Ray Garner 🏳️‍🌈

The new image of M87* just released today comes to life in this stunning animation, revealing its incredible evolution over the years!

Watch closely and see how this mysterious supermassive black hole changes over time.

Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Saurabh (MPIfR)

It turns out astropy has perfectly good photometry tools and I should have definitely been using those instead of my own clunked together code. My fits make much more sense suddenly!

I remember that talk. I hope it went well 😬

If your beliefs deny the right of others to exist, then those are not beliefs of good people.

It is not “indoctrination” to mention that others may not be in the gender binary. It IS indoctrination to say you can’t teach that and students can’t learn that.

Shame on President Welsh.

Astronomers be like “yeah, I was there recently” and mean 7 million years ago

YouTube video by Eddy Burback I hate my phone so I got rid of it

A week or so ago, I watched this video and I have not stopped thinking about it. How nice it would be to get rid of my iPhone and get a landline and transition away from being constantly available. It sounds so nice.

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This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.

And that proposal was just accepted!!! Hell yeah!

Well, I’m on the academic job market! I’m looking for professorships and other postdoc positions. My academic interests are nebular abundances, galactic evolution, HII regions, etc.

I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)

once again reminded how much the grad school experience is shaped by your phd supervisor, and thanking the universe for my mentors. If I can do for my students what my advisor did for me, I’ll call myself a success 🙏🏽

Just submitted my first observing proposal for director’s time! Here’s hoping!

Representation matters in physics teaching: introducing the Contemporary Physicists project Looking to add a more modern touch to your physics teaching? Check out "Bringing Contemporary Physicists to the Classroom" for resources, slide decks, and more!

From Samantha Wong: Looking to add a more modern touch to your physics teaching? Check out “Bringing Contemporary Physicists to the Classroom” for resources, slide decks, and more! 🔭✨☄️
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Sending so much love to all our queer family in Florida. You are incredible, and you are loved.

Is 3I/ATLAS Made of Antimatter? The detailed analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope image of the new interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (discussed here and here), implies a…

Nope, it might be antimatter now. avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i-atlas-...

YouTube video by They Might Be Giants - Topic Let's Get This Over With

I found a new set of lyrics that resonates with me:

"Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do
Even when you don't know what it is
Your job knows what it is
What it is is it's coming to get you
I'm talking to myself even when I'm saying 'you'"

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I will never forgive Apple for getting rid of their headphone jack and giving the wired headphones a lightning cable end. More than ever people seem to use their phones without headphones to watch videos on the subway and you cannot convince me that change isn’t partly responsible.

What gif pops up when you type your name?

There’s No “I” in Team. But There Is One in “ALIENS” Yelling “Tarantulas!” in a crowded movie theater has its time and place. If you’re enduring Madame Web, everyone will be relieved you…

Avi
Loeb
Is
Entertaining
Not
Sciencing

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In my capacity as a professional scientist, once again, I say to my colleagues:

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.

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Fun fact: the show that I’m watching now, E.R., premiered two years before I was born! Do you feel old yet?

A smiling young woman with brightly colored hair and glasses standing in front of a poster.

My very first undergrad presented the research that we worked on for the past year! I'm so proud of Liv and all of the work that she's put into this project, especially over the summer. Any future undergrads have some big shoes to fill! (And keep an eye out for the Research Note we'll publish soon!)

There is a massive opportunity here but only if we can maintain and build momentum; we cannot let off the gas on this, not even a little

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Soooo, last night I was trying to kill a spider with bug spray and ended up slipping in the bug spray and completely dislocating my ankle. Guess who's in a full splint and might need orthopedic surgery! (God I hope that spider is dead.)

Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life Are there aliens living on the exoplanet K2-18b? Some astronomers believe they have evidence for molecules on the planet that must have a biological origin, but others disagree

Ready for the latest K2-18b drama?

Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.

Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵

#exoplanets 🔭

@liveeventtrivia.bsky.social Y’all know David Bowie is dead, right? For almost a decade?

I really thought this was Jupiter for a sec

I agree, I’m mainly mad at the pop sci writers who take this stuff and claim things that the data isn’t saying. Not really that upset with the actual scientists