Yet It took until 1956, 10 years before her retirement, for her to become full professor - because women were barred from becoming full professors at Harvard.
We are celebrating Christmas at partner's parents with the same raclette grill as 20 years ago - which is pretty impressive, but not quiet as much as the Voyager spacecrafts 😅 Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 - still working, still teaching us new things about the most external parts of the solar system.
With many thanks to @schnedan for the idea to draw Voyager :)
Oh, apparently yesterday was #PortfolioDay and I missed it! I am Victoria and I am doing #SciArt, mainly focusing on astronomy & astrophysics (#astrodon) and on #academia
& research commentary.
1/16 This July, I gave an invited talk in the "Communicating Science Through Art" session at the European Astronomical Society annual meeting, organized by the amazing @theastrophoenix . And I thought it may be something that would also interest you #fediverse folks.
The aim of the talk was partly to give people insight into my why & how of my art. But mainly to encourage others to just try. In a very subjective manner.
Want to know what my research is about? Follow this thread 🧵 based on a 10min talk I've drawn for a meeting.
The talk was aimed at non-specialist space science colleagues (not the general public!). The slides were built up step by step, but I'm omitting this here & showing only the final graphs, less this becomes a 34-part thread. 11 is plenty enough!
So: "Understanding Winds of Massive Stars Using High Mass X-ray Binaries"
I was totally fascinated by the dark red cosmos. If I had a garden (and were garden person in general), I'd love to have them. These are from Arlington Court in Devon.
(As a fun side story: I spent half a day wondering where I heard of Arlington Court - only yo realize that Arlington is a suburb of Boston /Cambridge and that's while I know the name...)
Of course most of the cards are buildings again. This one is from #Appledore - it was sunny when we entered the village and it poured when we were at the other end!
And the last postcard of the Devon + Cornwall set. Also my favorite.
#Clovelly was... over-sugared is perhaps the right word. But the harbor was very cool (including some swarming fish), I got to pet a donkey and bought some handmade pottery. Not sure it would be worth driving and paying the parking fee, but it was a great mid-point for a hike!
I haven't touched watercolors since October - a reminder of how full and stressful a time it has been. Not that the stress got less, but trying hard to truly disconnect this week.
And likely the last one for the Corsica series - I've got impatient towards the end of this one, a sure sign that my creative juices are running out for the moment.
I'm stupidly proud that the grapewines on this one actually look like grapewines (if they don't, don't tell).
Tomorrow, all six are going to be sent off to friends to hopefully make someone else than me happy 💚
It turns out #BlackHoles are a lot like cats 😼 Especially, they play with their food 🐀
You don't believe me?
Remember how a #cat plays with a mouse: catches it, releases it, catches it again, releases it again ... Turns out, black holes can do the same with stars: they can catch and partially disrupt a star, release it, wait until it approaches again, play with it a bit more, release it, wait for the next approach: