Diana Solano-Oropeza
@dsolanooropeza.bsky.social
PhD student and @NSF fellow @CornellAstro | @Astrobites author | they/he/she | 🇲🇽 from Queens! | Bridge Scholar @ColumbiaAstro | @DrexelUniv Physics '21
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intro: 🇲🇽🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 i do #exoplanets, #stars, #habitability! Rn updating our knowledge of which stars + exoplanets can see us. lately interested in exoplanetary #radioactive decay/heat. Post equally btwn sci + shitposting. #astrobites author
Here's my girl Melon!
intro: 🇲🇽🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 i do #exoplanets, #stars, #habitability! Rn updating our knowledge of which stars + exoplanets can see us. lately interested in exoplanetary #radioactive decay/heat. Post equally btwn sci + shitposting. #astrobites author
Here's my girl Melon!
crying and throwing up i don't wanna go back to the united states
August 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
crying and throwing up i don't wanna go back to the united states
I LOVE MY CITY!!!
June 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I LOVE MY CITY!!!
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every week in june, astrobites is featuring a transgender scientist for pride month🏳️🌈! you can read the first post with graduate student Joy Bhattacharya here 🫶🏻: astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!
astrobites.org
June 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
every week in june, astrobites is featuring a transgender scientist for pride month🏳️🌈! you can read the first post with graduate student Joy Bhattacharya here 🫶🏻: astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
I need to start doing this
I need to call Chuck Schumer and remind him to resign again today.
These numbers are catastrophic for the Democrats.
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I need to start doing this
I guess I'm learning MMA now
June 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I guess I'm learning MMA now
hydrostatic equilibrium really does work on everything huh
March 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
hydrostatic equilibrium really does work on everything huh
setting g to 10 m/s^2 in geodynamics makes me feel yucky :(
March 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
setting g to 10 m/s^2 in geodynamics makes me feel yucky :(
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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
January 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
geophysics is like evil atmospheric science
March 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
geophysics is like evil atmospheric science
One of my favorite ever things that I've stumbled into over the past two years is Ziltoid the Omniscient
March 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
One of my favorite ever things that I've stumbled into over the past two years is Ziltoid the Omniscient
Astro hivemind happen to know where to read more about position uncertainty ellipses? Having trouble wrapping my head around it
February 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Astro hivemind happen to know where to read more about position uncertainty ellipses? Having trouble wrapping my head around it
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MUTUAL AID ALERT:
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)
February 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
MUTUAL AID ALERT:
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)
Honestly the difference in work ethic between astro and eas students is insane (non-astronomers take breaks, who knew!)
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Honestly the difference in work ethic between astro and eas students is insane (non-astronomers take breaks, who knew!)
I can't believe love won last night 🦅
February 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I can't believe love won last night 🦅
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gritty has seized control of the federal government
February 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
gritty has seized control of the federal government
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philly friends please be safe tonight. only climb up street signs and light poles within your ability. nobody wants to see this end on a sour note
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
philly friends please be safe tonight. only climb up street signs and light poles within your ability. nobody wants to see this end on a sour note
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They better grease up every telephone pole in Philly tonight.
February 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
They better grease up every telephone pole in Philly tonight.
LET'S GO BIRDS 🦅🦅🦅
February 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
LET'S GO BIRDS 🦅🦅🦅
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An excellent piece on techbros' obsession with SETI and the Fermi Paradox by the always insightful @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social
Here's Why Elon Musk's 'Fork in the Road' Is Really a Dead End
Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
www.scientificamerican.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An excellent piece on techbros' obsession with SETI and the Fermi Paradox by the always insightful @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social
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A very cool paper, written by some very cool people!
Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth's Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology? - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab
Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?, Sheikh, Sofia Z., Huston, Macy J., Fan, Pinchen, Wright, Jason T., Beatty, Thomas, Martini, Connor, Kopparapu, Ravi, Frank, Adam
iopscience.iop.org
February 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A very cool paper, written by some very cool people!
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Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉
Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int
Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨
Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int
Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨
February 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉
Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int
Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨
Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int
Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨
I've slipped and fallen so much in Ithaca within the past week that I am no longer afraid of falling in martial arts
February 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I've slipped and fallen so much in Ithaca within the past week that I am no longer afraid of falling in martial arts
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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. 🔭
Hey,uh, Trump just basically legalized discrimination in federal and federal contractor hiring. How the fuck am I supposed to finish my PhD now if I might not even be on equal footing as a person when applying to postdocs?
January 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hey,uh, Trump just basically legalized discrimination in federal and federal contractor hiring. How the fuck am I supposed to finish my PhD now if I might not even be on equal footing as a person when applying to postdocs?