Cool People Doing Cool Things

She was on one of the teams that did if I remember correctly. I believe they split up into three teams and developed algorithms independently from one another. What surprised everyone was when they came back, all three teams had more or less the same image. It’s been a while so I may be wrong on some details. But it wasn’t just her is my point.

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The media loves to make single people heroes because it's easier to sell.

I think in reality, nobody makes anything alone.

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- It's the hero myth that came to life at the time of Beethoven, of a misunderstood genius. Yes that guy was pretty good at what he did, but it was simply that he got progressively deaf and couldn't socialize with people anymore.
  
  From that to marvel movies stereotype of one man prodigy and media idolizing individuals with sob stories.
  
  Look at Nobel prizes in science, they're often multiple names, and behind each names there's countless decades of graduate students contributions and their teams.
  
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It's almost never just one person, science is teamwork, but that doesn't mean she's not an excellent scientist and project leader worthy of the buzz surrounding her research. Let's let her have the spotlight she deserves.

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She was even quote vocal about it not just being her work at the time

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- Cute woman doing cool science stuff is a more engaging story though
  
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- That doesn't mean she was not important, just that she's modest. Good for her and her team!
  
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For the number of times women were straight up erased from their scientific achievements I think we can keep choosing them to represent the team for a bit.

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- This. Men got so angry when this story dropped and took personal offense to the fact a woman did something important and valuable. The amount of times women have had their work stolen and taken credit for by some bro far outweighs the recognition.
  
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- I'm fine with this.
  
  As long as the team gets recognition in the more formal documents then let the media have whoever they'd like.
  
  It's like doing set up for a show. Let the headliner be the focus but acknowledging the people who made it happen is really nice.
  
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This is her youtube channel. If you haven't read the paper on this algorithm, I think you can get a good intuitive understanding by watching the two videos she has on there from (what looks like) her thesis, and I think it becomes clear why she was selected to lead this project.

Specifically, these two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJUs

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhQ7WkbHms

So, consider that these two videos are basically the "one-dimensional" solution, or one pin-hole camera example. In the approach that her and her team to image the black hole, they used many, many radio antennas', all acting in concert in a not-too different version of what she did her for the work on her YT channel.

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too bad - that you leached on your senior collaborators who did ALL and every intellectual part of the project - all for your credit; you are what I call an instagram scientist - too bad for science that such people who do any third-rate cheating act for publicity - like Katie Bouman exists @JosephDT

Seems like somebody is unhappy with her being chosen

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- Gotta love misogyny
  
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- At the same time the media kinda picked her out as the face of this project when there were many other people involved. I think she even said as much.
  
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She has a great ted talk about this exact proj

https://youtu.be/BIvezCVcsYs?feature=shared

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Her happiness is contagious!

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Yeah it's cool but where meme?

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This is a science community, we work on the Dawkins definition of meme.

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- The vast majority of posts on this community are internet memes that don't fit that definition.
  
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Dude in the back is looking at the result with the same intensity as a teenager seeing boobs for the first time.

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That dude's not even looking at the computer screen. I give even odds that what he's looking at on his phone is boobs.

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- You've never done this?
  
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Photographers worldwide have accepted the challenge. They will bring assistants to pull and tape the hands off the face. They will make her look at an eagle or birdie far off in the distance as one does. Don't worry, this lady will be ready for her one page in highschool books.

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