are they still thanksgiving leftovers if you were flying all day thursday and deboned turkey legs on sale into steaks and cooked today instead

after two weeks in germany I have ventured out into the 1°C morning to get a bagel and coffee and groceries. also a copy of contact out of the LFL

I want to post something happier today as well, so here are some scientists whom I recommend platforming and financially supporting! I'm a bit out of the loop, so I'm bound to miss people. Please reply with your own recommendations!

scenes from No Kings, deemed too "dangerous" to post on instagram by their automated content filtering

there is an aroma of cookies in the office and I can't locate them

some campus views from the start of the semester and an abandoned synagogue in my neighborhood. kodak gold 200

tuna steak au poivre

one of the most incredibly cursed contributors lists I've ever seen in a collection. fully 10% of these people are (astro)physicist sex pests.

13 total JWST proposals in (2 PI, 1 Co-PI), with 2014 submissions btw the earliest and latest. are we gonna break last year's record of 2377?

having mandatory couch time

someone mentioned passing around the snuff box at neilah yesterday and I feel like the contemporary equivalent would be a box of zyns can someone pasken whether they're fasting-appropriate or not since they're lip pouches

just got a 245 page PDF in my spam folder about ether theory I love having a physics phd

pissed off because I wouldn't let him have my boba

I will never be able to afford a house

actually starting to live in a place now

unexpected @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on npr talking about her new book, sloppy, out now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751421...

congrats to Dr. David Coria, who defended his dissertation with honors on stellar elemental abundance and isotopic ratios (and had an emergency appendectomy last week when he was supposed to originally defend!)

views from the alameda antique fair. canon ql17 giii, kentmere 400

montréal is kind of nice I guess

accidentally poignant commentary by the local daycare kids

feels like 95° if I don't eat cold noodles I will die

I'm going to get mission impossible 1'd in the malott elevator

stirring a jalapeno limeade with a lime ice fruit bar

mike lee go jump off one of the mountains you want to sell

auction hunting for a watch, I find one I sort of like but get immediately outbid. decide to let it sit for a couple days and now the price is verifiably insane

it was raining cats and dogs at pride

views from the lawrence busker festival the other week

just signed off two HR emails as "Dr. Jonathan Brande" because apparently I don't have access to the hr/payment system a week after my summer temp position started lol

need a professional project manager to coordinate wedding gift planning amongst 4-6 college friends

jim (z"l) and marilyn simons are apparently major donors to yeshivat maharat and I feel like I might be the only person equipped to appreciate this information

it's ceremonially official, they can't revoke my doctorship now

@opalite.bsky.social sighting

Happy to announce that I passed my PhD defense this morning (with honors)! It's been a wonderful five years with KU Physics and Astronomy, and I couldn't have asked for a better advisor in Ian Crossfield.

once a week or so someone makes a panicked post amounting to "I roasted my leftover chicken bones and let them simmer for six hours and after fridging overnight my broth is goopy and solid! did I ruin it?"

unexpected @katewagner.bsky.social talking about mcmansions on local radio! unfortunately I can't make it to next week's lecture, but now I know what I'm missing!

dissertation draft sent to committee

direct to consumer viscose underwear company now sending daily ad emails with 40% off tariff coupon codes

45 out and the ice cream truck has been by twice today. i want in on this money laundering front

took vanguard like twelve hours to send this lol

i fucking love crowding the pan

would you believe mr. noodle was no help at all with this dissertation

spinach kale artichoke dip brunch tart

Beyond thrilled to announce that, after my dissertation defense, I'll be rejoining the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland as a postdoc with Prof. Megan Weiner Mansfield working on even more JWST observations of exoplanets!

why didn't anyone warn me how big my pizza hamentash was gonna be

hamentashing

Confirming everything here, and as one of the grads in question, @chanda.bsky.social helped this poor, uncultured exoplanet astronomer to understand axion cold dark matter and some of the ways we might start to look for it. Also, eagerly awaiting her *two* forthcoming books!

lazy grad student hack - grabbing a packet of swiss miss from the front office and pulling a nespresso shot over it

they just elected you mayor of

you could probably make a million dollars writing a book on fermi/order of mag estimation pitched as a way to get people to properly evaluate bullshit

oh yeah that'll do it for sure