Dr. Mia de los Reyes

Astronomy professor at Amherst College. She/her/hers, Filipina-American, rock climber, aerialist, avid eater of baked goods. Views my own.

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@BillyBoydActor @JohnRhys_Davies @DomsWildThings @elijahwood @SeanAstin Though maybe we should rename them hobbit galaxies...

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

.@JohnRhys_Davies @DomsWildThings @BillyBoydActor @elijahwood @SeanAstin if you happen to still be in NOLA tomorrow and want to learn something cool about space, I'm giving some talks on "dwarf" galaxies, which seems relevant to your interests!

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@BillyBoydActor @JohnRhys_Davies @DomsWildThings @elijahwood @SeanAstin Well, if you live near a university, just convince them to invite me for a talk! Or let me know if you're ever around western Massachusetts, haha. Dwarf galaxies are amazing, and I think everyone should know about them!

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@JohnRhys_Davies @DomsWildThings @BillyBoydActor @elijahwood @SeanAstin dwarf galaxies are both small (compared to other galaxies) and very powerful (as tools for physics)! I just feel like that's maybe a thing a dwarf and hobbits might find very fitting!

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

I think this might be my last post on here, but at least I'll go out doing what I love: yelling into the void about how academic institutions need to change

[Physics Magazine @PhysicsMagazine]

Astronomers call on the @IAU_org and other institutions to rename galaxies and facilities bearing the name of Ferdinand Magellan, a colonial explorer who enslaved and murdered Indigenous people. Read more in this Opinion by @MiaDoesAstro. https://t.co/tzLh10R2ar

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

.@Tomycardy pls talk about space with me

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i was getting real anxious about teaching my first class (as an astronomy professor!!! holy shit!!!) tomorrow, but now i am not bc of this (astronomy themed!!!) @Tomycardy song https://t.co/11BIvKhahM

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@dr_guangtou LOL I've been to one but it helps having @AstroKateF and @astro_daniella to make Significant Eye Contact with

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

sry for not posting a lot here but twitter is dying and anyway it turns out my version of professor life is pretty boring so far

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

on a related note, my biggest piece of advice for anyone interested in academia (who doesn’t have a peanut allergy) is to always get the lao gan ma with peanuts

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

my friends messaging me: omg how's professor life treating you? are you excited??
me, eating chili oil cucumbers at 10:30pm while trying to avoid thinking about course prep: uhhhhh

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@alexander_jaffe am i tho

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

10 years ago, I gave my first astro research talk as a baby summer student at @stsci. Today, I gave a talk wearing the exact same outfit, because despite my best efforts I have not grown a single inch since then 😭

[Dr. Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil @bmutlupakdil]

@MiaDoesAstro just gave a great talk about DIVE Survey, advocating for IFU surveys to connect resolved and integrated regime #northeast_dwarfs

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@BenneHolwerda UVEX has some spectroscopic capabilities, I thought?

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

what if we did another GALEX

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oh my god of course like 5 min after I tweet this, Suvi Gezari shows a slide about UVEX

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

I just think astronomers deserve more extragalactic UV data, as a treat

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@briles_34 do it! but if you become a best-selling author please cite this tweet lol

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

please tell me someone has written a fake marriage friends-to-lovers romance where two best friends decide to get married so a university will spousal hire them

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@infinity_vrunda yeah go for it! although if you monetize it please cite this tweet in the acknowledgments lol

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

@leslie_bern I... hope not lol, and that's all I'll say on that