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Not every rivalry at Carnegie goes through peer review. 🏓 👀
Postdocs come from around the world & stay only a few years, so the community has to grow fast. At EPL, that's what ping-pong is for! Our #Carnegie125 object for #PostdocAppreciationWeek 👇
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As #PostdocAppreciationWeek wraps up, we want to say thank you to our postdocs!
Your curiosity, drive, & talent energize Carnegie Science's campuses. From @CarnegiePres John Mulchaey: "It's our honor and privilege to call you colleagues."
Apply today👇
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The telescopes at Las Campanas may stay in the mountains, but this lab is built to move!
Object 22 of #Carnegie125 is @LCOAstro's LabMóvil, a 30+ foot mobile lab bringing hands-on astronomy to schools across northern Chile.
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“Carnegie needs a leader at LCO w/ the scientific & technical breadth to understand new opportunities emerging from new technologies, new questions, and a more & more interconnected system."
"Guillermo is that person."
- Michael Blanton | Director, OBS
The Atacama Desert is one of the best places on Earth for astronomical observations. @carnegiescience’s Guillermo Blanc shares why this region is uniquely powerful for science: giantmagellan.org/2025/04/27… #giantdiscoveries
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“LCO has the best observatory staff in all of Chile, perhaps in the entire world, and I feel privileged to lead them as we prepare for an exciting future of new discoveries.”
-Guillermo Blanc (@gblancm), Director @LCOAstro
Carnegie Science: Guillermo Blanc Named Director of Las Campanas Observatory carnegiescience.edu/guillerm…
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El astrónomo Guillermo Blanc ha sido nombrado Director de @LCOAstro . Blanc sucede al Director Emérito Leopoldo Infante, quien se jubiló a fines de 2025 ⬇️
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🙌 Astronomer Guillermo Blanc has been named Director of @CarnegieScience's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile—home of the twin Magellan telescopes & future site of the @GiantMagellan. @uchile @gblancm @LCOAstro @UTAustin
Full Press Release 👇
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Happy #InternationalMicroorganismDay! 🦠
Meet Chalmy (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii), the tiny green alga in our logo. Carnegie plant scientists have studied it for decades to probe big questions about photosynthesis.
See how Adrien Burlacot uses it today: carnegiescience.edu/understa…
ALT Meet Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the single-celled green alga featured in our International Microorganism Day logo. Carnegie’s Adrien Burlacot uses it to investigate how photosynthesis responds to changing environments and how microscopic algae manage the energy needed to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into life.
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In October, Moh El-Naggar joins Carnegie as the director of our Biosphere Sciences & Engineering division (BSE).
He steps into the role just as our biologists set up new labs on the @Caltech campus as part of our relocation to Southern California. 🧵
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El-Naggar will remain a professor at @USCDornsife, where he'll continue running his research group and advising graduate students and postdocs.
Dean James Bullock—@jbprime—on what that connection means:
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More on El-Naggar's appointment, BSE's move to Pasadena, and the Carnegie–Caltech alliance: buff.ly/ef1ncr7
ALT Biophysicist Moh El-Naggar named Carnegie’s second Biosphere Sciences & Engineering Director
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🖖 Happy #StarTrekDay! Tomorrow (9/9, 6:30 PM ET), we're celebrating the franchise's 60th birthday with a special #NeighborhoodLecture at our D.C. campus.
The event is SOLD OUT, but you can still join us on our live Zoom webinar! #LiveLongandProsper
🔗 carnegiescience.edu/strange-…
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Carnegie Science has named biophysicist Mohamed "Moh" El-Naggar as the second director of our Biosphere Sciences and Engineering division. He joins in October from @USCDornsife as BSE completes its move to the @Caltech campus.
Press Release: bit.ly/3ViShSU
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Object 21: Beneath the Observatories’ historic Pasadena building, two ruling engines and the diffraction gratings they produced offer a glimpse into the precision engineering that helped make 20th century astrophysics. #Carnegie125
Learn more: bit.ly/4yFQTbJ
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🖖This just in! Philip Plait—astronomer, author, and the internet's "Bad Astronomer"—will be moderating the panel at our upcoming #NeighborhoodLecture celebrating sixty years of Star Trek!
Free and open to the public! Register today to secure your spot: bit.ly/4xuaUlm
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