Emily Rauscher

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Almost equally frustrating is when your own graduate school (that manages the application system and receives the $) doesn’t let you change which elements are included

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Rattle snake
Sea turtle
Bobcat
Bison
Dolphins

What??? I don’t see why not 😁

Don't Look Up (2021) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi 2h 18m | R

You forgot one: www.imdb.com/title/tt1128...

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

A photo out of a plane window, with some of the front of the jet engine visible. The sky includes shades of red near the horizon, transitioning to blue above. Golden light illuminates clouds, swirling up against mountains and filling valleys

A bit of a plane’s jet engine is visible in the bottom of the photo. A blue sky at the top of the image transitions to red as it encounters the horizon. Below, through a golden haze, a curved shoreline stretches below, extending from the bottom of the image to the horizon

Today I traveled back from attending the annual NSBP-NSHP meeting (wonderful, as always, with excellent astro talks). Started the trip watching sunrise over the beautiful, foggy Bay Area. Ended with the beginning of sunset over Lake Michigan 🤩😍🌞

You just gotta listen to those charged particles, Misty! Can’t you hear them?!!

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Sounds like you’ve also done enough, even if it’s not all done. Treat yourself to a beverage and movie?

Since the timeline is awash in terrible things about how men treat women and girls, I want to tell one little story about how it could be.
Near the end of my PhD I was at a conference. It was fun, although mostly not my usual crowd. I ended up hanging out with some fun folks.

#winning?

Quest to find another Earth brings renowned researcher home to Toronto | CBC News Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT. Her research includes looking for life in the clouds of Venus and searching...

Big faculty shift in exoplanets. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

An infographic showing how different aurora colors are produced by different gasses at various altitudes in the atmosphere.

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.

Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

In the first paper I published after my kid was born I thanked him … for significantly delaying its publication 😆

They’re worried about negative impact on their private jet flights

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Ugh, I’m flying through LAX next week (to NSBP-NSHP!). Hopefully I won’t still see you there 😬

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As a white woman in science, I do/don’t fit in the status quo. The experience described here sounds like my experience attending NSBP-NSHP over the years: the wonderful sense of community and mutual celebration that is intentionally part of those events (and mostly absent from status quo ones)

It’s been a week, but it’s REALLY been a day. Happy Friday 🥃

PSA as more of us put on wool coats (or similar): you know that X of thread, holding the flap(s) at the back of your coat closed? Those are to keep the garment tidy before sale. You are meant to snip it so that the flap(s) can function correctly when worn. (Can also apply to: blazers, skirts, etc)

Yeah, I’m also looking at an upcoming and trying to game out possible flight disruptions 😖

We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end.

The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭

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What’s the opposite of doom-scrolling? Hope-scrolling? Celebration-scrolling? Whatever it is, that was my morning 🥳

Woah

Why? NASA is a crown jewel of US science and an international inspiration. Its logo adorns hoodies worn by young and old. The most famous telescopes could not have existed without Goddard and shutting down parts of it, even temporarily, cuts off the life blood for future missions. Why kill NASA?!?

Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings | CNN Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...