Andrew Mann

Extrapolating from growth just at my house, one day the entire universe will be nothing but Rosemary and toddler fingernails. 🧪🔭💅

I’m not the problem here.

There are two kinds of email inboxes:
0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.

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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

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Figure from the paper showing detected streams in the Milky Way in Cartesian coordinates, where streams are shown as highlighted volumes. The Sun is at X=Y=Z 0 pc (the red cross): so these streams are all around us!

What happens when a star cluster disperses? Well, it forms a stream of stars - and those streams are all around us!

In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

What's one more plot when you've already maxed out the AAS publication charges? 🔭🧪🤑💸💰

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.

Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

not worth as much since the new speeder came out

For reference, the call was open but this time every prior year since I was a student usually with an October deadline.

So… will there be an NSF GRFP call this year? 🧪🔭

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF)

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Some personal news.
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Announcing one’s retirement two years in advance may strike a lot of people as excessive notice, but I expect the search for my successsor to be time-consuming (and I was determined not to extend my tenure beyond the announced date).

It's a GI program for funding and cadence. Some TESS programs are also for time on other telescopes (simultaneous observations), but most are for funding or to get certain targets at the faster download.

That's why it's a weird situation to in - funding is the MAIN output of the TESS GI program.

Apparently zero TESS proposals were "selected" because they don't know about funding. Best ranking you can get is "selectable". 🧪🔭 #exoplanets

kermit the frog is holding a banjo and says someday we 'll find it ALT: kermit the frog is holding a banjo and says someday we 'll find it

I’m only familiar with two songs about rainbows 🌈 and yet one of them opens with a question asking why there are so many such songs.

I have bad news for all of you, while the AIs can't tell how many Rs there are in Strawberry, they can absolutely replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .

Scrapers could do this a decade ago. You aren't protecting your email from anything. Get a better spam filter.

"The Loeb Scale: Astronomical Classification of Interstellar Objects" a paper from arxiv. Dude named a scale after himself...

Wat...
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Spoken like someone who has never actually tried to make such a call to a university admissions office.
I've been at multiple institutions where tiny changes (like not accepting GRE scores) took 1-2 weeks of emails.

We were able to get the application portal closed for the astronomy graduate program at @michiganstateu.bsky.social for the upcoming cycle. Not an ideal circumstance, but we wanted to communicate this to the community as early as possible.

Text detailing how MSU isn’t accepting grad applications for astronomy on their website

Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖

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2+2 = 3.99999999999 and you can't convince me otherwise.

Little do you know that the easiest form of interstellar space travel is just hopping on existing interstellar comets. For that reason any comet-like thing furthers my hypothesis and any not-comet-like thing also furthers my hypothesis.

Infinite non-falsifiability trick.

(This is sarcasm)

Doc office: Please arrive 30m early!
Me: arrives 30m early
Me: waits an hour
Doc office: come into a room
Me: waits another 30m
Doctor: "sorry for the wait"
Me: "why the f do I come early every time?"

Here’s why this is bad for democrats

-someone

clouds are another lie from big planet. trying to sell us new software 🔭🧪

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

onion getting a bit too real today. 🔭🧪

theonion.com/seek-funding...

Dating advice for men is right-coded because men on the left don't have any trouble in that area.

TIL AI is pretty good at passing quizzes for stupid trainings that otherwise completely waste my time.