Jennifer Rodriguez

For the record, I'm in hour 28 of air travel from SFO to Columbus, and I would take this any/every day(s) over Democrats agreeing to take away healthcare. What was the point of all this just to be complicit with the same terrible outcome?

This is the face of astronomy! Like this is one of my new favorite photos! We ate!!!! 💅🏾

Excited to attend the @astrosociety.org gala tonight & receive the Nancy Grace Roman Award! I read about her life & career on my way here. Did you know she was responsible for making NASA data archives public so that everyone could benefit, not just PIs? Such an amazing impact on our field. 🔭

Had an amazing time at the first gathering for the 2030STEMxBWF Fellowship meeting at AMNH! So exiting for many things to come! Ll

16 people from Ohio State University stand in front of a green SACNAS display, with a red cartoon dear and SACNAS logo in front of them.

Had a great time at the @sacnas.bsky.social conference last week! Many Ohio State folks (see pic, including @astrojennifer.bsky.social, @denisemondragon.bsky.social, and me) attended despite restrictions. Congrats to @denisemondragon.bsky.social on winning best grad poster presentation!

Advice for Pursuing Archival Astrophysics: Become familiar with astronomical archives & how to look at data quickly to see what is available. Think of interesting targets to you & look them up! Read observational abstracts to see what the goals of the observing program were; are they the same or different than yours? Many archives link to all papers that publish data. Look at those papers to see what’s been done; also look at papers that reference them to explore follow-up work. When in doubt if the investigators intended to do the same analysis as you, reach out to them and ask!

I gave a presentation at @sacnas.bsky.social on "archival astrophysics" in a session "Astronomy on the Cheap", showing tips on pursuing research using only archival data. Here are my slides, which include examples of different public archives & how to use them! 🔭 drive.google.com/file/d/1mw42...

Day One of #NDiSTEM2025 delivered! ✨ Opening Ceremony, Expo, Posters, and STEM symposia brought the energy. Plus—marketplace, mentoring, and networking moments that connect our community. @aaberhe.com
#STEMCommunity #SACNAS #STEM #STEMWorkforce #STEMLeadership

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First day of SACNAS NDiSTEM 2025! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 I’m so excited to enjoy a weekend filled with community and good science #NDiSTEM2025 w/ @astrojennifer.bsky.social
@sacnas.bsky.social

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So excited for the first day of SACNAS #NDiSTEM2025 with @denisemondragon.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social 🧪

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Folks in my department fought to attend these meetings by showing our white colleagues are members and participants. OSU said it didn't matter because the meetings may still be exclusionary (even though they aren't). It is maddening and racist to limit attendance at affinity group conferences.

US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

Three-color image of the massive outflow of NGC 1266, with Chandra X-rays in blue, Halpha MUSE data in green, and VLA 5 GHz radio data in red. The + marks the location of the AGN.

OSU PhD student Sebastian Lopez led 2 papers on arXiv today, including one on the hot & warm gas in the NGC 1266 AGN-driven outflow! It uses Chandra data that Katey Alatalo and I proposed for as grad students; grad students can do great science together without advisors! 😀 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01321

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Considering that most acknowledgments are simply… acknowledgments and statement of fact (and not a call for action), this seems like absolute BS and suppression of speech and academic freedom, period

Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

AAUP-OSU board member Richard Finlay Fletcher spoke to “Inside Higher Ed” about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements - and its chilling effect on academic freedom. Link below.

Dorm floor decoration limited to Ohio State spirit themes, partially due to Senate Bill 1 When students walk onto their dorm floor for the first time, the walls could be covered in pop culture references like Spongebob or favorite dogs that the resident advisor believes incoming students w...

OSU is using SB1 as reason to prohibit any decorations in campus dorms besides school spirit. 🤯https://www.thelantern.com/2025/08/dorm-floor-decoration-limited-to-ohio-state-spirit-themes-partially-due-to-senate-bill-1/

This will end the Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) program (schools with >25% Latino undergrads). For reference, current flagships that are HSIs include Arizona and Arizona State, 5 UCs (Irvine, Riverside, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), Rutgers, U New Mexico & NM State, UT Austin & UT El Paso

Chalking Not Permitted on Campus | Facilities Operations and Development

Just in time to welcome students to campus…

President Carter & OSU admin continue the assault on free speech by banning the time honored tradition of chalking on campus. Whether governments or administrators, once they start rolling back free speech, they don’t stop.

fod.osu.edu/news/2025/08...

On August 3, we issued a statement in response to OSU President Ted Carter's interview with "Face the Nation" in late July.

The full statement is here: www.ohiostateaaup.org/uploads/1/3/...

See our webpage for more
www.ohiostateaaup.org

OSU astronomy undergrad alum Trinity Webb and OSU astro PhD student @astrojennifer.bsky.social led this Chandra program showing diffuse X-rays coincident with very young stars identified with JWST! Here's this great work: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

Chandra X-ray Center: Cosmic Collection: Chandra Captures Razzle-Dazzle Across Space in New Images chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/c...

Iron man hologram gif

how i feel when i’m actually onto something in my research

Many programs/proposals have "to be determined" deadlines, but I am glad to see ROSES 2025 out after a 5-month delay (it typically comes out in February) and that programs like ADAP (the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program) are still listed even though the PRB want to cancel them. 🔭🧪

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