✨amaya✨
@astroamaya.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the University of Utah | ✨galactic archeologist studying star clusters and binaries ✨ | astrobites author | SLC Astronomy on Tap Organizer | she/her | "some say i practice homosexuality, i say i've perfected it" ❤️💙💜
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✨amaya✨
@astroamaya.bsky.social
· Nov 17
#introduction: I’m Amaya, a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. I'm a galactic archeologist, specifically studying stellar populations!
Outside of being grad school I do a lot of hiking, painting, and weightlifting. I'm also the organizer for the SLC chapter of Astronomy on Tap
Outside of being grad school I do a lot of hiking, painting, and weightlifting. I'm also the organizer for the SLC chapter of Astronomy on Tap
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Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
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“It could happen at any time”
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
🤝
“It could happen at any time”
September 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
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“It could happen at any time”
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
🤝
“It could happen at any time”
very confused why im seeing so many people devastated after ut's loss,
i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team
i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team
August 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
very confused why im seeing so many people devastated after ut's loss,
i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team
i thought we were all aware that the longhorns were a chronically dogwater football team
are we allowed to have outro music for out phd defense?
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 AM
are we allowed to have outro music for out phd defense?
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Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
May 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
i would crash juno into jupiter before letting this happen wtf
Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.
August 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
i would crash juno into jupiter before letting this happen wtf
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Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the sky with multi-object...
arxiv.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19
just found out my conference poster got printed in the wrong dimensions brb gonna die
June 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
just found out my conference poster got printed in the wrong dimensions brb gonna die
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From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
NSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to Astronomy
The president's budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. This post summarizes the major cuts and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against thi...
astrobites.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
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Welcome to June. Here’s a diagram illustrating how stars’ colours depend on their temperatures as approximated by their equivalent black body curves. #astronomy #PrideMonth
June 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Welcome to June. Here’s a diagram illustrating how stars’ colours depend on their temperatures as approximated by their equivalent black body curves. #astronomy #PrideMonth
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me: i finally turned in my latest manuscript draft.
11yo: i already read the abstract.
me: oh?
11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”
11yo: i already read the abstract.
me: oh?
11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”
May 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
me: i finally turned in my latest manuscript draft.
11yo: i already read the abstract.
me: oh?
11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”
11yo: i already read the abstract.
me: oh?
11yo: yeah, it says <pushes glasses up and speaks in a whiny voice> “According to my calculations, nerd nerd nerd”
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....
Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Astronomer: It’s not truly a gap—rather, dust has obscured our view of that region, but if you would provide me with a very large infrared space telescope, I’ll see what I can do.
Astronomer: It’s not truly a gap—rather, dust has obscured our view of that region, but if you would provide me with a very large infrared space telescope, I’ll see what I can do.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Genealogist: That part was lost in a fire some years ago.
Genealogist: That part was lost in a fire some years ago.
May 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....
Astronomer: Well its only a gap with our current instruments. Next generation facilities like Rubin and JWST should resolve the gap within uncertainties! Unless they don't,, in which case next-next generarion facilities such as.....
found a catastrophic error in my code so basic that im considering how my brain might actually be the smoothest material in the known universe
May 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
found a catastrophic error in my code so basic that im considering how my brain might actually be the smoothest material in the known universe
went straight from high dry desert utah to fullbore spring thunderstorms in texas
felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is
felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is
May 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
went straight from high dry desert utah to fullbore spring thunderstorms in texas
felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is
felt like whatever the reverse of paul atreides is
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Thank you for all your action today! Keep sharing how you are engaging in advocacy using #SaveScience and #WeekOfAction. We have many more advocacy actions to look forward to this week: aas.org/posts/news/2...
May 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Thank you for all your action today! Keep sharing how you are engaging in advocacy using #SaveScience and #WeekOfAction. We have many more advocacy actions to look forward to this week: aas.org/posts/news/2...
yknow i knew it was the 2005 pride and prejudice
and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005
but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week
and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005
but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week
April 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
yknow i knew it was the 2005 pride and prejudice
and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005
but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week
and i ofc knew revenge of the sith came out in 2005
but i never actually put together that they came out in the same year, let alone in the same week
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Every astronomer on socials for the next 24-48 hours will now be spending their time highlighting the importance of:
- peer review system
- awaiting astro community feedback
- not inflating/sensationalizing headlines
- independently reproducing results
- multiple lines of evidence
- unlikely aliens
- peer review system
- awaiting astro community feedback
- not inflating/sensationalizing headlines
- independently reproducing results
- multiple lines of evidence
- unlikely aliens
April 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every astronomer on socials for the next 24-48 hours will now be spending their time highlighting the importance of:
- peer review system
- awaiting astro community feedback
- not inflating/sensationalizing headlines
- independently reproducing results
- multiple lines of evidence
- unlikely aliens
- peer review system
- awaiting astro community feedback
- not inflating/sensationalizing headlines
- independently reproducing results
- multiple lines of evidence
- unlikely aliens
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Describing the impact of the NASA budget cuts from the astronomers' perspective, combined with clear, easy, sub 1-min actions you can take to help.
Great work by the @astrobites.bsky.social writers 🔭🧪
Great work by the @astrobites.bsky.social writers 🔭🧪
From Skylar Grayson/Cole Meldorf/Abby Lee/Drew Lapeer/Catherine Slaughter: NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready for launch, put tens of thousands out of jobs, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask Congress to prevent this!
astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...
astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...
NASA Needs Your Help!
NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready to be launched, put tens of thousands out of a job, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask congress to prevent these ...
astrobites.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Describing the impact of the NASA budget cuts from the astronomers' perspective, combined with clear, easy, sub 1-min actions you can take to help.
Great work by the @astrobites.bsky.social writers 🔭🧪
Great work by the @astrobites.bsky.social writers 🔭🧪
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Interested in following our wonderful Astrobites authors? Check out the starter pack! 🔭
go.bsky.app/5Ab7NLu
go.bsky.app/5Ab7NLu
November 15, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Interested in following our wonderful Astrobites authors? Check out the starter pack! 🔭
go.bsky.app/5Ab7NLu
go.bsky.app/5Ab7NLu
finally got a letterboxd
April 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
finally got a letterboxd
*playing mario kart*
my gf: i worry im being too competitve for you
me: ill start worrying when you're not in tenth
my gf: i worry im being too competitve for you
me: ill start worrying when you're not in tenth
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
*playing mario kart*
my gf: i worry im being too competitve for you
me: ill start worrying when you're not in tenth
my gf: i worry im being too competitve for you
me: ill start worrying when you're not in tenth
giving the biggest boooooo in the world on that decision
It's official: The Sundance Film Festival has chosen to move from Park City, Utah, to Boulder, Colorado. Announcement is coming soon. End of an era for America's most influential film fest.
March 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
giving the biggest boooooo in the world on that decision
My newest astrobite!!! it's on is a great *interdisciplinary* paper that discusses how passage through the Radcliffe wave could've contributed to global cooling in the Miocene period
From Amaya Sinha: Nearby in the Milky Way, the Radcliffe Wave hosts a dense concentration of dust, gas, and star clusters. And in the past few million years, the Sun might have passed right through it! But what effect did that have on our own Earth? ✨🔭☄️ astrobites.org/2025/03/26/t...
The Radcliffe Wave (Or How Space Might Have Caused An Ice Age)
Nearby in the Milky Way, the Radcliffe Wave hosts a dense concentration of dust, gas, and star clusters. And in the past few million years, the Sun might have passed right through it! But what effect ...
astrobites.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
My newest astrobite!!! it's on is a great *interdisciplinary* paper that discusses how passage through the Radcliffe wave could've contributed to global cooling in the Miocene period
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yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content
March 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content
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no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf
March 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
no way pete hegseth just texted me the origin of the imf