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Emily Zhang

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@veritasium producer, @scifri 2021 aaas media fellow, @columbia astrophysics alum, lowercase enthusiast (she/her)

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@emilylinzhang

Emily Zhang

4 years

i just got my first-ever article published... in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN! 🥺🥳 i wrote for @sciam on astronomy's current struggle with starlink satellites!!! read it here:

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SpaceX's Dark Satellites Are Still Too Bright for Astronomers

The company’s attempts to dim the spacecraft in its megaconstellation fall short of eliminating disruptions to the world’s ground-based observatories

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Emily Zhang

4 years

i just want columbia grad students & faculty to know that this email is wrong. we undergrads will HAPPILY take zoom classes if in-person teaching is putting your safety at risk

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An email sent to graduate students and faculty members requested they rethink their plans to teach solely online, despite the risks associated with holding in-person classes.

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let me rope you into my new @veritasium video on knot theory. i'm very tied to it - and i won't string you along, it's got a twist. (do knot worry, i have so many more where those came from 🤠) hopf link here: how tangled the math gets:

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Emily Zhang

4 years

i’m attempting to conquer the astrophysics niche on tiktok

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Emily Zhang

3 years

friends! i am so excited to share that i’m a 2021 @AAASMassMedia fellow!!! i’ll be writing for @scifri this summer & i cannot wait 🥰

@AAASMassMedia

AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

3 years

We're so excited to announce our 2021 class of @aaas #MassMediaFellows ! These 29 fellows will be writing the latest science news at outlets all across the country. Learn all about our incoming class here:

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Emily Zhang

3 years

i got to talk about my @sciam starlink article on an awesome podcast! thanks to @DurvidImel @WVFRM for having me & for covering such an important issue to astronomy - satellite constellations. (ps. peep my living room at 24:35)

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Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

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NEW EPISODE - The New Space Race! You ever think about who really owns the night sky?

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Emily Zhang

3 years

it's somehow my last day at @scifri as a @AAASMassMedia fellow! i'm so thankful i got to spend this summer with 3 of my favorite things - incredible people, incredible science, and incredible stories. <3 stay tuned for one last segment next week! 👀

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@emilylinzhang

Emily Zhang

3 years

WE WON A STREAMY!!! 🤩🎉 huge congrats to the whole team - everyone’s worked so hard this year to make some mindblowing videos together :’)

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Streamy Awards

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. @veritasium only speaks facts and we only award winners. CONGRATS, you won the #streamys for Learning and Education! 🏆

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Emily Zhang

3 years

tried putting the words “jwst christmas launch” into the wombo art app and LOOK at this lovely festive picture 🥺 congrats to the jwst team!!! a new era of astronomy begins!!!!! 🔭

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3 years

@veritasium

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Emily Zhang

3 years

"Why Astrophysics" is a video i've been making for a long time. it's a little personal piece on why people choose to study the universe - i hope you enjoy and that it makes you think about why you love the subjects you love! ❤️

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Why Astrophysics?

This video began as a love letter to astrophysics, a sort of goodbye as I graduate and head out into the media world away from my astrophysics degree. It soo...

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Emily Zhang

4 years

hi friends, check out me being cheesy about how much i love astrophysics & scicomm in this blog post for @chandraxray !!!

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megwatzke

4 years

What did you do with *your* summer? @emilylinzhang crushed both research on both exploded stars AND #scicomm as an intern w/ @chandraxray . Find out more about her in a new blog post.

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Emily Zhang

5 years

astro friends at #AAS235 : come by my poster 305.31 if you want to learn how to find new AGN at crazy distances (billions of light years)! i’ll be there 5:15-6:30pm today 🎉

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Emily Zhang

3 years

today is a holy trinity of events: the chinese mid-autumn festival, my dad’s birthday, and the 21st night of september. celebrating by having mooncakes and tea, with my parents, while listening to earth wind & fire. i could not create better vibes if i tried

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Emily Zhang

3 years

me & magic the dog, acting our hearts out for science with @scifri

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Luke Groskin

3 years

Today’s @scifri TikTok questions whether comparing robots to people is a misguided notion. Perhaps another analogy is more is more appropriate feat. @emilylinzhang and the brilliant musings of @grok_

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Emily Zhang

2 years

everything everywhere all at once had me walking out the theater looking like i’d been hit by a truck. go see it immediately & bring more tissues than i did (five)!!!

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8 months

in 1982, there was an SAT question that every single person got wrong. can you solve it? if you want to know the answer (and how it shows up in astronomy?!), you'll have to watch our new @veritasium vid 😎. sorry i don't make the rules:

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Emily Zhang

2 years

these tiktok filters are hitting too close to home

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Emily Zhang

3 years

i truly adored columbia astronomy, but as for columbia physics - i watched friends drop the major and take leaves of absence bc it got so bad. now 1/4 of the entire physics program has come forward about its toxicity & the dept basically just told them to go away? coool

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Emily Zhang

3 years

we start this video with a bold claim, but i think it’s true: this is the most in-depth video on bowling ever made. so excited about my first time producing a video start-to-finish with @veritasium !

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Emily Zhang

4 years

would like to take a sec to appreciate my indomitable right ear, which is carrying six (6) items right now

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Emily Zhang

3 years

concluded the first day of my cross country move in an apartment with no electricity, gas, or internet. the la dream is thriving 😤

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Emily Zhang

4 years

nearly half the students in my physics class wrote posts to our prof this week - we're struggling, covid times are tough already & this course is brutal (20-30 hrs/wk). we discussed solutions to the intense workload and THEN... 🙂 don't! be! this! guy! 🙃

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Emily Zhang

4 years

am i attending my online classes? no. but am i doing my assignments? also no. am i at least getting enough sleep? again no.

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Emily Zhang

1 year

how could a simple piece of metal make me make this face? you will have to see. new @veritasium video on how NASA is reinventing the wheel:

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@emilylinzhang

Emily Zhang

3 years

columbia's astronomy club @cublueshift just released our annual Arts & Astro exhibition online: check it out for some gorgeous, inspiring astro-related art! (ps. i have two video projects in there!)

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Emily Zhang

3 years

i had so much fun learning about betelgeuse & scicomm from the superstar @starstrickenSF 🌟🤩 check out my @scifri segment on betelgeuse's false supernova alarm!!!

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Betelgeuse’s False Supernova Alarm

Supernova expert Sarafina Nance explains a new theory for why red giant star Betelgeuse abruptly went dark in 2019.

www.sciencefriday.com

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Sarafina El-Badry Nance

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tune in to hear yours truly chatting about my favorite star in the universe 😊💫

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Emily Zhang

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spent the hours of 12-2am last last night dueling with a cockroach that was the size of my big toe. i won!!! while nearly accomplishing the trifecta of passing out, throwing up, and crying all at once

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Emily Zhang

4 years

prezbo has bravely announced his plan to use fall 2020, spring 2021, & summer 2021 "as a unit of time". personally i use minutes or even hours as a unit of time but go off i guess

@Columbia

Columbia University

4 years

This afternoon, President Bollinger shared an update regarding COVID-19 and the University's plans for the next academic year. Lab research will also begin to resume.

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3 years

extremely niche astrophysics pickup lines pt 1

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Emily Zhang

3 years

so hard to make friends over zoom when you can't start conversations by telling people you like their socks

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Emily Zhang

3 years

tonight my astronomy club was zoombombed, it started off with people spamming "trump 2020" in the chat and in a very surreal twist ended with them saying this???

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Emily Zhang

2 years

after two years of evasion, covid finally got me. i’ll spare the feed yet another selfie of me looking like a wreck, but simply put i am out ☠️ would love suggestions for gentle fun time-passers! for reference, typing this tweet was on the strenuous side lol

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Emily Zhang

2 years

i watched everything everywhere all at once again

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Emily Zhang

4 years

i actually can't stop laughing at how chaotic my physics class is this was for our MIDTERM

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Emily Zhang

3 years

i feel like california beaches should not be *this* cold

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Emily Zhang

2 years

wondering what travel is like for a party of six right now? a total of TWENTY FOUR PLANE TICKETS across 7 different flights passed thru our hands yesterday. tell me we set a record?! (yes, we got all 18 canceled tickets refunded)

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Emily Zhang

2 years

how you know a shoot went well... (very exciting video coming out very soon 👀)

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Emily Zhang

4 years

it's my favorite telescope @chandraxray 's 21st first light anniversary today (aug 26, 1999 - aug 26, 2020)!!! check out this thread of chandra fun facts that i wrote for @chandraCDO 🥰

@chandraCDO

Chandra CDO

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Cassiopeia A is a famous supernova remnant & was Chandra’s “First Light” image in 1999 (left). Now, Cas A looks better than ever using Chandra observations from 2000-2013 (right). #ChandraFirstLightAnniversary

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"what's the greatest lie you've ever been told?"

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Emily Zhang

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my need to remain somewhat professional on this account < my need for everyone to know i would risk it all for prince zuko

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Emily Zhang

4 years

2020 is officially HALF OVER? we've been in quarantine for a THIRD of the year??? life is short huh. maybe i truly never will finish cleaning my room

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Emily Zhang

4 years

i will complain abt this school forever but columbia is one of the few colleges to encourage going home while *keeping* student housing, the 1st east coast school that stopped in-person classes, & has been sending daily updates since last week

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Emily Zhang

3 years

all is not well in christmas town

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Emily Zhang

4 years

self-care tactics

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Emily Zhang

2 years

when your life has become the math problem from the textbook 😔

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Emily Zhang

4 years

my sleep schedule is such that one of my biggest concerns for my final tomorrow is whether i will wake up in time for it. it is at 1 pm

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Emily Zhang

3 years

of ALL the apps that could’ve finally crashed my computer, i never suspected it would be textedit. but here we are guess how (hint in background)

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Emily Zhang

3 years

my last radio story for @scifri !!! the science of nostalgia - and how getting sentimental can help us be better people. 🥺 check out the page for pokemon cards, darth vader costumes, & countless other memories...

@scifri

Science Friday

3 years

Next on #SciFriLive 📻, we're diving into the science of #nostalgia . Psychologists @ClayRoutledge & @AndrewAbeytaPhD join us next to explore how the complex, often bittersweet emotion we feel when strolling down memory lane could actually be good for us.

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Emily Zhang

3 years

me fighting my demons (2021, colorized)

@OoCPokemon

Out of Context Pokémon ∞

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perish

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Emily Zhang

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in 2017, my friend told me the hardest riddle i've ever heard. five years later, i set out to understand it once & for all... in short, i spent the past month fighting numbered boxes. reap the rewards. our new video @veritasium :

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The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer

The 100 Prisoners Riddle feels completely impossible even once you know the answer. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via...

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Emily Zhang

4 years

sitting through my waves physics lecture like this right now bc feminism

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Emily Zhang

4 years

what's your zoom must-have??? mine is a giant plate of fruit by my side just offscreen that i eat from whenever i get tired or need to pretend i didn't hear something

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Emily Zhang

3 years

if technology is so advanced why haven’t i ever seen a car bluetooth system work properly

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Emily Zhang

4 years

i am audibly sobbing at my computer screen of an oscars stage filled with asian people. i can't believe this really is american tv. #parasite you changed the game

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Emily Zhang

4 years

a certain columbia space group needs to not view space as something to be literally *COLONIZED*! i cannot believe they typed that out with their own hands!!!!!!

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Emily Zhang

2 years

@XylaFoxlin i’m looking at you from across the room rn

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Emily Zhang

1 year

i just received the most incredible captcha in maybe the entire history of the internet:

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Emily Zhang

4 years

pete buttigieg giving his victory speech before a single iowa county's results are in was freshman-year-me telling my friends physics was fun before i took a single intermediate physics class

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Emily Zhang

3 years

...i may have downloaded an entire chromosome in plaintext. for some reason 100 million letters seemed fine at the time

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Emily Zhang

3 years

about to graduate and i still have not learned a single line of LaTeX. i just know it looks vaguely $likethis$. i would like to apologize to everyone who believed in me

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Emily Zhang

2 years

i swear driving in LA with a crappy car gives you the same kind of full-body workout riding a horse does. plus cardio. due to all the drivers trying to end you

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Emily Zhang

4 years

wishing i was on campus so i could stand on the street in front of lenfest hall. time to win my tuition back

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4 years

why is roaree alone at columbia rn & why am i crying about it

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Emily Zhang

1 year

you want robots? you want disco? you want competition? you want a full explanation of how maze-solving algorithms work? GOOD NEWS! we have just the thing for you! new @veritasium video on a contest now near & dear to my heart:

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The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

Welcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth. Join Onshape’s community of over 3 million CAD users by creating a free account here: h...

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Emily Zhang

3 years

a tale of two resumes. my current job search is going more like the second

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Emily Zhang

3 years

taking zoom classes while on mute is so cathartic bc i get to to yell obscenities whenever my prof writes a triple integral on the board 🥰

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Emily Zhang

2 years

@XylaFoxlin hey everyone i’m actually xyla’s ghostwriter

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Emily Zhang

4 years

the democratic primary candidates lining up to take shots at bloomberg:

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Emily Zhang

2 years

ok just HOW wimpy does my weather app think i am???

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Emily Zhang

3 years

if you're a stellar video editor, graphic designer, or social media manager who happens to love science - JOIN US!!! 🥳🎬🧲🤩💡🍃🥰🔍🔭🤓⚡️

@veritasium

Veritasium

3 years

Veritasium is hiring! Help us make the best science videos possible:

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Emily Zhang

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for once, i’ve been drinking enough water to stay hydrated this year, simply out of sheer boredom

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Emily Zhang

4 years

a take home exam is just a war of attrition

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Emily Zhang

4 years

@GabrielleSuissa they REALLY said "your goal in the middle of a crisis is to demonstrate your generosity, empathy, & compassion to your colleagues/networks" ...thanks for literally describing performativity lol

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Emily Zhang

3 years

@XylaFoxlin I HAVE REALIZED THE ERROR OF MY WAYS BELIEVE ME

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3 years

this photo is truly album cover material

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Emily Zhang

3 years

an illustrative summary of how i’m doing: my dad & i replaced all four hubcaps on my new used car then drove to dinner and within that 30-minute drive all four had promptly fallen off

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Emily Zhang

4 years

astral projecting into my local library so i can do my homework

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Emily Zhang

5 years

shoutout to the starbucks barista who just asked me how i got such clear skin & smiled at me as i started crying exactly like this. finals week is good thx

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Emily Zhang

5 years

at any given point my deepest dream is to 1) live in nature and quest for inner peace or 2) live online and quest for external validation & i know one sounds better, but here we are, together, on twitter

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Emily Zhang

4 years

government: work from home physicists:

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Emily Zhang

2 years

i've been disconnected from the JWST image release (life stress etc), missed the livestreams, wondered if my astro days were behind me, but i just started full-on weeping at this picture so you know maybe not. how can freaking pixels be emotional dang it

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NASA

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Cosmic cliffs & a sea of stars. @NASAWebb reveals baby stars in the Carina Nebula, where ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds shape colossal walls of dust and gas. #UnfoldTheUniverse

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Emily Zhang

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our coronavirus policies have been gradual, not sudden, and as i watch friends get increasingly short eviction notices from their schools, i appreciate what columbia is doing more & more. hot take: columbia no bad 4 once

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Emily Zhang

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...and check out my first blog post for @chandraxray , about research i did freshman year on the supernova remnant G21.5-0.9. (it's written to be accessible to non-astro friends as well!)

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Emily Zhang

4 years

status: currently inflating a basketball from 2006 so i can learn to dribble and save my family

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Megan Amram

4 years

How good at basketball do you have to be to get a COVID test

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@donttrythis @veritasium @SciencePetr @testedcom this video could not have happened without y’all! we loved every second of the adventure!!! 🤩🙌

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the tough thing about creative work is that at any given time, a sudden emotional event could derail your artistic process & ability to ideate. this is completely unrelated to me and the bts hiatus announcement

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Emily Zhang

4 years

*checks notes* is this... bipartisanship?

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

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Never knew John Kerry had such a good sense of humor! Very impressed!

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@GabrielleSuissa avatar the last airbender hands down

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5 years

greta's twitter bio: the best execution of sarcasm the internet has ever seen and will ever see, amen, hallelujah

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but am i absolutely killing it on pokemon go? yes.

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Emily Zhang

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@starstrickenSF @andromeza am i crazy or is your grammar totally right anyway?!? 'a' comes before consonant sounds, so "a u.s. astronaut" works as the letter U is pronounced "you". stay winning astronaut!!!

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Emily Zhang

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me sitting down to do remote work (2022, colorized)

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well that was a VERY odd way to say "wow! it was ignorant of me to forget holidays besides christmas exist! that's my bad and i'm sorry"

@neiltyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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@celtic_traveler All times I’ve been an ass were when my intent was not communicated successfully. Hanukah, a multi-day celebration, no? Such a reference would have greatly complicated the Tweet. And of course I’d be a bigger ass for omitting Jews altogether.

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@XylaFoxlin @joebarnard @lovedancepripri @GranolaAlmond it's not called sabotaging if you do it to yourself ❤️

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Emily Zhang

5 years

republicans hearing about the dayton shooting after el paso today and trying to word A SECOND thoughts & prayers tweet that doesnt mention anything about gun control:

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Emily Zhang

4 years

how have 5/5 members of one direction spoken out against racial injustice when ~2 people in my entire town have 😭

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Niall Horan

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THUGS ?? these people are protesting against the fact that one of YOUR animalistic white policemen kneeled on George’s windpipe and forced him to stop breathing and killed him?? THUGS???? Are you listening to yourself?

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3 years

what do my friends think when they see me listening to bts on spotify for the 259th day in a row

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Emily Zhang

4 years

i've been citing an argument from literal st. augustine against astrology when mewtwo was RIGHT THERE w the truth this whole time

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cass !

4 years

How can you still believe in astrology after hearing Mewtwo say that the circumstances of your birth are irrelevant

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@emilylinzhang

Emily Zhang

4 years

broke: #WarrenEndorseBernie woke: #BidenEndorseBernie bespoke: #TrumpEndorseBernie it's big brain time

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