Kate Whitaker
@astrowhit
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Assoc. Professor @UMassAmherst, Assoc. Faculty @DAWNCopenhagen, @YaleAstronomy PhD, mom of three and avid crafter ✨ Thoughts are my own. Pronouns:she/her
Amherst, MA
Joined December 2016
@TASCResponds or do they? Cannot submit requests for help, claims denials show TASC didn’t even look at the information carefully, and on hold for 1.5 hours with no answer. So… does TASC actually respond?! All signs point to no. Drop this contract @MassGIC, it’s a joke.
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RT @Rohan_Naidu: Stunning paper led by Andrea Weibel on the arXiv today -- a quenched, massive galaxy at z=7.3! How did this galaxy grow so…
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RT @astrogrant: .@RBezanson kicking off #AAS244 with the @KavliFoundation Lectureship - audience hushed and in awe of the JWST UNCOVER data…
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RT @UMassAmherst: The astronomy department of #UMassAmherst is leading the effort on behalf of the Euclid Consortium to understand the earl…
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“Lift as you rise” might be the best advice I’ve heard in a long time. Congratulations to the 2024 @UMassCHC graduates! 🎓
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RT @gregrudnick: I am so excited to help kickoff our conference #extremegals24 with my co-organizers Benedetta Vulcani and Adam Muzzin. We…
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@a_space_person You are not lazy! Work-life balance makes you a better scientist… never feel guilty for enjoying down time.
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RT @davidjsetton: Very excited to have been involved in this paper led by Anna de Graaff that hit the arxiv today, where we present the new…
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RT @UMassAmherst: The UMass community came together for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event yesterday. With hundreds of people on Metawamp…
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RT @UMassAmherst: You asked and UMass answered! We got questions from across social media about the upcoming #solareclipse on April 8. UMas…
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RT @UMassAmherst: What happens if you look at the #SolarEclipse without solar eclipse glasses? Dean Michael Fox of @CNS_UMass is a visual n…
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That feeling when you move 32,000+ unread emails to a local folder (mostly from personal junk mail, only 2,000 are work!)…. This time I will stay on top of it! THIS TIME! 🫣
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RT @aisha_dickerson: As students are receiving acceptance, waitlist, “rejection” letters for PhD programs, I’ve gotten a lot of questions a…
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RT @AspenPhysics: We miss you already! A big shout out to the winter conference, "The Physics and Impact of Astrophysical Dust: from Star F…
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Now immortalized — the nicest things @desikanarayanan has ever said about me in his beautiful introduction! 🥹… Thanks again for this amazing opportunity @AspenPhysics!
Check out last week's public lecture with @astrowhit from @umassamherst #astronomy #astrophysics #jwst #jameswebb #galaxies #cosmology
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@AkAstronomy But what about the inside decorations? (It appears to be a months long process in our house… still going!)
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What a fun opportunity to interview with Aspen 82 at the top of Aspen Mountain this morning! #aspen #ajax #sundeck #freshtracks #assprof Thank you @AspenPhysics!
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RT @secutler: Very excited to announce our JWST Cycle 3 proposal was awarded time! Thank you to @astrowhit and the rest of the UNCOVER team…
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