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Jordan

@jleagle94.bsky.social

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ꜰᴏʀ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇꜱ ꜱᴜᴄʜ ᴀꜱ ᴡᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀꜱᴛɴᴇꜱꜱ ɪꜱ ʙᴇᴀʀᴀʙʟᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ | Radford '16 👩🏼‍🎓 | Clemson PhD '22 📚 |📍NASA Goddard💫 | all audacity is my own

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Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Jul 30

Lots of juicy 🧃 discussion and data 📝 to trigger renewed follow up studies of this source class. It was accepted for publication in ApJ! 📑

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Jul 30

We look at 58 regions in the gamma-ray sky with the Fermi Large Area Telescope 🛰️ to identify high energy signals ⚡️ from super energetic winds generated by pulsars (pulsar wind nebulae or PWNe). We ID 9 previously UNID gamma-ray sources as strong PWN candidates and another 21 as potential PWNe.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Jul 30

The biggest paper of my career dropped recently! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi... A Systematic Search for MeV-GeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae without Gamma-ray Detected Pulsars - ADS

🧪🔭 this was an immense work that took up the majority of my PhD AND postdoctoral years.

A Systematic Search for MeV-GeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae without Gamma-ray Detected Pulsars

An increasing number of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are being identified in the TeV band by ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes such that they constitute the dominant source class of Galactic...

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Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Jul 30

I would give anything to go back to the time when the budget cuts Goddard was dealing with was discontinuing office trash removal 😭

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Jun 7

Making America great again means cutting everything that used to make us great . Checks out

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · May 5

Before you say it - yes we know a lot can change between now and congressional approval of a budget. However nothing is ruled out and we need to be prepared for any outcome.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · May 5

Talks ramping up regarding whether our space mission will be decommissioned following the skinny budget release 🥺 went from discussions of sustaining high energy astronomy to whether US involvement in astronomy will exist at all in 4 months.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Apr 30

My first born son. My old man.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Apr 19

We need an emoji or meme that is basically the sound of squidward frowning. Not just frowning but the sound. Millennials know what I mean.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Mar 27

Bless my mother. Trying to help me find jobs unprompted lol. But it is not all that helpful. Its jobs for “asteroid and small bodies supervisor” or “astrobiology supervisor”. I have basically zero overlap with the expertise needed for those positions as a high energy astrophysicist.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Mar 24

Parenthood is being thrown up on in the middle of the night and deciding to sit in it bc the baby immediately fell back asleep. It was a calculated risk.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Mar 7

Some might say that requesting travel approval for work was just too easy.

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Mar 7

Latest update in improving efficiency at nasa: we now have to write entire essays justifying any travel. Efficiency: 1 NASA: 0

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Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Mar 3

Attending Goddard town hall while looking at industry job options 😮‍💨

Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Mar 2

My husband always blames me for moving his stuff and him not being able to find it later. Well today it was grout cleaner. Were looking while he accuses me of having put it somewhere. I feel bad, but Im pretty sure I never even saw it. Ya know what? Turns out he never bought it. It didnt exist.

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · Feb 24

Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need:

*whose line is it anyway?* An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars

install:
pip install whoseline

source:
github.com/bmorris3/who...

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Jordan @jleagle94.bsky.social · Feb 20

Aw man. So the apps I applied to that want to actually send a rejection letter, honestly ty for not ghosting me, but yall didnt need to send them all at once 😭 let a girl breathe in between gut punches at least

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Feb 12

A paper in Nature presents evidence of the highest-energy cosmic neutrino detected to date. Its energy is estimated to be around 30 times higher than any neutrino previously detected. The result suggests that the particle came from beyond our Milky Way. 🧪 🔭

Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT - Nature

A very high-energy muon observed by the KM3NeT experiment in the Mediterranean Sea is evidence for the interaction of an exceptionally high-energy neutrino of cosmic origin.

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