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Digestible summaries of the latest astronomy research. Written by an international team of grad students for undergrads! Supported by the @AAS_Office. #scicomm
- In eight new papers, @NANOGrav presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications #pulsartimingarrays #GravitationalWaves
- From @astrobites: 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.
- We at Astrobites believe that BlackLivesMatter. Come learn with us about ways to make astronomy more anti-racist!
- We’re trying to get verified but unfortunately no one has written news articles about us. Would anyone from a verified news org. like to interview us about the upcoming JWST launch? We’re an international team of astro grad students who are always happy to talk #SciComm! DM us!
- OPEN CALL: We want to use our platform to amplify Black experiences in astro/physics! If you're a Black researcher or student in astro/physics who would like to share your experience, please reply or DM us. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackInSTEM
- To start off a full week of #BlackInAstro posts, we interview Ashley Walker—the person who came up with the #BlackInAstro hashtag!
- Ever struggle to remember the mass of the Sun? Struggle no more! Much like @taylorswift13, the Sun is a star. Taylor was born in 1989 & was 30 once --> Mass of the Sun is 1.989*10^30 kg. Reply/RT with your favorite ways to remember useful astro constants!
- Tell us you're an astronomer w/o telling us you're an astronomer. We'll start. We call all simulation gifs "movies."
- From Guest: When harassers coauthor papers, the community suffers, but nobody is more affected than the Early Career Researchers within those groups. This is how we, the ECRs within the California Planet Search, have tackled the recent authorship debacle.
- Black astronomers and physicists are drastically underrepresented in these fields. Here we break down the numbers, and look at research on the discrimination faced by Black students in STEM.
- An Astro2020 white paper presents evidence that GRE is biased and a poor predictor of PhD success, and offers guidelines for eliminating the requirement from graduate school admissions. ift.tt/2CKWZxd
