Emily Rauscher

a cartoon character with an angry look on his face has the hashtag freetopsticker on the bottom Alt: The Anger character from the animated movie Inside Out yells as flames shoot out of the top of his head

Litter makes me want to yell at strangers

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Column | We’re about to turn night into day. Is that a good idea? Proposals before the FCC involve mirrors that could bathe entire cities in sunlight and, from SpaceX, a million satellites to serve as data centers.

Hint: when there’s a question in a title, the answer is almost always “no”. Article: “We’re about to turn night into day. Is that a good idea?” wapo.st/4cdyP0s

This is an amazingly niche post 😂

Participants in the AAS Publishing peer review workshop at the 246th AAS Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, pose together holding certificates of completion.

Build Your Peer Review Skills at #AAS248

If you’d like to feel more confident the next time you’re asked by an editor to peer review a paper, consider applying to attend the upcoming AAS Peer Review Training Workshop in Pasadena on 14 June 2026. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭

@publishing.aas.org

Have I complained here about this (unimportant) issue before? 🗣️ A number should never start with a bare decimal point; always put a zero first! (E.g., 0.26 instead of .26)

Please and thank you

That sounds like zoom instruction to me

Throughout the years, there has been a constant increase in the publishing costs of journal publications.

This article is really interesting! I appreciate the effort to survey the literature.

But section 3.3 is really misinformed.

For instance, except for the shift to open access (which mostly just shifted costs) AAS Journal costs have gone *down*, not up, over the years.

arxiv.org/abs/2602.12303

Every other month

I’ve got him signed up for Stitch Fix, mostly because I know he’s constantly growing out of clothes and so it’s helpful having a regular shipment of replacements

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If you see this post a Star Trek

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BEWARE PHISHING:
Multiple of my (academic) friends have suffered email hacks where they get an invitation to a party and are asked to login to one of their social media/email accounts in order to access it.

This thing is like an illness that seems to be spreading a lot. Be on alert.

Current highlight of my trip to Pasadena: the gentle mariachi music floating up to my hotel window

The Burbank airport is cuuuuuute ☺️ … especially in contrast to the monstrosity that is LAX

Now I feel like I need to go look this up!

It’s in my backpack for my flight tomorrow! … oh, maybe I’ll see you Tue or Wed?

Right in the nostalgic feels

Easy, show the mass-period one instead! 🤓

Edge you roam

Sorry, the most recent thing I read and enjoyed (The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Arden) has some dark aspects (WWII trench warfare, death). But if that doesn’t immediately turn you off, I will say that it has a satisfying, non-downer ending

I see you also live in a “hey guys, do you know what time it is?” household 😆

And I never get tired of how quickly my water boils!

Yep. January (my month of TOO MANY THINGS) is over, so 😷

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

Five classes I took in college:
*Judo
*Upper level rhetoric
*Some psych or biochem class about drugs?
*Art and Architecture of Japan
*History of science