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Joy
@joybee8.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ astrophysicist
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capricephillips.bsky.social
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
joybee8.bsky.social
I got to share something my journey in this interview with @astrobites.bsky.social ! Thank you all who made this possible :) 🏳️‍⚧️
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 13
"After completing the two years of required courses in OSU’s PhD program, Joy decided to start transitioning in 2022. This was the culmination of feelings she’d been having since she was 8 years old."

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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 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
joybee8.bsky.social
Happy to announce that our work on field dwarf galaxies is finally out on @ojastro.bsky.social !
April 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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moudhy.bsky.social
In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour.

“we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...
Photo of a portrait shaped clay tablet with well-preserved cuneiform signs. Photo of a portrait shaped clay tablet with well-preserved cuneiform signs.
February 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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gothgirl.bsky.social
i just think trans people should have basic respect and be able to have a fun lil time. but idk im weird like that ✨💅
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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joybee8.bsky.social Joy @joybee8.bsky.social · Jan 6
Hi all, I'm glad to announce that our latest work is finally up! It's concerning the abundance of actively star-forming field galaxies comparable to the LMC and SMC (~0.1-1 billion solar masses). Using the TNG50 simulation we investigate the role that their environments play in this phenomenon. 🔭
Dwarf Galaxies in the TNG50 Field: connecting their Star-formation Rates with their Environments
The dwarf galaxies comparable to the LMC and SMC, with stellar masses $7.5 <{\rm log}(M_{\ast}/M_{\odot})<9.5$, are found in a diversity of environments and have long quenching timescales. The way thi...
arxiv.org
January 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
joybee8.bsky.social
Hi all, I'm glad to announce that our latest work is finally up! It's concerning the abundance of actively star-forming field galaxies comparable to the LMC and SMC (~0.1-1 billion solar masses). Using the TNG50 simulation we investigate the role that their environments play in this phenomenon. 🔭
Dwarf Galaxies in the TNG50 Field: connecting their Star-formation Rates with their Environments
The dwarf galaxies comparable to the LMC and SMC, with stellar masses $7.5 <{\rm log}(M_{\ast}/M_{\odot})<9.5$, are found in a diversity of environments and have long quenching timescales. The way thi...
arxiv.org
January 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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gezelter.bsky.social
Happy Lennard-Jones day, everyone!
A LaTeX equation for the Lennard Jones Potential: V_\mathrm{LJ}(r) = 4 \varepsilon \left( \left(\frac{\sigma}{r}\right)^{12} - \left(\frac{\sigma}{r}\right)^6 \right)
December 6, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
love these kantha quilts and bedspreads at 11.11 / eleven eleven.
Kantha quilt involving multiple shades and hues of blue. The quilt is sitting on top of a bed. Kantha quilt involving various shades and hues of blue along with red. The motif shows flowers among the patchwork. Kantha quilt involving various shades and hues of blue, red, and white. The motif is made up of various triangles. Kantha quilt involving various shades and hues of brown, blue, and red. The motif is made up of various squares.
December 3, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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ohdearz.bsky.social
Making my slides for the "25 Years of Science with Chandra" conference, and here's the supernova remnants imaged with Chandra in the first two years of the mission in the order they were observed! 🔭🧪 #SaveChandra
X-ray images of 29 supernova remnants observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory in the first two years of the mission, 1999-2001. Images are mostly adapted from https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/ and https://hea-www.harvard.edu/ChandraSNR/gallery_gal.html
December 2, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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category-fury.bsky.social
should be required viewing for physics majors youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc?...
the sham legacy of Richard Feynman
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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December 1, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.

She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n)
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A black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell looking at a printout in front of the large radio dish she used. She is wearing cat's-eye glasses with her brown hair pulled back. Her head is turned towards the camera and she is smiling. The printout where Bell and Hewish noticed the regular signal associated with the pulsar.It is a green-yellow graph paper with a staticky red line showing occasional spikes. There are hand annotations labeling the spikes and recording the time and date of each one.
November 28, 2024 at 6:02 AM
joybee8.bsky.social
and that’s how the legacy of the empire lives on 🫡
nextstopnora.bsky.social N0rr @nextstopnora.bsky.social · Nov 25
As an Irish woman who’s been flirting with a Bengali girl, most of our conversations revolve around shared trauma of potato famines made worse by the British
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
WAKE UP BABE, A NEW JWST IMAGE OF THE SOMBRERO GALAXY DROPPED!!! 🌌
The galaxu is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the centre. There is a clear inner disk that has speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky.
November 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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sanjanacurtis.bsky.social
I wonder how many students who are women, trans, queer, or racial minorities have had to choose between moving to/staying in a red state to build their career and being in a safe place in recent years
November 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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kyrabee.bsky.social
Another TDOR without Mira. Raise hell for her and all the bitches still out here who need our love, support, and fucking money.
Mira Bellwether 's tweet from 2022: "I hate TDOR. I hate the performance of grief. I want to see the rage for the friends we're missing, not candles. Those bitches were worth more than candles, they deserved flowers and love and actual support. They deserved help that never came."
November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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stsci.edu
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way galaxy's nearest neighbors. This dwarf galaxy looms large on the southern nighttime sky at 20 times the apparent diameter of the full Moon. And it survived a crash with our galaxy’s halo. (1/6)
Labeled “artist’s concept” at bottom right, the graphic shows a closeup of a dwarf galaxy, which appears roughly circular with a light yellow bar in the center. Faint, blue, wispy, cloud-like features surround this yellow bar, and they are sprinkled with tiny white specks. A wide, wispy, purple arc appears to the left of the galaxy. Trailing the galaxy is a large, faint, wide, tail-like feature.
November 14, 2024 at 6:11 PM
joybee8.bsky.social
finally deleted twitter 🥹
November 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM
joybee8.bsky.social
New paper I lead with the Dark Energy Survey collab just dropped! 🔭🧪

It's about faint dwarf galaxies and how they are influenced by the presence of massive galaxies like the Milky Way near them. arxiv.org/pdf/2312.007...
A meme showing the iconic scene from Matrix where Morpheus offers Neo the red and blue pills but with red and blue types of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) instead.
December 4, 2023 at 4:30 PM
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gothgirl.bsky.social
It is Trans Day of Revenge. Remember the dead and fight for the living. Trans rights are human rights! 🔥
November 20, 2023 at 2:09 PM
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polyommata.bsky.social
new handle!! friendship ended with obscure pun iffygenia, hello new bff polyommata and all the freaky lil angels i keep seeing in art
an early modern ukrainian painting of a polyommata "many eyed angel". the youthful face of the angel hidden beneath all its eyes winga has big femme-boy energy a fucked up looking byzantine polyommata amgel fresco similar to the first one in this post but kind of lop-sided and weirder
October 22, 2023 at 3:53 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Gorgeous annular eclipse in west Texas today!
An annular eclipse of the sun
October 14, 2023 at 5:21 PM
joybee8.bsky.social
Doll under the blue skies.
Joy posing in her pink top and fuchsia jacket.
October 13, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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gothgirl.bsky.social
📷✨ Hii I am sharing my art/ photography to make my timeline more wholesome. Hope you enjoy.✨🌿
A woman stands atop a hill covered in flowers. She is wearing a pink jacket and stripey knee high socks. She is staring out at the horizon of green fields as her hair blows in the wind. A woman perches on a rock overlooking a green valley. She is windswept and wearing a pink jacket. The ground beneath her is yellow and pink with flowers and shrubbery. POV: looking down on a pair of legs in knee high stripy socks as they walk through shrubbery and pink flowers A picture of a valley from on top of a hill. The one in the foreground is yellow and in the distance we see green fields and another hill/ mountain.
October 12, 2023 at 3:25 PM