Paul Duffell

Very surreal to see the names of people I know personally in these files, even when it's just things like this shortlist.

Every prospective postdoc I talk to is experiencing the same thing. It's not over til the Hubble cascade this month, but things are not looking good out there.

I haven't! I will take a look.

Love these results. I've already sent Rana to build off-axis models with predictions for sky images. We will email you once we are further along!

Halfway through feeding my baby, she starts pointing ominously at the clock, making me feel like I'm forgetting an appointment or something. But no, she just really likes clocks.

Logo for The Astrophysics Podcast. Basically it's the name of the podcast above a glowing, fiery ball that looks kind of like the sun. Actually it's a hydrodynamic simulation of a supernova remnant exhibiting hydrodynamic instability.

Photo of Dr. Gurtina Besla, an astrophysicist from the University of Arizona.

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The latest episode of the #astrophysics #podcast is now available! I discuss interesting ways of learning about dark matter in the Milky Way with Dr. Gurtina Besla from the University of Arizona:

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You should just get chatGPT to read it for you.

Can you come run our faculty meetings?

Pretty much all AI marketing is based on the assumption that you hate doing your job.

"You're a songwriter -- don't you hate having to write songs all day?"

FUNKY SMUNKY, Y'ALL!

Your children will have great childhoods and lives just by virtue of having you as a mom.

Very often I see the entire first paragraph they are talking about themselves rather than talking about their student, which really doesn't send a good message, and my immediate thought is "OMG I don't care". But I'm sure it's possible to introduce yourself without sending that message.

Tips for writing recommendation letters, by someone reading them: 🧪🔭

1. If you're writing to give a very strong recommendation, say that in the first sentence.
2. If they did research for you, say that in the first few sentences.
3. "First, a little bit about me for context..." <- delete this.

I feel like there's no way to do this without looking petty, even if you are in the right.

Every Monday I have "writing hour" with my students, we go to the coffee shop across the street for time purely devoted to writing. Some stay longer than an hour, but I think the idea of devoted time for writing is essential, however you do it.

Awesome!

Oh, sorry to hear that! Hope to catch you some other conference!

Oh hey! I'm there too! I'll try to keep an eye out for you!

Seems very well-timed to me! Summertime with the babies!

I had kind of assumed they did that already. Don't editors get holiday break? It's not like they're air traffic controllers or something.

Oh no! That will definitely happen to me one day because I will promptly forget this fact!

I'm just about to go teach my cosmology class in an hour, this is actually perfect!

Wow, congratulations!

Looks like the same status as TCAN, which is not reassuring.

Yeah Purdue generally has a very international grad student population, with a ton of amazing students from China. But I'd prefer not to talk over social media about what I've personally witnessed, so I'll leave it at that.

Hmmm, interesting article.

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Dr. Kaitlin Kratter, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona.

Logo of the astrophysics podcast, with a big bright supernova about to smack into the title.

December's episode of the #astrophysics #podcast is here! This month, I interview Dr. Kaitlin Kratter of the University of Arizona. We talk about how she figures out how the planets form by putting a solar system on the computer! 🔭🧪

At least that helps you narrow down the list!

Every now and then, you check into a hotel from a certain era and it's like you're spending the night inside a Denny's.

My daughter's current frustration: she wants to have her book and eat it too.