John Gizis

Cover of "Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics", which features an illustration of a 19-year-old Vera Rubin looking through a telescope over a backdrop of a first light image of spiral galaxies from the Rubin Observatory.

Happy International Women's Day!

Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general).

arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465

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I like this quote:

“What class D was supposed to mean is that you were taking a big risk of not getting the science that was as high precision as you were planning on," Hubbard says. "It didn't mean the whole darn thing wouldn't work."

This WBC is fun!

So nice to see Didi playing. Also good to have games on Tubi for free.

Although of course with these lineups it’s not like a normal team.

Aaron Judge. (But I was complaining why would you steal and open up first? )

Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."

Sharpton: "We're still here! We've come this far by faith. It was against the law to read and write! It was against the law to marry, but we've come this far by faith. I don't care what they do in Washington, I care what we do in the community. We've beat people bigger than Trump!"

At UD, we’re discussing using it for a class, although I think none of us have read it yet!

It’s going to snow for me. :(

Adding some art to my office. I think the Agamemnon Death Mask pairs well with my diplomas. #symbolism

Excellent piece.

#Astronomy grad students, apply for this incredible fellowship!

Let me know if you have any questions. I am a former VGSRF fellow and I am currently a mentor!

This was extremely interesting talk, worth staying through the whole thing

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

The first Cylon.

“All of this has happened before, and will happen again.“

Hey, Night Agent (supposedly) goes to Salem NJ. Exciting!

I would never have thought LSST alert stream starts before LSST survey, but the astronomers at Rubin Observatory managed it! It’s good news anyway.

I think you have a funny typo.

a person is walking through a snowy field with skis . Alt: Reliving Luke walking in a blizzard through a snowy field on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Winter Mood #SundayVibes #winter #blizzard #snow ❄️☃️

Hockey is so stressful.

"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

On the positive side, successfully avoided spoilers and was thrilled Alycia Liu won on the prime time rebroadcast.

This is so awful.

Happy for Team USA

Got that post in just in time!

25/25. Save percentage 1.000%.

Professor grumbles

Going to be on committee for a SETI related PhD defense. Good thing I follow @astrowright.bsky.social

I need to log off and stay logged off, and just watch tonight.

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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