Astrophysicist, for science and rational thought. Director, McGill Space Institute, Physics prof, mom. Rarely tweet, but when I do, I mean it.
Montréal, Québec
Joined December 2019
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ONLINE EVENT: buff.ly/3M5EUNc
On Wednesday, Oct. 19th, 2022 at 7 pm PST, Dr. @VictoriaKaspi ( @mcgillu ) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: “The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe", live on YouTube: buff.ly/3C5SIml
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The McGill Space Research Conference takes place on May 3 and 4!
Join @mcgillu astronauts and the world’s top academic researchers, business pioneers, and government leaders in space and aerospace for two days of cross-industry exchange.
For more: 200.mcgill.ca/space-week/
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Today's MSI Seminar speaker is Erin May from
@JHUAPL! Tune in now to watch "Spitzer’s Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations": youtu.be/k11Qwq2BP94
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A huge congratulations to MSI prof Eve Lee on getting the 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy from the AAS! 🤩🤩
The American Astronomical Society’s 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy has been awarded to Eve Lee (McGill University @mcgillu) for her illuminating work on the formation of stars, debris disks, and planets. #astronomy ow.ly/nmzu50I3wfR
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On this day, 30 years ago, Dr. @RobertaBondar became Canada’s first female astronaut and the world’s first neurologist in space when she launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Her ability to inspire, motivate and educate is truly stellar! #OTD
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#meetMSIpostdocs! Next up is Dr. Thomas Navarro! who's been an MSI postdoc fellow in @EPS_McGill since Fall 2019. He works on simulating the atmospheres of terrestrial planets (such as Mars, Venus) or exoplanets by developing and running state-of-the-art numerical models. 1/
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Congratulations to MSI prof Robert Brandenberger on winning the 2021 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics from @CAPhys!!
The 2021 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in #Physics is awarded to Robert Brandenberger (@mcgillu)! #CAPMedal ow.ly/bIVz50H7E9o
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We’re thrilled to kick off “Meet our MSI postdocs”! Every week we’ll be spotlighting some of the postdoctoral fellows who call the MSI their intellectual home.
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The #CHIME team, which discovered more than 500 new #FRBs in the first year of the detector’s operations, will receive the 2022 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. 🌌🔭🇨🇦
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There's still time to register for tomorrow's @McGillUPhysics grad program virtual info session! Nov. 19, 3-5pm EST. Register to get the zoom link:
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Are you interested in this cool intersection of particle physics and astrophysics? If so, you’re in luck! Prof. @Katelinsaurus’ is looking to recruit new people this year! Postdocs should apply to @CITA_ICAT National Fellow (Nov 8) and @McGillMSI Fellow opportunities (Dec 1)
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Check out MSI grad student Alice Curtin's newest piece for @astrobites!
From Alice Curtin: Today's author find a new, elusive radio source towards the center of our galaxy. Read on to find out what it might, or might not, be! astrobites.org/2021/10/18/ne…
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Our next public lecture is next Tuesday, 7pm! Come and learn about fast radio bursts, these bright flashes of light from distant galaxies that have captured the world of astronomy over the last decade! 🤩🌟🔭
More info here: fb.me/e/10aDU9CIa
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It's #WorldSpaceWeek! This year's theme is #WomeninSpace & we hope you'll tune in to our virtual panel tonight at 7:30pm ET! Our panelists are 3 Canadian astronomers who'll be using @NASAWebb, the next great space telescope, during its 1st year!
Link: youtu.be/m9iMw_md4dM
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Maclean's ranks #McGill as the #1 medical/doctoral university in Canada for the 17th year in a row! 🥇🇨🇦🎉
@macleans
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We're live with An Evening with Webb! Tune in now to ask our panelists your questions! #womeninspacewsw #WorldSpaceWeek
Link: youtu.be/m9iMw_md4dM
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Meet our newest doctor! 🙌🎉Congrats to Dr. Emilie Parent on successfully defending her PhD thesis "Discovery and study of radio pulsars and fast transients with the Arecibo and Green Bank telescopes", supervised by @VictoriaKaspi. 1/2
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Since the first #GravitationalWaves discovery we've clocked up 50 confident detections : 48 binary #BlackHole mergers and 2 binary #NeutronStar collisions. Now we've added two #NSBH mergers! (Thanks, @ARC_OzGRav's Carl Knox for this nice graphic) ligo.org/detections/NSBH2020…
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Congratulations to the #CHIMETelescope team members at @McGillUPhysics @McGillMSI as well as their colleagues @DunlapInstitute @UofTAstro @WestVirginiaU @Yale @Perimeter @MIT_Physics @TheNRAO @NRC_CNRC on this wonderful accomplishment!
"...With the FRB catalog, we have detected this correlation between #FRBs & large-scale structure. This is really, really exciting & ushers in a new era of (fast radio burst) cosmology." Alex Josephy, doctoral student @McGillUPhysics #CHIMETelescope @CNN
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