. He studies mass-loss for close-in planets to better understand the observed distribution of exoplanets we know of
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Our next VP is Dr Ron Gamble, Jr (
@Dr_Gamble21
) - an Afro Latina Theoretical Astrophysicist, Artist and Educator. He is a Cosmic Origins Research Scientist and CRESST-II Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Astrophysics Science Division
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Happy Black History Month from Black In Astro! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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It's Day 4 which focuses on
#AstroWorld
! It's all about the planets!
#AstroWorldRollCall
#BlackInAstroWeek2021
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A huge THANK YOU to everyone for joining us to celebrate
#BlackSpaceWeek
2023! Don’t run off just yet! We have so much more in store throughout the year so watch this ✨space✨
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If it's nice, do it twice? Of course
#BlackInAstro
needs 2 VP's to make it all happen!
Caprice Phillips (
@CapricePhillips
) is a rising 4th year astronomy PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University doing research on gas dwarfs with JWST and Twinkle as well as brown dwarfs.
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OMG CONGRATULATIONSSS! 🥳❤️
Today I officially became the first Black woman and the first Black British person to get a PhD from the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Leicester
#PhDone
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#BlackHistoryMonth
Our next highlight is our brilliant co-organizer, KeShawn Ivory
@keshawnrants
! KeShawn is second year physics Master's student in the Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program.
#BlackInAstro
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