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Antonio J. Porras-Valverde

@astrotamalasado.bsky.social

🇨🇷 Costa Rican | Co-lead at CencaBridge | Heising-Simons Postdoctoral fellow in Astrophysics at Yale University | supporter of Latinx in science aporrasval.github.io

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Antonio J. Porras-Valverde @astrotamalasado.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sharing some good news despite current circumstances. Cenca Bridge, the program I started, received $1.2M grant from the Simons foundation to increase quality of education in Central America and the Caribbean. From paying out of pocket zoom subscription in 2016 to now having so much support

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Kaley Brauer @kaleybrauer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Incredible talk by @astrotamalasado.bsky.social about the Cenca Bridge program The program provides research and professional development opportunities to students in Central America and the Caribbean through remote internships #AAS245 cencabridgeastro.weebly.com

Presenter at a projector. The slide says “One cannot prioritize scientific discoveries while ignoring the humanity of the people we work with”

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Antonio J. Porras-Valverde @astrotamalasado.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Need help: Looking for PhD programs in solar astro/exoplanets in Europe/Asia (basically in a place that can take you 3 years to do a PhD)? Helping out a student find those!

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Antonio J. Porras-Valverde @astrotamalasado.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Hi all, first post here! And with great joy I would like to share a highlight series from the women in astronomy blog highlighting women in astro from Central America and the Caribbean! First off, Catalina Morales Gutiérrez from Costa Rica! womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/10/meet...

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