Sam Usman
@samusman.bsky.social
she / her / hers
Astrophysics PhD candidate at UChicago 🌌
Purple belt jiu jiteira, dog owner, amateur potter
Astrophysics PhD candidate at UChicago 🌌
Purple belt jiu jiteira, dog owner, amateur potter
Ah man, I'm still waiting on the NSF AAPF 😭
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Ah man, I'm still waiting on the NSF AAPF 😭
Reposted by Sam Usman
Our paper on the Barbenheimer Star is now published in ApJL! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... We at @sdssurveys.bsky.social find evidence for an ancient explosion of an unusually massive star that should have collapsed to a black hole. Thread and 🔭
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
January 31, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Our paper on the Barbenheimer Star is now published in ApJL! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... We at @sdssurveys.bsky.social find evidence for an ancient explosion of an unusually massive star that should have collapsed to a black hole. Thread and 🔭
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
Image: UChicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss
Pro-Palestine protestors hung huge banners off the UChicago astronomy / molecular engineering building.
December 8, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Pro-Palestine protestors hung huge banners off the UChicago astronomy / molecular engineering building.
I've perfected explaining spectroscopy to Gen X laymen: "You know the cover of the Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Our telescope works like that, but super precise."
November 17, 2023 at 9:21 PM
I've perfected explaining spectroscopy to Gen X laymen: "You know the cover of the Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Our telescope works like that, but super precise."
From this week's LGBT+ STEM conference, I've learned that you can be "authentically you" at Boeing, all while building bombs to send to Israel! Great, so inclusive! /s
November 12, 2023 at 6:10 AM
From this week's LGBT+ STEM conference, I've learned that you can be "authentically you" at Boeing, all while building bombs to send to Israel! Great, so inclusive! /s
I just watched Child's Play (1988) for the first time and I'm super impressed with how lifelike Chucky's movement is! How did they do that??
November 4, 2023 at 2:28 AM
I just watched Child's Play (1988) for the first time and I'm super impressed with how lifelike Chucky's movement is! How did they do that??
I gave the opening remarks for an event for the Center of Sexuality and Gender Studies here at UChicago last night.
Figuring out how to talk about myself without sounding like a self-centered jerk was way harder than talking about Milky Way star clusters...
Figuring out how to talk about myself without sounding like a self-centered jerk was way harder than talking about Milky Way star clusters...
Samantha Usman recieved a UChicago LGBTQ+ Community Engagement Award | News | Department of Astronom...
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November 3, 2023 at 9:01 PM
I gave the opening remarks for an event for the Center of Sexuality and Gender Studies here at UChicago last night.
Figuring out how to talk about myself without sounding like a self-centered jerk was way harder than talking about Milky Way star clusters...
Figuring out how to talk about myself without sounding like a self-centered jerk was way harder than talking about Milky Way star clusters...