the ideal networking event is 5-7pm i am now home (hotel) in my jammies chilling after eating free food and talking about aliens for two hours because that's what people ask about when you say you do astro

finally updated my linkedin profile photo after 6 years. now i'm set until 2031

unfortunately my incredible performance as "the bad boy of SC" in the orientation skits impressed the committee so much that i got dragged into doing promo interviews for the conference

i conceptually love the "eat the frog" method unfortunately i have to eat about 4 frogs per day and it sucks

nothing feeds the old 'i'm in purgatory and nothing is real' delusions like this paper that has been done 4 times and is still not published and i have to redo some of the figures again.

red + orange; red + purple : too similar yellow: hard to see blue: assigned elsewhere green + purple: joker red + green: colorblind orange + green: ew orange + purple: ewww

we need shrimp colors in matplotlib because i can't figure out a way to make these two lines different colors without it being bad or ugly

submitting job apps is just. i'm not even throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping it sticks i'm throwing it into a tornado with gale force winds

ultimately what i've learned in writing all these postdoc apps is that the word institute has more t's than i ever expect it to

as yes my semiannual daylight savings OH FUCK WHAT TIME IS IT

it's really incredible just how awful a supercomputing center's documentation can be

having the most confusing time reading a paper when i realized that they're using mpc when mostly i think in scales where Mpc is relevant

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted my first couple postdoc apps and it truly feels like my heart is going to slam its way out of my chest

discovered that my beautifully edited down research statement that perfectly fits into the page limit is a font size too small. send thoughts and prayers.

*shouting over the sound of cooling fans* CLOUD COMPUTING? NO, I SAID LOUD COMPUTING!

canvas going down on the day i teach 3 back to back labs that have all been made entirely digital....mercury had best be in gatorade right now

and by "going super saiyan" i mean "finding the motivation to finish my hubble proposal"

hot queer bartender complimenting my outfit ➡️ going super saiyan pipeline

astro fellowship Q: I know you're supposed to talk to potential NPP advisors - are you also supposed to reach out to people for the Hubble? ✨🔭☄️

I wish ads felt pain when you skipped thems

my fave coffee shop to write in closed while i was away for a year :')

one of the worst things about losing astro twitter is the lack of big threads of people posting their guides to postdoc apps...

just taught the same lab 6 times in 2 days i need to delete physics from my brain now

Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭

how to win a nobel physics prize 🔭✨☄️

week 5 of teaching lab: a student asked if gravity was 9.8 m/s2 and i had to google it to be sure

@giantmolecular.cloud, Bill Smith and I wrote about why the new modification to the eligibility rules for the premier NSF graduate fellowship is actually A Really, Really Big Deal -- and not in a good way.

and for the fifth time this paper draft is done

they have got to invent a log10 for negative numbers

fall lab week 4: got called an astrologer and an astronomist today

"how are postdoc apps going" i've played 12 hours of stardew valley this weekend.

finding a job ad for basically my dream work -> it's due wednesday emotional crash pipeline

PEMDAS claims another victim

forgot that GRB is not a gravitational ray burst...very confusing conversation was had

running some small scale simulations to do parameter tuning on my laptop pros: saves time when i go launch big boy jobs on the cluster cons: laptop attempting to achieve liftoff

hey so like what does it mean if the last four fortune cookies you opened don't have a fortune inside

a good old fashioned existential crisis wednesday

[ a code release ] A quick little package that lets you make movie files from yt loaded data. Probably more interesting: I wrote up a full guide for how I put the python package together using cookiecutter, did docs using sphinx, and then hosted to readthedocs yt-moviemaker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

back in minnesota and invented a new workout called "moving into a fourth floor walkup in the summer heat"

pros: we caught the bug cons: year and a half of work and an about-to-be-submitted paper draft get fucked

just discovered the hard way that AAS is also the acronym for the spider organization!!!

finished up my week at atpesc, I feel like someone dropped a supercomputer on my brain (and my body) but v v grateful for the experience

gaslight gatekeep GPUs

data viz has gone too far en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghet...

I swear Google keeps adding more and more AI nonsense whenever I open a document. I know how to write! Fuck you!

i would hate being a celebrity; people at this conference keep recognizing me from my work at a different conference

saw one of the best talks of my life today on mosquito population modeling, and it would've been one of the best talks even if she didn't manage to do the impossible (got me to sit through a bug talk without running out of the room screaming in terror)

waited five months for this dentist appt and they cancelled on me and the soonest they could reschedule is...september. after i leave. i love living in the middle of nowhere with a great healthcare plan and ZERO providers!!!