Mallory Molina

I grew up in TX and I am very surprised at the backbone on display, but it's nice to see

Azeem will be studying X-ray emission from dwarf galaxies to understand the energetics of their black holes

So excited to announce my other grad student Azeem Bari (not on bluesky yet) won a FINESST fellowship! I'm 2/2 for grad fellowships this year, great way to end my first year as a prof 😊 #astronomy

Tagging @breinz.bsky.social !

So proud of my student Brayan Hernandez for being awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship! ☺️

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)

Everyone told me my first year as a faculty member would be hard. But I honestly feel like I've been thrown in the deep end without the ability to swim well and no life vest and everyone keeps throwing stuff at me and laughing.

YouTube video by Universal Pictures Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?

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A plaque from the institute on teaching and mentoring commemorating my attainment of my PhD. It also denotes that I was a graduate of the Sloan Minority PhD program in 2019

So proud to show off my plaque from the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in my office as new faculty at Vanderbilt. My experiences as a Sloan Minority PhD scholar had a tremendous impact on my career. I hope that in some small way I can pay it forward to future generations.

Quick update: there were some issues with the Swift data reduction for the SwiM VAC. We fixed these errors, detailed in this erratum: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Updated catalog (v4.2) is here: www.sdss4.org/dr17/data_ac...

Many thanks to Ruonan Guo and Cheng Li for finding these errors!

As someone who lived in TX during Bush, Perry and Abbott governorships...I have the same question

It's now working!

Is anyone else able to connect to heasarc? Was there a scheduled outage today?

I can't seem to access the website and therefore can't download data 😔

Postdoc & grad student parents in the US are in a tough situation. They either quit academia or struggle to support their family. The push to be over-productive can make them fall even further behind. I'm very stressed, exhausted and sad about this situation and I have no idea how to solve it. 5/5

How can I focus on work when I'm worried about affording diapers/food or figuring out which medical services that I need can be neglected to ensure the health and well-being of my child? How do on-campus daycares cost $20k/yr for tuition alone? How is this acceptable? 4/5

That's ~25% of a typical grad student's *annual* salary, and 15% of my postdoc fellowship salary. Rent has skyrocketed averaging about $1.5k/mo, or $18k/yr. That means that daycare and rent is 43% of my salary (before taxes) and ~70% of a grad's salary. Even with a 2nd income, that's wild. 3/5

That daycare happened to be significantly less expensive than other places, but still high quality and licensed. Despite being half the price of most other daycare centers (including those on campus) we paid almost $10k in tuition alone. That does not include clothes, diapers, formula, food, etc 2/5

Astro grad students & postdocs can't afford children: My child went to daycare full time last year so I could work. We searched far from our apt/the university to find a daycare. We found *ONE* daycare 30min away from our apt (40min from Uni) that had an opening before fall 2023. 1/5

Thank goodness for Ms Rachel otherwise I don't think I could have handled watching my very fussy feverish toddler alone all day today on one hour of sleep.

On an extremely related note, she learned a new word today, "row" (from row row row your boat).

Wow...also what how? There's no way I could have done that as an undergrad. Or even now. That must be 3 papers in what like 1-2 years? While taking classes full time? That sounds exhausting

Black holes and activism inspire this astrophysicist Mallory Molina is looking for supermassive black holes — and helping others find their place in the field of astronomy.

I'm excited to be featured in Science News Explores Magazine (online and print) 😊

I got rejected from a job the day I started my first postdoc. But I didn't hear from many other and just found out via the rumor mill

Definitely stay home. I actually didn't go into the office until my baby was old enough for the COVID vaccine but not all of us are that lucky. Protect those who can't protect themselves 🙂

I had to schedule mine over a month in advance. Meanwhile I was shopping at Sam's one day and they were begging shoppers to get their flu shot. I got my shot and a discount on my groceries. It's so ridiculous how hard it is to get the covid vaccine.

Apparently having a toddler means that you recover from sickness just in time to get sick again. Meanwhile said toddle is jumping off the couch and trying to remove the outlet covers.

The banner advertising trans and nonbinary in academia panel for McGill University's Queer history month, this October 25th 6-7:30pm EST

I'm excited to be a part of McGill U's Trans and Nonbinary in Academia panel this year! It is a free online panel and only open to trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, intersex, and questioning people.

More info/registration form here: www.mcgill.ca/equity/categ...

I'll look at yours when I can! My daughter is home sick today...

Ah thanks! Here is the link: github.com/malmolina/Sw...

In addition to the maps files, we created two meta-data files which hold galaxy properties, integrated flux measurements, and the fraction of science-ready MaNGA pixels for each galaxy. For more info check out the paper on arxiv and data/data models on SDSS DR17 website. (6/6)

In the process of making this catalog, I also created a pipeline that allows for the automatic reduction of Swift UVOT images, and accounts for the 2020 updates to the Swift data redux routine. You can find the code and its documentation here: github.com/malmolina/Swif… (5/6)