Neev Shah
@neevshah101.bsky.social
he/him | astro PhD student @stewardobservatory.bsky.social @uarizona 🌵| @astrobites.bsky.social author | interested in massive stars ✨ binaries ⭐⭐ gravitational waves ⚫⚫ | prev undergrad @IISERPune
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Kareem El-Badry, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, with a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, an honor that comes with a "no-strings-attached" grant of $800,000.
www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...
www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...
Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow
Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow
www.caltech.edu
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Kareem El-Badry, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, with a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, an honor that comes with a "no-strings-attached" grant of $800,000.
www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...
www.caltech.edu/about/news/k...
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From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/28/n...
astrobites.org/2025/06/28/n...
Keep your ν-eyes open: Messengers from a Common Envelope
Today's bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star!
astrobites.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today’s bite explores how neutrinos might inform us about a neutron star being engulfed by another star! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/28/n...
astrobites.org/2025/06/28/n...
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Writing a scientific paper as a first author for the first time is so so daunting, intimidating, terrifying 🥺
But it doesn't have to be this way.
What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭
But it doesn't have to be this way.
What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Writing a scientific paper as a first author for the first time is so so daunting, intimidating, terrifying 🥺
But it doesn't have to be this way.
What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭
But it doesn't have to be this way.
What are some tools, support, encouraging frameworks that professors, mentors and advisors share with their students to write their first papers? ✍️🏼🙏🏼🔭
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Today for @blackinastro.bsky.social's theme of #ShareTheUniverse for 🪐 Black in Space Week 🔭, we have two very special interview articles with black astronomers Logan White and Phoenix-Avery Sarian! Summaries for each article and links in the thread below ⬇️!
June 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today for @blackinastro.bsky.social's theme of #ShareTheUniverse for 🪐 Black in Space Week 🔭, we have two very special interview articles with black astronomers Logan White and Phoenix-Avery Sarian! Summaries for each article and links in the thread below ⬇️!
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From Neev Shah: Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/10/m...
astrobites.org/2025/06/10/m...
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Saavik Ford
Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246
astrobites.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
From Neev Shah: Today we interview Dr. Saavik Ford, a professor at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/10/m...
astrobites.org/2025/06/10/m...
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From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/08/m...
astrobites.org/2025/06/08/m...
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Danny Milisavljevic
Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246
astrobites.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Today we interview Dr. Danny Milisavljevic, associate professor at Purdue University and a plenary speaker at #AAS246 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/08/m...
astrobites.org/2025/06/08/m...
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Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
Job Opportunities | University College Cork
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www.ucc.ie
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hey I’m hiring a 4-year PhD student in #astronomy at UCC to work on studying massive black holes in cosmological simulations! Fast turn around on this bc it is so late (due 6 June) but please pass on to any interested and qualified students! Feel free to dm/email me! 🔭🧪
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
www.ucc.ie/en/astro/job...
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Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply!
Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!
🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro
Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!
🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro
May 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply!
Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!
🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro
Please apply by May 31! More in the replies!
🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro
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For Pride month this year, Astrobites is looking to highlight transgender astronomers and we want YOU! We are planning to interview four astronomers about their experience being transgender in science, how they've dealt with barriers throughout their career . . . (1/4)
April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For Pride month this year, Astrobites is looking to highlight transgender astronomers and we want YOU! We are planning to interview four astronomers about their experience being transgender in science, how they've dealt with barriers throughout their career . . . (1/4)
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It's the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday. I see a lots of pictures being posted, for me the most important images it took were the images that uncovered what stars look like that explode as core-collapse supernovae.
E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)
E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)
April 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It's the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday. I see a lots of pictures being posted, for me the most important images it took were the images that uncovered what stars look like that explode as core-collapse supernovae.
E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)
E.g. this from Mattila et al. (2008) (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ....)
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From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/
astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/
Sagittarius A* only eats half its lunch, but where does it come from?
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today's bite explores where those binaries came from.
astrobites.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/
astrobites.org/2025/04/08/s-stars-around-sag-a/
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Astronomers - if you're submitting to the prestigious Acta Prima Aprilia journal and could use a peer review, make sure you shoot us a link so we don't miss you!
🔭✨☄️
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April 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Astronomers - if you're submitting to the prestigious Acta Prima Aprilia journal and could use a peer review, make sure you shoot us a link so we don't miss you!
🔭✨☄️
🔭✨☄️
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WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care?
Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...
Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...
Anna Watts - Neutron Stars: The Supranuclear Density Zombies of the Cosmos (March 26, 2025)
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
www.youtube.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
WHAT IS A NEUTRON STAR? And why should you care?
Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...
Please enjoy this delightful lecture by @profannawatts.bsky.social about ZOMBIE STARS 🧟♀️ 🔭 ⚛️🧪 #scicomm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12S...
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Space Drafts #105 is happening on March 18 at 7:30pm Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts105. Aafaque Khan will be talking about cosmic collisions and Lily Whitler (@astronomicalily.bsky.social) will be telling us about cosmic dawn!
Space Drafts #105: Cosmic Collisions & Cosmic Dawn
We hope you're excited for Space Drafts #105 next week! This month, we'll be joined by two Steward Observatory graduate students: Aafaque Khan will be telling us about how to use small satellites to study the collision between our very own Milky Way and its nearest neighbor, and Lily Whitler will be talking about the very earliest galaxies to exist in the universe. And Steward postdocs Jackie Champagne and Danny Krolikowski will be updating us on all the latest and greatest in the astronomical world! We'll be out on the patio of the downtown location of Borderlands Brewing Co. at 7:30pm AZ time on March 18, or you can join our livestream at bit.ly/SpaceDrafts105 if you can't make it in person. If you're interested in hearing about future events, you can follow us right here on Facebook, find us on Bluesky @spacedrafts.bsky.social, or join our mailing list at bit.ly/SpaceDraftsMailingList As always, our show is free and open to all ages. Please feel free to forward and share this event, all space enthusiasts are welcome!
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March 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Space Drafts #105 is happening on March 18 at 7:30pm Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts105. Aafaque Khan will be talking about cosmic collisions and Lily Whitler (@astronomicalily.bsky.social) will be telling us about cosmic dawn!
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March 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Applications are open for our visiting grad student program (pre-doc program) at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org!
Reach out if you're a student interested in:
- Preparing for Gaia DR4
- Stellar streams
- Data-driven methods for spectroscopy
(and want to apply!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔭
Reach out if you're a student interested in:
- Preparing for Gaia DR4
- Stellar streams
- Data-driven methods for spectroscopy
(and want to apply!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔭
CCA Pre-Doc Program Stage 1 Applications (2025)
docs.google.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Applications are open for our visiting grad student program (pre-doc program) at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org!
Reach out if you're a student interested in:
- Preparing for Gaia DR4
- Stellar streams
- Data-driven methods for spectroscopy
(and want to apply!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔭
Reach out if you're a student interested in:
- Preparing for Gaia DR4
- Stellar streams
- Data-driven methods for spectroscopy
(and want to apply!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔭
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Congrats to @briles34.bsky.social on this cool paper! #Undergrad #College #Science arxiv.org/abs/2309.05822
Improving Undergraduate Astronomy Students' Skills with Research Literature via Accessible Summaries: An Exploratory Case Study with Astrobites-based Reading Assignments
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, but reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in ma...
arxiv.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Congrats to @briles34.bsky.social on this cool paper! #Undergrad #College #Science arxiv.org/abs/2309.05822
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The Art of Planetary Science is in full swing at @uarizonalpl.bsky.social Come visit this weekend!
February 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Art of Planetary Science is in full swing at @uarizonalpl.bsky.social Come visit this weekend!
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From Neev Shah: Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today’s bite explores how it may not have formed. 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/17/g...
astrobites.org/2025/02/17/g...
Too big to fit? Recipes on how (not) to create the black hole binary that you find in your backyard
Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today's bite explores how it may not have formed.
astrobites.org
February 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
From Neev Shah: Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today’s bite explores how it may not have formed. 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/17/g...
astrobites.org/2025/02/17/g...
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Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it!
youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8
youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8
LIGO -- Dave Reitze We have Detected Gravitational Waves
YouTube video by sciencejedi
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Nine years ago we announced to the world that we have detected #GravitationalWaves we did it!
youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8
youtu.be/lslUF9gdYI8
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Every semester, our graduate students are awarded three nights of observing time on the Kuiper 61" telescope for eyepiece observing! It is a truly unique opportunity to use research-grade facilities to connect with the dark skies near Tucson 🔭
Image credits: Mahdi Naseri
Image credits: Mahdi Naseri
November 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Every semester, our graduate students are awarded three nights of observing time on the Kuiper 61" telescope for eyepiece observing! It is a truly unique opportunity to use research-grade facilities to connect with the dark skies near Tucson 🔭
Image credits: Mahdi Naseri
Image credits: Mahdi Naseri