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Abigail Lee, a graduate student @UChicagoAstro, is the lead author on a new paper validating the JAGB method for measuring cosmological distances. This novel technique provides a new cosmological yardstick for measuring the speed of universe expansion. ow.ly/bKPI50DLeIU

New ‘Expand Your Perspective’ podcast features PSD grad students studying space and the universe: ranging from exoplanets to galaxies to black holes. With Nora Bailey and Gourav Khullar @UChicagoAstro and Gautam Satishchandran @UChiPhysics ow.ly/9JBK50CqFP7

Newly minted Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez is giving UChicago’s Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture right now! If you’re having trouble connecting (the zoom room capped out at 1,000 people!), you can follow the live-stream here: physics.uchicago.edu/events/event/1… @UChicago

The first episode of this new podcast features two of our graduate students -- @isskywalker and @NoraSci -- and an excellent discussion on The Universe!

LIGO/Virgo has spotted a collision of dark giants that sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth. @UChicagoAstro Prof. Daniel Holz comments on the discovery. nyti.ms/3lKTYCj

Meet @UChicagoAstro 2020 graduate and gravitational-wave astronomer Maya Fishbach, PhD. #MeetTheStudents #WomenInSTEM #UChicago Full Interview: ow.ly/6AaA50B3IW2

Assoc. Prof. Jeff McMahon @UChicagoAstro, who led the design of the @ACT_Pol detectors, discusses new findings that suggest the universe is 13.8 billion years old ow.ly/SHRg50AzhQF

Prof. Dan Hooper of @UChicagoAstro comments on new gravity theories. #DarkMatter #cosmology #UChicago ow.ly/ehoF50ALqV5

Congratulations to @UChicagoAstro Jared Siegel, who has been awarded a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for his poster on supernova remnant W49B at the 236th AAS meeting. ow.ly/Y8nU50AanwT

We invite our colleagues from @UChicagoPSD, @UChicago, and members of the community to join us!

And remember, marching isn’t for everyone and there are other ways to help the movement (e.g. donating, signing petitions, buying from Black-owned businesses, and self-educating to name a few).

We support our Black colleagues and recognize our role in promoting anti-Black racism in our academic communities. We will be following proper social distancing and health precautions. Please join us if you can!

TOMORROW as part of the #Strike4BlackLives / #ShutDownSTEM / #ShutDownAcademia members of the A&A dept are organizing a march on the Hyde Park campus.

Meet @UChicagoAstro and KICP grad student, Gourav Khullar. Gourav’s work involves performing detailed studies of galaxies discovered by SPT, using the Magellan Telescopes in Chile, and the Hubble Space Telescope. @isskywalker ow.ly/qloJ50zNWno

Congratulations to A&A grad student @norashipp (advised by A&A prof Alex Drlica-Wagner) and GeoSci grad student @cornerof_thesky (advised by A&A prof Jacob Bean) on their selection as William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellows! Way to go, Nora and Megan!

We're very pleased to welcome Alexander Ji and Austin Joyce to the A&A faculty! They'll be joining us as Assistant Professors in July 2021. 😃🎊

Planet hunter Daniel Fabrycky among astronomers in no rush to toast Pentagon’s UFO footage ow.ly/OrF750zwi8d

@UChicagoAstro Prof. Wendy Freedman named among four successful women behind the Hubble Space Telescope's achievements. Read the full coverage from NASA Online #WomeninSTEM #Hubble ow.ly/naXY50znQDF

Merger Partners? Maybe. aasnova.org/2020/04/10/mer… @UChicagoAstro @mayaKfish @decohere

Noon: Chalk talks from Rostom Mbarek on “Bottom-up Acceleration of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays in the Jets of Active Galactic Nuclei” and Judit Prat on “Testing ΛCDM with weak lensing and galaxy clustering without throwing away all small scale information.” Plus pizza! ERC 501