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Brian Grefenstette

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Black Hole Chaser | Instrument Scientist for NASA's NuSTAR Mission | Project Scientist for the Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) Mission Concept | My views are not the views of NASA Disc golfer | Gamer | Nerd | Musician | He/him

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Thought we felt a little jolt

23.12.2023 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Coming toward the end of the year, and a cold (just a vanilla cold) is in my house. So I guess that means the β€œlet’s get a paper out by Christmas” push is done

18.12.2023 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

UVEX site visit formally complete. Now just have to wait to see if* there government shuts down to figure out what the next steps are.

*how long, I guess

28.09.2023 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly PDFs. The html versions of published articles (sometimes) have figures re-sized and re-scaled at the whim of the journal, where I can (mostly trust) that the PDF version of the paper is reflective of what the authors are trying to do.

28.09.2023 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of telling that the first post in my Discover feed is, indeed, cat photos.

25.09.2023 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NuSTAR got its mixed case spelling well before my time...but yes, wondering if my shift key is broken has been a challenge for the last decade...

25.09.2023 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey look, this is a thing now. And I suppose, "Hello, World".

25.09.2023 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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