Kate Whitaker

@TASCResponds or do they? Cannot submit requests for help, claims denials show TASC didn’t even look at the information carefully, and on hold for 1.5 hours with no answer. So… does TASC actually respond?! All signs point to no. Drop this contract @MassGIC, it’s a joke.

Stunning paper led by Andrea Weibel on the arXiv today -- a quenched, massive galaxy at z=7.3! How did this galaxy grow so fast + quench so fast in barely a few 100 Myrs after the Big Bang? #jwst continues to upend our picture of the very early Universe! arxiv.org/abs/2409.03829

.@RBezanson kicking off #AAS244 with the @KavliFoundation Lectureship - audience hushed and in awe of the JWST UNCOVER data

The astronomy department of #UMassAmherst is leading the effort on behalf of the Euclid Consortium to understand the earliest days of the universe, and how we got to where we are today. 🔗 Read more here: umass.edu/news/article/u…

@CNS_UMass UMass Astronomy representing front row! 🤩🌌📚🙌. Congrats, graduates!

Congrats graduates!!! Yesterday the @CNS_UMass community, family, and friends came together for our 2024 Senior Celebration. We can’t wait to learn about your journeys in this exciting next chapter!

“Lift as you rise” might be the best advice I’ve heard in a long time. Congratulations to the 2024 @UMassCHC graduates! 🎓

I am so excited to help kickoff our conference #extremegals24 with my co-organizers Benedetta Vulcani and Adam Muzzin. We will hear about the forefront of research in our field and meet friends, old and new. We will be tweeting here about the conference.

@a_space_person You are not lazy! Work-life balance makes you a better scientist… never feel guilty for enjoying down time.

Very excited to have been involved in this paper led by Anna de Graaff that hit the arxiv today, where we present the new record holder the most distant massive quiescent galaxy to be spectroscopically confirmed (for now): arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05683…

The UMass community came together for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event yesterday. With hundreds of people on Metawampe Lawn, we spoke to a few who were deeply affected by the experience, not just of the #eclipse, but of being together. #UMass #UMassAmherst ☀️ 🌑 @CNS_UMass

them: how do I get a competitive prize fellowship me:

You asked and UMass answered! We got questions from across social media about the upcoming #solareclipse on April 8. UMass Astronomy Department Head Daniela Calzetti joined us to answer them. ☀️ 🌑 Get more details about the big day here: bit.ly/3IUZi39 @CNS_UMass

What happens if you look at the #SolarEclipse without solar eclipse glasses? Dean Michael Fox of @CNS_UMass is a visual neuroscientist who has studied eyes and vision for his whole career. He's here to show you how to save your retinas at #SolarEclipse24.

That feeling when you move 32,000+ unread emails to a local folder (mostly from personal junk mail, only 2,000 are work!)…. This time I will stay on top of it! THIS TIME! 🫣

As students are receiving acceptance, waitlist, “rejection” letters for PhD programs, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about “why,” and there are a LOT of background gears at play students don’t always know about. I’ll share some and invite #AcademicChatter to add to this:

We miss you already! A big shout out to the winter conference, "The Physics and Impact of Astrophysical Dust: from Star Formation through Cosmology" last week. #astronomy #dust #skiing #aspen #physics

Now immortalized — the nicest things @desikanarayanan has ever said about me in his beautiful introduction! 🥹… Thanks again for this amazing opportunity @AspenPhysics!

@AkAstronomy But what about the inside decorations? (It appears to be a months long process in our house… still going!)

What a fun opportunity to interview with Aspen 82 at the top of Aspen Mountain this morning! #aspen #ajax #sundeck #freshtracks #assprof Thank you @AspenPhysics!

Very excited to announce our JWST Cycle 3 proposal was awarded time! Thank you to @astrowhit and the rest of the UNCOVER team for all your hard work to make this happen! Stay tuned for more from the Relic!