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Dr. Caprice Phillips

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NHFP Sagan Fellow@UCSC 🍌🐌|brown dwarfs & exoplanets|Black In Astro VP|plan(e)t mom 🪴/🪐|she/her/hers Website: https://capricephillips.space

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · Jun 16

I successfully defended my thesis and am now Dr. Caprice Phillips (its got a nice ring to it!). So thankful for my advisors and mentors including Jackie Faherty and @ohdearz.bsky.social and friends who were here to support me. Im the 2nd Black women to get a PhD from my department. Full of joy.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 7h

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...

astro.washington.edu

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 2d

Ayanna Mann is representing AAS and @blackinastro.bsky.social on the Hill today! Join her in advocating for federal funding for science by calling and writing your members of Congress today! aas.org/advocacy/get...

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 4d

@astrojaz.bsky.social !

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 5d

OSU PhD student Sebastian Lopez led 2 papers on arXiv today, including one on the hot & warm gas in the NGC 1266 AGN-driven outflow! It uses Chandra data that Katey Alatalo and I proposed for as grad students; grad students can do great science together without advisors! 😀 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01321

Three-color image of the massive outflow of NGC 1266, with Chandra X-rays in blue, Halpha MUSE data in green, and VLA 5 GHz radio data in red. The + marks the location of the AGN.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 5d

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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 6d

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social is a science reporter for @nytimes.com who writes about the universe and how the pursuit of understanding it impacts society.

We asked her about covering #astronomy and #physics, shifting from research to journalism, and more: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10...

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 6d

on a brown dwarf dozens of light years from us, astronomers have detected trace amounts of a molecule that, on this planet, is made by living things.

this discovery is not life. but it will help astronomers on their quest to find it elsewhere in the galaxy:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...

What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 6d

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

www.nature.com

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 6d

😂😂😂

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 9d

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 9d

STScI has put out a message for #JWST proposers in the case of a US Government shutdown this week. If your ability to complete & submit a proposal would be affected by a shutdown, please read carefully 🔭--> www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

JWST Cycle 5 Deadline Extension in Case of Government Shutdown

www.stsci.edu

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 12d

Astronomy 🔭 and physics ⚛️ GRFP applications are due Nov 14! Only seniors and 1st-year grad students can apply now (no second years).

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 12d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 14d

i’m in the negatives again and need to buy groceries and food for nova!! please help a struggling grad student if you can. if not, then just a simple share would be amazing 🥹

v e n m o: astrojaz
p a y p a l: paypal.me/Spacequeenjaz
buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/astrojaz

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Evert Nasedkin @evertnasedkin.bsky.social · 12d

🔭 It's paper day! Today I'm sharing the latest in a series of papers looking at the weather on other worlds, in this case bringing you the weather report from a nearby T-dwarf, SIMP-0136. 🪐

🧵 to follow...

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 15d

What is a CV? How is this different from a résumé? How do I start building a CV? All of these questions and more await within this guide written by many of our authors! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/09/23/g...

Guide to CVs

What is a CV? How is this different from a résumé? How do I start building a CV? All of these questions and more await within this guide!

astrobites.org

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 15d

Forgot to update that I made a new professional website. Had to add the .space ending because basic lol.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips

Dr. Caprice Phillips, astronomer and NASA Sagan Fellow at UC Santa Cruz, specializes in exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheric characterization and astronomy outreach. She also works with Black In Astr...

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats!!

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 15d

Ceramic jewelry update ✨

Bisque firing is complete. A little less glamorous than glaze firing but still pretty cool!

In case you missed it, @sciencesocks.bsky.social and I are working on this project together! Sign up here to stay in the loop:

sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...

Inside of kiln showing several rows of clay rectangular pendants.

Inside of kiln showing several rows of bisque rectangular pendants.

Clay rectangular pendants laid out on a marble placemat.

Bisque rectangular pendants laid out on a marble placemat. Strips of paper with jagged edges lay across them.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 16d

It’s humbling me lol. Trying to practice and learn this song on my 🪕. Switching chords is super hard. 😭

Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 17d

Im from Arkansas does that count lol?

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 20d

Got my copy! @itsafronomics.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes 2025 just feels like a lot, and you need an excuse to celebrate your fabulous team (and the whole exoplanet community!) reaching a new milestone…

Happy 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets Day, everybody!!!!

(You may recognize the narrator of the video at the link! 🫣)

www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

A close-up photo of a box of cupcakes with gold candles spelling out ‘6000’.

A group of smiling people - scientists, engineers, data analysts and writers - standing behind a table of goodies.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20d

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

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