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Galaxy enthusiasts | Astronomy PhD student @UC Riverside | Talk to me about the sky and aliens| she/her https://faezehmanesh.github.io
From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social - Dust Curve Drama: JWST Reveals No One Law Fits All! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/07/01/d...
Email saying that a family is evacuating Tehran and doesn't know what will come next.
From an Iranian friend in Tehran, sent just after Trump put out his EVACUATE NOW tweet.
17.06.2025 23:35 — 👍 655 🔁 148 💬 23 📌 12
Me in front of a slide as described in the post
Me offering advice:
Wear sunscreen
Work with kind people; be kind
Control what you can control
Work sustainably
-do science
-build community
-have hobbies
-have a plan B
Spending a rainy afternoon in College Park, and working on my presentation is actually keeping me excited!
08.06.2025 20:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![Laser Cooling & Ultracold Atoms | Dance Your PhD 2025 [Physics & AI/Quantum Winner]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mspg53rhq553n65o5fa7gyrf/bafkreigzagie2bwcnyopcyyidacnhdwdppswr2cf6w42h7kh5kg362rp5a@jpeg)
Everyone!
The winner of the #DanceYourPhD comp. (physics) is sooooo worthy!
Great original track (ear worm!), and awesome vid.
Congrats Arfor Houwman, University of Innsbruck: “Collective Phenomena in Ultracold Dipolar Quantum Gases”
Cannot recommend this enough — what a great form of #SciComm 🧪
Join us in person or on Zoom!🤩
06.05.2025 02:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thinking about teaching after grad school?
Check out this great talk by Dr. Christina Manzano King (UCR alum!) on launching a teaching career at community colleges—she covers everything from portfolios to interviews to tenure.
Super practical and encouraging.
youtu.be/hoHFrfqz61Q
From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : What do you get when baby galaxies crash and light up in UV? A surprising early signature of cosmic dust. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/21/dust-ahead-of-schedule-uv-bump/
Living our best life inside the generous PRISM error bars. Who needs higher-res data anyway? (Definitely not still sad about that rejection)
09.04.2025 02:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My absolute favorite day to check arXiv!
01.04.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From Bill Smith: Are you a graduate student interested in making your department or university a better place to grad school? Today, one of our authors shares his advice about how to make positive change from his experiences this past year as a Graduate Student Council President 🔭🧪☄️ #AcademicSky
28.03.2025 19:06 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Happy Nowruz, Happy Spring!
20.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lunar Eclipse from UCR last night.
14.03.2025 18:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lunar eclipse at UCR tonight!
14.03.2025 06:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pretty amazing stat from the JWST proposals this year:
“For your information, 2377 proposals requested over 75,000 hours in Cycle 4, compared to the 8500 hours available.”
😱
🔭🧪
From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : A tiny galaxy, barely metal-enriched, is packed with massive stars. Could it hold clues to the universe’s first stars? ✨🔭☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/10/e...
Fantastic paper! Well worth a look!
04.03.2025 07:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats, Katherine! I just finished reading your paper, and it’s a really great study. Well done!
04.03.2025 07:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@astrokatie.com gave a great talk on dark matter here at UCR—why it’s mysterious and why we think it’s there. Super interesting!
21.02.2025 01:23 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how JWST reveals a surprising dust curve in a distant galaxy, challenging what we know about cosmic dust! 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/18/a...
In more sabbatical news, I finally had time to post some recent articles to arxiv, so it's a (double) paper day....
14.02.2025 22:02 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Hey, women in science roll call! We’re not invisible and we can’t be erased. RT if you’re a woman in science!
11.02.2025 17:44 — 👍 88 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 6I love this explanation of the Monte Carlo computer method! It’s excellent.
04.02.2025 19:53 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The image from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) combines infrared light at wavelengths of 0.9 microns (represented in blue), 1.5 microns (green), and 2.77 microns (red). The stars in Leo P appear blue in comparison to the background galaxies for several reasons. Young, massive stars that are common in star-forming galaxies are predominantly blue. Leo P also is extremely lacking in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, and the resulting “metal-poor” stars tend to be bluer than Sun-like stars. A bubble-like structure at bottom center is a region of ionized hydrogen surrounding a hot, massive O-type star.
A BEAUTIFUL NEW JWST NIRCAM IMAGE OF A PORTION OF THE LEO P DWARF GALAXY!!! 🌌
17.01.2025 03:23 — 👍 3106 🔁 266 💬 43 📌 12
“Beasts in the Bubbles” were in #AAS245! Stay tuned to hear more!
16.01.2025 23:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A detailed gingerbread model of a Voyager spacecraft. A tiny golden record gleams on its side.
My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!
25.12.2024 14:15 — 👍 3820 🔁 880 💬 126 📌 92At least, after spending nearly the whole day on it, my webpage is finally out of "under construction"!
18.12.2024 03:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Note to self: never underestimate what a toxic environment can do to you!
06.12.2024 02:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It looks incredible! I enjoy it more and more every time I see this delicious Curiosity!
04.12.2024 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Smiling girl in front of Mars rover in garage
Gingerbread mars rover
Turns out JPL also made a model of Curiosity!! 7/10. Pretty accurate but tastes awful.
04.12.2024 19:49 — 👍 57 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
