I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that)
Feel free to message
question for the astronomy hive mind, does anyone have a J band spectrum for the white dwarf standard HZ 4? will offer
- a beer or coffee at the next conference if there's a reference I've missed,
- coauthorship and eternal gratitude if failing that anyone can take a spectrum
* explicitly
Not just “we need this now, and it’s in an archive so maybe it will be useful eventually again” but also more of the “we should take this data because someday it might be useful”
TESS is a decades timescale instrument!
And yeah… there’s a lot of inter-generational discovery that needs to happen, and we should do more to enable it explit
Fast timescale astronomy gets all the glory these days, but I’ll continue to argue that the really interesting stuff right now is years to decades.
This can happen with “Post AGB” stars, leaving the last phase of giant star, pushing off their outer atmosphere to reveal a new white dwarf. For example, check out SAO 244567, central star of the Stingray Nebula, which has rapidly changed color!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingra...
I love seeing graphs like this… most stars don’t change color, but some do! On short timescales (hours) little red stars have bright blue flares. But over years, a small number of stars can change their entire color (i.e. temperature)!
Light curves of WOH G64.
Massive stars usually evolve gradually over millennia, but according to an article in Nature Astronomy, extreme star WHO G64 shifted from red to yellow in just a year, prompting the question whether this is due intrinsic instability or interaction with a hidden companion.
go.nature.com/4cYLEMp 🔭 🧪
Do you already have a Masters? Do you want to do a PhD in exoplanet radial velocity surveys with me at Macquarie University in Sydney?
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Had the full rehearsal this evening for Ignite Seattle 50!! I laughed so much. I teared up from two talks. I saw 12 near-strangers give a ton of love and support for each other’s stories.
If you’re in Seattle next week, come to the show!!
igniteseattle.com/event/ignite...
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The headline today is: "markets tumble as Iran conflict intensifies"
instead of: "illegal war claims innocent lives"
(Also WA) my memory is that permanent DST isn’t allowed unless Feds sign off. Permanent Std time would be implemented. My conspiracy theory is republicans campaign for DST knowing it won’t be deployed, so they can forever complain about gov’t not working
The kids continue to be alright. It’s the rest of us that should be tossed out the nearest airlock
Oh man. We’re like mortal enemies now. This is some supervillain origin story shit.
I think that’s exactly how we end up in this situation. Everyone agrees that switching time zones is horrible. When you phrase the question as “wouldn’t it be nice if we never stopped changing?!” It is wildly popular.
So yes, I agree, any one is better than switching
Standard Time or GTFO. Please LMK if you support permanent DST so I can block and unfollow you
Just reading shit. Even occasionally. Massive ROI.
Exhibit 4.5 billion that men are the problem
Point of order question: do you need to (or even CAN you) vote to end it, if you didn’t vote to authorize it?
Seems like the appropriate response is impeachment, no?
Is this a lightkurve plot from the pixel file, with Gaia sources overlaid?
![Quote from Washington Times editorial board
"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:222p42fegwhwfyrc3gqam76j/bafkreib4nkrafaic6rpwa7wyeesnlmjeu23sshxjjpvqtr33wk7ztuxb2y)
Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
somebody installed an AI agent on our Slack, and now I'm having to spend some of my work time trying to figure out how to make it leave me the hell alone.
"Never message me again" was met with "Sorry, I didn't get that"
Have we fallen asleep? Have we already forgotten the breach of international law in Venezuela?! We have long since lost our goddamned minds
Stop begging for a ribbon to be tied on this. Stop looking for an excuse to justify YET ANOTHER blatantly illegal overthrow of a foreign government. None of this is OK. None of it will be OK
“What’s different this time is THIS war is unpopular”
I remember being 17, watching our bombs fall in Afghanistan on TV, and worrying how many kids like me were going to be killed, not how the poll numbers were looking.
But I also have been thinking really deeply about #scicomm in the last few years. In person, I don’t shy away from these interactions. I’ll stay an hour+ after my presentation, chatting with people who ask if the universe is shaped like Swiss cheese.
I lump the innumerable requests for service or contribution from journals and conferences I’ve never heard of in the same category as LLM crackpots.
I’ve settled into the ignore category these days. I feel zero obligation to answer any email (either layperson or colleague) unless required by my contract. I do TRY to respond to things, esp. professional, but my priority day to day, hour to hour, is the people around me
