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Emily McPike
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Astrophysics MS CUNY GC ‘26 | AMNH | JMU ‘24

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i made a leek and mushroom quiche with black truffle gruyère cheese in a twice baked potato crust. i am so pleased with myself and so full
A quiche in a copper colored dish. The quiche has a golden brown crust, and rings of leeks decorated on top. A quiche in a copper colored dish. The quiche has a golden brown crust, and rings of leeks decorated on top. (Zoomed out slightly so you can see a bit of the background stove)
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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i just cast my vote for Zohran! early voting has started nyc friends :) get out and vote!!
hand holding an I voted early sticker and pen up against a street backdrop
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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i had such a fun time at Cambridge with some folks in my research group!! shout out to the Dynamix McFam 🥳🫶🏻 @saavikford.bsky.social @bmckastro.bsky.social @jakepost.tech + Shawn Ray
Group standing on a lawn with a statue. From left to right, Saavik Ford (fair skinned, wearing brown hair back, wearing gray slacks, light blue satin shirt, dark cardigan with constellations), Jake Postiglione (fair skinned, wearing brown hair back, wearing blue button up and slacks), dark metal statue of Fred Hoyle, Shawn Ray (brown skinned, figure partially obscured by statue, wearing black button down and slacks), Barry McKernan (fair skinned, wearing jeans and a tshirt with text: “LIGO”), Emily McPike (fair skinned, wearing blue dress with cream sweater, holding a mug up with her right hand with the text: “Dynamix 2025”). Everyone but Shawn wears glasses. The sky above is cloudy overcast. From left to right, Shawn Ray (tall, brown skinned, wearing black button up shirt and slacks), Jake Postiglione (tall, fair skinned, wearing a blue button up short sleeve over a pink tshirt with khaki shorts), Emily McPike (fair skinned, wearing black pants and a black sleeveless shirt), and Saavik Ford (fair skinned, wearing hair back, wearing a blue dress with constellations and a black cardigan of the same length) stand smiling in front of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University.
June 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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i was thrilled + honored to present preliminary results of my master’s thesis project at the Dynamix conference hosted by @cambridgeastro.bsky.social this week! hope i can get back to Cambridge soon :)
White woman with cream sweater and blue dress standing in front of a chalk board with a slide projected above it. Slide contains a picture of galaxy M77 and an inset emanating from the central region of the galaxy that shows a cartoon of an AGN disk and NSC. White women in cream sweater and blue dress standing in front of a chalk board. Above the board is a projection of a slide stating “Monte carlo For AGN Channel Testing and Simulations. Open source population synthesis code. N-body code predicting AGN disk BBH mergers detectable by LVK” A white woman with brown hair wearing glasses, a cream colored sweater, and a blue colored dress standing in front of a chalk board. Above the chalk board, a slide is projected onto a screen. On the slide is an illustration of two black holes embedded in an AGN disk and text reading “McFACTS: Modeling EM Counterparts for Binary Black Hole Mergers in the AGN Channel” in bold white, with “Emily McPike; City University of New York Graduate Center; Advisors: Barry McKernan and Saavik Ford” in gray.
June 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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i cooked steak in herby garlic butter, roasted broccoli with lemon and garlic, and baked four cheese mac n cheese for valentine’s day dinner this year💐🤗
A white plate on a wood table. On the plate there are laid slices of steak with a brown crust and pink middle on the bottom left, roasted broccoli on the bottom right, and cheesy corkscrew pasta with a browned crust.
February 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Thank you so much @astroontapnyc.bsky.social for having me tonight! I had an amazing time chatting with people about cosmic voids🌃🥰
Slideshow of two women, left woman has pale skin with brown hair and brown glasses and is situated over the title “Emily McPike, CUNY Grad Center. The Dark (k)Night in Cosmic Voids. The right woman has dark hair and tan skin, and is situated over the title “Mary Jimenez, AMNH. Polaris: A Shot in the Dark.” A woman standing in front of a slide with text. Title says “Cosmos = Fluid? The answer might surprise you…” Above a picture of bubbles with text “Dense Aqueous Foam (Soapy Bubbles)”. A woman stands in front of a slide entitled “Bootës Void” with text “180 million light years in radius = biggest void we know of” A woman stands in front of a slide entitled “Bootës Void” with text “= 180 million light years = 10^22 football fields = 10 sextillion football fields = 10 million quadrillion football fields”. The slide is covered in football fields.
December 18, 2024 at 4:42 AM