Dr. Debarati Das🌌

Postdoc @LosAlamosNatLab. @natgeo explorer. Come for the science stay for the art. Or the other way round. She/her

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Look mom, Im on the news and not for getting in trouble! Im in the news for having my art yeeted into space on a satellite panel✨

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Had a lot of fun collaborating on this InSAR project this year. So glad we were able to do a SPIR presentation paper on this! Woop!
Here is a link if you're interested in some litho-InSAR light reading:
https://t.co/YLn6dhjwOA

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

And ode to peach season 🍑
This felt like capturing the late summer sun on our peach tree. One sunbeam at a time

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Timeline cleanse! Here is a GORGEOUS Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on our peach tree 🍑🦋
Summer hasn't looked prettier 🌞

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Just realized they selected my Badwater Basin photo for Vol 60, Is. 8 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science! Thanks for picking this photo. It was hella fun capturing this view. Glad to have a paper in this issue (although would've appreciated a lil name credit 4 the photo lol). 💙

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Excited 2 be embarking on another space mission journey this fall. This time we're off to the moon & from Canada!🌕🇨🇦 Its been heartbreaking to witness the state of science in US. I'm sad to have to leave my community. So grateful for another chance at being a part of a mission!

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Back to drop some art in your feed🌞
This New Mexico landscape was a DREAM to paint 🎨
I'll soon be able to take commissions which is exciting! 😀
https://t.co/ZuYbdRdPhc

[AskAstrobio @askastrobio]

Dr. Catherine Maggiori has written of the proposed budget cuts to NASA and what this might mean for science funding (including astrobiology funding) for the U.S.

https://t.co/Vl9W4MvcUn

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

My Gale crater geochemical modeling paper is finally online!
If you want to read about simulated seasonal cycles on Mars here is some light reading hehe: https://t.co/jeIHZhUOS6

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Spent my Friday evening finishing this piece 🖤
It's the second in this witchy series. If you want to follow along, I post art updates here 😁:
https://t.co/CbqojxLkEg

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

My decor is feeling particularly witchy with new art. Looking forward to make more 🐦‍⬛🔮

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Gave my ♥️ & soul to science & got burnout & mass firings. Idk about market 4 witchy art but it cant be worse than science rn. Embracing "job market so bad might as well follow my dream" 😂 Still a geochemist looking 4 a job but I'll be sharing more art:
https://t.co/ZuYbdRdPhc

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

I've mostly disappeared from here but had to come back to post this photo!
Perks of living in Santa Fe include running into George R R Martin at your local medieval themed bar.
What a fun evening! ✨

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Had the opportunity to film for Nat Geo Learning today at the Albuquerque Museum of Natural History & Science. IT WAS A BLAST! I got to feature a galaxy shirt I painted & even got to talk about my art! It's a strange time in the world but science outreach ALWAYS makes me joyful

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

What bioluminescence looks like In the rain

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Bow Lake, Canada

📹ryanresatka

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Hyper realistic floral street art

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

Well some good news somewhere in the world…

A court in Spain ruled that single parents are now entitled to the same amount of paid parental leave that couples get!

Each parent got 16 wks…so now single parents get 32 wks. A HUGE transformative win!

[Dr. Debarati Das🌌 @SpaceWicca]

Absolutely digging the decentralization of social media! Im on Pixelfed if anyone wants to see photos of sciency art and artsy science+ other life things 🌞✨ 😺
https://t.co/VxprQyrGTm

[Laura Seward Forczyk 🌙💫🚀 @LauraForczyk]

This is really gross. I'm so sorry to my NASA and NASA contractor friends and colleagues for having to deal with this. That threat at the end is particularly unprofessional and draconian.

[Nate @NateRothstein]

@Microsoft365 @ExcelHumor It’s true: My father-in-law is constantly on Teams meetings. He’s a pro: intros, sharing docs, muting people with loud sound in the background, etc

In passing I asked him why he never shuts it down. I will never forget his answer…

“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'"