zoe hackshaw

space cowgirl (phd student @UTAstronomy) & Galactic archaeologist 🔎💫🔭🧘‍♀️🤠🪩 @AoTATX alter ego🍻 @UF alum🫶🏼

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

have you ever wondered what it looks like to start up a 2.7m telescope? wonder no more!

[nature @Nature]

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some are considering changing jobs or leaving the country. Others say them might abandon research altogether.

https://t.co/9afome3UzX

[McDonald Observatory @mcdonaldobs]

🎉. @ESAGaia mission reveals 2 mysterious objects!

We're proud that spectroscopic data from the Habitable Zone Planet Finder at @mcdonaldobs Hobby-Eberly Telescope was part of this milestone!
https://t.co/MaUHlnEyje

Habitable Zone Planet Finder info:
https://t.co/OQgMTSG6NQ

[McDonald Observatory @mcdonaldobs]

🎉 Texas Science Festival 2025 starts this month!

Organized by @UTAustin's @TexasScience dept - Celebrate STEAM (science, tech, engineering, art & math) with fun science talks & special events!

Find festival info & much more, in February SkyTips!
https://t.co/HFCpDNoTll

[layla, lmsw @itslaylas]

today, @Columbia University issued a statement condemning an individual graduate student for linking articles about Palestine in a science course.
The articles were “Wonder and Life of Palestinian astrology” and “In Gaza, scanning the sky for stars not drones”.

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

@georgelemental @itslaylas @Columbia Hard science is done by humans. Astronomy is done by humans. You cannot teach science without acknowledging the human experience.

[Ava Polzin @avapolzin]

Our Picture an Astronomer series starts in just over a week! Free to attend (in person in Chicago and online) and an incredible opportunity to engage directly with the scientists behind cutting edge astrophysics research. ✨

[Lavie Ohana 🛰️ @lavie154]

Agency-wide email that had just gone out. I’m not often one to advocate for open non-compliance of NASA policies.

But to all my NASA friends—if you saw something, you saw nothing.

[Rohan Naidu @Rohan_Naidu]

Paper day! We report a compelling candidate for a Pop 3 galaxy! Pop 3 here refers to the very first generation of stars formed out of primordial material left over after the Big Bang. https://t.co/GjzSNPDHib

[ESA Gaia @ESAGaia]

So long and thanks for all the fish! I just observed my last star this morning... #GaiaDPAC and @esa Gaia teams will do their best to make some great data releases from all the data I gathered! #GaiaDR4 in 2026, #GaiaDR5 around the end of the decade. Keep posted for our news items today at 10:00 CET.

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

https://t.co/9fpAWup13z

Many valued members of the astronomy community working at/near JPL have lost their homes. Please consider donating to help them rebuild their lives ...

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

@astro_Seba so sick!!!

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

Huge thank you to all of our co-authors and my advisor @AGalactichawk for all of the fun science and teaching me alllllll of the things that go into publishing 🔭📚

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

interrupting your scrolling to show you my first first-author paper that has just been published 🤸‍♀️

https://t.co/SIpeMjj0vh

This work is titled [X/Fe] Marks the Spot: Mapping Chemical Azimuthal Variations in the Galactic Disk with APOGEE 🗺️

Let's get into it 🧵

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

All of this to say, the chemistry of stars in the disk can be funky and it can be hard to disentangle the root cause of observed patterns in the disk. Next steps include diving into simulations to "turn on" different processes to get a better look at what's going on physically 🤓

[zoe hackshaw @TheAstroZo]

@Rohan_Naidu Thank you, it was fun coming up with this one!!