Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🧑‍🎓 🔭 🥳 LASP loves our postdocs! At our lab, they do everything from designing small satellites to building space instruments and analyzing data from other planets. #nationalpostdocappreciationweek

@snowbikemike.bsky.social get well soon!!! So ready to see you the battlefield next couple weekends

@snowbikemike.bsky.social @kindafunnyvids.bsky.social interested in your thoughts on Delta Force after the KFGD today as a fellow Battlefield fan. I haven’t given Delta Force a shot but it looks like it might tick a lot of the same boxes.

Here's what the President's Budget Request does to the fleet of observations that has _literally taken us decades to build_ that monitors the explosive Sun and how solar storms impact Earth and other planetary bodies.

Bunch of nerds (I mean students at CU Boulder) learning from the master how to build the solar panels that will fly on @suncetcubesat.bsky.social and other upcoming #cubesats. With each iteration of solar panels we've flown over the past decade, we've made little improvements. ☀️🧪🔭🛰️🚀

This year's American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Popular Media Awards have been selected! @aas.org. These awards go each year to a journalist, a scientist, and a student for articles or other media focused on the sun or its effects on Earth. ☀️🧪🔭🛰️🚀

Me trying multiple browsers, multiple devices to login to Marriott wifi. "Why the hell isn't this working?!" 🤦‍♂️

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.

NASA is something every American can be and should be proud of. And for every dollar spent on it, it returns more on that investment to the economy. Example: Their 2023 budget was $25B, and they added over $75B to the economy that year. This is a horrible decision.

How many spam texts/calls are our phones actually blocking? I feel like I get a ton of them but am I seeing 1% slip through or am I getting basically everything attempted? I always click the "junk" button but is that being aggregated to benefit everybody?

☀️ #PI_Daily incredible week for @suncetcubesat.bsky.social got our custom battery pack fit checked, telescope camera code tests started, x-band radio testing processed, solar panel Kapton tape laser cutting dialed in and started onboarding a couple of new PhD students.

☀️ #PI_Daily (from yesterday) talking to one engineer about radio stuff, two more pull me over to work on camera stuff, a PhD student working on battery beside us, and while standing in the lab talking with them all, get a call from NASA about budget transfer stuff. Exciting and scattered times!

#PI_Daily it's one of those (fun!) weeks that are all over the map. So far today: preparing to play with space cameras, cut kapton tape with lasers, build solar panels, make X-band RF measurements, FCC licensing, and filling out documents for launch. @suncetcubesat.bsky.social ☀️ is on track!

If you're a big fan, you can buy SunCET merch from our LandsEnd store. In fact, several other missions and #heliophysics ☀️ related efforts also have storefronts and they're being collected here (including SunCET): business.landsend.com/store/heliop...

Made a new SunCET logo reveal animation. First time ever doing it from scratch. Apple Motion is really intuitive! ☀️ @suncetcubesat.bsky.social

The @suncetcubesat.bsky.social telescope is signed, sealed, and delivered (all literally)! 🧪🔭⚛️☀️ youtu.be/wjbzWYDI1fE

Hahaha I just love this headline 🧪☀️#spaceweather www.space.com/the-universe...

Discover how SunCET is revolutionizing solar observation by capturing unprecedented images of coronal mass ejections. Led by LASP at @colorado.edu & @jhuapl.bsky.social, this breakthrough helps predict space weather, safeguarding satellites & power grids. @agu.org #AGU24 youtu.be/6uV5dkf4rJg

Congratulations to my colleagues James Mason, Dan Seaton, Cristina Kay, Amal Chandran, and Aaron Magner on a phenomenal video on the phenomenal #CubeSat mission #SunCET! Very nice bit of science outreach at #AGU2024! ☀️🧪🛰️🔭🎢

@SunCETcubesat is all about understanding how the most energetic explosions in the solar ☀️ system get accelerated. The joint @JHUAPL @LASPatCU project is beautifully depicted here, including footage of the telescope/spacecraft coming together in our labs youtu.be/6uV5dkf4rJg?...

#HelioDecadal ☀️ is here! I've run it through my word cloud generator (I'd also run the white papers through a couple years ago). Some funny stop words I had to add "rights reserved" and "editorial correction" @nationalacademies.org #Heliophysics

I've put together a starter pack of accounts related to solar physics, space weather, and space climate.🔭🧪 If you know anyone else who should be included, please let me know, and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/KKV5kUu

Made this poster for the SunCET NASA mission