Kamber Schwarz

Devastating. Wtf.

Thanks for the reminder, I would 100% have called in at the wrong time next week

A Deep Search for Complex Organic Molecules Around Protoplanetary Disks — The Astrochemistry Report COMs have been detected in various environments, from molecular clouds to protoplanetary disks, where planets are formed. Read more about it on the Astrochemistry Report!

My former student Abubakar Fadul recently wrote about our study of complex organic molecules in disks for the Astrochemistry Report. Check it out! www.astrochemistryreport.com/articles/fad... 🔭🧪

Why is it a full time job to search for a job!?! So tired 😫

All anti-transgender provisions stripped from House and Senate funding bills The bills are still subject to a final vote, but trans Americans can be relieved for now.

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.

As a balm for The Horrors I have been rereading The Hands of the Emperor, a fantasy novel about kind, competent people working in government. Highly recommend.

Welcome to Frankfurt. The bad news is your luggage is delayed. The good news is your train is also delayed. #goodtobehome

Today was my last day at MPIA. Still waiting to see what happens next 😬

Summer internships

The MPIA call for summer interns is now live! This is a great opportunity for bachelors & masters students from anywhere in the world to come an complete a three month, fully funded research project in beautiful Heidelberg. Check it out here: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...

Oae up of a yarn oval with concentric orange and black rings hung on a pine tree

I crocheted an HL Tau ornament (ALMA's version) for the institute Christmas tree! 🔭

How to stop the revolving door of German academia Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

FUND 👏 MORE 👏 PERMANENT 👏 POSITIONS 👏 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SAP software is a scourge on humanity

When IBCK does a book I've actually read

Hot damn! Too much adoration allowing scientists to go off the rails would explain more than just Watson.

Science teaches how to build an AI chatbot. The humanities teach you why pretending it's 'intelligent' is a bad idea.

Save NASA Goddard & JPL before it's too late Firing huge swaths of workforce and now closing facilities--stop the dismantling of space science now

You've seen the news about issues at Goddard closing facilities and the culture of fear and intimidation. AGU has generated an email and a call script to contact your representatives. Please take a few minutes over your coffee this morning to send it. And thank you. agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...

GESTA’s Summary of Goddard Building Closures Status NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the largest group of scientists, technicians and engineers in the US who develop Earth and space science flight missions.  Below is GESTA's understanding of the...

As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪

www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Help! My cat doesn't understand that daylight savings means dinner is not in fact late.

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

Binge watching The Pitt on a red-eye the night before the JWST deadline was maybe not the best decision. 🫩

How's your Sunday going? Mine consists of coffee, a job application, and a disapproving cat.

I have that one at least once a month. It's terrifying.

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Me at 35 being asked to write a five paragraph essay like I'm in high school again

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I'd been meaning to par down my streaming subscriptions. Disney made it easy to pick the loser.

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"We use the updated values." But what are the updated values? Where did you get them from?

I feel very called out

Should I spend Sunday working on this grant proposal or should I take a nap?

I recently got to talk to Space about a new JWST MINDS paper led by Maria Morales-Calderón! 🧪🔭 www.space.com/astronomy/ja...