Ramisa Rahman | রামিসা ☁️✨
@ramistarblob.bsky.social
Yale Astronomy PhD student || Postbacc CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian Summer '24 || Physics B.S. & English minor from William & Mary '24 || Lover of stars, disks, and pickles || ✧ 🇧🇩 🌌
https://linktr.ee/ramistarblob
https://linktr.ee/ramistarblob
Haul from a used bookstore, also yugioh cards
August 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Haul from a used bookstore, also yugioh cards
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ALL CAPS
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
www.politico.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ALL CAPS
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
nO one told me there were cows at the vla
Happy National Cow Appreciation Day! 🐄
📍 Very Large Array (VLA), New Mexico
📸 Credit: Kurt Liestenfeltz, 2025 VLA Star Party
📍 Very Large Array (VLA), New Mexico
📸 Credit: Kurt Liestenfeltz, 2025 VLA Star Party
July 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
nO one told me there were cows at the vla
Fun times at the GRC Origins of the Solar System conference at Mount Holyoke!
June 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fun times at the GRC Origins of the Solar System conference at Mount Holyoke!
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I successfully defended my thesis and am now Dr. Caprice Phillips (its got a nice ring to it!). So thankful for my advisors and mentors including Jackie Faherty and @ohdearz.bsky.social and friends who were here to support me. Im the 2nd Black women to get a PhD from my department. Full of joy.
June 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I successfully defended my thesis and am now Dr. Caprice Phillips (its got a nice ring to it!). So thankful for my advisors and mentors including Jackie Faherty and @ohdearz.bsky.social and friends who were here to support me. Im the 2nd Black women to get a PhD from my department. Full of joy.
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My PhD defense is approaching quickly! Eeep! The public oral talk will be June 16 at 11am EST.
If anyone would like to sign up to receive the Zoom Link to watch the public portion please fill out the Google Form here:
forms.gle/o49ZQi8nPcun...
🌌🔭 #BlackInAstro
If anyone would like to sign up to receive the Zoom Link to watch the public portion please fill out the Google Form here:
forms.gle/o49ZQi8nPcun...
🌌🔭 #BlackInAstro
May 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My PhD defense is approaching quickly! Eeep! The public oral talk will be June 16 at 11am EST.
If anyone would like to sign up to receive the Zoom Link to watch the public portion please fill out the Google Form here:
forms.gle/o49ZQi8nPcun...
🌌🔭 #BlackInAstro
If anyone would like to sign up to receive the Zoom Link to watch the public portion please fill out the Google Form here:
forms.gle/o49ZQi8nPcun...
🌌🔭 #BlackInAstro
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The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
www.forbes.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.
International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
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If you're an incoming Doctoral candidate to a top US University in 2025/2026 but are reconsidering/considering Canada please see this initiative at Queen's University. www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
May 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
If you're an incoming Doctoral candidate to a top US University in 2025/2026 but are reconsidering/considering Canada please see this initiative at Queen's University. www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.
February 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Final week to apply for the Code/Astro workshop! Come learn about open-source software development in Python.
Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro!
Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/
Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)
Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/
Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Federal grants to universities are almost entirely on a Letter of Credit basis. Most universities will submit weekly or biweekly drawdowns from the Payment Management System to reimburse recent expenditures. Without those reimbursements universities will be burning through cash unsustainably.
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Federal grants to universities are almost entirely on a Letter of Credit basis. Most universities will submit weekly or biweekly drawdowns from the Payment Management System to reimburse recent expenditures. Without those reimbursements universities will be burning through cash unsustainably.
Very hard to go to work normally when every day this administration keeps rolling out horrific policies that threaten the lives of marginalized people everywhere.
January 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Very hard to go to work normally when every day this administration keeps rolling out horrific policies that threaten the lives of marginalized people everywhere.
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Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
Paper day! Excited to share our new paper (my first First-Author haha~) where we examine Gaia-confirmed YSOs in the Taurus star forming region with VLASS & find a really cool radio luminosity-spectral type dependence :D!! Here’s the arxiv preprint link: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06188
The Radiowave Hunt for Young Stellar Object Emission and Demographics (RADIOHEAD): A Radio Luminosity${-}$Spectral Type Dependence in Taurus${-}$Auriga YSOs
We measure the radio continuum fluxes at the locations of all Gaia${-}$confirmed members of Taurus${-}$Auriga using Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey data (VLASS; 2${-}$4 GHz, $σ_{\rm{VLASS}}...
arxiv.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Paper day! Excited to share our new paper (my first First-Author haha~) where we examine Gaia-confirmed YSOs in the Taurus star forming region with VLASS & find a really cool radio luminosity-spectral type dependence :D!! Here’s the arxiv preprint link: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06188
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Caprice is an outstanding scientist, a great speaker, and on the postdoc job market this year! 🔭🧪⚛️
Here at U Michigan Astro we were privileged to host the 2022 Beth Brown Award winner, @capricephillips.bsky.social, who gave TWO great talks: one about her awesome research and one about community and @blackinastro.bsky.social 🤩🥳👏
December 7, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Caprice is an outstanding scientist, a great speaker, and on the postdoc job market this year! 🔭🧪⚛️
Follow our bsky account ^ ^!!
Hello, bluesky!! The AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (members shown below) is happy to join you here, including @ohdearz.bsky.social, @capricephillips.bsky.social, @that-astro-chic.bsky.social, @ramistarblob.bsky.social, @rmartinez.bsky.social! 🔭🧪⚛️
December 6, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Follow our bsky account ^ ^!!
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wavefunctions when you observe them
November 26, 2024 at 3:23 PM
wavefunctions when you observe them
Frying eggs in this >>>>
November 16, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Frying eggs in this >>>>
Man, i remember how stressful class registration used to be in undergrad. Now it's just beep boop boom *registered instantly*
November 15, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Man, i remember how stressful class registration used to be in undergrad. Now it's just beep boop boom *registered instantly*
grad school lately
November 15, 2024 at 12:49 AM
grad school lately
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Spoke with the kids this morning about how important it is to try and make the world better, even if other people try to make it worse.
Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
November 6, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Spoke with the kids this morning about how important it is to try and make the world better, even if other people try to make it worse.
Organize and care for each other in your communities, fund libraries and mutual aid centers. Be there and fight for your trans friends. Continue fighting more than ever for Palestine.
I don't think I can explain the palpable horror I'm feeling right now. The rights of marginalized people are in jeopardy, just like that. And US bombs will continue to be sent to Israel.
November 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Organize and care for each other in your communities, fund libraries and mutual aid centers. Be there and fight for your trans friends. Continue fighting more than ever for Palestine.
I don't think I can explain the palpable horror I'm feeling right now. The rights of marginalized people are in jeopardy, just like that. And US bombs will continue to be sent to Israel.
November 6, 2024 at 12:39 PM
I don't think I can explain the palpable horror I'm feeling right now. The rights of marginalized people are in jeopardy, just like that. And US bombs will continue to be sent to Israel.