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Jessica Schonhut-Stasik
@jesstella.bsky.social
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🖖🏻 Girl Spock
🔭 Galactic Archaeology PhD
🚀 CEO of @theneuroverseinitiative
🧠 Program & Communications Director
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My mum got me a PhD sword... and not just any sword... a perfect replica of Glamdring.

📚🗡️🧝🏻‍♀️🎓
May 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I spoke about my center's funding loss in this Time article and NSF "declined to comment". That feels like a flex 💪🏻

time.com/7279068/trum...
April 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Finally submitted my thesis last night. All ~250 pages of it.
After 34 years I am finally done with school.
Dr Jess of astrophysics ❤️ I'm really fucking proud of myself!
March 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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A second tattoo for my doctorate, so that when I punch Nazis I can remember why.

So ready to work, so ready to fight for what's right.

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March 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I just sent this out, and I know it's going to need changes but it's time to breathe and remember that 5 years ago another school told me I would never do this and now I've written a thesis, whilst running a 501, and comms for a university center... oh and working nights on a telescope. 🔭🧪🪐🧠
February 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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One of the best ways to work against fascism is the power of loving, cooperative, respectful, community.

Channel your inner Hobbit and we can bring down the darkness together.

Happy Valentine's Day ❤️💙💜💛🖤💚🐉📚
February 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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You can take the girl out of Hawai'i...
#hawaii
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Lost my vans 😭 so spiced up my Target slip-ons.

My left foot says "The First Duty is to Truth" 🖖🏻

My right foot says "Eat a Bag of 🍆"

I will using my feet to communicate today.

#ScienceThreads
January 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Celebrating the launch of Europa Clipper by watching one of my favourite 2010's SciFi films: Europa Report! 🔭🛰️🧪

#nasa #europa #EuropaClipper #astronomy #phd #phdlife
October 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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This has GOT to be my favorite spam of all time.

PLEASE SUBMIT ARTICLES TO OUR JOURNAL, YOU CAN HAVE UP TO 15% PLAGIARISM.

Who's in?
July 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Finally, I want to include this incredible Word Cloud, indicating text responses from participants about how the sonifications made them feel.
A word cloud of the words participants used to describe their emotional response to the sonifications. Words that were used more frequently by participants are represented by larger text, whereas less frequent responses are represented by smaller text. The largest and thus most commonly used words are “awe,” “calm,” and “curiosity.” Slightly smaller words include “peaceful,” “interesting,” “curious,” “wonder,” “relaxing,” “soothing,” “beautiful,” and “intrigued.” Some of the smaller words include “exciting,” “ethereal,” “mysterious,” “amazement,” and “impressed.”
March 26, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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We also asked some overall questions that were not specific to the individual sonifications. We found that the experience encouraged sighted users to learn more about accessibility!
Three histograms separately representing the responses of the BLV and sighted groups to the final prompts provided after listening to all three sonifications (see Section 2.3 for the list of prompts). For all three prompts, the average rating of the BLV group is higher than that of the sighted group, and there is a noticeable difference in the distribution of both groups’ ratings. Again for all three prompts, BLV participants were more likely to give a rating of 5 than sighted participants, and the mode rating for the BLV group in response to all three prompts was 5. By contrast, the mode response of the sighted group was 4 to the prompts regarding being motivated to listen more and about wanting to learn more about how others access information about the Universe and was 5 for the prompt regarding wanting to learn more about the Universe. The average rating is greater than 4.0 for both groups across all three prompts, and ratings of 4 or 5 make up the majority of responses.
March 26, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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We recorded responses, including whether they enjoyed the sonification, felt they learned something about the astronomical object, and trusted the data was faithful to the science. My favorite finding is that the sighted and BVI folks enjoyed the experience equally.
Three histograms separately depicting the responses of the sighted and BLV groups to the prompt “I enjoyed the sonification.” Each astronomical object, the Galactic Center, Cassiopeia A, and the Deep Field, has a separate histogram. The response histograms for the BLV and sighted groups for each of the sonifications appear approximately concurrent, with the response ratings for the BLV group being slightly higher than the sighted group for the Galactic Center and Cassiopeia A sonifications. These differences are not statistically significant, however. The average rating for all sonifications in both the sighted and BLV groups for all three sonifications is between 4.1 and 4.5. Overall, the ratings of the level of enjoyment appear similar between the three sonifications.
March 26, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Strider just got up. Stretched with his butt towards me. Loudly farted in my face. Then walked out the room. What a life.
February 5, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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I *think* I know what this is advertising... a gamified pelvic floor exercise toy? Is this the future?
January 27, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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Excited to give a talk tomorrow to the Stanford University School of Medicine Special Interest Group for Neurodiversity.

These folk have been kind enough to share the link to sign up to the group's email list: lnkd.in/g3Cr-HrB

#Neurodivergent #Autism #ADHD #GraduateSchool #DisabledInSTEM 🧠
January 21, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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I don't live in Nashville so I don't get to see the Vanderbilt folk much, but I got to catch up with a bunch of them at AAS and I'm so grateful to have such a supportive, friendly, and inclusive department in which to do my work and be allowed to thrive. Love y'all ❤️

#aas243 #astronomy #vanderbilt
January 15, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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Hi #AAS243, as we are all tired... wondering when the next coffee break is... and worrying if United will charge us for our heavy swag-filled luggage, I would suggest taking a break to come see my talk on the statistics of binarity in evolved stars at 3:20pm in Room 223.
January 11, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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In 30 minutes come to room 243 for an evening with Maunakea Observatories. Always with the food, wine, and, a lil' bit of learning! #aas243
January 8, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Loving our pre-conference workshop so much that I forgot to post about it until @aussiastronomer gave an incredible talk about using social media at conferences.

#AAS #AAS243 #Conferences #ConferencingSuccessfully #Astronomy
January 7, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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A few spots remain for our AAS Workshop for new attendees to learn how to get the most from a large astronomy conference. Learn from AAS veterans about their top tips + food and swag! Add the workshop to your registration at the AAS Website!

#STEM #Diversity #Astronomy #AAS243

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January 3, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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On todays list of side effects no cancer doctor/OB doctor bothers to mention because WHO CARES IF WOMEN CAN ENJOY SEX. This whollllleeeeeee cancer thing is a ride y'all. #CIN #Cancer #CervicalCancer #CancerBS
November 21, 2023 at 7:46 AM
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Forgot to add the pic! See last post for deets! 🧪🔭🛰️🧠
November 7, 2023 at 8:36 PM
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Tonight I spoke at Maunakea Wonders, for future teachers of HI.

When people ask why I live in HI but attend VU, it's because I feel deeply attached to the islands and want to be of service.

Alongside me on the panel, my first ever UG Angelu, who is kicking ass. So proud!
November 7, 2023 at 6:27 AM
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I'll be speaking next week at the 2nd annual International Forum on Research Excellent in Long Beach, CA. I'm excited to discuss how we can support our neurodivergent students and help them thrive!

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #STEM #phdchat #astrotwitter #DisabledInSTEM 🧠🧪🔭
November 5, 2023 at 4:47 AM