Black Hole Explorer Hopes to Reveal New Details of Supermassive Black Holes
Overview Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian’s (CfA) Black Hole Initiative (BHI) are at the forefront […]
Press releases: When sheer volume deserves a nod…
As a publicist, my role is to help communicate amazing things to journalists and the public, and often times that includes a press release. Not every press release gets a review on this site, but the sheer volume deserves some attention.
The Points Guy: Where to go in 2025— The 29 best places to travel
Overview In 2024, writers at The Points Guy, one of the most trusted sources for travel information and guides on […]
Event Horizon Telescope Makes Highest-Resolution Black Hole Detections from Earth
Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers have achieved very-long-baseline interferometry test observations at 345 GHz, the highest-resolution such observations ever obtained from the surface of Earth. Scientists estimate that the breakthrough will result in a remarkable 50% increase in detail, sharpening images and observations of black holes and their surrounding regions.
Canines Are Leading the Fight Against Human Cancer
A cancer vaccine has shown efficacy in dogs, with implications for benefit in humans.
What’s in the sky: Editorial videos
Connecting with everything that’s “out there” to see in the night sky can be overwhelming. So I created a video series for Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that breaks down what to see, where to see it, and how to see it in under three minutes per week.
CfA Scientists Collaborate on New Study to Search the Universe for Signs of Technological Civilizations
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, member of the President’s Council of Advisor’s on Science and Technology (PCAST) contacted me for help in spreading the word about the world’s first-ever grant for non-radio technosignatures. The news was picked up by USA Today, and twice by Forbes.
Scientists shed light on growth of black holes
Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), have shed light on how black holes grow over time by developing a new model to predict if growth by accretion or by mergers is dominant, according to the results of a study presented today at the virtual 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society and published simultaneously in The Astrophysical Journal.
La Luna: Social media public content co-creation program
In April and May 2020, I led a co-production social media campaign for Whipple Observatory to encourage the public to capture and submit photos of the moon that were then paired with educational information about Earth’s nearest neighbor.
Star Wars Day 2020: Educational videos
Star Wars Day was “forced” to go virtual in 2020, and I stood up to the challenge with multiple videos and visual communication tools aimed at keeping the gateway to science open from anywhere.