Kristi Engel 🐀

(she/her) Seeker of Primordial Black Holes. PhD Candidate UMD Astrophysics. Double Reed Empress. Saginaw Tribe, Chippewa Nation.

[HAWC Observatory @HAWC_Obs]

Congratulations to Kristi Engel, winner of the 2024 Arnulfo Zepeda Award!

Kristi’s outstanding contributions to HAWC operations, from troubleshooting to mentoring, and her work on GRBs and primordial black hole searches, make her a truly deserving recipient.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Sorry for the shade, @NASASun, @NASAMoon & @NASAEarth! But you're just not cool enough 😎

Now fully deployed, our sunshield blocks your heat & light so that our mirrors will be able to detect faint heat signals in the universe: https://t.co/mggJkh6swO #UnfoldTheUniverse

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

@mark_starx @JoyofPhysics Imagine getting that clearly well-articulated set of answers from @JoyofPhysics and then questioning whether or not they’re sure about THE NEUTRINO 🤣🤣🤣

[bill wurtz @billwurtz]

might fake the big bang

[Geology Tweets @GeologyTime]

Large Quartz filled geode with Cute inclusion

#minerals #crystals

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

I genuinely hope #GenZ continues to stay critical of #Millennials. Unquestioning hero worship of a prior Gen is what got us the #Boomers. Call us out on our bullshit. Hold us accountable so we never do to you what they're doing now to us. #StillKeepingMySidePartThough

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

@Chad_Astra_ Spherical assumptions all around here! The nuances of beaver shape would be annoying to calculate 😅

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

In case anyone was curious, a groundhog radiates at 2.8 Janskys #GroundhogDay #AssumeASphericalGroundhog

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

@Chad_Astra_ Difference than a beaver would depend on average [spherical] beaver size and average beaver body temperature

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

So long motherfucker.

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

Look, I know it's a garbage holiday based around the genocide of my Indigenous ancestors that people should NOT be traveling to celebrate right now, but it's one of six days I get off a year SO PLEASE DON'T SCHEDULE MEETINGS ON IT THANKS

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Given the situation, this sounds like a reasonable choice to make, but what a loss to the scientific community 😞 #AreciboObservatory

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

@Chad_Astra_ I’m just picturing some of these chaos goblins with unsettling square pupils and I’m just cackling inappropriately 🤣

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

Coordinating #physicists isn’t herding cats, it’s herding goats. They can be super majestic and reach great heights on the tiniest footholds, but they’re stubborn & willful AF and they WILL hurt you for fun because they’re chaos goblins 🐐

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Win or lose, roughly half of American voters wanted four more years of this.

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

You’d think we’d have learned our lesson in 2016 to not have Collaboration Meetings around the US election but nooooooooooo 🙃

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

Today’s entire mood has just been aggressively refreshing NPR with minor breaks to try and pay attention at the #SWGO Collaboration Meeting 😬 #DisabledInAmerica #Biden2020

[Kristi Engel 🐀 @Astro_Kristi]

@IBJIYONGI bringing the BEST energy to this Colloquium 👏🏻🖤