Dr. Sam Factor

ex-astronomer, former @astrobites author and @AoTATX organizer

[Nicole St. Denis @nicosttweets]

The irony of her name being ROSALIND is blowing my freaking mind.

She’s the FIRST AUTHOR OF THE PAPER. And today she gets to celebrate HER HUSBAND.

And the men wonder why we’re all so FUCKING ANGRY

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

The 1st glimpses of the early universe from #NASAWebb found galaxies much more massive than expected. New research led by @UTAstronomy grad student Katherine Chworowsky reveals those galaxies weren’t too big for their britches after all.

Find out why: https://t.co/vLDLUiqla5

[Erica Sawczynec (she/her) @EricaSawczynec]

had the great privilege of editing this bite for Óscar who is one of the most hardworking and kind person. Academics should be planning for the very real possibility that DACA is dissolved—we can’t support undocumented students in the current academic framework without DACA.

[astrobites @astrobites]

From Guest: In today’s beyond Astrobite Óscar shares how the DACA program enabled him to pursue his Ph.D. in Astronomy, but leaves the community with questions about how we can create the same experiences for undocumented students if DACA is abolished. 🔭

https://t.co/A19TW3drQY

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

Check out this article I was quoted in! Thanks @briles_34

[Popular Science @PopSci]

When things go wrong, it's time to hunker down. https://t.co/shaHdiGEZw

[astrobites @astrobites]

From @astrobites: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues.

https://t.co/2LHTdapqXM

[Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) @ProfMMurray]

Heads up: This is the strategy. They don't need to win Congress. They just need to win the presidency and then the new DOJ can prioritize the enforcement of the Comstock Act (a law that was enacted in 1873 and has been unenforced, tho still on the books, for much of our lives).

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

@EricaSawczynec @Sleep_Token Worship

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

@EricaSawczynec Yup! Haven’t gotten any info though

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

Hey, it’s me!

[Giant Magellan Telescope @giantmagellan]

Kyle Franson and Samuel Factor at @utaustin and Eden McEwen at @uarizona share their areas of work and discuss direct imaging in the era of extremely large telescopes. #communitysciencespotlight #exoplanets

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

@andrewmccalip I think @colin_furze did a pretty great job with the turkey spinner https://t.co/xWXUReo1ZT

[Astronomy on Tap ATX @AoTATX]

Hey, y’all! We’re back🤠 Join us at Celis Brewery on Nov 14th at 7:30pm for some cosmic conversations and craft-beer🌌

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[astrobites @astrobites]

Apply to write for us! Are you enthusiastic about science communication? Interested in developing your writing skills? Excited about joining a collaboration of over 100 astronomy grad students from around the world? We look forward to working with you ☺️
https://t.co/RS9lwUcFvc

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Jordan's King Abdullah made the important decision to deliver these comments in English to make sure people in the West understand the dangers of their hypocrisy on this issue.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

The Palestinian view from the West Bank: my conversation with Palestinian activist and legislator @MustafaBarghoti, who is not connected to Hamas, about the terrorist group’s offensive in southern Israel

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

@giantmagellan is going to be so powerful! #GiantMagellan2023 #exoplanets

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

Last day at the #GiantMagellan2023 Community Science Meeting in Washington, DC. Today is broader community discussions about future #exoplanet research.

[Dr. Sam Factor @smfactor0]

Hey, that’s me! Developing new techniques to get everything we can out of the data we have and studying brown dwarfs are both important for understanding #exoplanets #GiantMagellan2023