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Needed this after the week I had. Thanks Dr. Caprice Phillips for texting me the tweet link!

Who doesn’t love almost being mowed down by a car speeding around another as you are cross the street literally just after getting off the bus. Mind you the bus hasn’t even left yet.

365 days of bird appeasement!

Last day of classes for my first semester as a faculty member. I’m exhausted and not just cause today I reprinted my final exam for 70 students 4 times and on the last try hand corrected 35 of them.

New paper drop!!! The following might be for you if you: study atmospheres of brown dwarfs or giant exoplanets OR listen to podcasts about unsolved mysteries Find out more about oxygen sequestration in substellar mass atmospheres if you dare! arxiv.org/abs/2401.11038

Going to Trader Joe’s to grab lunch is dangerous for random acts of plant buying

Please spread the word to help Caprice, an amazing person who is in a very difficult spot after her mon suddenly passed.

Headed to #ExSSV excited to catch up with so many other exoplanet astronomers!

A team led by Prof. Jackie Faherty examined a cold brown dwarf and discovered that it was emitting methane, something that’s never been seen before on a brown dwarf gc.cuny.edu/news/astronome… Jackie Faherty American Museum of Natural History CUNYGC_Astro Dr. Rocio Kiman Dr. Eileen Gonzales

Our methane in emission paper is finally out! You should definitely go take a look at it and at Jackie Faherty’s awesome thread! And stay tuned for a slew of other papers as part of this program coming out in the not too distant future!

It’s that time of the year again…

I’m Eileen Gonzales an assistant professor at SF State. I study the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets to understand their formation and evolution. l’m also one of the directors of Black In Physics. Outside of work I’m an avid swing dancer and enjoy plants! #BSWRollCall

Thank you for all your breathtaking submissions into our art competition this year! 😍 You, our X (Twitter) community get to be the judges! Help your favourite piece win by liking & sharing! 1 like = 1 vote Open the thread to see the artist vs the art 🧵

Take a look at the sweet #BlackInAstro art and help me out with a vote!

Voting is CLOSED! Thank you so much to all our amazing participants!😍 Congratulations to our winner this year Dr. Eileen Gonzales ! 👏🏼🥳🥳🥳 We hope you enjoy your beautiful custom vase by Amy Rae Hill!

A very close second! Congratulations chanda.bsky.social prescod-weinstein! You get to choose a stunning piece from Dr. Laci Brock 👏🏼🥳

And our top 3 is complete with Qiana Hunt! We hope you get some pieces you love with your gift card from STARtorialist 👏🏼🥳

Today is paper day and my 4th first author paper is out and I'm really proud of it! This is work on performing retrieval analysis in the complicated young cloudy L-dwarf regime. #BlackInAstro Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2407.01694 Here's the story (1/n)

My brown dwarf retrieval baby is officially published. 😩😩😩🥹🥹🥹 #BlackInAstro

So excited that my teapot is here! ⁦Amy Rae Hill⁩ it’s so beautiful in person!