Dr. Teddy Kareta

honestly it seems like the grown up, useful, and normal version of the goofy plot that John Noonan and I came up with for 1I/'Oumuamua on twitter as the "rillito research institute" where we plotted a/b ratio vs. max speed for reptiles and interstellar objects and found it qualified as a fast snake

student success alert: turns out modeling ice in cometary comae is super complex sometimes! probably all the time. firgard and kareta '25, out today in PSJ:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

My goal for the rest of 2025 is "don't let anyone figure out that they let a total goofball onto the tenure track"

Nope! Only virtually. It's gonna be my second week of teaching, so I'm trying to make a good impression around here by not immediately smirking my duties, hah!

I'm not sure -- my nose has been buried in other press secretary activities, so it's possible it's been discussed but I'm just out of the loop.

Just saw a dude in a beret and wearing a bandana around his neck who was actually pulling it off. We really are the second iteration of the 1930s.

I am begging journalists to stop platforming him. These objects are SO EXCITING and there are people doing really good science on them and he is not one of them.

Heh I glanced at it and thought "oh they're doing it from space, that's cheating"

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

You're all good -- if it went out in the email, everyone in the community already knows. If anything changes, I'll reach out. thanks!

lol looks like it went out in the newsletter circumventing our regular press release process and me as press officer, never mind my original post

The DPS hasn't even put out our press release yet. Who passed along the okay to post these early?

can't help the feeling that one black hole being equivalent to half an Earth's worth of birds on an information basis is a kind of forbidden knowledge, a la "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they COULD..."

I hope to god I never get scooped by Avi only to remember, "hey, didn't Qicheng jokingly suggest...."

which, to be clear, I would support but only in terms of some avant garde adaption of the James Joyce work

I mean, his new Juno "paper" is about as ludicrous as saying "it's time to revive and redirect Ulysses"

nobody tell avi loeb about phaethon or wilson-harrington

huge news for jazz fusion fans

dunno just got off the phone with my dude Avi and he said that if we give Juno the serum from The Hulk (the one with Edward Norton, he specified) it can grab 3I and shake all the little alien guys out

Cover of a 1966 report titled Projects in Process. Punch card patterns run across the cover.

YouTube video by Jazzaudrey george benson - Take Five 1976 Montreux 1986

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn27...

“Indiscipline” by King Crimson is about checking your phone

ignore the typo, the riff sprouted from my head so quickly that I had to get it out of me

Saddest Beach Boys b-side, alongside "having an a sorta fine day near the beach"

the corollary to the absolutely true “one day, everyone will always have been against this” is that they’ll also never truly forgive you for being loud and right long before they were, unless you play along and pretend for them

Wow, that's a fun view. My office is attached to the student library in the science building here, so as long as the students are actually studying (as opposed to complaining about my teaching style, hah!) it should be pretty darn peaceful.

yes! more and in more ways than I've been able to in previous jobs

view from the new (faculty!!) office. it's got:
- trains

darn okay I'll retract my "Bode's Law 2: This time, it's Interstellar" manuscript

the gas station / power lines / mountains shot was me trying to repeat some of the elements in my favorite photo I've ever taken -- coincidentally on my first cross-country roadtrip around sunrise in Alamogordo