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It’s Not Just Academic: Challenges faced by international students during the Covid-19 pandemic
International students were impacted in many ways during the pandemic. This paper attempts to study how they coped and what structural barriers they faced.
Timing Black Holes’ Race to Merge Using Waves on the Stochastic Sea
There’s a space race that can last hundreds of millions of years: the race for two black holes to merge. Find out how we can use the gravitational wave background as our stopwatchin today’s bite!
The April Fools Paper Review Process – 2024
There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2024 and provided some “peer review”
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies: Not as Small as We Thought?
Astronomers use pulsating stars to look for stellar halos around ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, some of the smallest galaxies in the universe.
Using eROSITA to look at Beautiful AGN Blow-outs
In today’s paper, the authors use eROSITA to assemble a sample of the beautiful blow-outs that can occur in galaxies when AGN turn on.
The Great IMBH Gig in the Sky
In today’s bite, the authors combine two types of simulations to better understand how intermediate-mass black holes might form in dense nuclear star clusters.
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
Book Review: The Sun: Beginner’s Guide to Our Local Star
We’re back with another book review: a guide to the sun by Dr. Ryan French!
The Rainbow Village at AAS: An Astrobites Recap
The Rainbow Village at AAS provided a gathering place for people of color in astronomy at the recent AAS meeting in New Orleans. Today’s post looks back at how things went, and where the concept will go in the future!
Astrobites Beyond: Reimagining the Astro PhD with the National Osterbrock Leadership Program (NOLP)
Today’s paper uncovers new changing-look AGN in the first year of the SDSS-V survey!
Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
Grad Student Unions 101
Unions are becoming a more prevalent feature of grad schools to consider when applying to grad school. This bite reviews some of the details to consider when choosing a school with (or without) a union.
Advisee to Advising (your first research student)
Advising research students is one of the most rewarding aspects of doing research. How can you advise a research student during your PhD?
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Meenakshi Wadhwa
We interviewed @ASU planetary scientist and #MarsSampleReturn principal scientist Meenakshi Wadhwa who will be giving a plenary talk today at #AAS242!