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Dr. Mia de los Reyes

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Dr. Mia de los Reyes

@MiaDoesAstro

Astronomy professor at Amherst College. She/her/hers, Filipina-American, rock climber, aerialist, avid eater of baked goods. Views my own.

Palo Alto, CA

Joined January 2017

Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Sep 14, 2022
you ever meet someone at a similar career stage and immediately realize they're better than you in every conceivable way?
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Mar 16, 2022
More life news! This summer I'll be starting as a @Stanford Science Fellow... and in fall 2023, I'm going to join @AmherstCollege as an assistant professor of astronomy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This feels absolutely surreal.
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
May 10, 2022
byeeeeeeee #PhDone
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Feb 2, 2022
trying to teach my newest student about star formation, but we're having some difficulties with attention span
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Apr 24, 2022
it is apparently National Physics Day, so I'm gonna celebrate by submitting my PhD thesis
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Jul 17, 2023
it's happening!!!!!!
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Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Oct 13, 2022
people KNEW. people at multiple institutions—at the very least, UCL, Fermilab, and Caltech (quelle surprise)—knew that man had a track record of problematic behavior, and yet he was allowed to stay in a position where he continued to harass someone.
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Jul 22, 2023
please tell me someone has written a fake marriage friends-to-lovers romance where two best friends decide to get married so a university will spousal hire them
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Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Jan 9, 2022
successfully convinced a friend that JRR Tolkien's full name was Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Aug 27, 2021
about to submit my first postdoc application, send good vibes pls
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Jul 18, 2022
lmao @ Caltech Title IX reaching out to me now like where have you been the last 5 years???? oh that's right, ignoring our concerns and offering no solutions when complaints have been made
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Mar 11, 2022
We got engaged a few weeks ago! Here is an extremely belated picture to prove it, which is v nerdy for multiple reasons: 1. my eyes are puffy from crying (lmao, yes I know, v cringe), 2. I was wearing my @astrobites sweater at the time, and... (prepare for nerdy scicomm ahead)
Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Apr 7, 2023
omg @Stanford already starting with blatant union-busting rhetoric: "Stanford’s relationship with our graduate students is, first and foremost, an educational one." babe no, grad students are *workers* whose labor props up the university, come on we've been through this
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Dr. Mia de los Reyes
@MiaDoesAstro
Jan 30, 2022
In undergrad, one of my professors told the class, "You are not any more or any less special than anyone else." I think about that a lot. I think it might have been the most important lesson I ever learned in college.