William O. Balmer

In Gaza, Scanning the Sky for Stars, Not Drones A Palestinian scientist's effort to bring astronomy to Gaza has begun to bear fruit, but steep hurdles remain.

Suleiman Baraka in Gaza says this about his work: “I decided to fight the killing of the children by educating the children.... astronomy “is also a window for breathing freedom that we were denied for our whole life".

I think this is the reason the world needs it. All of us need his example.

needs a catchy limerick for memorization. periapsis in abstract, perihelion for the Sun, perigee for the Earth, and periastron for binary stars (inherited by exoplanets, which are really just very small binary stars), lil omega, a.o.p., the forgotten one, etc

that's an easy fix. just plot the upper 1 sigma uncertainty on argument of periastron on the abscissa, and the lower 1 sigma uncertainty on the tess input catalog stellar effective temperature on the ordinate. basically as informative as m or r vs P imo

we found the same with nircam last year! two independent instruments showing strong CO2 features and the power of JWST at high contrasts

woohoo a high throughput coronagraph in space 😀

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

i think i heard so!

ive liked my lenovo steam deck equivalent so far, runs steamos/linux

One legitimate way to be frustrated with graduate education is to think about the fact that grad programs continue to produce PhDs despite there being few job opportunities because those programs need the cheap labor of graduate students. But you need to be able to see yourself as a worker.

2+7= _ I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles. ٠١٨٨ IT'S WORTH A SHOT. aMI, 7 january 1986 NAITION

Has this been posted yet

"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?'

"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷‍♂️

what does an exoplanet look like? - astro will Large telescopes have allowed us to take unresolved pictures of exoplanets around a few dozen nearby stars, in many different colors of light. What do they look like?

blogging through the sickness

www.astrowill.page/blog/what-do...

the classic sickness after stressful deadlines has impeeded halloween fun this year :(

after this proposal cycle, i think i can argue anything

the closest r1 physics dept to my hometown is hiring: 😀😀😀

... in cm theory: 🫥🫥🫥

a scientist presenting in front of a slide show, which displays a diagram of variability in the brightness of a planet

my favorite weatherman on channel 0136 @evertnasedkin.bsky.social

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

first fellowship submitted. brain hurts

truly elegant paper!

Let that sink in

"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

🔭 It's paper day! Today I'm sharing the latest in a series of papers looking at the weather on other worlds, in this case bringing you the weather report from a nearby T-dwarf, SIMP-0136. 🪐

🧵 to follow...

so cool!

morgoth sends hellfires to assist the bacteria roasting

awesome! at a great separation for lots of instruments too

need to take a break from fellowship drafts because i think im driving myself crazy

surely the others will be different, right guys

i have always explained something approximating this to people who ask me my opinion on three body. classic cosmic mirror of a writer who grew up in the cold war. glad others seem to agree!

New Study from Madaket Health Reveals Nearly Half of Americans Delay Healthcare Due to Cost and In-Network Barriers

About half of Americans say they've put off healthcare services due to cost barriers, with Millennials most affected by far, per new study by Madaket Health.

Percent of age groups who've put off getting care:
Millennials: 78%
Gen X: 56%
Baby Boomers: 30%
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