Kat Lee

love how on like instagram when you pick your close friends it’s from the list of people you follow, not from your followers. I can let my good friend Evan see my instagram story and I can also add my other friend, Yo-Yo Ma

Thanks! Just so you know, I’m not the official astrobites account, just a former author. If anyone else seeing this has something they want to let the collaboration know about, it’s probably better to email (relevant addresses are on our about page) or contact @astrobites.bsky.social :)

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

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#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.

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anybody else hit that stage of a paper where you no longer know whether anything you’re doing is useful or is that just me

Excited to announce that I’ll be starting a PhD at Uppsala University early next year!

Frankfurt airport made me TAKE MY MASK OFF AND SEND IT THROUGH THE LUGGAGE SCANNER???

Elon Musk has joined the war against cancer ON THE SIDE OF CANCER.

look just because they want to take over the government doesn’t mean we have to fucking let them

Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit?

That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather.

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changing “Astrobites author” to “Former Astrobites author” in my bio is sad but I’m so excited to read what all our new authors have to write ❤️

A simple shift from "I told you so" to "I was scared this would happen" is an opening. Follow that up with, "how can I help" and links and numbers to immigrant rights orgs, labor orgs, and community health and you are, in fact, building solidarity.

nobody’s complained to me yet! judging by other people’s stories I live in a very tolerant apartment building lol

I know it’s the German thing to complain when your neighbor is playing music that’s audible in the next apartment through noise-canceling headphones but consider: I’m not a snitch

World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject. 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek

The gender affirming care ban in Montana has been BLOCKED by the MT Supreme Court in a unanimous decision.

Montana has a constitutional right to privacy, including in our healthcare decisions. And today our constitution continues to protect individuals from government overreach.

devils sacrament etc etc

look I have a limited joke repertoire ok 😭

“for 8000 a month, I will shut up about the Hubble constant”

ugh I have a sore throat. still we must persevere.

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

I’m Kat, and if I don’t start getting As in every physics class I’ll never get into grad school

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

I’m Catherine, and I’ll never be cut out for a graduate program

oh huh it turns out when you get put on a list people start following you. Hello! I’m Kat, I do cosmology and galactic archeology, I’m applying for PhDs, and I’m slowly slipping under the surface of a sea of yarn

a screenshot of Kat’s follower count: 420 followers

ok now nobody else follow me

TWENTY COUNTRY STRIKE! 20 COUNTRIES!!! PASS IT ON!!!

Amazon workers are on strike WORLDWIDE!!!! DO NOT CROSS A STRIKE LINE BY BUYING FROM AMAZON. FUCK THEIR BLACK FRIDAY DEALS.
#solidarity #strike #union #UnionStrong #sagaftra #wga #blackfridaydeals #blackfriday2024 #Thanksgiving #thanksgiving2024

people say no obsession or hobby will fill the emptiness inside or do the work of repairing the hurt we carry. you know what kind of people say this. quitters

every time I use ADQL it comes up with a new error just to spite me

as an American I do feel like my country has exported its culture worldwide in a way that is ultimately harmful. however. we do have one piece of advice that I feel is valuable to German residential building designers specifically.

add ventilation. please. I am so cold.

I’m a student astronomer in the midst of PhD applications. My research centers around cosmology and galactic archeology, and I’m currently a scientific software developer.