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Dr. Mia de los Reyes

@MiaDoesAstro

Astronomy professor at Amherst College. She/her/hers, Filipina-American, rock climber, aerialist, avid eater of baked goods. Views my own.

 Palo Alto, CA
mdlreyes.github.io
Joined January 2017
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.@JohnRhys_Davies @DomsWildThings @BillyBoydActor @elijahwood @SeanAstin if you happen to still be in NOLA tomorrow and want to learn something cool about space, I'm giving some talks on "dwarf" galaxies, which seems relevant to your interests!
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dwarf galaxies are both small (compared to other galaxies) and very powerful (as tools for physics)! I just feel like that's maybe a thing a dwarf and hobbits might find very fitting!
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I think this might be my last post on here, but at least I'll go out doing what I love: yelling into the void about how academic institutions need to change
Physics Magazine (@PhysicsMagazine) profile picturePhysics Magazine@PhysicsMagazine12 Sep 2023
Astronomers call on the @IAU_org and other institutions to rename galaxies and facilities bearing the name of Ferdinand Magellan, a colonial explorer who enslaved and murdered Indigenous people. Read more in this Opinion by @MiaDoesAstro. physics.aps.org/articles/v16…
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i was getting real anxious about teaching my first class (as an astronomy professor!!! holy shit!!!) tomorrow, but now i am not bc of this (astronomy themed!!!) @Tomycardy song youtube.com/watch?v=EuRjmzz6…
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.@Tomycardy pls talk about space with me
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sry for not posting a lot here but twitter is dying and anyway it turns out my version of professor life is pretty boring so far
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my friends messaging me: omg how's professor life treating you? are you excited?? me, eating chili oil cucumbers at 10:30pm while trying to avoid thinking about course prep: uhhhhh
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on a related note, my biggest piece of advice for anyone interested in academia (who doesn’t have a peanut allergy) is to always get the lao gan ma with peanuts
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10 years ago, I gave my first astro research talk as a baby summer student at @stsci. Today, I gave a talk wearing the exact same outfit, because despite my best efforts I have not grown a single inch since then 😭
Photo of a young woman with black hair standing in front of a projector screen, holding a mic. The woman is wearing a black dress and tan blazer.

ALT Photo of a young woman with black hair standing in front of a projector screen, holding a mic. The woman is wearing a black dress and tan blazer.

Dr. Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil (@bmutlupakdil) profile pictureDr. Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil@bmutlupakdil26 Jul 2023
Replying to @MiaDoesAstro
@MiaDoesAstro just gave a great talk about DIVE Survey, advocating for IFU surveys to connect resolved and integrated regime #northeast_dwarfs
Image from Dr. Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil (@bmutlupakdil)
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what if we did another GALEX
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I just think astronomers deserve more extragalactic UV data, as a treat
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oh my god of course like 5 min after I tweet this, Suvi Gezari shows a slide about UVEX
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please tell me someone has written a fake marriage friends-to-lovers romance where two best friends decide to get married so a university will spousal hire them
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maybe they have to fake PDA during the visit! maybe they get hired and have to move in together! maybe when they go on the department faculty retreat they end up having to stay in a hotel room with only one bed! please!! the tropes just write themselves!!
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this Barbie-themed poster by @kennethmleo may be the greatest research poster I've ever seen??? (his profile pic in the top right even has the "he's Ken." tagline from the Barbie movie poster, @Mattel hire this man immediately)
Photo of a Filipino man standing next to a research poster titled "Paths formed by a noisy ant pheromone trail model." The poster is white with pink text, and all the plots and diagrams are colored in shades of pink and baby blue. The title is in the Barbie font. In the top right, photos of the presenter and his advisor are in pink sunbursts (like the Barbie movie meme).

ALT Photo of a Filipino man standing next to a research poster titled "Paths formed by a noisy ant pheromone trail model." The poster is white with pink text, and all the plots and diagrams are colored in shades of pink and baby blue. The title is in the Barbie font. In the top right, photos of the presenter and his advisor are in pink sunbursts (like the Barbie movie meme).

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in entirely related news, there are SO many talented students at @samahangpisika! the future of physics in the Philippines is so bright
Dr. Mia de los Reyes (@MiaDoesAstro) profile pictureDr. Mia de los Reyes@MiaDoesAstro20 Jul 2023
is there any greater joy than watching a really good presentation by a student?
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is there any greater joy than watching a really good presentation by a student?
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I think a lot of career panels would be improved if more panelists didn't try to provide universal advice by extrapolating from their very specific personal experiences
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I like hearing about people's experiences! I just don't want people to turn them into moral narratives that are inapplicable or even antithetical to my own experiences
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it's happening!!!!!!
Cropped screenshot of Mia's Twitter profile. The first line of the bio reads "Astronomy professor at Amherst College." Three red exclamation points have been hand-drawn next to this sentence.

ALT Cropped screenshot of Mia's Twitter profile. The first line of the bio reads "Astronomy professor at Amherst College." Three red exclamation points have been hand-drawn next to this sentence.

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AFAIK, I'm the first Filipina astronomy prof in the US. so it feels very fitting that I'm giving my first conference talk as a prof (and my first as an invited speaker!) in 2 days at a national Filipino physics conference. maraming salamat @samahangpisika for the honor!
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