Astrophysicist, educator, and #AcademicMama who likes to play outside. Associate Professor of Physics @UConn. Views my own.
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Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
The PRIMA team is excited to announce the release of a special issue in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), Volume 11 Issue 03! This issue was edited by Naseem Rangwala and Matt Griffin. tinyurl.com/35vbb86u
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
The PRIMA team is pleased to share the news that NASA has selected our concept for phase-A study. We are grateful for all the community effort that has brought us this far, and we are excited to continue to grow the PRIMA community going forward! nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-e…
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
I've been seeing a lot of great posters with amazing styles and sometimes art, but this one speaks to my heart...if Daria's on twitter can someone please RT and tag?
#ppvii – at Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
ALT Comic style poster on magnetic fields inside-out
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
The latest and greatest factsheets are now available to help you brainstorm the science you can do with PRIMA spectroscopy (FIRESS) and imaging (PRIMAger) observations! prima.ipac.caltech.edu/page/…
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
First of 5 example science cases now being presented at the PRIMA community workshop by Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez @Enloro : cosmic magnetic fields!
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Our Fall/Winter Newsletter is out! Find it in the newsletters section of our new webpage! prima.ipac.caltech.edu/
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
I wrote a bite encouraging professors to have students write their own @astrobites for class!
Thanks to @battersbot, @david_kipping, @CDPLagos, Zhang Zhiyu, & @briles_34 -- who figured out how to do this (incl. w/ @AstroK80 & Mitchell Cavanagh) -- for helping me put it together!
From @theAstroHammer: Over the last few years, we have been publishing Astrobites that students wrote for their courses. This is how those bites came to be! astrobites.org/2022/06/03/wr…
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation and became Dr. H! I'm so so grateful for everyone who has supported me over the last 6 years, most of all my incredible advisor @battersbot who guided me the whole way with unparalleled expertise and compassion
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
It's almost here! Our #IRSTIG workshop "Astro2020 and IR Astrophysics: Planning for the Next Decade" is next week Mar 30-Apr 1🥳🥳 Tweet us using #IRWorkshop2022!
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
SARAO has released a new MeerKAT telescope image of the centre of our Galaxy, showing radio emission from the region with unprecedented clarity and depth. Read more: cutt.ly/aI77faR #MeerKAT #radioastronomy #heartofthegalaxy
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Here are some interview tips for US-based astro grad programs!
(Source: my experience on grad interview committees at Caltech Astro a few years ago. Take with a grain of salt—all programs are different, and admissions committees change every year!) 🧵
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
As promised, here are some sample questions to ask at the end of a PhD program interview:
- How do students get matched to advisors? Can students work with multiple advisors? Can students work with non-faculty (postdocs, staff scientists)?
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
In a paper out in @nature today, the ultimate origin story…we can now explain how all nearby star formation (within ~ 500 light years of our Sun) began. A thread. (More from @AlyssaAGoodman) (1/N) youtu.be/HGZQ4SmDxcQ
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Holy moly I won first place in the first ever #BlackInAstro Undergraduate Research Competition/Showcase!!
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Aight, story coming imminently, but for now: The top #Astro2020 space-based rec is... A program to develop a whole series of new Great Observatories, starting with a ~6-meter telescope to image and characterize dozens of potentially habitable exoplanets (and much more).
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Check out this awesome work — especially if you have the ability to influence the graduate admissions process for your program!
Looking to make your graduate admissions process more equitable? Our latest research suggests that using rubric-based holistic review for applicants is a promising and practical way to do so. 1/n arxiv.org/abs/2110.04329
ALT Rubric-based holistic admissions is a more equitable approach to graduate admissions. "We showed that faculty ratings of applicant’s grades, research experiences, and noncognitive abilities do not differ based on the applicant’s sex or undergraduate background. The differences we did observe in faculty ratings could be explained as observing known systematic issues in physics regarding test scores and service work expectations."
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
Wondering about where your @AAS_Publishing articles might land in the new #AASOpenAccess pricing tiers but don't have a sense of how many "quanta" you usually create? The typical article is about 30 quanta.
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
My new video is about a BETTER way to visualize atoms! Check it out on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=W2Xb2GFK… (Thanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video) #ad
Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby retweeted
The @AAS_CSMA Micro-Grants Program offers one-time grants of $500 each to support BIPOC undergraduates to pay graduate school application fees, GRE fees, virtual conf registrations, or to purchase textbooks & research supplies. The application deadline is 1 June. cc @CMooreSpace
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