Kara B

A Bernie Sanders meme where the text has been replaced to say "I am once again asking you to please complete all parts"

I made this for the homework post mortem in tomorrow's class 🫠

A year ago today I found out I got an on-campus interview for my current job @unm.edu! It's incredible what a difference a year can make.

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A year ago yesterday 🤖🆘 #neverforget @kaylaiacovino.com

You know you're a nerd when you're thrilled to find a hardcover edition of a book from the 1970s about geological phase diagrams #petrology @kaylaiacovino.com

Omg and 1 year ago today I found out I made it to the long list for my current new job @unm.edu!

12 years ago today I got my acceptance letter for @seseasu.bsky.social ASU! I can't believe it's been that long, but I also can't believe how much I've experienced and grown in this last decade+. Thank you to all the cheerleaders and angels along the way ❤️

Pleased to be serviced by Alice Scooper and Taylor Drift

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I asked some of them what they were there for and it’s just their company’s conference! The first day, everyone dresses up (I talked to a group of minions) and then the business part starts tomorrow

NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission - NASA NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept – the first mission

#HWO “is exactly the kind of bold, forward-leaning science that only NASA can undertake,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “We […] intend to move with urgency, and expedite timelines to the greatest extent possible to bring these discoveries to the world.”

www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Photo of a woman standing in front of a large sign with the AAS logo

First AAS and first conference as a professor! #AAS247

Also, please peep that mascot

🚨Attention prospective grad students🚨 Info for you is up on my website: karabrugman.com#students

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Things have been crazy as I finish up work at ASU, so I’ve been looking forward to this block of time I set aside to read my first #LettersToAPreScientist pen pal letter of the year! It’s always a thrill to see stickers that align with your interests (food) and to get some surprises 😍

Same. #meh

(But I won’t be at GSA itself, sadly)

The cover of a booklet that reads UTCT Basics of CT Data Visualization and Analysis for Geological Applications with ImageJ

Greetings from the UTCT Basics of CT Data Visualization and Analysis for Geological Applications with ImageJ workshop! Thanks to Romy and Dave for all their help even before the workshop 🙌🏻 #GSA2025

Again, for more information and to apply, please visit the workshop's website: trec-nexss.org/workshop

We look forward to your applications!

But these gases are only biosignatures if we can infer their rates of production and destruction. We must deduce the workings of the underlying engine: a planet’s geochemical cycles.

TREC is a project within the NExSS RCN devoted to detailing the connection between a planet's natural geological cycles and its atmospheric signature. Flagship space telescopes are poised to discover gases like O2 and CH4 in the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets.

We expect to offer ~40 people in person attendance, which will include stipends to offset attendance costs. We expect to notify selected in person applicants in late October; all others will be offered virtual attendance.

This workshop will bring together astronomers & geochemists to map out potential geochemical cycles & their effects on biosignatures, across the diversity of rocky exoplanets. We seek participants across career stages, and across many fields: astronomy, planetary science, & especially geochemistry.

The Tracing Rocky Exoplanet Compositions (TREC) workshop "Under the Atmospheric Hood: How Geochemical Cycles Affect Exoplanet Biosignatures" will be held at ASU in Tempe, AZ Jan. 12–14 (after the AAS meeting in Phoenix). Applications close 10/15 trec-nexss.org/workshop See the thread for more info!

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

For those anxiously awaiting it: the NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with a November 14 deadline for Geoscience applicants: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The extra layer of irony here is that I don't think anyone would ever describe me as hyper 😅

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Now soliciting names for my new lab @unm.edu...do I go with a cool acronym or something simple but descriptive like "UNM High Pressure Lab" 🧐