Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby

Ever wonder why you get so sleepy during conference talks? Turns out lots of conference venues aren't well-ventilated, causing CO2 to rise to levels that cause drowsiness (>1000ppm). Data from @keflavich shows this steady rise over the first 50min of a conference session.

The PRIMA team is excited to announce the release of a special issue in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), Volume 11 Issue 03! This issue was edited by Naseem Rangwala and Matt Griffin. tinyurl.com/35vbb86u

We've had an exciting few months at the Milky Way Lab at UConn! The 3D CMZ paper series is live (centralmolecularzone.github.io/3D_CMZ/) 🥳🍾 and our 3D molecular cloud work was highlighted at a AAS press conference. I'll be posting updates here now: bsky.app/profile/batter…

The PRIMA team is pleased to share the news that NASA has selected our concept for phase-A study. We are grateful for all the community effort that has brought us this far, and we are excited to continue to grow the PRIMA community going forward! nasa.gov/news-release/n…

@annalikesstars Yasss!!! Congrats Anna and yay SD 🎉🎉♥️♥️ I will dearly miss you on the East Coast but at least I'll have somewhere warm to visit 🤣🌴☀️⛱️

Finally, some very good news to share. “I’m excited to announce” that I have accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at SDSU in the Astronomy dept & Computational Sciences Research Center starting this Fall… I am also buying a condo in SD! #adulting 🧵1/7

@0mgould @mapsOverlord Not related but we can still be frenz right? Followed you, maps are cool.

@mapsOverlord @battersbot No way

What what, ya girl got tenure! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks so much everyone for the congratulations, wowzers! Feeling the love 💕 Long week but finally time to celebrate

@dr_paul_woods I needed to miss #PPVII to be home for my young kids. Your reasons arguing against the necessity of an in-person meeting make a lot of sense to me. Online / hybrid would certainly be missing some things, but would save a lot of $$, time, CO2, and be more inclusive !

So since we're over half way through #PPVII I'm going to go out on a limb now and say that it hasn't been that great for networking...? (This was the main justification for an in-person only meeting). My thoughts:

@samscibelli @TheNRAO @GreenBankObserv Awesome and well-deserved! Congrats! 🎉

THRILLED to announce that starting this fall I will be a Jansky Fellow @TheNRAO in Charlottesville, VA!! I will be continuing my radio observations with the @GreenBankObserv telescope (+ many others!) 📡 searching for molecules 🧪 in the early stages of star formation ☁️✨

@BiochemAndStuff Ahhh, terrifying!!! The ludicrous resistance to reasonable bike safety measures in this country never ceases to baffle me. Glad you are okay!

hey, fun twist, I was able to emergency stop about 5 inches from t-boning a car that cut me off as they turned right today. Shockingly, the bike lane didnt stop them almost splatting me.

I've been seeing a lot of great posters with amazing styles and sometimes art, but this one speaks to my heart...if Daria's on twitter can someone please RT and tag? #ppvii

How about other folks? Academia is not like other jobs in a lot of ways, how can we help to support each other better?

3. MEETINGS. just, like, any expectation that i can reliably attend regular meetings when I return from leave, because let’s be honest, when babe is so tiny I am still caring for them tons and working when I can between that, not when my calendar says so.

We all LOVE to do lip service for better maternity leave policies in academia (and yes, let's work on that) but as a professor and mom of two, I can confidently state there's more to it. Research doesn't take a pause during leave and we all need to STEP UP to support each other.