Katy Rodriguez Wimberly, PhD
@spacedocdubb.bsky.social
✨astrophysicist✨CSUSB Professor studying Near Field Cosmology w/ 🔭 & 💻🌌 🖖🏽Board Member Astronomical Society of the Pacific 💫
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Are you ready for it? Our virtual conference, that is! Registration is now open and you don't want to miss our five programming tracks, opening night event, prestigious speaker lineup, and celebrating 250 years of astronomy in the United States and beyond. 🚀🌎
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July 2, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Are you ready for it? Our virtual conference, that is! Registration is now open and you don't want to miss our five programming tracks, opening night event, prestigious speaker lineup, and celebrating 250 years of astronomy in the United States and beyond. 🚀🌎
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Big news drop on a Friday afternoon. 😅
@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.
www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...
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@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.
www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...
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2027 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship
IPAC at Caltech partners with NASA, NSF, JPL and the world-wide research community to advance exploration of our Universe.
www.ipac.caltech.edu
February 28, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Big news drop on a Friday afternoon. 😅
@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.
www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...
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@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.
www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...
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So much astronomical excellence in this picture from @astrosociety.org gala! 🔭 L to R: Kate Daniel (Arizona prof), Angela Twum, @astrolatinaa.bsky.social, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon (UCSC grads), @katycosmiq.bsky.social (CSUSB prof), @capricephillips.bsky.social (Sagan Fellow at UCSC), and me.
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So much astronomical excellence in this picture from @astrosociety.org gala! 🔭 L to R: Kate Daniel (Arizona prof), Angela Twum, @astrolatinaa.bsky.social, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon (UCSC grads), @katycosmiq.bsky.social (CSUSB prof), @capricephillips.bsky.social (Sagan Fellow at UCSC), and me.
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Need more amazing astronomy pictures and science in your life? You can watch the live press conference about the Vera Rubin Observatory's first images here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1g... #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪
June 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Need more amazing astronomy pictures and science in your life? You can watch the live press conference about the Vera Rubin Observatory's first images here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1g... #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪
🗣️ Astro enthusiasts, educators, and researchers! Check out the excellent virtual workshop and 1-day conference opportunities coming up 👇🏽🔭🧪👩🏽🔬
Join the #ASP! We’re a community passionate about #science literacy! We invite you to get involved through our programs, use our #astronomy materials in the classroom, join our webinars, attend a #virtual workshop, or present at our annual conference on August 21! 🧪🔭
Get Involved!
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Get Involved!
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June 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🗣️ Astro enthusiasts, educators, and researchers! Check out the excellent virtual workshop and 1-day conference opportunities coming up 👇🏽🔭🧪👩🏽🔬
Check out our new work on ultra-faint dwarf galaxies! We explore adjusting mass estimates of these tiny galaxies based on new evidence that they have extended stellar structures and how that impacts our understanding of key characteristics in these systems. Thanks for leading this Coral!! 🔭🧪
Paper Day! arxiv.org/abs/2506.15785; “How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies”
In Wheeler+2019, we speculated that observed UFDs might be the bright central cores of more extended objects, and that they may have invisible stellar halos. (1/5)
In Wheeler+2019, we speculated that observed UFDs might be the bright central cores of more extended objects, and that they may have invisible stellar halos. (1/5)
How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies
We explore how a realistic surface brightness detection limit of $μ_V \approx 32.5$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$ for stars at the edges of ultra-faint galaxies affects our ability to infer their underlying prope...
arxiv.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Check out our new work on ultra-faint dwarf galaxies! We explore adjusting mass estimates of these tiny galaxies based on new evidence that they have extended stellar structures and how that impacts our understanding of key characteristics in these systems. Thanks for leading this Coral!! 🔭🧪
Hooray for APS Global Physics Summit! It was a big full day yesterday – giving a talk, chairing a presentation session, WATCHING MY STUDENTS PRESENT, meeting old friends, and starting potential collaborations! Also made my girls the coolest kids in school with NASA stickers 💫🌌 #apssummit25
March 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hooray for APS Global Physics Summit! It was a big full day yesterday – giving a talk, chairing a presentation session, WATCHING MY STUDENTS PRESENT, meeting old friends, and starting potential collaborations! Also made my girls the coolest kids in school with NASA stickers 💫🌌 #apssummit25
It me! 🥰
My amazing colleague @katycosmiq.bsky.social gave a great talk on galactic fossils! Also, her amazing graphic designs make my slides for tomorrow look awful. #APSSummit25
March 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It me! 🥰
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𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 #𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 #𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? In this 2-hour interactive, online workshop, participants will gain an understanding of basic techniques & considerations when engaging with public audiences. #SciComm #education 🔭🧪
𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-co...
𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-co...
March 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 #𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 #𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? In this 2-hour interactive, online workshop, participants will gain an understanding of basic techniques & considerations when engaging with public audiences. #SciComm #education 🔭🧪
𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-co...
𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: learn.astrosociety.org/workshops-co...
The @astrosocietypac.bsky.social extended their Awards Nomination Deadline — more time to nominate awesome friends and colleagues! They have a wide variety of awards for everyone from research astronomers to amateur astronomers! Educators too! Check it out. 🏆🌌🪐 astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a... 🔭🧪
ASP Annual Awards
The ASP recognizes individual achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach each year. Recipients of our awards have included luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Vera Rub
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March 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The @astrosocietypac.bsky.social extended their Awards Nomination Deadline — more time to nominate awesome friends and colleagues! They have a wide variety of awards for everyone from research astronomers to amateur astronomers! Educators too! Check it out. 🏆🌌🪐 astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a... 🔭🧪
Saturday morning revelations by the 5 y.o. - “well ya never know, the cold can melt a gummy bear, by science.”
March 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Saturday morning revelations by the 5 y.o. - “well ya never know, the cold can melt a gummy bear, by science.”
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Got feedback from our Vice Provost that the department self study that @katycosmiq.bsky.social and I wrote was very good and I feel like I got an A+ and a gold star on a test.
February 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Happy 136th Birthday to the @astrosocietypac.bsky.social!!! Check out this fun short video from our new CEO —> vimeo.com/1054293499?s...
Dr O 136th Birthday Video Feb 7 2025
This is "Dr O 136th Birthday Video Feb 7 2025" by Astronomical Soc. of the Pacific on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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February 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Happy 136th Birthday to the @astrosocietypac.bsky.social!!! Check out this fun short video from our new CEO —> vimeo.com/1054293499?s...
January 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Glorious it was!
So excited to go on a mid-week date with my wife… from the MF couch with no work. It will be glorious.
December 5, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Glorious it was!
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Just resurfacing this classic.
November 27, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Just resurfacing this classic.
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It’s a question we ask all the time.
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 AM
It’s a question we ask all the time.
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Here are some nice mushrooms
November 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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remembering this gorgeous image of the orion nebula from jwst 🌌
November 20, 2024 at 2:16 AM
remembering this gorgeous image of the orion nebula from jwst 🌌
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One of the neatest way you can have fun with space images and data is to process it yourself, as it is easily available and open!
It's not as hard as you might think - I wrote a piece on processing JWST images here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/process...
Super fun activity for students too! 🔭
It's not as hard as you might think - I wrote a piece on processing JWST images here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/process...
Super fun activity for students too! 🔭
The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes is a treasure trove that includes data from various wavelengths. MAST hosts information from over a dozen telescopes like Webb, Hubble, TESS, and Kepler that’s free to everyone: archive.stsci.edu 🔭 🧪
November 20, 2024 at 7:38 PM
One of the neatest way you can have fun with space images and data is to process it yourself, as it is easily available and open!
It's not as hard as you might think - I wrote a piece on processing JWST images here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/process...
Super fun activity for students too! 🔭
It's not as hard as you might think - I wrote a piece on processing JWST images here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/process...
Super fun activity for students too! 🔭
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As promised, McFACTS paper II is out!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590
Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭
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arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590
Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭
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November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
As promised, McFACTS paper II is out!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590
Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭
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arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590
Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭
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Shout out to all the undergrads nearing the end of their 1st semester and deep into THE HARDEST couple weeks to push through. Remember that your grades do not define you. I am cheering for your curiosity, creativity, and stewardship of humanity and the planet.
#college #stress
#college #stress
How college students perceive academic stress affects their mental well-being
Academic stress takes a toll on the mental well-being of certain groups of college students more than others—a correlation further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Rutgers New Jer...
medicalxpress.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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Newskies!
Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed
It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently
Can’t recommend it enough
Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed
It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently
Can’t recommend it enough
November 16, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Newskies!
Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed
It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently
Can’t recommend it enough
Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed
It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently
Can’t recommend it enough
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Today's peachy #moonrise from Portobello, Edinburgh 🏴
I'm a big fan of the (almost) full moon, but its stunning brightness is going to make it extra difficult to spot the #leonids meteor shower which peaks overnight 🤔😠
If you're out walking the dog #dolookup 🔭🌠🧪
ℹ️: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...
I'm a big fan of the (almost) full moon, but its stunning brightness is going to make it extra difficult to spot the #leonids meteor shower which peaks overnight 🤔😠
If you're out walking the dog #dolookup 🔭🌠🧪
ℹ️: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...
November 17, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Today's peachy #moonrise from Portobello, Edinburgh 🏴
I'm a big fan of the (almost) full moon, but its stunning brightness is going to make it extra difficult to spot the #leonids meteor shower which peaks overnight 🤔😠
If you're out walking the dog #dolookup 🔭🌠🧪
ℹ️: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...
I'm a big fan of the (almost) full moon, but its stunning brightness is going to make it extra difficult to spot the #leonids meteor shower which peaks overnight 🤔😠
If you're out walking the dog #dolookup 🔭🌠🧪
ℹ️: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topi...