Claire Lamman

She did attack the Voyager antennas... in the picture you can see some strategic patching on the lower antenna

A girl in a colorful sweater holds up a fluffy but somewhat disgruntled cat to peer at the gingerbread.

Earlier this year, Rubin began taking pictures of the sky with the largest camera ever built and has already revolutionized many areas of astronomy. We are all quite excited about it :)
...but Phlox is not impressed. She liked the gingerbread JWST better.

A large gingerbread structure of Rubin Observatory. It's nestled in a frosted, gingerbread-dusted hill and the tiny gleam of a mirror peaks out from inside the dome.

This year's gingerbread is the Vera Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social

2024: Voyager
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2023: VLA
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A gingerbread curiosity rover sitting at top gingerbread dust and decorated with detailed white icing

2022: Curiosity

A gingerbread JWST, with white icing details and a gleaming gold-leaf mirror

2021: JWST

A large, detailed ISS gingerbread sits on a black kitchen table. It's decorated with white frosting and blue solar panels.

2020: International Space Station

Thread of my Christmas gingerbreads 🌌⬇️

New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Optimal intrinsic alignment estimators in the presence of redshift-space distortions" by Claire Lamman (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Jonathan Blazek (Ohio State U.) and Daniel J. Eisenstein (Northeastern U.)

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It was so fun to meet you, thanks for coming!!

Thanks! It's just some leftover cream cheese I had and tiny star sprinkles :)

Yes I, painted the pastry with food coloring before baking.

A colorful berry pie. The crust is painted to look like Kitt Peak National Observatory, scattered with small white telescopes and framed by colorful pie-crust stars.

Happy Thanksgiving :)
@desisurvey.bsky.social

Another full paper annotation! I LOVE this one - be sure to read through the end. The drawings of a star trying to make a hole in the nebula cracked me up👷

Faint but unmistakable pink sky with green low on the dark horizon

Even in the middle of Columbus ❤️

YouTube video by SciComm Excellence Cosmology: Our Quest to Understand the Universe

Halloween is also #DarkMatterDay! 🎃🌌

Celebrate the invisible forces that shape our universe with @zacksavitsky.bsky.social, @clairelamman.bsky.social, and @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social. Studying the origins, elements, and mysteries of the cosmos — connects us all: youtu.be/xbrom_qFwsA #scicomm 💫

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !

Learn more about the winners: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10... #scicomm

Another full paper annotation, done in TWO languages!! Really nice job @astroaure.bsky.social !

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue: Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine) Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky) Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska) Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina) Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas) Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota) Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas) Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia) Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana) Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi) Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee) Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama) Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma) Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska) Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota) Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington) Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois) Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island) Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire) Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon) Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware) Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii) Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin) Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut) Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland) Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico) Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan) Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York) Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Mixed berry! And it's painted with edible gold dust

A pie with a dark berry filling. It's decorated with what can generously be described as an art-deco JWST.

Happy 4th! I made a patriotic pie, celebrating America's leadership in space sciences (historically).

*734'

A mildly convincing fake TV ad for a 734" TV, shown next to two American football fields and a tiny tiny person for scale. Text reads: Big screen for big data. The only way to view images from the world's largest camera. Equivalent of 400 4k TVs. 25 tons. Make sure to measure your living room first. For the low price of $42! (42 factorial)

Someone please talk me out of this impulse buy so I can view the
@vrubinobs.bsky.social images.

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

My article was just published! A few people have already told me how much they appreciate seeing a change from the local narrative. Major kudos to the McClintock Letters organizers for a well-coordinated and impactful program.

www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2025/06/13/c...

I just signed up!

This is an excellent high-impact initiative! All scientists should consider sharing their stories in hometown papers.

Smiling girl in crimson PhD robes in front of an old telescope dome (CfA's Great Refractor).

Just finished 22nd grade :)

How great would it be if there were New Yorker-style cartoons to joke about and emphasize an idea from a story? Increase reach, understanding, and entertainment. Editors, hmu!