Outreach and press
Some recorded outreach¶
- Cosmos from your couch: Exploring the past lives of distant galaxies
- Growing a forest of galaxies (Short video)
- How Sci-Fi and Fantasy Make Me a Better Astronomer (Short video)
- The Sparkler Galaxy: How JWST helped astronomers uncover the ages of stars (Short video)
Public talks¶
- Pathfinder (ESA Natural language processing for space science conference)
- The information content of galaxy star formation histories
- Galaxies in the Making: Recent Advances in the star formation histories of galaxies (APS Colloquium at UC Boulder)
- Galaxy star formation histories across observations & theory (UCSC 2022 Galaxy Workshop)
- Constraining the timescales of galaxy evolution using simulations and observations (CANVAS seminar) (LineA seminar)
- more talks available in talks and travel.
Press¶
Quoted individually:¶
Columbia News Interview (Firefly Sparkle & Pathfinder)
The Firefly Sparkle galaxy (Mowla & Iyer et al. 2024) (Nature link):
- (NASA) Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way
- (ESA) Webb finds primeval star-forming galaxy that is lightweight
- (BBC) 'Christmas lights' galaxy reveals how Universe formed
- (Globe and Mail) The Firefly Sparkle galaxy’s amazing trip through time
- (Reuters) Firefly Sparkle galaxy offers a taste of the infant Milky Way
- (nature research highlight) Our Galaxy seen in its infancy
- (phys.org) Firefly Sparkle: Newly discovered galaxy mirrors Milky Way's early days
- (phys.org) JWST sees a Milky Way-like galaxy coming together in the early universe
- (universetoday) JWST Sees a Milky Way-Like Galaxy Coming Together in the Early Universe
- (cosmos magazine) Firefly Sparkle shines light on galaxy formation in a youthful universe
- (UToronto) Astronomers find first actively forming galaxy as lightweight as young Milky Way
- (devdiscourse) Glittering Firefly Sparkle: A Glimpse into the Universe's Past**
The Sparkler galaxy (Mowla & Iyer et al. 2022):
- (BBC) 'Shiny, sparkly object' in James Webb space image
- (CNN) Webb telescope spies a celestial sparkler among the universe’s earliest galaxies
- (space.com) James Webb Space Telescope spots 'Sparkler Galaxy' that could host universe's 1st stars
- (bigthink) Sparkle-filled JWST galaxy solves a longstanding cosmic mystery
- (sky and telescope) “The Sparkler” Might be Our Milky Way’s Long-Lost Twin
- (astronomy.com) James Webb captures galaxy sparkling with universe’s earliest star clusters
- (sciencenews) The James Webb Space Telescope spied the earliest born stars yet seen
- (sciencealert) These Are The Most Distant Star Clusters Ever Seen, And We Nearly Missed Them
- (phys.org) Researchers reveal a galaxy sparkling with the universe's oldest star clusters
- (universetoday) JWST Sees a Milky Way-Like Galaxy Coming Together in the Early Universe
- (IFLscience) JWST Sees “Sparkler Galaxy” Surrounded By Most Distant Star Clusters Ever Found
- (astrobites) Sparkling Stars: Discovering Evolved Globular Clusters at High Redshift with JWST
- (scitechdaily) James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Oldest Star Clusters in the Universe
- (weather channel) JWST Helps Discover the Most Distant Star Cluster Ever, Possibly Housing Some of Universe's Oldest Stars
Galaxies going Bananas (Pandya et al. 2024):
- (columbia magazine) Scientists go Bananas over Baby Galaxies
- (NY times) The Early Universe Was Bananas
- (scitechdaily) “Galaxies Going Bananas” – Early Universe Surprises From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
- (earthsky) Shapes of early galaxies: surfboards and pool noodles
Or as part of teams (Multimodal universe, CANUCS, CEERS):¶
Multimodal Universe (the Multimodal Universe Collaboration et al. 2024):
- (marktechpost) Multimodal Universe Dataset: A Multimodal 100TB Repository of Astronomical Data Empowering Machine Learning and Astrophysical Research on a Global Scale
- (simons foundation) New Datasets Will Train AI Models To Think Like Scientists
Question Mark galaxy (Estrada-Carpenter et al. 2022):
- (earthsky) Question mark galaxy? Gravity lens creates cosmic graffiti
- (eurekalert) NASA’s Webb reveals distorted galaxy forming cosmic question mark
Across the green valley with HST grisms (Noirot et al. 2022):
- (astrobites) (Galaxies sprinting) through the valley