Trent Dupuy
@trentdupuy.bsky.social
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astronomer with no hobbies
Waking up today I thought I dreamed this for a moment, but nope, I actually met a Star Trek actor's niece last night 🖖 (Danara Pel from VOY)
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
1 day ago
I've never been bothered by like "pin number" or "atm machine" but I just saw "one of the goats of all time" and I rebuke that in the strongest of terms
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Dune 4: Ghola Protocol
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2 days ago
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Dune 3: Messiah Impossible
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Black In Astro
5 days ago
There’s still space available to sign up for our FREE dinner at the 247th AAS! Deadline to apply has been extended until Dec 29, we hope to see you there ☺️
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Musicology Duck
10 days ago
little known fact, but Santa's inner circle is George Bush, Al Roker, and Sir Edmund Hillary
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Plenty of time left to apply to the Astro PhD program in Edinburgh! (Deadline in 2 weeks)
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10 days ago
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This is the best Christmas special ever, and it's not close!
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10 days ago
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Anna Hughes 🍁
11 days ago
𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦
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It's sad that the people who are able to take the *most* paid time off over the holidays are the ones who deserve it the *least*. (I count myself among them) How did Christmas end up like this?
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michael ❄️
11 days ago
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The Weather Girls - Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man This Christmas)
YouTube video by TheWeatherGirlsVEVO
https://youtu.be/Ko3yBFoTm5c?si=AVX4Osuly7KeOEyK
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Musicology Duck
13 days ago
i can't stop laughing at: HUSBAND WAS ASKED TO PARTICIPATE IN FINAL DISAPPEARING ACT; AT END OF SHOW, WIFE GOT VERY UPSET BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T FIND HIM
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
12 days ago
You know we keep having these scandals of famous people being sexual predators and harassers. I think we should remember that this is business as usual under the patriarchy. All women have to be kept in their place. It's not unusual. It's everyday behaviour.
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Catherine Slaughter, M.Sc.
13 days ago
These guys know there’s just one plane, right? Like obviously there are lots of reasons someone who is otherwise ambulatory might need a wheelchair at the airport. But even if the premise in this article *were* true, you’re not actually going to be getting to your destination any later for it
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Remco de Kok
14 days ago
Love this plot of the infrared absorption of lots of different hydrocarbon molecules (and DMS). Titan measurements are used here as an exercise for interpretation of exoplanet measurements. Niraula+
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
🧪🔭☄️🪐
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got an email auto-reply with a disclaimer/proviso referring to 3I/ATLAS lol
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i was quite possibly radicalized by Quantum Leap growing up. (my partner keeps flipping to it on Pluto, and man, it could be "woke" for light sci-fi entertainment... especially episodes on gender, race, and disability)
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advance my career beyond simply professor? no, thanks, i prefer to give a shit about my colleagues and our students...
15 days ago
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regretting not putting the inverse-square law on the exam-provided equation sheet 😔
16 days ago
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Why are junior ppl burying their publications at the back of their CV after pages of meshugaas these days? Supervisors: plz tell them to put something, anything, about their pubs up front.
18 days ago
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Jörg Hillebrand
18 days ago
These screenshots show the differences between the older TR-560 Medical Tricorder VI ⬅️ (#StarTrekTNG's "Where Silence Has Lease"⬅️) and the latest model )as of
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season 4), the TR-580 Medical Tricorder VII ("The Host"➡️). Notice the beige vs. black area around the "red button".
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The reason Christmas song covers don't work is we don't actually want to hear another version of the song. Christmas songs only become 'classic' by being played over and over and over and over again until we give in. Corollary: want to make a good Christmas song? Write your own damn one like Mariah.
18 days ago
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Anna Hughes 🍁
19 days ago
If you can't have/don't want a real Christmas tree and you don't want a plastic one either, Norfolk Island pines are coniferous houseplants that clean up nice around the holidays 🎄
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'Hallelujah' is NOT a Christmas song!
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Not tricked, just dumb Puzzle #909 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
26 days ago
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WB owns Babylon 5, right? So can we get B5 on Netflix again? (Not for me, obviously, I just want more converts...)
26 days ago
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emails from students submitting a PDF application have gotten quite wordy. gotta read a paragraph or two just to find out that, yup, there's just a PDF being attached here. ChatGPT escalation? (maybe I should be using Copilot to handle all of this...)
26 days ago
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Musicology Duck
27 days ago
ok maybe trump is performing for andrea bocelli and not the other way around
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Return of the Cmonmacques
27 days ago
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love to see it! marking hand-ins where our astrophysics students spell the name of the planet with the big red spot "Jupyter"
28 days ago
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
29 days ago
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Salient that 'Banditos' is playing - "the world is full of stupid people" - as I fill out a recommendation form asking me about: "one of those students who will stay in your memory for years to come as the best...the potential to make a significant impact in their academic field..." - the hubris!
29 days ago
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Alessandra Candian
about 1 month ago
Similar story for astronomer Vera Rubin as first woman allowed to observe at the Palomar Observatory
www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors...
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Rubin
While at Palomar Observatory in 1965, astronomer Vera Rubin discovered the building had no women’s restroom. “She went to her room, cut up paper into a skirt image,” said a colleague, “and stuck it on
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/rubin
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Learned recently that there were no women's restrooms at Palomar when Vera Rubin first went observing there. (That's like half a century after this Prussia story...)
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about 1 month ago
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pickwick
about 1 month ago
"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled"
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
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Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/keir-starmers-fury-neice-wife-beaten-blokes-holding-hands-24853487/
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Anna Hughes 🍁
about 1 month ago
They call us the lost generation (not old enough for Stranger Things to feel nostalgic, not young enough to be into the actors)
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Teaching myself Portuguese listening to various eras of Nelly Furtado
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about 1 month ago
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Anna Hughes 🍁
about 1 month ago
welcome duck museum
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This American rubber duck museum is moving to B.C. due to tariffs, drop in tourism | CBC News
Quirky Point Roberts-based Rubber Duck Museum is coming to Tsawwassen Mills mall in B.C. after increasing tariffs and decreasing tourism have made business in the U.S. exclave unsustainable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rubber-duck-museum-point-roberts-usa-moves-bc-tariffs-9.6989769
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Laura Lopez
about 1 month ago
Astrophysics PhD Chris Williams is going to the ISS for eight months on November 27!! 🔭
physics.mit.edu/news/bound-f...
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Bound for the Stars: Chris Williams PhD ’12 Set for ISS Launch on November 27, 2025
On November 27, 2025, Christopher L. Williams PhD ’12 will begin an approximately eight-month stay aboard the International Space Station. He joined NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Class in December 2021 a...
https://physics.mit.edu/news/bound-for-the-stars-chris-williams-phd-12-set-for-iss-launch-on-november-27-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOSxCBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEzMGR6U09GUDRiZFVUNlptc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkoGu_aEnTq2id_BEjSTdYUnSMdg8GAJ692DY6fRnoP6D5WRKBJ5cYrD-OsY_aem_c_phZ0QffdOIj-SoWz6spQ
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Hannah Wakeford
about 1 month ago
CDT in Aerosol Science is welcoming applications for fully-funded PhD studentships as part of our 8th cohort to start in autumn 2026:
www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/
Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships!
#PhD
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2026 projects | Aerosol Science CDT
https://www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/
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Why would you ever 'pass' on Mastermind??? Just say egg or whatever.
about 1 month ago
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Musicology Duck
about 1 month ago
like a month ago I got a new-to-me loveseat from a neighbor who was moving out, and my cat still refuses to sit on it so i assume it's a horcrux or something
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Dr. Caprice Phillips
about 1 month ago
Great NSBP-NSHP conference in San Jose. My first as a postdoc and invited speaker. Great to see mentees and folks shine. And see my peeps!
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It's November already?
about 1 month ago
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Juicy Cake of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ
about 1 month ago
Not a reference to the wonderful STAR TREK: VOYAGER episode "Distant Origin". (Where at least some dinosaurs were sentient, developed spaceflight, left Earth, and built a civilization in the Delta Quadrant)
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Lisa Hirsch
about 1 month ago
Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
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Monica Iyer
about 1 month ago
TFW someone on Bluesky says something other than DS9 is the best Star Trek
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Andrew Mann
about 1 month ago
🧪🔭⭐
#exoplanets
#exoplanet
#youngplanets
New paper from our group and
@madysonbarber.bsky.social
today! We report a brand-new planet around a <50 Myr star—adding to a very small (but rapidly growing!) population of the youngest known transiting planets. Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10734
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10734
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Matthew Cobb
about 1 month ago
The origin of 'pedigree'. This type of C12 figure (not a family tree but a way of calculating relatedness – the titles of various relatives have not been put in the circles) looked like a crane's foot, thought medieval folk. So 'pied de grue' and hence 'pedigree'. Source in alt.
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Holodeck Four
about 2 months ago
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