Scott Gaudi

Image from 2025 summer graduation at Ohio State with 5 people in PhD regalia in front of empty seats and a stage with the OSU seal. L to R: Laura Lopez, Joy Bhattacharyya, Caprice Phillips, Alison Duck, Scott Gaudi.

Honored to celebrate 3 new astro doctors yesterday @joybee8.bsky.social, @capricephillips.bsky.social, @astroalison.bsky.social with @scottgaudi.bsky.social! Thanks to @jajohnson.bsky.social for lending me UC Santa Cruz regalia & to the OSU French & Italian prof who fixed my own backwards hood. 😂

I'm actually not sure... that might have been the genesis.

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search for Life YouTube video by NASA Goddard

Check out this excellent video about the Habitable Worlds Observatory, narrated by John Rhys-Davies!

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

Brad Lander was a Jewish candidate in the race. Landers & Mamdani even cross endorsed each other. And he did answer the question of fighting Islamophobia.

Let’s not further division of the Jewish & Muslim communities by adding to the disinformation out there.

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#exoplanets #jobs 📣

I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.

*Launches NEXT YEAR!

Please RT & share with your networks!

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Live Updates: Supreme Court Upholds State Ban on Transgender Care for Minors

Our country steadily marches backwards into darkness.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Roman is so close to being completed!

I'm sitting a sidewalk table at a coffee shop in NYC charging my cell phone off my laptop that is tethered to my cell phone and I'm cautiously optimistic that I've just created a pertpetuatal motion machine.

Go California.

Dear astronomer friends, I don't know who needs to hear this, but thank your referee in your acknowledgements, even if they are anonymous, and even if you don't completely agree with them. Refereeing is a lot of work, and the least you can do is say thank you.

Trump wants to slash NASA's budget. That could doom an Ohio State-supported telescope The project cancellation comes after NASA has already invested 15 years and $3.4 billion in the telescope, which is 90% complete.

www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Opinion | E.T., Phone the White House (Gift Article) Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Carter asks university to prepare to pivot toward future of higher education At 1,100 feet long, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is larger than the Empire State building and displaces more than 100,000 tons of water. Yet, when absolutely needed, the carrier can pivot 180 degre...

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Yeah, I think we all know what "pivot" really means.

I listed to this album on repeat for about a month straight when I was in college.

The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.

🥳for International Transgender Day of Visibility! Being an ally means listening, learning, & standing up against discrimination, not just today, but every day. Support, respect, and uplift trans voices. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Back from a four month sabbatical visit to Goddard Space Flight Center. It was a great visit and so amazing to see the progress on the Roman Space Telescope.

Image of a record player with a record and the sleeve of the record sitting on the record player leaning against the wall. The record is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" showing a prism diffracting white light into a rainbow.

As I've been getting back into vinyl after decades of cassettes, CDs, MP3s, etc., I realize how much time artists used to put into where the songs existed on the records, how the songs related to each other, and how each side had a different experience and told a different story.