thank you!!

thank you!!

Thank you so much for all your support!! You are one of the many reasons CUNY astro will always have a piece of my heart <3

This work couldn’t have been done without my incredible advisors who stood by patiently as I wobbled my way through learning how to really do research and present it, my professors who gave me the tools to investigate exciting questions about the universe, my countless mentors, & my priceless peers.

Pretty much everyone in my cohort has an identify that was restricted from academia, whether it be their class, race, or gender, or some combination of those identities. The CUNY astrophysics masters program is the most meaningful program I’ve ever been a part of.

totally NOT real but a callback to one of my favorite grimes tweets at elon musk

This is a fave

the ultimate goal definitely feels aligned with the privatization and commodification of space — evil, but not novel, especially knowing how much of Musk’s whispers meet Trump’s ears

in unrelated news: watching the handmaids tale and thinking about Emily…

And as grad students and hopefuls, we’re also hearing news of others that have made it in having their funding taken away from them. These cuts aren’t just halting a lot of novel science, but completely removing at least a generation of us