Alexander Thomas

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is illegal by the way ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Ill vote for any Dem who says they'll prosecute after 2028 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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I don't think the NASA Exoplanet Archive interactive cumulative number of planets plot likes it if you try to bin 1992-2027 by individual days

YO SHOUT OUT PEACOCK FOR BEING THE ONLY STREAMING SERVICE TO NOT WORK ON LINUX YOU RULE

Grad school is the realest example of the Dunning Kruger effect because you get to the veeeeeeery end and you're almost a Ph.D. and you sit there writing your thesis and begin to question if you even know what an exoplanet is.

Also i know this is late and I have so few opinions on country music but Jelly Roll winning over Tyler Childers did severe psychic damage to me

Give me aurora please God I need aurora with no clouds Im begging bro

Meanwhile in Ohio...

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 11, Episode 1

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky

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Im applying for a couple postdocs at IU and imagine telling me three years ago that potentially moving to IU from Notre Dame would be a football upgrade.

Insanity.

Also when ever I type 67 I do in fact say 67 outloud and do the hand motions and I feel a *small* part of me die

How am I supposed to work on my last project for my thesis when I can endlessly scroll the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives subreddit

A doctor took my blood pressure earlier this week and immediately asked "Soooo how stressed are ya?" and this is a video I sent in my research group slack about my code if you are wondering how postdoc apps are going

If I dont get a postdoc, my backup plan is to stand outside of Mike Brown's house with a "FIRE ZAC TAYLOR AND HIRE ME" sign

If Yoshi comes in and gets the win, he needs WS MVP no matter what

I also have several applications due this week God help me

I mean it worked. I just hate units and angles and its really a skill issue

Update, the code didnt work

The World Series started at 8:00.

My code started running at 9:15.

My code took 3 hours and 40 minutes.

My code finished first

Golf has this amazing ability to give you hope then absolutely best you down.

Par or hole 1? Cool! Youre getting 8 shots in a bunker on hole 5

4x4” mini painting of a roller coaster silhouette at sunset on an exoplanet. There are two suns in the sky, water, and alien pitcher plants in the foreground

Yes, this is the Millennium Force on an exoplanet. I used it as a test subject for a custom varnish mixture—equal parts satin & gloss. Love how the sheen turned out, so I’ll be using this mix on Leviathan’s Wake today.

Is it wrong of me to say that Reflect Orbital is one of the whackiest things Ive heard in a while?

Some tidbits about the most recent 1,000 exoplanets:

- Nearly half (~490) were discovered with NASA's TESS mission
- As a result, their host stars are nearly *10 times brighter on average* than previous stars!
- We have found a lot more cool giant planets (Jupiter analogs), with RV and imaging

I hope this isn't vague-posting but like...man every day I become more and more convinced that i need to become a professor. Not because I want to but because people have to fight back/push back against some of these people dude.

Im not saying that people aren't. Im just saying we need more.

HE HAS A JERSEY 🧡🧡🧡

Hooooooooly