🔭🧪🎢 Hard to believe, but I’ve been doing research with teachers at IPAC for 20 years. All these fabulous people I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to know!! www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/20-year...

Nice summary of the mess at Chicago

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really interesting. this is the most interesting use of AL/LLMs in research that i've seen.

As I wrote in @thehill.com, federal science funding isn’t just about labs, it’s about livelihoods. Cuts to NIH, NSF & NASA mean lost jobs today, stalled discovery tomorrow, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. When we invest in research, we are investing in workers and communities. ⬇️

🔭🧪 SPHEREx data are at IRSA! irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/sph...

My #NITARP teachers are arriving soon! Can't wait!! ❤️ 🔭🎢

High school teachers! 🔭🧪🎢 Want to do real astronomy research with NASA astronomers? The application for NITARP for 2026 is now available! It's available at our website: nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu (thread with a bit more information follows)

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

This is me, wearing my IRSA hat. There are ... a LOT of videos showing how to use our web-based services to get data. I have updated a bunch. There are a bunch still to go! Check out the updated videos in this thread to see all the latest features. More videos coming as I can get to them. 🔭🧪🎢

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🔭🧪 This is wonderful. Bernie's got peanuts and a lunar scarf and a Lunar Trailblazer model! Go Lunar Trailblazer!!

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Here's the annual NITARP press release! (We couldn't put this out last week because we had a skeleton crew as a result of the fires, but it's still a really big deal how many people we had there.) www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/high-sc...

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🔭ZTF DATA RELEASE 23: Now available! ZTF is an optical time-domain survey covering the northern sky visible from Palomar. This adds 4 months of observations, up to 31 October 2024. 61.3e6 exposures, 178,000 co-added images, 937e9 sources, 4.97e9 light curves. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/ztf...

Ok. It’s the last full day. 24 hours from now, I should be taxiing to the runway. I can do this. Let’s gooooo. #aas245

#nitarp folks being interviewed by their hometown morning tv show! #aas245

Here we gooooooo.... Taught all day yesterday, booth-ing it today, plus meetings and talks... woo hoo! #aas245

Shocked, shocked I am.

We saw/heard the lightning & thunder!!

🔭🧪🎢 Check out this awesome Python Notebook that my NITARP alumni made for making SEDs. There is also a Colab version! github.com/jimmynewland...

Our new episode of Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is up, in which Ben blows Jessie's mind: Jessie, face in hands: Oh my gosh. It's an ocean world because it has a MAGMA OCEAN? @benmontet.bsky.social: Exactly. It's the first ocean planet discovered! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSP0...

🔭🧪 Things that make me happy: This is the first image from Mars, taken July 1965. Why does it look like this? Because computers were slow and it was going to be hours before the computer processed it enough to make an image. The scientists and engineers were impatient. 1/5

New in my shop! I am SO EXCITED AND PROUD about these. Gemstone necklaces that are a full, continuous spectrum, red to blue, interrupted by black beads for the strongest absorptions in the solar spectrum. I aim to maximize both beauty and geekery. www.etsy.com/listing/1829...

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I followed a bunch of science communicators yesterday and now several have followed me back, so I feel pressure to skeet something useful/interesting and I don't have anything so I'm reskeeting this from February. . . 🔭🧪🎢

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Another job here at IRSA! Come work with us! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #698,144!

🔭🧪🎢🧑‍🔬 The deadline's soon! Educators: Do real research with NASA Astronomers! The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) invites US-based teachers to apply for its 1-year program. Travel costs included! Deadline: Sep 13, 2024 for the 2025 program year. nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu

🧪🔭 Come work with me at IRSA! It's a great place to work! :) phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...

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AJ's GIS teacher blogged about their project (and the other GIS team) going to SkillsUSA nationals! It includes a link to their presentation. Go check it out!! (They're the ones about brush clearance, and AJ is the "rising junior".) community.esri.com/t5/education...

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🔭🧪🎢🧑‍🔬Educators: Do real research with NASA Astronomers! The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) invites US-based teachers to apply for its one-year program. Travel costs are included! Deadline: September 13, 2024 for the 2025 program year. nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu

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🧪🔭 Great video on black holes including my friend Varoujan Gorjian www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4d...

HOLY CRAP I HAVE A WIKIPEDIA ENTRY 🔭🧪🤯🫢🧑‍🔬 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_R...

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WOW that was a good rock-and-roll earthquake...

Ooh, look, I have an article in Physics Today for February! 🔭🧪🎢 pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...