Om Sharan Salafia
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Om Sharan Salafia
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Researcher at INAF - OAB, Milan, Italy. Working on GRBs & EM counterparts to GW sources. Former musician. Inherently curious.
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Gaza is being erased. Entire families wiped out. Starvation used as a weapon. This is genocide — and the world knows it. Sign the #AntiGenocidePledge to stand with Palestine: antigenocidepledge.com
Anti-Genocide Pledge
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August 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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We're only TWO WEEKS out from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first images!

Get ready for the first preview of how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos in its 10-year survey in a live streamed #RubinFirstLook event on June 23, 2025 at 11am EDT!

Stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look 🔭🧪
Rubin Observatory beneath a glowing night sky showing the band of the Milky Way, Venus, and a comet. The observatory is a boot-shaped structure at center, with long white service building and vertical silver dome. The Milky Way stretches horizontally overhead as a cotton-candy-like band of stars and dust. The thin, faint streak of a comet appears above the observatory. Text reads "Join us virtually and globally for the reveal of first images from Rubin! 23 June 2025. 11am US EDT" Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/DOE/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand
June 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We are excited to introduce The Gravitational Wave Solidarity Committee! We're a group of gravitational-wave researchers building solidarity within our scientific collaborations for a more just future.

💫 DM us if you would like to get involved, and follow this page for upcoming events!
Introducing The Gravitational Wave Solidarity Committee. Swipe to learn about who we are, what we're doing, and how to join! Who we are: - We are a collective of LVK members working to make the GW community more just and equitable. - We believe that eliminating injustice is the only way to ensure that all people can benefit from participation in GW research specifically and science in general. - We strive to elevate voices that are not given a platform within our community Who we are - We work strategically to achieve our goals, work to the strengths of our members, and support each other to be courageous in standing up to powerful forces, rather than being complicit in harmful status quos. - We stand up to powerful forces of injustice through unity, care, and mutual support. - We accept this task as integral to our work as scientists. Our Core Values: ✊ Justice: Eliminating injustice is the only way to ensure that all people can benefit from participation in GW research specifically and science in general. We accept the task of fighting for a more just and equitable world as integral to the pursuit of science. This requires standing up for what is right within and outside of our roles as researchers, students, and faculty. 👭 Collectivism: We believe in the power of collective action. Working together is the most effective way to enact positive change, especially when dealing with established institutions. 📚 Emancipation through Education: Keeping us and our community educated about current issues, and elevating the voices of those with less means at their disposal. 🌍 Political engagement: Because our research is an intrinsically political endeavor, we have a moral obligation to make our voice heard and to elevate the voices of those with less means at their disposal. 💪 Courage: Doing uncomfortable but necessary work through mutual support.
March 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject. 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Congratulations to the LISA team on getting ESA mission approval

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

LISA was cancelled back during my PhD, which was crushing, but it is great to see that you can't keep a good mission down! Maybe my PhD work will even be useful one day?

🧪🔭🛰️
January 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM