Ava Polzin
@avapolzin
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professional nerd/astrophysics PhD candidate @UChicago | @[email protected] | @avapolzin.bsky.social
Joined July 2010
Our Picture an Astronomer series starts in just over a week! Free to attend (in person in Chicago and online) and an incredible opportunity to engage directly with the scientists behind cutting edge astrophysics research. ✨
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RT @aacu: 📣 Congrats to the 2025 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award winners: 🌟 Summer Blanco, @universityofga 🌟 Red D. Douglas, @oakl…
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In the last year, in addition to work through @siriusb_org and all of the immense response online, hard copies have been shared at five universities, and the book is now being translated into other languages! Here’s to another year of trying to make astro more accessible!
Excited that our @siriusb_org book is now up on arXiv! Should serve as a primer for students looking to pursue astro professionally. Participants in our 2024 program will get printed copies thanks to the @IAU_NAROAD Women & Girls in Astro mini-grant. 1/
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It got a bit lost with everything else going on this week, but my (high school!) research student, Jack, has been working with me on building a low-cost home radio telescope to map 21 cm features, and his tutorial for others to do the same is now up:
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Though all of the speakers are women, we encourage attendance from everyone! Our kick-off event and public lectures (from Dara Norman, @AstroKatie, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, @annafrebel, and one TBA speaker) are also open to the public and also have an option for remote attendance.
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@malena_rice OMG, congrats! Always crazy to me that I wondered where they got the experts when I watched as a kid, and those experts are my friends now :)
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RT @KamalaHarris: Those who came before us did not struggle, sacrifice, and lay down their lives only to see us cede our fundamental freedo…
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RT @DeputySecState: Great meeting with the second cohort of @QuadFellowship students! Good discussions on the importance of the Quad and SE…
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RT @sciam: For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. Th…
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RT @QuadFellowship: Meet Cohort 2024’s Astronomer! Ava Polzin is a PhD candidate in Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, where she s…
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RT @KamalaHarris: I prosecuted sex predators. Trump is one. I shut down for-profit scam colleges. He ran one. I held big banks accountable.…
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