Ashwathi Nair

A year ago, featured in @timesofindia, @bombaytimes! It is beautiful to experience women around me, and around the world blooming, being courageous, and growing in their own way. Let's hold a safe space for each other :) Happy Women's Day to all!🌻

1/n This piece is all over the place and makes no sense to me, reads like migraine blabber before morning coffee. There is no mention of this 'Network Project System' anywhere else. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/re-evalu…

The Astronomy community should vehemently oppose the use of gen-AI in promoting events, it takes away opportunity from illustrators and communicators & enables miscommunication, one could have easily used images from chandrayaan 3 in this instance, the used image is random slop.

@neel_kolhe I'm glad you said this out loud! I've had this thought since the presenters started using this in their presentations/banner cover I understand it might save time from being visually creative and focus more on content, but it's everywhere in the astro community.

I'm finally on #BlueSky as Ashtr0. It should be a good journey to start science communication and outreach over there and connect with all the scientists I was connected to on this platform.

Midnight #GravitationalWave candidate #S241114bi If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 1.8×10^5 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S2… GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38228 Rating ❔🐈‍⬛👍 #O4IsHere

wow wow POSYDON version 2 is out!!! 🥳 including lower metallicity simulations! This is a significant effort in our field to provide more accurate modeling of large populations of massive stars 🥳🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2411.02376

There is a postdoctoral position available in my research group at @IUCAAstro on "Neutron star modelling and Gravitational Wave data analysis". 🌟🌀 Deadline for application is November 11, 2024. More information can be found here: iucaa.in/en/opportuniti…

Oh this is such sad and devastating news. My sincere condolences to Rohini’s family and loved ones. Rohini was such an inspiration, so very kind, brilliant, fearless. I wish so much that I had made the trip to India to visit her.

@MeridithJoyceGR ❤️ Honestly, watching you debug and finding solutions to all these issues during MESA winter school this year left me ':0' and thinking I wanna be this good at debugging and being calm while doing so. :')

my job is hard and competitive and draining but sometimes I get show an undergrad woman how the terminal environment works and watch her squeal with glee, "OMG I'm a hacker!!!"

The 2024 Noble Prize in physics has been awarded to Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie for the Barbenheimer effect. This phenomenon, involving the superposition of two very attractive people, allows physics to become interesting, a state which is otherwise spin-forbidden.

On another call with 30-50 senior GW folk for a future gravitational wave project in 2030s & once again, realising that I am the only non white participant again. Reminds me of being the one woman / 50 participants in numerical relativity workshops in 2005. One day maybe 🤞🙏🏾

I wish I invested in the Fourier transform in 1807...

We are looking for PhD students for Gravitational Wave projects, come work with us at @UMassD and U2GRC! Details at: web.uri.edu/gravity/phd-op….

Does the brain change during pregnancy? You bet it does. How about doing 26 MRI scans on a single person pre-conception to 2 years post-partum. WOW! Laura Pritschet and colleagues nailed it with their new paper in @NatureNeuro. Key Points: - The authors point out that pregnancy is a period of profound hormonal and physiological changes. - The authors did something incredible by mapping neuroanatomical changes in an individual from preconception through two years postpartum. - Boom! There were pronounced decreases in gray matter volume and cortical thickness. - There were increases in white matter microstructural integrity, ventricle volume and cerebrospinal fluid. - There were few regions untouched by the 'transition to motherhood.' My take: This study shows us how a single brain in a single person can be a powerful resource when scanned serially over time. This method is hard to pull off, however what it has the potential to teach us about neuroscience is mind-blowing. Though this paper is only a single subject, the data provides a comprehensive map of the human brain across gestation. It will be interesting to add to the dataset, so we can understand changes across multiple persons and multiple conditions. The convergence of evidence is revealing that pregnancy as associated with dramatic neuroplasticity. How about a shout out to this 38-year-old woman who underwent 26 MRI scans along with blood draws from 3 weeks preconception through 2 years postpartum! nature.com/articles/s4159… #pregnancy #brain @ndosenbach @andreashorn_ @EMiddlebrooksMD

The way the list of requirements for PhD admission is getting longer in some places, soon students will need a PhD to apply for PhD admission

The way we are doing science is unsustainable, under productive, and stressful. We need to reflect upon as a community. “Publish or Perish” was the worst thing that happened to academic research. A thread. 🧵

Astro PhD Applying to the Simons Society of Fellows fellowship (due in 2 days!!)??; 🚨 The application is a bit strange, so to demystify the process and make it more equitable you can find & read my prev proposal at the bottom of broekgaarden.nl/floor/wordpres… Good luck! 😊

If you are trying to innovate in an Indian academic setting, half ur time goes dealing with crap from others who are afraid you will change the system and disrupt their comfortable inertia. With age you learn to cut some losses and save some ideas you can still implement +

They say dress for the job you want... so it's a good thing this Princeton T-shirt that I got as a prospective graduate student in 2017 has been a regular in my rotation. I am thrilled to share that I will be joining @PrincetonPhys as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025!

After giving a talk at a conference recently, I received an email from an unfamiliar senior professor in the audience remarking that my “look has extremely improved over the years” from “nerdy lab mouse” to “a touch of upper class.” 1/4