Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚

Astronomy prof @UW, author of #TheLastStargazers, 2022 @FulbrightPrgrm Scholar & @GuggFellows, weird star enthusiast, human exclamation point

[Quanta Books @QuantaBks]

🚨New book announcement!🚨 Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque’s (@emsque) STARLIGHT IS FALLING, coming 2027, offers an expansive, eye-opening account of cosmic discovery through one of the greatest scientific debates of all time: the precise value of the Hubble constant.

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

🤗🤗🤗

[Song Huang @dr_guangtou]

Semester done!

And the tradition of giving out <The Last Stargazers> by @emsque as parting gifts continues.

I aim to use my class to ensure they keep printing the Chinese version.

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

when the NSF supplement writes itself…

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Experimental Astrophysics https://t.co/7e8OO4xU2y

[Kelsey Johnson ✨🔭🌎🍃 @ProfKelsey]

🎉Friends! Today is the day!
Celebrate with me (by going to your favorite bookseller)! 🎉

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

Important change for Cycle 4 JWST proposals!!

“Page limits have been reduced substantially (in most cases halved).”

[JWST Observer @JWSTObserver]

The #JWST Cycle 4 Call for Proposals for General Observer (GO) time has been released. Get the details about the new changes this year: https://t.co/rXE6AGaTqC

[Jonathan Pritchard @jr_pritchard]

@emsque Your book in pride of place in Blackwell’s bookshop in Edinburgh! :)

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@jr_pritchard Cool! 😁 Thanks for the photo!

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

44 years ago today 😳🌋🔭

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

"Hours lost: 6. Reason: Volcano"

Doug Geisler's telescope log from 39y ago today - he was the sole person at Manastash Ridge Observatory when Mt. St. Helens erupted!

I interviewed Doug earlier this year for #TheLastStargazers and got to hear the full tale...

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

Sun coming up this morning like “DID YOU GUYS LIKE WHAT I SENT YOU?!”

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@NWSSeattle (right now the entire @UW astronomy email list is just department members emailing aurora pictures back and forth like excited schoolkids 😆💓)

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

SEATTLE OMG #aurora

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

dasjd;jkfsl #aurora (@NWSSeattle, from Ballard!)

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

It's crystal clear here in Seattle and we're just waiting for dark to fall like

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

Every astronomer in my timeline right now 🤩 #aurora

[American Astronomical Society (AAS) @AAS_Office]

Dr. Jane Rigby, AAS Trustee, is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.

Rigby is being honored for her role in the success of the JWST mission, as well as her longtime support of diversity and inclusion in science. https://t.co/UvfXtdSG4A

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@ladaher work smarter not harder

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@ladaher for SURE.

my "cute science-y childrens' book" mental outline was "kids on [list of planets] sad they can't play outside because of [wacky planet-specific science], but then cheering up because they can still enjoy [other awesome planet-specific science]..."

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@jradavenport You think the high water mark of the story is that utter delight of an opening line but it just keeps building from there.

my favorite part so far is that a rodeo bullfighter and two horse trainers JUST HAPPENED TO BE ON HAND when the escape happened to help corral the zebras...

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@ladaher omg 💓 [frantically opens new manuscript doc...]

[Prof. Emily Levesque 🤓✨🔭📚 @emsque]

@annie_m_morgan Charlotte Doyle!

and I’ve just this second realized that this must have been her old-school married name, but if that still counts then Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler?

(similarly, does Mrs. Frisby count since we never learn her first name?)