Amber Hornsby
@spacedramber.bsky.social
SO:UK Astro Instrumentation Postdoc at UoM. Editor of AstroNews for Popular Astronomy 🏳️🌈 popastronews [@] gmail [.] com
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If there is one thing I can be proud of, it’s my work in starting this global initiative - and for the sixth year running, let’s piss off a lot of people in and out of STEM just by being our unapologetic selves. #queerinstem
November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #QueerinSTEM
prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
November 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
If there is one thing I can be proud of, it’s my work in starting this global initiative - and for the sixth year running, let’s piss off a lot of people in and out of STEM just by being our unapologetic selves. #queerinstem
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(Just realized that I haven't advertized the Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist on this platform.)
If you are an LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 astronomers/astrophysicists (or an ally) and are comfortable of being out, you can join the Astro Outlist to help increase LGBTQ+ visibility and connect with local community!
If you are an LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 astronomers/astrophysicists (or an ally) and are comfortable of being out, you can join the Astro Outlist to help increase LGBTQ+ visibility and connect with local community!
Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist
Outlist and ally list for LGBTQIA+ members in the astronomy and astrophysics community
astro-outlist.github.io
November 7, 2024 at 10:11 PM
(Just realized that I haven't advertized the Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist on this platform.)
If you are an LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 astronomers/astrophysicists (or an ally) and are comfortable of being out, you can join the Astro Outlist to help increase LGBTQ+ visibility and connect with local community!
If you are an LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 astronomers/astrophysicists (or an ally) and are comfortable of being out, you can join the Astro Outlist to help increase LGBTQ+ visibility and connect with local community!
I've been using datacamp to improve some of my data science skills, and I'm super proud of myself for my 14-day streak!
October 24, 2024 at 10:52 AM
I've been using datacamp to improve some of my data science skills, and I'm super proud of myself for my 14-day streak!
My original intention for blue sky was to keep it 100% astronomy, but I'm not really sure what my (long term) future in astronomy looks like so I don't think I'm going to be that strict.
Also I keep forgetting blue sky exists so hello :)
Also I keep forgetting blue sky exists so hello :)
October 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
My original intention for blue sky was to keep it 100% astronomy, but I'm not really sure what my (long term) future in astronomy looks like so I don't think I'm going to be that strict.
Also I keep forgetting blue sky exists so hello :)
Also I keep forgetting blue sky exists so hello :)
My to-do list is long. I am sleepy. Happy Monday 😔
October 23, 2023 at 9:09 AM
My to-do list is long. I am sleepy. Happy Monday 😔
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My 1st publication in the Open Journal of Astrophysics: a genuinely collaborative effort between two previously rival teams to conduct a joint cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey and Kilo-Degree Survey. 🔭👩🏼🔬
ℹ️: telescoper.blog/2023/10/22/n...
📹: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hk...
ℹ️: telescoper.blog/2023/10/22/n...
📹: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hk...
October 23, 2023 at 7:20 AM
My 1st publication in the Open Journal of Astrophysics: a genuinely collaborative effort between two previously rival teams to conduct a joint cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey and Kilo-Degree Survey. 🔭👩🏼🔬
ℹ️: telescoper.blog/2023/10/22/n...
📹: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hk...
ℹ️: telescoper.blog/2023/10/22/n...
📹: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hk...
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Since we're up late, have you checked out episode 3 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers? This time I interview one of my favourite people and fabulous JPL exoplanet scientist Jenn Burt! Please watch (and share!) and let me know what you think!!!
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 3 Jennifer Burt
Planet Detection All Night, Every Night 🧛🔭🌃🪐IPAC's Dr. Jessie Christiansen chats with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on how she sp...
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October 18, 2023 at 7:42 AM
Since we're up late, have you checked out episode 3 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers? This time I interview one of my favourite people and fabulous JPL exoplanet scientist Jenn Burt! Please watch (and share!) and let me know what you think!!!
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Hubble video of a shock wave slamming through gas blasting out from a supernova. Bonus: You can actually see stars *physically move* due to their orbital motion around the center of the galaxy!
badastronomy.substack.com/p/watch-a-hu...
🔭🧪
badastronomy.substack.com/p/watch-a-hu...
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Watch a Hubble Space Telescope video of a shock wave moving through gas of an exploded star
Bonus: You can see stars actually moving through space in this animation!
badastronomy.substack.com
October 16, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Hubble video of a shock wave slamming through gas blasting out from a supernova. Bonus: You can actually see stars *physically move* due to their orbital motion around the center of the galaxy!
badastronomy.substack.com/p/watch-a-hu...
🔭🧪
badastronomy.substack.com/p/watch-a-hu...
🔭🧪
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Excited to share the 1st direct evidence of quartz clouds in the atmosphere of a transiting #exoplanet! With #JWST MIRI we found nanoparticles of quartz, SiO2, causing a spike in the planet's spectrum at 8.6 micron unveiling the Oxygen locked in the clouds
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
NASA’s Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
webbtelescope.org
October 16, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Excited to share the 1st direct evidence of quartz clouds in the atmosphere of a transiting #exoplanet! With #JWST MIRI we found nanoparticles of quartz, SiO2, causing a spike in the planet's spectrum at 8.6 micron unveiling the Oxygen locked in the clouds
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
doi.org/10.3847/2041...
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Cosmic rays and the mirrors of JWST 👀 Episode 5 of the stardust series, “Beryllium”, is now available! youtu.be/8a5K1gPAqRE?...
Stardust Episode 5: Beryllium
A bottleneck to element production, cosmic rays, and the mirrors of jwst!
youtu.be
October 16, 2023 at 3:54 AM
Cosmic rays and the mirrors of JWST 👀 Episode 5 of the stardust series, “Beryllium”, is now available! youtu.be/8a5K1gPAqRE?...
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As I so eloquently wrote in my article about this JWST image of the Orion Nebula:
HOLY ^$%&@$%#($)()^&!!!!
🔭 🧪
badastronomy.substack.com/p/holy-crap-...
HOLY ^$%&@$%#($)()^&!!!!
🔭 🧪
badastronomy.substack.com/p/holy-crap-...
HOLY CRAP THIS JWST IMAGE OF THE ORION NEBULA!!!
OK, yeah, but c’mon, take a look and tell me this headline is over the top
badastronomy.substack.com
October 3, 2023 at 2:10 PM
As I so eloquently wrote in my article about this JWST image of the Orion Nebula:
HOLY ^$%&@$%#($)()^&!!!!
🔭 🧪
badastronomy.substack.com/p/holy-crap-...
HOLY ^$%&@$%#($)()^&!!!!
🔭 🧪
badastronomy.substack.com/p/holy-crap-...
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October 1, 2023 at 7:06 AM
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GUYS IT'S OUT!
Episode 1 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is online!!! This is a new web series from Caltech/IPAC, with me as your happy and humble host. In the first episode I interview... my boss!
Please check it out and PLEASE SHARE IT!!! And let me know what you think. 🥹
🧪🔭🧪
Episode 1 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is online!!! This is a new web series from Caltech/IPAC, with me as your happy and humble host. In the first episode I interview... my boss!
Please check it out and PLEASE SHARE IT!!! And let me know what you think. 🥹
🧪🔭🧪
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 1 Charles Beichman
Blowtorch On A Planet! 🔥🔥🔥In this inaugural episode, Jessie finds out why her boss, Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Dr. Charles...
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September 14, 2023 at 4:56 PM
GUYS IT'S OUT!
Episode 1 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is online!!! This is a new web series from Caltech/IPAC, with me as your happy and humble host. In the first episode I interview... my boss!
Please check it out and PLEASE SHARE IT!!! And let me know what you think. 🥹
🧪🔭🧪
Episode 1 of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is online!!! This is a new web series from Caltech/IPAC, with me as your happy and humble host. In the first episode I interview... my boss!
Please check it out and PLEASE SHARE IT!!! And let me know what you think. 🥹
🧪🔭🧪
I've got a lot of work to do if I'm ever going to quit my postdoc and open a coffee shop 🤡
August 14, 2023 at 8:55 AM
I've got a lot of work to do if I'm ever going to quit my postdoc and open a coffee shop 🤡
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EUCLID test images just dropped. Data looks amazing already. Fun science ahead!
Look at that 6-spike PSF!
Look at that 6-spike PSF!
July 31, 2023 at 12:49 PM
EUCLID test images just dropped. Data looks amazing already. Fun science ahead!
Look at that 6-spike PSF!
Look at that 6-spike PSF!
I do not enjoy LabVIEW. I can not use LabVIEW. And yet, here I am, trying to connect up my silly little temperature monitors to LabVIEW. Send help and maybe snacks.
#JustInstrumentationThings
#JustInstrumentationThings
July 21, 2023 at 11:01 AM
I do not enjoy LabVIEW. I can not use LabVIEW. And yet, here I am, trying to connect up my silly little temperature monitors to LabVIEW. Send help and maybe snacks.
#JustInstrumentationThings
#JustInstrumentationThings
Intro post. I'm Dr Amber Hornsby, a postdoc at Manchester who is working on the instrument side of SO:UK 🔭 I'm also the editor of the AstroNews section of Popular Astronomy, and spend way too much of my free time gaming. When in Cali, I adopted a very cute cat called Cosmos :)
July 11, 2023 at 11:04 AM
Intro post. I'm Dr Amber Hornsby, a postdoc at Manchester who is working on the instrument side of SO:UK 🔭 I'm also the editor of the AstroNews section of Popular Astronomy, and spend way too much of my free time gaming. When in Cali, I adopted a very cute cat called Cosmos :)