Diana Solano-Oropeza

crying and throwing up i don't wanna go back to the united states

I LOVE MY CITY!!!

Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!

every week in june, astrobites is featuring a transgender scientist for pride month🏳️‍🌈! you can read the first post with graduate student Joy Bhattacharya here 🫶🏻: astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...

I need to start doing this

I guess I'm learning MMA now

hydrostatic equilibrium really does work on everything huh

setting g to 10 m/s^2 in geodynamics makes me feel yucky :(

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

geophysics is like evil atmospheric science

I am a graduate student in astronomy conducting research.

yes

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

One of my favorite ever things that I've stumbled into over the past two years is Ziltoid the Omniscient

Astro hivemind happen to know where to read more about position uncertainty ellipses? Having trouble wrapping my head around it

MUTUAL AID ALERT:
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)

Honestly the difference in work ethic between astro and eas students is insane (non-astronomers take breaks, who knew!)

Hold up, open source IDL is a thing?

I can't believe love won last night 🦅

gritty has seized control of the federal government

LOVE WINS!!!! 🦅🦅🦅 RAHH

philly friends please be safe tonight. only climb up street signs and light poles within your ability. nobody wants to see this end on a sour note

Love wins

They better grease up every telephone pole in Philly tonight.

LET'S GO BIRDS 🦅🦅🦅

Here's Why Elon Musk's 'Fork in the Road' Is Really a Dead End Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

An excellent piece on techbros' obsession with SETI and the Fermi Paradox by the always insightful @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social

Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth's Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology? - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?, Sheikh, Sofia Z., Huston, Macy J., Fan, Pinchen, Wright, Jason T., Beatty, Thomas, Martini, Connor, Kopparapu, Ravi, Frank, Adam

A very cool paper, written by some very cool people!

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉

Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int

Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

I've slipped and fallen so much in Ithaca within the past week that I am no longer afraid of falling in martial arts

Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"

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

Hey,uh, Trump just basically legalized discrimination in federal and federal contractor hiring. How the fuck am I supposed to finish my PhD now if I might not even be on equal footing as a person when applying to postdocs?