Laura

astronomy PhD from @UofMaryland exploring the 📡 universe | @WesternU alumna | amateur birder | find me outside on a hiking trail or
climbing! (she/her)

[Laura @astronolaura]

That's me! Sitting in awe, witnessing astronomy being revolutionized!! Can't wait to see what amazing results tomorrow will bring.

[Space Telescope Science Institute @SpaceTelescope]

Let the science begin! In our first science-focused session, The End of the Dark Ages, we’ll find out what #NASAWebb is revealing about the first galaxies that lit up the universe. #JWSTFirstScience

[Laura @astronolaura]

@AychaTammour @danlizotte @westernuPhysAst @PBSSpaceTime @ParshatiPatel @arnasonrm @AstronomerMegan @scgQuasar Thank you for tagging me, this is awesome!

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

Did you know that due to disturbance by recreational beachgoers, some beach-nesting birds like the Least Tern are nesting on unsafe rooftops? Learn what @AudubonFL is doing to help chicks from falling. https://t.co/zVabpiCCCF #ShareTheShore

[Audubon North Carolina @AudubonNC]

Check out this timely @PortCityDaily story on the important work our biologists and volunteers to to do to protect birds during the coastal nesting season. https://t.co/gAPbqhZIEK #ShareTheShore

[Laura @astronolaura]

Especially important now when birds are migrating north!!

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

Building collisions kill up to a billion birds each year—but the Bird-Safe Buildings Act would help prevent many of these needless deaths. Urge Congress to support this important legislation: https://t.co/0oFebUS5gp

[Laura @astronolaura]

400 million birds in flight last night -- spring migration is happening and it's my favourite time of year!! 🐦💛 Check out live migration maps here: https://t.co/Z9lj67K3UX -- it's super cool!

[Nathan Heller @nathanheller]

Story of a 66-year-old researcher, an immigrant, who rarely got grants, never got her own lab, never earned more than $60K. For four decades, she kept working on mRNA—a path considered foolish. Her work is the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. https://t.co/wOvCEM8jja

[Laura @astronolaura]

@Team_eBird American Goldfinch and their potato chips!

[Laura @astronolaura]

A summary of my most recently published work!

[AAS Nova @AASNova]

Searching for Star Fuel
How has the availability of star-forming material in galaxies changed with time? https://t.co/DRbQdzrN0S @UofMaryland @UMDAstronomy

[Laura @astronolaura]

@ParshatiPatel Thank you for sharing this!! 🙌 I am really interested in SciComm and signed up for Science Talk '21 and am really excited for it, but have also been looking for other opportunities to learn more about this!

[Laura @astronolaura]

@BenediktDiemer I'm curious what you think the downsides would be?

[Laura @astronolaura]

@BenediktDiemer Like presenting your results, design specs for plots... and purely out of curiosity, I've started increasingly wondering if there is a reason academia can't follow such a model?

[Laura @astronolaura]

@BenediktDiemer However, there was one interesting comment by someone who said they feel as though they have much more time for research as a data scientist, because they have colleagues whose job it is to do the "administrative things that bogged them down as an astronomer".

[Laura @astronolaura]

@Team_eBird I saw a Brown Creeper for this first time!

[Laura @astronolaura]

"The Cost of Cats" by @JakWonderly -- these birds were all attacked by outdoor cats and did not survive their injuries. This is the fate of more than 2 billion birds every year in the US, among other wildlife as well. https://t.co/s3vTa1ifTa

[Laura @astronolaura]

@astro_hsd @Astro4Earth Thank you for this! I just joined :) I'm thinking of making a document with a table like in the photos you shared and linking it on my personal webpage next to my regular CV. What are your thoughts??

[Laura @astronolaura]

@astro_hsd I like this idea a lot and am very interested in making one!

[Laura @astronolaura]

@PerezatUMD Mine are she/her!

[Laura @astronolaura]

@CornellBirds I saw a family in July; two adults with three little babies!