Yvette Cendes

a cartoon of a man holding a book next to a woman who says how can you read this there 's no pictures ! Alt: Gaston saying how can you read this there 's no pictures !

My toddler whenever she picks up one of my books

Let’s do this, 14 hour flight!

Haha well that’s where this one’s heading too

Same here but husband collects foreign coins so I was busy getting him some change today

Australian coin with King Charles III on it

Well- haven’t seen one of these before!

Yeah to be clear, wasn’t a criticism of MSU, you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do. But doesn’t bode well for students applying this year for sure 😕

Usually this is set by the university not the department, hence the warning that there’s a portal for MSU but don’t bother with jt

Text detailing how MSU isn’t accepting grad applications for astronomy on their website

Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖

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UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

Congratulations to Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the UK's Astronomer Royal – the first woman to hold the position in its 350-year history! 🔭✨

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Astronomy

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No but I will keep an eye out! 🦆

Seagulls in front of Sydney harbor bridge

Mine?! Mine?! Mine??

Me and the opera house

Two people climbing on the roof of Sydney opera house

View of Sydney

G’day from Sydney, Australia, where we are enjoying “The Dynamic Radio Sky” conference! 🇦🇺📡🤩

Jet lag advantage- getting out of bed early enough to sightsee before things get rolling and the weather turns bad. I was last here 20 years ago- it’s a wee bit bigger a city now!

They apparently decorate it at Christmas time like a tree!

Astronomer with a ton of logos like csiro and skao

Me and a SKA antenna that looks like a Christmas tree

Fantastic visit to Perth to visit one of the hubs of radio astronomy on the planet! In pic 2 I’m standing next to a Square Kilometer Array (SKA) antenna, currently under construction about 8 hours north of Perth. 🔭🧪

Ok not gonna lie, it’s pretty awesome that the scavenger birds at this cafe are these beautiful parrots! Sure beats sparrows or pigeons! 🦜🦜🦜

Yanchep NP, Western Australia 🇦🇺

Alt text: astronomer extraordinaire Yvette Cendes gesturing: “get a load of this kangaroo” at a kangaroo saying “get a load of this foliage”

Yvette is wearing a cool green hat with a sunflower on it, and she’s smiling because it’s a kangaroo

Hop hop hop

Probably late for a dinner date 🦘🦘

G’day!!! 🇦🇺🦘

Ok Aussies, I did not appreciate how BIG a kookaburra is until now 🐦

Question 10 on the Australia customs form is impossible to say no to if you live in Oregon. Yep, in the past month we went to a blueberry farm, pet some goats, were in a cabin by the lake in the wilderness, thanks for asking!

Anyway made it Down Under, waiting to connect to Perth 🥳🇦🇺🦘🐨

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When your 11:30pm flight to Australia is delayed 9 hours for mechanical troubles so they can find you a new plane 😩

Fingers crossed we make it out of SFO!

Leaving my toddler for a 12 day work trip 😭😭😭

I know it’ll be ok but trust me y’all I have the cutest kid ever

Oh yes and then used them in part to make my daughters mobile :)

Little dear is pretty awesome! I made this “busy book” during the pandemic w one of their patterns :)

The weirdest thing about this astronomer thing is how the astronomical community keeps thinking “wait do we know him?”

I mean yea I was gonna probably save it for the way back, this isn’t a one way journey 😅

Yep I definitely always love that view of the Earth that’s all just the Pacific Ocean. Water world!

It’s actually not that bad because the flight is overnight and you can actually get scattered sleep. But the true trick is to stop on a Polynesian island for a week of vacation first! 🏝️

Me: “oh cool, my flight next week San Francisco to Sydney has the original Star Wars trilogy! I could watch them to take up most of the flight!”

Reality: “that’s actually only 40% of the flying time.” 😳

Wow the Pacific Ocean is HUGE 🌊