It's been clear for a long time TMT isn't ever getting built in Hawaii.

Evaluation as an academic administrator should be a 1 question test: 1) Did you ever hire an external company to provide recommendation letter collation that requires each letter writer to make a unique login? If so, you lose your job and never get another one.

writing my NSF proposal on cardboard shirt inserts Gay Talese style

~ 1000 astro bachelors degrees given out last year, a new record, while most grad programs are planning to admit fewer students this year (due to reduced or uncertain federal funding).

is acorn tv the one with coffin flop?

Jaylen is reigning finals MVP for a few more minutes

another day, another paper proposing one of the most metal-poor galaxies known is strongly tidally stripped.

'hycean' is a terrible word. hydrogen means "water forming" (since, when burned, hydrogen produced water). ocean is stream or body of water enclosing a large land mass. so hycean means water forming body of water.

sean baker's other movies are also great! go watch red rocket.

oh no this is awful…RIP David Lynch

This program at MPIA (applications due Jan 15) is open to all nationalities and two positions are guaranteed to folks from non-rich countries. www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...

tom brady should be watching ross tucker do color

how long until everyone starts giving a 4.3 for an A+ at the university level?

cornell-heads sighing as fox uses husker du for bumper music in SEA-MIN

noticing some claims that o1 is "smarter than the median PhD student". this seems to involve a mental model for what a PhD student is that is...not close to my mental model.

after (for us) holding steady last year, number of astro grad applications went up again this year. heard same at least at a couple of other places.

There seem to be some misconceptions about Rubin transient alerts coming from this article. There are in fact *no* delays for alerts, which will be issued within 60 seconds (including a postage stamp around the alert). The 3+ day delay is on the full focal plane images.

fortunately, i've been assigned an "Incident Report number" for the unresolved technical issues I had with sciENcv 15 days ago when submitting an NSF proposal

Sheldon has an astro undergrad degree from MSU and his job managing radio frequency interference is a great example of a job you can get *without* getting a PhD

The most interesting NBA analytics substack of the 24-25 season is here: thef5.substack.com

The person in front of me on this 8 hour flight has had the map zoomed in for 6 hours now. Not in the cool way where you can see what part of Greenland you are over. But the ultra zoomed in way, where you can infer the flap position of the simulated A330 but see nothing else.

is the score different on the raiders sideline?