Charlotte Olsen, PhD 🏳️🌈🔭🌌
@charlotteeureka.bsky.social
Astronomy PhD in NYC - galaxy star formation historian - 🏳️🌈they/she🏳️🌈 - LSST DA Catalyst Fellow and part time Adj Prof at CUNY City Tech - books, records, and thrift stores will be my downfall - passionate about all things galaxies, teaching, and LCFC 🦊💙
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Should’ve posted yesterday! In a paper titled “Searching Within Galaxies for the Earliest Signs of Quenching With Spatially Resolved Star Formation Histories in UVCANDELS” we divided star-forming galaxies into bits to see how star formation changed depending on location over the last billion years.
Should’ve posted yesterday! In a paper titled “Searching Within Galaxies for the Earliest Signs of Quenching With Spatially Resolved Star Formation Histories in UVCANDELS” we divided star-forming galaxies into bits to see how star formation changed depending on location over the last billion years.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Should’ve posted yesterday! In a paper titled “Searching Within Galaxies for the Earliest Signs of Quenching With Spatially Resolved Star Formation Histories in UVCANDELS” we divided star-forming galaxies into bits to see how star formation changed depending on location over the last billion years.
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Looking to fill up your seminar talk slots? Consider utilizing the Queer Speaker List to get in touch with some fantastic queer astronomers! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Looking to fill up your seminar talk slots? Consider utilizing the Queer Speaker List to get in touch with some fantastic queer astronomers! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
🔭 The reason I rarely ask questions at conferences is that there’s always the risk of me referring to galaxies with particularly stochastic star formation as “burst-y quench-y bois” 🤦🏼
July 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🔭 The reason I rarely ask questions at conferences is that there’s always the risk of me referring to galaxies with particularly stochastic star formation as “burst-y quench-y bois” 🤦🏼
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Good time to remind people that when you call your reps that suck you can remind the staffers that they can and should quit.
You know that you can still escape, right? Just head home and enjoy firing up the grill. Let Mike Johnson deal with the fallout. Not your problem.
For any GOP staffers who don’t want to be pelted with sharp objects by elderly constituents, tell your boss: The best time to sneak out of the chamber was four hours ago and the next best time is now
July 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Good time to remind people that when you call your reps that suck you can remind the staffers that they can and should quit.
What a fun time this was! 🔭🧪
news.columbia.edu/news/astrono... Astronomers From Across New York Area Gather to Celebrate Release of New Telescope Data | Columbia News
news.columbia.edu/news/astrono... Astronomers From Across New York Area Gather to Celebrate Release of New Telescope Data | Columbia News
Astronomers From Across New York Area Gather to Celebrate Release of New Telescope Data
Columbia researchers, some sporting martian headbands, gathered to celebrate the launch of the new Vera Rubin Observatory.
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July 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What a fun time this was! 🔭🧪
news.columbia.edu/news/astrono... Astronomers From Across New York Area Gather to Celebrate Release of New Telescope Data | Columbia News
news.columbia.edu/news/astrono... Astronomers From Across New York Area Gather to Celebrate Release of New Telescope Data | Columbia News
Omg I’ve been gone from this platform for so long. I hope everyone is surviving as best they can ❤️
July 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Omg I’ve been gone from this platform for so long. I hope everyone is surviving as best they can ❤️
Me: Today we’re going to be going over planetary motion.
*15 minutes later*
Me: So basically what I think I’m trying to say is that the Moon is totally obsessed with us.
*15 minutes later*
Me: So basically what I think I’m trying to say is that the Moon is totally obsessed with us.
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Me: Today we’re going to be going over planetary motion.
*15 minutes later*
Me: So basically what I think I’m trying to say is that the Moon is totally obsessed with us.
*15 minutes later*
Me: So basically what I think I’m trying to say is that the Moon is totally obsessed with us.
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1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry.
A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.
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A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.
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Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry
A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."
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February 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry.
A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!
Pretty depressing to think that all it took was three weeks for astronomers to go from excitedly showcasing their work at AAS to the blind panic and fear experienced when their funding gets shut off because they called their students diverse on an NSF.
Push back. We’re in this together.
Push back. We’re in this together.
February 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Pretty depressing to think that all it took was three weeks for astronomers to go from excitedly showcasing their work at AAS to the blind panic and fear experienced when their funding gets shut off because they called their students diverse on an NSF.
Push back. We’re in this together.
Push back. We’re in this together.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment. For those affiliated with colleges and universities information during these challenging times, even as some U.S. elected officials are calling professors and universities “the enemy.” docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment
Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of t...
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February 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Gaining Clarity 2025: A Reading List to Know Your Political Moment. For those affiliated with colleges and universities information during these challenging times, even as some U.S. elected officials are calling professors and universities “the enemy.” docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Hey #AAS245!
I'm on my way, and have a presentation coming on Tuesday!
Beyond Academe Panel: Exploring Astronomy Powered Career Paths - 2:00-3:30 in Annapolis 3-4,
followed by a roundtable discussion - 3:30-4:30 in the Exhibit Hall CD.
Come one, come all, and bring your questions!
I'm on my way, and have a presentation coming on Tuesday!
Beyond Academe Panel: Exploring Astronomy Powered Career Paths - 2:00-3:30 in Annapolis 3-4,
followed by a roundtable discussion - 3:30-4:30 in the Exhibit Hall CD.
Come one, come all, and bring your questions!
January 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hey #AAS245!
I'm on my way, and have a presentation coming on Tuesday!
Beyond Academe Panel: Exploring Astronomy Powered Career Paths - 2:00-3:30 in Annapolis 3-4,
followed by a roundtable discussion - 3:30-4:30 in the Exhibit Hall CD.
Come one, come all, and bring your questions!
I'm on my way, and have a presentation coming on Tuesday!
Beyond Academe Panel: Exploring Astronomy Powered Career Paths - 2:00-3:30 in Annapolis 3-4,
followed by a roundtable discussion - 3:30-4:30 in the Exhibit Hall CD.
Come one, come all, and bring your questions!
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#AAS245 with 3654 attendees as of this afternoon, this is the largest AAS meeting ever, beating the previous record set by Honolulu in 2020.
January 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#AAS245 with 3654 attendees as of this afternoon, this is the largest AAS meeting ever, beating the previous record set by Honolulu in 2020.
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We are ready for you, #AAS245! Visit us at booth 726 (far back right of the hall) starting at the opening reception tonight and during exhibit hours until Thursday at 2:30 pm.
January 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We are ready for you, #AAS245! Visit us at booth 726 (far back right of the hall) starting at the opening reception tonight and during exhibit hours until Thursday at 2:30 pm.
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The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!
January 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!
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The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.
January 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.
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PRESENTING: #AAS245 Bingo
Thanks to the fantastic community responses, we have a bingo card for the next week! Complete the bingo card and post it tagging me here or IG/Threads to be entered into a drawing for a prize.
Thanks to the fantastic community responses, we have a bingo card for the next week! Complete the bingo card and post it tagging me here or IG/Threads to be entered into a drawing for a prize.
January 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
PRESENTING: #AAS245 Bingo
Thanks to the fantastic community responses, we have a bingo card for the next week! Complete the bingo card and post it tagging me here or IG/Threads to be entered into a drawing for a prize.
Thanks to the fantastic community responses, we have a bingo card for the next week! Complete the bingo card and post it tagging me here or IG/Threads to be entered into a drawing for a prize.
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PSA: if you're going to #AAS245 in Washington DC.
There is a sample of #asteroid #Bennu on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! Also a Mars meteorite you can *touch*! #ToBennuAndBack
🧪🔭
There is a sample of #asteroid #Bennu on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! Also a Mars meteorite you can *touch*! #ToBennuAndBack
🧪🔭
January 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
PSA: if you're going to #AAS245 in Washington DC.
There is a sample of #asteroid #Bennu on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! Also a Mars meteorite you can *touch*! #ToBennuAndBack
🧪🔭
There is a sample of #asteroid #Bennu on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! Also a Mars meteorite you can *touch*! #ToBennuAndBack
🧪🔭
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I’m giving two presentations at #AAS245 this week, including my first non-iPoster! Here’s the info:
Wed. Jan 15, 9AM-10AM
Session 306 - Theory of Exoplanet Atmospheres iPoster
Production of O2 and O3 on CO2-rich/H2O-poor Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
Terminal 99 in the Exhibit Hall
Wed. Jan 15, 9AM-10AM
Session 306 - Theory of Exoplanet Atmospheres iPoster
Production of O2 and O3 on CO2-rich/H2O-poor Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
Terminal 99 in the Exhibit Hall
January 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I’m giving two presentations at #AAS245 this week, including my first non-iPoster! Here’s the info:
Wed. Jan 15, 9AM-10AM
Session 306 - Theory of Exoplanet Atmospheres iPoster
Production of O2 and O3 on CO2-rich/H2O-poor Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
Terminal 99 in the Exhibit Hall
Wed. Jan 15, 9AM-10AM
Session 306 - Theory of Exoplanet Atmospheres iPoster
Production of O2 and O3 on CO2-rich/H2O-poor Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
Terminal 99 in the Exhibit Hall
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I’ll be at #aas245 from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon - let me know if you want to catch up and/or if I can make your talk! And if you are the morning type, come see the Chambliss astronomical writing award thingy, before the first plenary of Weds 1/15 (around 8am, I am told).
January 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I’ll be at #aas245 from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon - let me know if you want to catch up and/or if I can make your talk! And if you are the morning type, come see the Chambliss astronomical writing award thingy, before the first plenary of Weds 1/15 (around 8am, I am told).
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THERE’S AN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE TOO?? WHAT NEXT?
astronomers are so unserious what do you mean there’s a telescope called the “very large telescope” 😭
November 24, 2024 at 1:27 AM
THERE’S AN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE TOO?? WHAT NEXT?