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Emily Silich

@emstar.bsky.social
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astrophysics PhD candidate at Caltech || really likes rocks, X-rays, galaxy clusters, and bad poetry || she/her

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Andrea Botteon @andreabotteon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A radio relic mimicking a radio halo? by @paola-dominguez.bsky.social+ (w/ @jzuhone.bsky.social @emstar.bsky.social myself+) This could be the case of MACSJ0018.5+1626, where numerical simulations show that the radio emission could be due to a relic seen face-on arxiv.org/abs/2602.05050
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How do people around the world encounter science, and what shapes those encounters? Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm
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How the World Talks About Science
Our new international study finds that science communication looks very different depending on culture, media systems, and access to technology.
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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : Today’s paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies! 🔭✨ astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x...
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Cosmic Rays vs. Thermal Emission: An X-ray Showdown
Today's paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies!
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