Brandon Barker

Michigan State Astro as well.

(As someone who was not asked) for pen and paper style methods I quite liked Byron and Fuller & Dennery and (??), both Dover books. The book by Mary Boas is also great, especially at the undergraduate level

How New Mexico Became a Sanctuary State for Health Care Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the number of abortion clinics there has doubled. With strong protections for gender-affirming treatment, and now universal child care, the state is betting on a prog...

Earlier this month, New Mexico became the first state to offer universal free child care to all residents, regardless of income.

How New Mexico Became a Sanctuary State for Health Care Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the number of abortion clinics there has doubled. With strong protections for gender-affirming treatment, and now universal child care, the state is betting on a prog...

New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, has allocated $20 million to build reproductive-health clinics. “I want more primary-care access for women and their families,” she said.

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good choice

ADS has given astronomy THE BEST literature tools available anywhere. I almost never have to use the garbage that other academics have to suffer through (GoogleScholar, JSTOR, LexisNexis, WoS, PubMed...)

Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep

inspire HEP is decent as well, but I can’t be bothered to learn it. The worst part about cosplaying as an applied mathematician is that the papers aren’t on ADS

what do you mean i designed this

getting better at software development is miserable business because you want to rewrite everything you’ve ever written

few know this but python4 already exists. it’s called julia

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A novel algorithm for GPU-accelerated particle-mesh interactions implemented in the QUOKKA code. Chong-Chong He (ANU) et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18261

Spanish is definitely the faster language

today the new season of the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks kicks off: vast-seminars.github.io

Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time).

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#astrocode

Any text editor should have the ability to compile tex, often on saves like overleaf). I use vim + vimtex (and command line compilation) but vscode and friends can definitely do this. A makefile helps to, so you can just type make and have it compile. Git for the sharing part

god i hate having to use overleaf, why on gods earth do i need an internet connection to write text in text editor

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Kilonovae and Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts. Marko Ristić et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03003

v v excited about this work feat. @astrobarker.bsky.social 👀 one conclusion: GRBs 211211A + 230307A fit a collapsar-kilonova model better than a compact-binary-kilonova model 👀

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Programmatic postdocs (i.e. staff X has money for a postdoc to work on project Y) can have a fast turn around — some positions posted “this cycle” might want someone to start before fall 2026 etc. a little more info here cdn.lanl.gov/files/postdo... i can chat more if you have more specific Qs!

LANL is all over the place — for CTA it’s probably most aligned with a fall 2026-ish start date, but flexible? Packages due in December. But there are a number of fellowship calls happening quarterly (such as Director’s fellows) but require a staff sponsor to write a nomination/memo.

Astrophysics Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory is Hiring! Search available jobs or submit your resume now by visiting this link. Please share with anyone you feel would be a great fit.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Theoretical Astrophysics has its postdoctoral position posted! LANL and the CTA has extensive experience in theory, simulation, modeling, and ML/AI applications. Northern New Mexico is also beautiful and full of good food! lanl.jobs/search/jobde...

That’s great news! I assume stipends are not adjusted? Minimum postdoc pay at the labs is higher than NHFP 😬

NASA centers and national labs can host Hubble/Einstein/Sagan Fellows now!! 🔭

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my aesthetic is Dover math and physics textbook art

the semester is starting! here are some of my teaching resources online:

intro astronomy animations: zingale.github.io/astro_animat...

my computational astrophysics class: zingale.github.io/computationa...

my computational hydro text: open-astrophysics-bookshelf.github.io/numerical_ex...

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Jurassic park clip, edited: a few more years development and we won’t even have to code anymore

Alan Grant saying where’s the fun in that

Feeling like Alan Grant more each day

Better than me trying to get a SSPRK tableau, and then telling me (after making lots of fake tableaus) “no, this one is SSP but that identical one is not”

3 hours of chat gpeetee can save you thirty minutes of just reading the literature

on the opposite side i finally (re) found beamer. turns out they can look interesting after all. wouldn’t use anything else besides Libre office because fuck proprietary thought

Did you know the high desert looks like this