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Gail Zasowski

@zastronomerski.bsky.social
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Astronomer 🌌, professor at the U of Utah, mom of 2 littles. Exploring, hiking, camping, cooking, reading. Sci-fi and period romances. Definitely not writing social media bios.

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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Really enjoyed the Odyssey movie, and a little jealous of all the Gen Youngers who’re going to idly google John Leguizamo and find his Tybalt photos for the first time
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🔭 ☄️ 🧪 #galactic
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@bot.astronomy.blue signup
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🌌 What does our Milky Way look like from the outside? 🌀 How has that changed over time? ✨ Why did my coauthors let me use the phrase “child movie star” in an actual paper? ⚡️ Check out arxiv.org/abs/2507.17637, and the incredible work by Imig et al in arxiv.org/abs/2507.17629 to find out!
Grid of galaxies, sorted by size and color, overlaid with colored boxes showing the Milky Way getting smaller and bluer back in time
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Things are bad and scary now, but if it helps to remember that there are beautiful places in the world, here are a couple photos from northern Nevada last week.
A view over a mountain stream, with trees and snow in the foreground and snow-covered scree slopes in the backgroundA view from the top of a green glacial valleyA clustering of trees on a hillside, with green moss between them and snow all around the group
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Yeah sex is great but have you ever made a spreadsheet to organize a group for a thing and everyone filled it out correctly? No seriously, have you? What’s it like? I bet it’s awesome.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
You might feel like *your* job has no real impact, but have you thought about the poor person who adds that “remember this device for next time” button to login pages?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2025
Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Late to the culturally timely meme game as always, but this is by far my fave
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My comfiest socks are purple REI wool midweights I accidentally stole on a flight to Europe, because they looked like mine under the seat. (It was a flight from SLC, so like 85% of the plane was wearing REI socks.) I don’t know how the previous owner made them so soft, but my life is better for it.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Discovered this week that our dept’s mission statement was changed to remove Now Banned Words, without telling anyone. Our mission statement. Of our values. Voted on by faculty (itself a feat). Without telling us. 🫠🫠🫠 Wayback machine out here doing the Lord’s work.
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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"First of all, some of the things here I say will be incorrect" is the new cold opener for every colloquium talk I give from now on.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
There should be a rule that if you build a new house, especially if it’s odd/interesting, all the neighbors who watched it go up can come see what the inside looks like when it’s done.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The “date her harder” meme, with a woman labeled “the government now, apparently” saying to stop doing DEIA, and a man labeled “scientists” replying that they’ll do DEIA even harder.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I realize this is, like, #2886447 on the list of imminent Bad Things, but I just remembered the US’s 250th birthday is within the next 4 years, and ugh that’s gonna suck.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
QP this with your 5 favorite female Star Trek characters, Bluesky Trekkies! #StarTrek #TrekSky 🖖🏼✨ (In no particular order) 1. Kathryn Janeway 2. Kira Nerys 3. Nyota Uhura 4. Lwaxana Troi 5. D’Vana Tendi If I were allowed 2 more: Beverly Crusher and 7 of 9
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
That canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.
Poster for TV show Firefly
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Based on a true story in our department 😂 (Details available in person)
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“Murthered at St Paul’s Covent Garden” oh come on!
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I was pumping milk 🤱 for my infant and my 3yo walked in the room and asked what I was pumping. I said “horchata” and she got really excited and thus I was reminded that 3yo’s don’t get sarcasm yet.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I am so embarrassed for my country, and so scared for my daughters’ futures.
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Gail Zasowski @zastronomerski.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Perhaps fitting that my first post on Bluesky, which I joined for totally professional reasons, is a loving ❤️ to @greatesttrek.bsky.social for their SLC show tonight! So much fun for us intermountain FoDs…thank you!!
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