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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Should’ve posted yesterday! In a paper titled “Searching Within Galaxies for the Earliest Signs of Quenching With Spatially Resolved Star Formation Histories in UVCANDELS” we divided star-forming galaxies into bits to see how star formation changed depending on location over the last billion years.

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AAS SGMA @aassgma.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Looking to fill up your seminar talk slots? Consider utilizing the Queer Speaker List to get in touch with some fantastic queer astronomers! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🔭 The reason I rarely ask questions at conferences is that there’s always the risk of me referring to galaxies with particularly stochastic star formation as “burst-y quench-y bois” 🤦🏼

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 03/07/2025

Good time to remind people that when you call your reps that suck you can remind the staffers that they can and should quit.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Omg I’ve been gone from this platform for so long. I hope everyone is surviving as best they can ❤️

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Me: Today we’re going to be going over planetary motion. *15 minutes later* Me: So basically what I think I’m trying to say is that the Moon is totally obsessed with us.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/02/2025

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry

A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

The NEA has released their updated literature grant guidelines. They are appalling.
Tupelo Press will not be altering our 25-year mission to promote contemporary poetry and literary prose by emerging and established writers of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including, especially, women and writers of color, as well as the LGBTQ+, immigrant, and Native American communities. We aim to develop wider audiences for, and deeper understanding of, innovative, multi-cultural writing by essential participants in this conversation. At the same time, we undertake to enhance the reading experience itself by publishing and distributing gorgeously designed and produced books.
If adherence to our principles means that we will be ineligible for NEA grants going forward, so be it.
Compliance with the new regulations would be immoral.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Pretty depressing to think that all it took was three weeks for astronomers to go from excitedly showcasing their work at AAS to the blind panic and fear experienced when their funding gets shut off because they called their students diverse on an NSF. Push back. We’re in this together.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment. For those affiliated with colleges and universities information during these challenging times, even as some U.S. elected officials are calling professors and universities “the enemy.” docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment

Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of t...

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Hey #AAS245! I'm on my way, and have a presentation coming on Tuesday! Beyond Academe Panel: Exploring Astronomy Powered Career Paths - 2:00-3:30 in Annapolis 3-4, followed by a roundtable discussion - 3:30-4:30 in the Exhibit Hall CD. Come one, come all, and bring your questions!

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 12/01/2025

#AAS245 with 3654 attendees as of this afternoon, this is the largest AAS meeting ever, beating the previous record set by Honolulu in 2020.

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STARtorialist @startorialist.com · 12/01/2025

We are ready for you, #AAS245! Visit us at booth 726 (far back right of the hall) starting at the opening reception tonight and during exhibit hours until Thursday at 2:30 pm.

Debbie and Emily posing inside the BOOTHtique in the AAS conference exhibit hall, with plush planets, mission scarves, and jewelry on display (plus lots more!)

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AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy @aascsma.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!

Poster saying "Half of Black astronomers have left, or are considering leaving, the field due to finances. Survey on Poverty in Astronomy Special Session, Tuesday, January 14, 10am in Chesapeake G/H" for #aas245

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 09/01/2025

The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Made it to National Harbor for the American Astronomical Society's #AAS245 meeting! I'll be posting a lot this week and will try my best to summarize all of the talks I attend. If you want to follow along, great! If that sounds annoying mute me or #AAS245.

Selfie of me in front of the icy Potomac River with the setting sun behind me. There is some sort of boardwalk that is going into the river and snow on the ground.

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Emma Louden @exoplanetemma.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

PRESENTING: #AAS245 Bingo Thanks to the fantastic community responses, we have a bingo card for the next week! Complete the bingo card and post it tagging me here or IG/Threads to be entered into a drawing for a prize.

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

PSA: if you're going to #AAS245 in Washington DC. There is a sample of #asteroid #Bennu on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! Also a Mars meteorite you can *touch*! #ToBennuAndBack 🧪🔭

Photo of facade of the natural history museum in Washington DC in the snow

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MaggieBeth @maggiebeth.space · 13/01/2025

I’m giving two presentations at #AAS245 this week, including my first non-iPoster! Here’s the info: Wed. Jan 15, 9AM-10AM Session 306 - Theory of Exoplanet Atmospheres iPoster Production of O2 and O3 on CO2-rich/H2O-poor Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres Terminal 99 in the Exhibit Hall

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’ll be at #aas245 from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon - let me know if you want to catch up and/or if I can make your talk! And if you are the morning type, come see the Chambliss astronomical writing award thingy, before the first plenary of Weds 1/15 (around 8am, I am told).

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

THERE’S AN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE TOO?? WHAT NEXT?

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oooh! I feel so fancy!! My poster from last year must’ve impressed! What an honor! 🔭🧪

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Session #22 is this week and I’m excited to get to highlight some work by my student Ena Chia (applying for grad school now!) Pics to come 🔭🧪

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Me: *watching the Acolyte* Spouse: Ironic they would name their daughter Osha and then fail to install a sprinkler system.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Somehow managed to forget to post about the wonderful opportunity to give a seminar at my host institution City Tech! Such a privilege to get to share my work with the department and get to know the faculty and students ❤️

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

A new study shows that after the pandemic, 25% of NYC children are living in poverty. Considering that 70% of my income goes towards rent and I’m 30k shy of qualifying for the housing lotteries here I’m not exactly surprised, but I’m still ashamed. www.osc.ny.gov/reports/new-...

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Last week I was so lucky to give a remote colloquium at CSU LA 🔭 Hope to get out there in person sometime, but grateful and honored to visit!

Photo of a laptop showing the title slide of a talk “Exploring the role of Environment on galaxies through galaxy star formation histories”

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I just watched someone make his his grad student unplug and plug back in his computer for him. Seems like a good use of all that raw pre-PhD talent.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Want to learn about what resolved star formation histories can teach us about the evolution of the star forming main sequence? Come to #AAS243 session 428.07 tomorrow and find out!

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Poster preview. Come see me at 9-10 in the Rubin Special Poster Session!

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I may not have decorated, but that doesn’t mean I’m not holiday prepper. Oh what a friend we have in cheeses.

A variety of cheeses including sharp English and Irish cheddars and triple cream and baking bries

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I spend a good deal of time praying that my laptop doesn’t catch fire and expose the fact that I don’t have access to the cluster. The cluster in question may change, but the story remains the same.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I don’t know what I’m supposed to be using that Threads thing for, but rn I’m just reposting clips from my fave soccer team. This platform is supposed to be science, but I’ve been redoing the same figures for months now and you don’t want to know about that Sisyphan nightmare.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Such fun at the 21st annual #CityTech poster session today! Also my poster printed out way bigger than expected! 😅

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I didn’t want to clone my old laptop to my new one, and I’m still using my old one for a project while setting up my new one so now I carry around 2 laptops. If only SSH were a thing 🤦🏼 what am I doing??

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Do I want to eat healthy? Yes of course. Unfortunately my life is like one unending roadtrip where I’m desperately trying not to fall asleep. Snacks are required

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Every night I forget my allergy pill I wake up in the morning about to die of sneezes.

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Boosting this again. Check out Emily’s how to Bluesky guide!

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

My Monday is so Monday that I just googled “log laws” and not like in a lawyer for the timber industry sense. Time for more tea my brain is goo 😭🔭

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Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🔭🌌 @charlotteeureka.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I’m very much enjoying the Catalyst symposium if not for any other reason than getting to meet the other Catalyst fellows in person for the first time. Getting to hear about their exciting Rubin 🔭 research is so wonderful!

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