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01.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@andrasgaspar.bsky.social
Associate Astronomer at the University of Arizona. JWST/MIRI Instrument Team. Debris disk aficionado. Classic car enthusiast. Opinions my own. He/him
That's the way ...
01.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In Europe we blink our hazards once. Could be misunderstood as breaking in the U.S. if you don't have yellow blinkers.
30.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
30.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 533 🔁 252 💬 28 📌 27I am glad I got everyone doing some depressing maths.
30.10.2025 01:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think they would have all agreed that he was the brightest in the group. Many of them had the same math teacher in high school.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar...
It would be nice to chat with one of the Hungarian martians: Von Neumann, Wigner, Szilárd, Teller, Hevesy, von Kármán ... etc. I am sure there were some interesting conversations during the Manhattan project.
29.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well, apparently Fermi and Rutherford are my academic grandparents. That's all I got.
academictree.org/astronomy/tr...
Lots of history that was never written down just passed along.
29.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sorry. At least not civil war territory.
29.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For you it is the Spanish-American war that's the nearest example.
29.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Lol.
29.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is exactly in a decade. 😭
29.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I just realized that my birth year is closer to the end of WW2 than it is to today and I don't know how to process this fact.
29.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 36 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 1“President Trump has done the most broad set of illegal budget actions of any president in U.S. history,” said Bobby Kogan, a former Office of Management and Budget official under President Joe Biden who is now the senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit. “This is his most illegal budgetary action by a mile — by a parsec.”
Gotta appreciate the astro term. And he didn't even say lightyear ... he said parsec!
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Every single bad thing that has happened was a result of our institutions not holding.
25.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic analysis by Robert Reich.
24.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
Well, NOW I know that Reagan had a speech on free trade.
24.10.2025 04:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Note: The JSC already has the Enterprise Shuttle orbiter on display. They just want one that was actually in orbit. They look the same and the JSC is actually mounted on a 747 and both can be toured.
23.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is the new ballroom going to share a wall with the residence building or is there going to be a new corridor built? Please tell me he is not adding on to the existing residence.
23.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😩
23.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Obama running with Bo in the East wing colonnade.
23.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It looks like the colonnade is also gone.
23.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is the colonnade also gone??
23.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?
23.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 187 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 8A great article ... do read if you have 5 minutes.
23.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 48 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 2Ya think?
22.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"I was just following orders"
22.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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