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I'm hiring a postdoc -- come and do awesome cosmology with great people in one of the nicest cities in the world (not that I'm biased or anything) ๐ญ ๐งช
cosmology.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2025/12/12/p...
I'm hiring a postdoc -- come and do awesome cosmology with great people in one of the nicest cities in the world (not that I'm biased or anything) ๐ญ ๐งช
cosmology.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2025/12/12/p...
The space stuff is depressingly small bore.
12.12.2025 08:09 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Me too. Same time frame.
12.12.2025 08:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It actually makes for all kinds of trouble. Most schemes have a fiscal cliff that tips the recipients into a tight funding pool after a few years, and many senior targeted into small countries are huge prima donnas who act like (and probably believe) they are doing us a favour by being here.
12.12.2025 06:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Imagine how grumpy you would be if you were a Canadian looking at a rejected grant.
11.12.2025 22:09 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0He has an overly particular set of skills I guess. (I know someone who was once tricked into appearing in a documentary about ๐ฝ so can happen)
11.12.2025 22:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0E.g. a place that can sell me these without too much drama
11.12.2025 04:37 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0Folks -- what's the current best site for ordering technical books. Just loaded up an Amazon cart for my work bookshelf on amazon.au and it decided most of them could not ship to NZ.
11.12.2025 04:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1Hail is more likely in summer, oddly.
11.12.2025 04:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I might know one.
10.12.2025 09:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 014/10 from "We rate hemispheres"
10.12.2025 09:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Green leafy trees with blue sky behind them
Walking on Alfred St today struck by how lovely the blue sky looked through the leaves.
Not sure about "hot scientist summer" but definitely seeing a lot of shorts on campus.
Wow. That's a rizzectomy. Hope Zuckerberg can get by on ads for hearing aids, adult diapers and fascism.
09.12.2025 22:23 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Congratulations!!
09.12.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New Zealand: yeah, we know mate.
09.12.2025 10:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Basically a "Rule 1" moment, but for LaTeX formatting.
09.12.2025 09:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sorted the placement of two full-page corner plots in latex.
09.12.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Lovely all day TTTT.
09.12.2025 07:14 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Go Springs.
09.12.2025 06:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Who is your favourite electric co?
09.12.2025 05:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"My only smart device is a printer and I keep a handgun next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognise"
08.12.2025 20:55 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Get thee behind me Satan.
08.12.2025 07:48 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Was going to say the same.
07.12.2025 23:40 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Saw this in preview today and it's wonderful. (And so pleased to see he seems to have been a lovely guy IRL)
Not a bad day for it at all.
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Not rent free, but an honoured guest. In the room next to
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
None of them strong rugby nations.
06.12.2025 12:20 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0