Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
@irinipocket.bsky.social
🇲🇽 Mexicana de corazón |⭐️ Astro PhD @UMich |💃🏽 Salsa & bachata dancer | 🌌 Planetarium ops| #BiinSci 🏳️🌈| she/her
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New Field OB and OBe Binaries of the SMC Wing: Observational Properties and Population Modeling
We present a radial velocity (RV) survey of the field OB and OBe stars of the SMC Wing. We use multi-epoch observations of 55 targets obtained with the Magellan IMACS and M2FS multi-object spectrograp...
arxiv.org
🚨 Paper day!!! 🚨
Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published!
Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004
More info in the 🧵
Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published!
Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004
More info in the 🧵
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
Happening next week! Don’t forget to sign up!
We are having a Mid Year Meetup!! We would like any of you who are interested in participate to use the link below. Come, play games and chat with all of us!
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November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happening next week! Don’t forget to sign up!
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
We are having a Mid Year Meetup!! We would like any of you who are interested in participate to use the link below. Come, play games and chat with all of us!
forms.gle/1RMnbGPwpZhF...
forms.gle/1RMnbGPwpZhF...
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We are having a Mid Year Meetup!! We would like any of you who are interested in participate to use the link below. Come, play games and chat with all of us!
forms.gle/1RMnbGPwpZhF...
forms.gle/1RMnbGPwpZhF...
Deadline has been extended to Oct 16!
🚨Call for Mini-Grant applications🚨
SGMA is looking to support 5 local, small scale events! Click on link for more information!
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SGMA is looking to support 5 local, small scale events! Click on link for more information!
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Application for a mini-grant
Sponsor your community building event with $100 from the AAS. We will particularly value creative ideas that build up communities that otherwise would not have a chance to meet or be supported.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Deadline has been extended to Oct 16!
Last week I had the opportunity to give a talk at the IAU Symposium for Massive Stars. ✨ I had a great time at the conference in Ensenada!!
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Last week I had the opportunity to give a talk at the IAU Symposium for Massive Stars. ✨ I had a great time at the conference in Ensenada!!
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
🚨Call for Mini-Grant applications🚨
SGMA is looking to support 5 local, small scale events! Click on link for more information!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SGMA is looking to support 5 local, small scale events! Click on link for more information!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Application for a mini-grant
Sponsor your community building event with $100 from the AAS. We will particularly value creative ideas that build up communities that otherwise would not have a chance to meet or be supported.
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🚨Call for Mini-Grant applications🚨
SGMA is looking to support 5 local, small scale events! Click on link for more information!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SGMA is looking to support 5 local, small scale events! Click on link for more information!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
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...
Queer Speaker List - Last edited May 12th 2025 - Public
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August 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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...
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
Hello everyone! We have joined BlueSky!!
August 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hello everyone! We have joined BlueSky!!
🚨 Paper day!!! 🚨
Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published!
Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004
More info in the 🧵
Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published!
Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004
More info in the 🧵
New Field OB and OBe Binaries of the SMC Wing: Observational Properties and Population Modeling
We present a radial velocity (RV) survey of the field OB and OBe stars of the SMC Wing. We use multi-epoch observations of 55 targets obtained with the Magellan IMACS and M2FS multi-object spectrograp...
arxiv.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨 Paper day!!! 🚨
Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published!
Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004
More info in the 🧵
Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published!
Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004
More info in the 🧵
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
Excited to announce that I’ll be giving my first conference talk at the IAUS 402! 🎉🎉🎉
April 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Excited to announce that I’ll be giving my first conference talk at the IAUS 402! 🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Irene Vargas-Salazar, PhD
How low the University of Michigan has fallen since Grutter v Bollinger (2003). www.chronicle.com/article/were...
![[Former University of Michigan and Columbia University President Lee] Bollinger: We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government. It’s been coming and coming, and not everybody is prepared to read it that way. The characters regarded as people to emulate, like Orbán and Putin and so on, all indicate that the strategy is to create an illiberal democracy or an authoritarian democracy or a strongman democracy. That’s what we’re experiencing. Our problem in part is a failure of imagination. We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions. You neutralize the branches of government; you neutralize the media; you neutralize universities, and you’re on your way.
We’re beginning to see the effects on universities. It’s very, very frightening.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xo6atnlmdo25sqdnq43r6kx6/bafkreiaxfz5wtbvz7lwir4bd2eyg5enfgtffa4pnlkml3ptxhmho4tkknm@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
How low the University of Michigan has fallen since Grutter v Bollinger (2003). www.chronicle.com/article/were...
Finally made an account here ☺️
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Finally made an account here ☺️