Victor Oyiboka
@astrovictor.bsky.social
Planetary Scientist & Astronomer. Physics PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. Interested in the study of Exoplanet Detection and Characterization
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Reviewing PhD applications is going to be a tough one because of the competitive profile of prospective grad students. A PhD is meant to be a training ground for learning how to conduct research and not a place requiring applicants to demonstrate they already possess exceptional skill
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My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️
I’m excited to share that I have started my PhD in Physics at the University of Texas at Dallas! 🌟
Despite all the delays and challenges, I still came out on top. I’m grateful, curious and ready for the journey ahead ✨
I appreciate everyone who’s been part of the journey. Thank God.
Despite all the delays and challenges, I still came out on top. I’m grateful, curious and ready for the journey ahead ✨
I appreciate everyone who’s been part of the journey. Thank God.
September 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I’m excited to share that I have started my PhD in Physics at the University of Texas at Dallas! 🌟
Despite all the delays and challenges, I still came out on top. I’m grateful, curious and ready for the journey ahead ✨
I appreciate everyone who’s been part of the journey. Thank God.
Despite all the delays and challenges, I still came out on top. I’m grateful, curious and ready for the journey ahead ✨
I appreciate everyone who’s been part of the journey. Thank God.
Reposted by Victor Oyiboka
Schedule for #BlackSpaceWeek 2025! Links to register coming soon🤭 Which event/panels pique your interest? 👀
May 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Schedule for #BlackSpaceWeek 2025! Links to register coming soon🤭 Which event/panels pique your interest? 👀
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Assistant Professor, Global Change Ecology at Yale 🧪 apply.interfolio.com/164677
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May 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Assistant Professor, Global Change Ecology at Yale 🧪 apply.interfolio.com/164677
Abstract submissions are now being accepted for the Astrobiology Graduate Conference AbGradCon 2025.
📅 Date: June 10-13, 2025
📍 Venue: University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO
🎡 Theme: “Dark Skies, Bright Futures”
Deadline to apply is March 31, 2025
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Date: June 10-13, 2025
📍 Venue: University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO
🎡 Theme: “Dark Skies, Bright Futures”
Deadline to apply is March 31, 2025
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
AbGradCon 2025 Application
AbGradCon 2025 will be held at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO from June 10-13, 2025.
The Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) is an early career conference run by graduate ...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Abstract submissions are now being accepted for the Astrobiology Graduate Conference AbGradCon 2025.
📅 Date: June 10-13, 2025
📍 Venue: University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO
🎡 Theme: “Dark Skies, Bright Futures”
Deadline to apply is March 31, 2025
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Date: June 10-13, 2025
📍 Venue: University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO
🎡 Theme: “Dark Skies, Bright Futures”
Deadline to apply is March 31, 2025
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Victor Oyiboka
AstroCamp is a three-year programme for students in their second to last year of secondary school that starts with a summer school from 10 to 24 August this year and various remote and in person activities in the two subsequent years. Applications are possible 1 to 30 April
astrocamp.astro.up.pt/en/
astrocamp.astro.up.pt/en/
March 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
AstroCamp is a three-year programme for students in their second to last year of secondary school that starts with a summer school from 10 to 24 August this year and various remote and in person activities in the two subsequent years. Applications are possible 1 to 30 April
astrocamp.astro.up.pt/en/
astrocamp.astro.up.pt/en/
📢 NEW CALL FOR TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS!
🪐 Visit 8 planetary science facilities in Europe and 6 in South Korea
🪐 Travel and accomodation support
🪐 Deadline: Call 21 March 2025, Visits 1 May-31 July 2025
👉 More info: bit.ly/ta-pilot-callq
🪐 Visit 8 planetary science facilities in Europe and 6 in South Korea
🪐 Travel and accomodation support
🪐 Deadline: Call 21 March 2025, Visits 1 May-31 July 2025
👉 More info: bit.ly/ta-pilot-callq
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
📢 NEW CALL FOR TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS!
🪐 Visit 8 planetary science facilities in Europe and 6 in South Korea
🪐 Travel and accomodation support
🪐 Deadline: Call 21 March 2025, Visits 1 May-31 July 2025
👉 More info: bit.ly/ta-pilot-callq
🪐 Visit 8 planetary science facilities in Europe and 6 in South Korea
🪐 Travel and accomodation support
🪐 Deadline: Call 21 March 2025, Visits 1 May-31 July 2025
👉 More info: bit.ly/ta-pilot-callq
The @ESASolarOrbiter is looking for a project scientist for Solar Orbiter (and SOHO)! Application deadline is 4 March 2025.
jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwij...
jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwij...
Project Scientist
Project Scientist
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March 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The @ESASolarOrbiter is looking for a project scientist for Solar Orbiter (and SOHO)! Application deadline is 4 March 2025.
jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwij...
jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwij...
Applications for the 37th annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School — a three-month-long early career development experience — are due 18 March.
aas.org/posts/news/2...
aas.org/posts/news/2...
March 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Applications for the 37th annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School — a three-month-long early career development experience — are due 18 March.
aas.org/posts/news/2...
aas.org/posts/news/2...
NASA is hiring postbac scholars!
There are several Astrophysics and Planetary Science positions available. 🚀✨️🌌☄️🛰
The link for the description of the projects is below:
aas.org/jobregister/...
There are several Astrophysics and Planetary Science positions available. 🚀✨️🌌☄️🛰
The link for the description of the projects is below:
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postbaccalaureate Positions in Astrophysics Science and Solar System Exploration Divisions at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | American Astronomical Society
Applications are now being accepted for short-term postbaccalaureate research positions to support the Astrophysics Science and Solar System Exploration Divisions at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (...
aas.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
NASA is hiring postbac scholars!
There are several Astrophysics and Planetary Science positions available. 🚀✨️🌌☄️🛰
The link for the description of the projects is below:
aas.org/jobregister/...
There are several Astrophysics and Planetary Science positions available. 🚀✨️🌌☄️🛰
The link for the description of the projects is below:
aas.org/jobregister/...
Small Town Universe is touring West Virginia this March! There will be several chances to watch this documentary about Green Bank:
🗓️ March 7 - WVU Morgantown
🗓️ March 10 - WVU Tech Beckley
🗓️ March 12 - Marshall University
🗓️ March 13 - The Clay Center
www.wvallstar.org/small-town-u...
🗓️ March 7 - WVU Morgantown
🗓️ March 10 - WVU Tech Beckley
🗓️ March 12 - Marshall University
🗓️ March 13 - The Clay Center
www.wvallstar.org/small-town-u...
March 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Small Town Universe is touring West Virginia this March! There will be several chances to watch this documentary about Green Bank:
🗓️ March 7 - WVU Morgantown
🗓️ March 10 - WVU Tech Beckley
🗓️ March 12 - Marshall University
🗓️ March 13 - The Clay Center
www.wvallstar.org/small-town-u...
🗓️ March 7 - WVU Morgantown
🗓️ March 10 - WVU Tech Beckley
🗓️ March 12 - Marshall University
🗓️ March 13 - The Clay Center
www.wvallstar.org/small-town-u...
We’re hosting a workshop on Machine Learning in Planetary System Dynamics @FlatironCCA April 22-25, covering a range of topics at the intersection of dynamics, exoplanet populations, planet formation, and ML.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
We’re hosting a workshop on Machine Learning in Planetary System Dynamics @FlatironCCA April 22-25, covering a range of topics at the intersection of dynamics, exoplanet populations, planet formation, and ML.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Victor Oyiboka
#PPOD: This image shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. The planets' star, called HR8799, is located at the spot marked with an "X." This picture was taken using a small, 1.5-meter portion of the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, north of San Diego. 🧪 🔭
February 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#PPOD: This image shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. The planets' star, called HR8799, is located at the spot marked with an "X." This picture was taken using a small, 1.5-meter portion of the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, north of San Diego. 🧪 🔭
The Progress in Understanding the Pluto System: 10 Years after Flyby meeting is scheduled for July 14–18, 2025, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Learn more: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/plu...
February 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Progress in Understanding the Pluto System: 10 Years after Flyby meeting is scheduled for July 14–18, 2025, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Learn more: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/plu...
Hello everyone,
We are delighted to announce an exoplanet workshop at IIT Kanpur from 4-6th April 2025. Please consider applying for the workshop.
Deadline: 27th Feb 2025
Apply here: sites.google.com/view/exows25...
We are delighted to announce an exoplanet workshop at IIT Kanpur from 4-6th April 2025. Please consider applying for the workshop.
Deadline: 27th Feb 2025
Apply here: sites.google.com/view/exows25...
February 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hello everyone,
We are delighted to announce an exoplanet workshop at IIT Kanpur from 4-6th April 2025. Please consider applying for the workshop.
Deadline: 27th Feb 2025
Apply here: sites.google.com/view/exows25...
We are delighted to announce an exoplanet workshop at IIT Kanpur from 4-6th April 2025. Please consider applying for the workshop.
Deadline: 27th Feb 2025
Apply here: sites.google.com/view/exows25...
why is this happening, I hope they are not trying to convert all #NASA centers to SpaceX
Multiple #NASA centers will be announcing probationary employee terminations on Tuesday as well. More to follow.
February 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
why is this happening, I hope they are not trying to convert all #NASA centers to SpaceX
Reposted by Victor Oyiboka
Registration ends Feb. 15! 🔭🧪👩🔬
We encourage *all* professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)!
More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium
We encourage *all* professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)!
More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium
February 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Registration ends Feb. 15! 🔭🧪👩🔬
We encourage *all* professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)!
More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium
We encourage *all* professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)!
More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium
The FIFA World Cup is >>>>> Super Bowl.
Who else agrees with me?
Who else agrees with me?
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The FIFA World Cup is >>>>> Super Bowl.
Who else agrees with me?
Who else agrees with me?
I hope we will also get to discuss how tough it is to for aspiring black astronomers to get into grad programs
The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!
January 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I hope we will also get to discuss how tough it is to for aspiring black astronomers to get into grad programs
Reposted by Victor Oyiboka
The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!
January 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!
A number of people who work with NASA JPL have been affected by the California wildfire.
You can contribute to the Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund via this link below 👇🏽
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
You can contribute to the Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund via this link below 👇🏽
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
January 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A number of people who work with NASA JPL have been affected by the California wildfire.
You can contribute to the Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund via this link below 👇🏽
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
You can contribute to the Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund via this link below 👇🏽
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Reviewing PhD applications is going to be a tough one because of the competitive profile of prospective grad students. A PhD is meant to be a training ground for learning how to conduct research and not a place requiring applicants to demonstrate they already possess exceptional skill
A thread 🧵1/7
A thread 🧵1/7
January 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reviewing PhD applications is going to be a tough one because of the competitive profile of prospective grad students. A PhD is meant to be a training ground for learning how to conduct research and not a place requiring applicants to demonstrate they already possess exceptional skill
A thread 🧵1/7
A thread 🧵1/7
Reposted by Victor Oyiboka
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
Merry Christmas to all Astronomers all around the world
December 25, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Merry Christmas to all Astronomers all around the world
This must be one of the funniest pictures I’ve come across recently…..lol
December 21, 2024 at 2:52 AM
This must be one of the funniest pictures I’ve come across recently…..lol