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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Happy first Roman rejection day to those who celebrate!

Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Has anyone figured out why back-to-back Zoom calls turn your brain to soup, while back-to-back in-person meetings may be tedious but don’t liquify the brain?

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I didn’t realize how spoiled I was with LSU’s lack of IT oversight until I got here and now I can’t do ANYTHING without summoning our tech to enter his password or finding some hacky workaround.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I hate having to do all this multi-factor authentication on my phone because, you see, every time I must open my phone to do that, I am tempted by The Other Notifications™️

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I’ve really gotta stop accidentally leaving late on Fridays cause I keep ending up on the bus with a group of argumentative philosophy students and I really just can’t listen to that on top of *gestures at the general state of the world*

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I don’t even know if it’s possible to catch up with everything I’ve missed in the past two weeks I’ve been out of the country without needing therapy afterwards.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Wild being a lifelong southerner in Ohio today. You expect me to “work” with all this snow? I am meant to hoard bread/milk and frolic.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It’s quite the rollercoaster getting a positive referee report for your first first-author paper and your mother’s cancer diagnosis on the same day… Universe couldn’t have me getting big-headed or something.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

You know what’s wrong with the world? We haven’t had a new Guitar Hero since 2015 or a new Rock Band since 2017. People don’t get to settle their differences over a video game guitar battle anymore. We used to be a society!

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

6 years of living in Louisiana did NOT prepare me for single-digit wind chills. Anybody wanna share their favorite soup/soup-adjacent recipes? 🥺

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Huei Sears, PhD 🌟 @starlights.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663

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Late-time HST and JWST Observations of GRB 221009A: Evidence for a Break in the Light Curve at 50 Days

GRB 221009A is one of the brightest transients ever observed with the highest peak gamma-ray flux for a gamma-ray burst (GRB). A type Ic-BL supernova (SN), SN 2022xiw, was definitively detected in lat...

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My AAS journal submission is ready to go. My arXiv submission is ready to go. I can’t believe after over a year of this paper being “almost done,” something as small as getting the funding information is holding things up an additional week and a half (and counting)…

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

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Dr. Suchitra Narayanan @suchitra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Beyond just astrochemistry, I am passionate about using our understanding of other planets to better understand our own (and advocate for) Earth. A few years ago, I published an article in @astrobites.bsky.social on astrophysics and eco-anxiety (astrobites.org/2021/06/04/a...).

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The “Pale Blue Dot” Blues

This Beyond Astrobites post discusses reconciling a career in astrophysics with eco-anxiety. When surrounded by our Earthly problems, specifically climate change, how can we find fulfillment in our…

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Diana Solano-Oropeza @dsolanooropeza.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

oh yeah I got to take a photo with ann druyan and hear some sick science a few weeks ago astrobites.org/2024/11/28/g...

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Giving thanks to Carl Sagan for 90 years of science inspiration

Read about Carl Sagan and his legacy during your turkey break!

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed, finally submitting my first first-author paper today, and I remembered this tweet I had saved from 2020. Maybe when I post the arXiv link + summary, I’ll share the playlist too…

Screenshot of a tweet from Twitter user Liza Brusman that says, “Sharing your data is cool but when are we gonna start making the playlists we listened to while doing our analysis publicly available? I need to know your data’s vibes”

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Going to have to unionize against the universe so I can actually get a break…

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I’ve done my part, but the existential dread persists.

Hand holding on “I Voted” sticker from the state of Ohio.

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Plunderbund @plunderbund.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Know your rights Ohio!

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

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The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

The whisperings of hat hair season seem to be upon us… Or maybe it’s just the 6 years of grad school in a place with no real winter.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Can’t stop thinking about the dude that checked me out at Trader Joe’s who was like, “Astronomers really seem like people that must have their lives together.”

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

The pros of keeping paper and textbook PDFs on an iPad usually outweigh the cons for me, but sometimes when I go to look at a book and my iPad needs to be plugged in, I feel like having a bag of holding full of the physical copies would be much better…

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Me, sending 1948205858th paper draft to friend: “Hey does this section make any sense?” Friend: “bro why is it 54 pages”

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

“Conference Day 3” is such a specific feeling — mostly of exhaustion.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Me: “Why am I so exhausted and struggling so much to write when that’s what usually comes easiest to me?” Also me: *has written 30 job applications and a 50 page (and counting) paper since September, without even getting into my dissertation*

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Anybody want to do a “how it started vs. how it’s going/went” about their dissertation projects? Finishing up my doc and feeling pretty down about how much we had to cut down on the scope. 🔭

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Happy birthday to astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢🔭 ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard 🧵1/n

My linocut portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in a lace collar in front of the sun in oranges and black against the blackness of space. At the bottom of the print is the solar absorption spectrum (a rainbow style gradient of indigo at left through to red and black at the right with specific discrete thin black vertical lines at various places).

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Dr. Natalie Hinkel @nataliehinkel.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Is your brain ready for a LOT of interdisciplinary exoplanet knowledge! You know it is! 🪐👩🏻‍🔬🧪🛰️ 🧵In Jan 2021, Keith Putirka, Siyi Xu, and I joined forces to put together 15 chapters (and a workshop!**) written by experts in their field, where the core of each chapter was:

Screenshot of an email excerpt that Keith sent to Natalie and Siyi, outlining what he thought the focus of the RiMG chapters should be. These sentiments ended up being the crux of all of the chapters. The text says: ' "What do I want and need to learn from other disciplines?" and "What do other disciplines need to know about mine"? '

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/04/2024

Each of the Roman Space Telescope’s mirrors had passed individual tests, but this was the first time they were assessed together. Engineers had to make sure light would move through all of the optics in a tightly controlled way, or else the telescope’s images would appear blurred. 🔭 🧪

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Eyes’ Pass First Vision Test - NASA

Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

From the astrobites collaboration: Astrobites Authors bring to you firsthand accounts of the action on the path of totality and the surreal experience of watching the celestial shadow. 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/04/11/2...

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2024 Album of the Year: A Total Eclipse of the Sun

Astrobites Authors bring to you firsthand accounts of the action on the path of totality, and the surreal experience of watching the celestial shadow.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

From Astrobites: Chandra needs our help! #SaveChandra astrobites.org/2024/04/11/s...

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#SaveChandra

Chandra needs our help!

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

From the Astrobites collaboration: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues. 🔭 astrobites.org/2024/03/27/a...

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Astrobites Statement on the Educational Siege in Gaza

The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our c…

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Troublesome coauthor has not gotten the memo that I want this paper to our collaborators by the end of the week…

An image of my very large cat trying to push my laptop out of my lap for cuddles. I’m barely hanging onto the laptop. An overleaf document is open on the screen.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

If I had a nickel for every time someone saw my fencing bag and asked me if I played the guitar, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice…

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

From Lindsay DeMarchi: Satellites are proliferating in our low earth orbit. Data from the Steward Observatory characterizes which areas of the sky and which satellite models are the most bright, likely to interfere with astronomical observations. 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2024/02/10/r...

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Reaching for the Stars

Satellites are proliferating in our low earth orbit. Data from the Steward Observatory characterizes which areas of the sky and which satellite models are the most bright, likely to interfere with …

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 07/02/2024

Even Dark Sky Sites Aren’t Immune to Light Pollution Researchers quantified the impact of artificial lighting on sites across Chile for the first time, showing that we must actively preserve dark skies in remote areas and urban corridors alike. aasnova.org/2024/02/07/e... 🔭

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Even Dark Sky Sites Aren't Immune to Light Pollution - AAS Nova

Researchers showed that we must actively protect dark skies in remote and urban areas alike from the growing threat of light pollution.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Currently accepting any and all advice re: astro postdoc interviews. I’ve asked all my local peeps, but figure more can’t hurt (and might be useful for anyone else on the job market that sees the thread) 🔭

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Two job rejections and a good ole-fashioned Louisiana drenching, and it’s not even 11:00? It’s Wednesday, my dudes…

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Maybe next year if I just pretend the holidays aren’t happening and go about my business as usual, the universe will not deem it necessary to make Crisp-mas as terrible as possible. So if anyone’s looking for the world’s most productive-in-December postdoc…

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Whatever is going on with my laptop today is highly relatable.

A picture of my laptop screen with many glitching partial windows visible.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

The continuing saga of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkat wanting me to be unemployed…

Me laying on the couch trying to finish a research statement, while my 16 lb/7 kg cat lounges with her butt fluffs directly in my face and her head leaning against my laptop keyboard. I love her very much, despite her war on me remaining in academia.

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Ali Crisp @crispyplanets.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

🔭 Serious question: does proposal writing ever get easier, or am I doomed to always feel like I’ve forgotten everything I know about both astronomy and the English language as soon as I sit down to work on one?

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Dr. Lili Alderson @lili-alderson.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Applications are open until Nov 30th! 🪐🔬⭐️

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