UC Merced Astrophysics @UCMerced_Astro
We are the astrophysics group in the UC Merced Department of Physics. physics.ucmerced.edu Joined July 2020-
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Awesome eclipse viewing event on campus yesterday. Including a solar telescope and sightings of sun spots, organized by Professor @sloebman
Awesome eclipse viewing event on campus yesterday. Including a solar telescope and sightings of sun spots, organized by Professor @sloebman
Solar Eclipse 2024 — UC Merced style!
Now done with exoplanets and moving to much larger scales with a great talk by @annanierenberg on measuring invisible small dark matter halos with Keck, JWST, and ELTs
Another annual physics faculty retreat in the books. Great discussions and concrete plans for our research and academic programs as well as for continuing to build community between undergrads, grads and faculty in the upcoming academic year. @ucmerced @ucmgraddiv
What is one of the best parts of being a @UofCalifornia astronomer? Access to @UCObservatories including @keckobservatory! Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible. Special shoutout to @astronomeara and @richmatsuda for showing us around.
What is one of the best parts of being a @UofCalifornia astronomer? Access to @UCObservatories including @keckobservatory! Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible. Special shoutout to @astronomeara and @richmatsuda for showing us around.
We are thrilled to welcome @JonArenberg, the chief engineer at @NASAWebb, to UC Merced! He will be giving a free public lecture about his journey leading the design, construction and launch of the Webb Telescope today from 6-7pm in COB 102. To register: ucm.edu/FhETny
@JonArenberg The chief engineer of the @NASAWebb James Webb Space Telescope will be visiting @ucmerced on Thursday February 16th and giving a free public lecture from 6-7 PM in COB1 102. We hope you can attend! Info: forms.gle/RgpMzYz22erx6
As the Sun sets in this #imageoftheweek, and its light scatters through Earth’s atmosphere, the Arizona sky at @KittPeakNatObs, a Program of @NSF’s @NOIRLabAstro, glows in wondrous shades of vivid color. noirlab.edu/public/images/… Image: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský.
The storm Sunday and Monday covered Mount Hamilton with snow, making the road dangerously icy. We expect the sunny weather today to melt most of the snow and icy. kron4.com/news/bay-area/…
Shout out to our amazing employees for pitching in to help those impacted by the recent storms. We are all one big family, and we are happy to give back to the community that has supported us over the years! #BobcatsGiveBack #PlanadaStrong
UC Merced Professor Anna Nierenberg leads a team that has cooked up a clever way to use the James Webb Space Telescope to try to understand the fundamental nature of dark matter, that invisible stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe. ucm.edu/CyVUce via @NPR
If you weren't able to tune in live this AM, you can listen to the @CapRadioInsight interview I did this morning here on this link. The JWST segment starts around the 12 minute mark :) capradio.org/news/insight/2… @ucmerced_Astro @ucmercedPhysics @ucmerced @ucmerced_NatSci
@UCMerced_NatSci Professor Anna Nierenberg (@annanierenberg) is featured in a new NPR story about @NASA's James Webb telescope and her idea to use the telescope to further understand dark matter. npr.org/2022/07/11/111…
Big congratulations to graduate student @MicahOeur for receiving an honorable mention from the extremely competitive @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Some press for our upcoming @NASAWebb program, which will detect completely dark, dark matter structures at cosmological distances (if they exist!!) symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-jw… Thanks @OKeefeMadeleine for this great article. @UCMercedPhysics @UCMerced_Astro
We are excited to host @anabonaca for our colloquium this morning. She is going to be telling us about newly discovered stellar streams in the Milky Way and how they can be used to learn about the physics of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter: naturalsciencesgrads.ucmerced.edu/sites/naturals…
Professor David Strubbe has become the 8th faculty member of our department to receive a National Science Foundation (@NSF ) CAREER award for his research in improving the fundamental understanding of the interaction of light and vibrations in materials! bit.ly/3dgGGL8
Astrophysics @Astrophysi84323
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Jonathan Fortney @jjfplanet
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Nathan J. McGregor @NathanJMcGregor
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Anthony Osborne @AnthonyOsb69547
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Bruce Macintosh @bmac_astro
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Tom Leon @TommoLeonardo
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Anup Shailesh Karekar @karekar_anup
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Balisa Finca @Balisafinca
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1K Followers 5K Following Just tweet my thoughts & fantasizing. エロ垢の皆様は、性欲の塊と噂の🇮🇳+🇺🇦+🇮🇱へ。 出資系垢の皆様は、被災地か、🇵🇸支援へ。 modRNA被害を生命システムへの謙遜と敬意の糧にする為にも、全年齢が受講可能な科学講座を各自治体で展開する事が必要と思い始めてます。
ARABI SESHAPPAN @arabi_seshappan
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Carlos Ramirez @TopQuarkTracks
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Amy Smock @galacticamy
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Leo NC🌹 @MxLeoNC
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Preethi Karpoor @astrokarpoor
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UC Merced Alumni @UCMercedAlumni
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Merced College @mercedcollege
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UC Merced Chemistry @UCMChemistry
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UC Merced School of E.. @UCMSEUGAdvising
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Marcel S. Pawlowski @8minutesold
2K Followers 770 Following Astrophysicist, Research Group Leader & Schwarzschild Fellow @AIP_Potsdam, KT Boost Fund fellow, former Hubble Fellow; street photographer (https://t.co/qlSMiqQsw0).
Hrant P. Hratchian @hphratchian
1K Followers 753 Following opinions my own | quantum chem prof and VP & grad dean @ UC Merced | postdoc @ Indiana | PhD @ Wayne State | BS @ Eastern Mich U | Mich native
Coral Wheeler @coralrosew
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James Bullock @jbprime
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W-STEM UC Merced @wstem_UCMerced
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Brant Robertson @brant_robertson
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Anna M Nierenberg @annanierenberg
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Abhinav Kumar @Abhispace
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Prof. Brian Keating @DrBrianKeating
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UC Merced Physics @UCMercedPhysics
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Jane BDM Garcia @jbdmgarcia
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Biophysics Graduate C.. @BiophysM
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CCBM @CCBM_UCMerced
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Dusty Ray Madison @mad__dr
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Binod Bhattarai @BinodB_
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McDonald Institute @McDonaldInst
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Sarah Loebman (she/he.. @sloebman
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RadioBio UC Merced @radiobio_ucm
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1st day of class! Let’s see if I still remember how to teach Organic to nearly 200 undergrads 😬
UC Merced Professor Anna Nierenberg leads a team that has cooked up a clever way to use the James Webb Space Telescope to try to understand the fundamental nature of dark matter, that invisible stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe. ucm.edu/CyVUce via @NPR
If you weren't able to tune in live this AM, you can listen to the @CapRadioInsight interview I did this morning here on this link. The JWST segment starts around the 12 minute mark :) capradio.org/news/insight/2… @ucmerced_Astro @ucmercedPhysics @ucmerced @ucmerced_NatSci
@UCMerced_NatSci Professor Anna Nierenberg (@annanierenberg) is featured in a new NPR story about @NASA's James Webb telescope and her idea to use the telescope to further understand dark matter. npr.org/2022/07/11/111…
@UCMercedPhysics @BiophysM @RITscience @UCMerced_NatSci These seminars are great specially because of the informal graduate student interactions with the speaker after the talk! Looking forward to this one :)
UC Merced’s Graduate Division will host its annual #GradSlam competition on April 8. The systemwide competition showcases and awards the best three-minute research presentations by graduate students. ucm.edu/UxaIDM
Please join us for the next iteration of SLAAM seminar on April 11th at 9 am (PDT). This seminar will be given by Dr. Eduardo Vitral (University of Nevada, Reno). Title: Better energies for low-dimensional elastic systems under combined bending and stretching @UCMerced_NatSci
Professor David Strubbe has become the 8th faculty member of our department to receive a National Science Foundation (@NSF ) CAREER award for his research in improving the fundamental understanding of the interaction of light and vibrations in materials! bit.ly/3dgGGL8
Today's colloquium has begun and we are excited to hear from our own Dr. Anna Nierenberg! Dr. Nierenberg is giving a talk titled “Testing the Nature of Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing.” @annanierenberg @UCMerced_Astro @UCMerced_NatSci #astrophysics
@AkAstronomy As someone who was taken to church a lot when I was young, I sincerely appreciate your perspective:)
@brant_robertson and I 100% support my non-religious colleagues! It's just...we can't prove any religion. If used *properly* it gives a lot of people hope. Why be against that? I 100% condemn any religion that oppresses any people. That's not my god. My god loves all people.
@brant_robertson In my wife’s Green Card interview the interviewer told me “off the record” I was going to hell because I was raised Catholic but didn’t attend church any more. My wife got a pass (in his eyes) because she wasn’t raised religious.
Cool new paper from @RyanEKeeley @UCMerced_Astro @UCMercedPhysics
In which I wax philosophical about Bayesian statistics arxiv.org/abs/2111.04231
.@NASA has granted Professor Anna Nierenberg observational time with the new James Webb Space Telescope, and Professor Sarah Loebman has received a grant that provides resources to analyze data that supports observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. ucm.edu/sRw1rw
We will measure strongly lensed quasar dusty toruses with JWST MIRI. We expect to be able to detect dark matter halos which are too small to have formed stars. SO thrilled!!! #JWSTCycle1 @ucmerced @ucmercedPhysics @ucmerced_Astro
@catknowsitall @generoom 20 years of explaining to people that the cat's squatter.😆😂
@generoom @DickKingSmith We had a cat who used to visit the neighbors' all the time. I didn't have a name. I was "the lady with the friendly cat."
The neighbours just put the house up for sale. Couldn't resist checking it out on Zoopla. That's our bloody cat.
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