i think this is basically always the case in astronomy research

have revised this take: i think i was underrating how much intuition building happens as part of the process of writing science code. Claude can get to many subproblem answers faster than I can but I end up feeling hollow - missing a sense of satisfaction I didn't know I had till it was gone

My paper demonstrating second-stage wavefront control using a photonic lantern at the Shane 3m telescope at Lick Observatory has been published in the Astronomical Journal! Good start to the year! doi.org/10.3847/1538... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

as someone who may not be a researcher if not for prof layton this is so sad but also, not clear to me if this is more like "we should let ai write the layton puzzles" or "we should write the game in cursor instead of vscode" - even when specified to genai we seem to have terminology issues

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wrote some custom curses for jet lag hide and seek on bikes in Santa Cruz!

Wow look who's at the top of astro-ph.IM today arxiv.org/list/astro-p...

Presenting my new ball tampering innovation, where I add a tiny speaker that activates within an inch of the bat

a good amount of cricket commentary is like "you may not realize it but it'd be good for the batting side to get more runs"

me but at age 24

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

LA!

I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity

forming a strong opinion about intentional walking only minutes after learning about the concept

It’s a big day for fans of baseball, or as the rest of the world calls it, “American Cricket”

beginning to think test cricket's time limits are very reasonable

Every number's a Love number if you love numbers

New paper by me and @benjaminpope.bsky.social! How well can we map a star using optical interferometry? This is just a submitted preprint at the moment--comments and questions welcome! (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2509.25433

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

I actually kind of want to hear from people who dislike mathfiction. What stops you from engaging with a story with math in it? What would draw you to trying one out? #Writersky #Writing #SFF

Really wondering what AI is gonna think cricket is about

drinking water >>>>>

analytic and algebraic topology of locally euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable riemannian manifold

Thanks Jarrod what would I do without this insight

We built computers to do math for us

the bay bridge has a bike lane but only halfway across, so if you wanted to bike from the East Bay to SF for the 4th of July fireworks you'd have to bike all the way north to Point Richmond, across to Marin, and down across the Golden Gate Bridge. But that'd be ridiculous right

broke ai overview

woke up early to watch something that'll cover the entire sky every three days

another day, another blog entry from an “ai” company’s CEO talking up their software’s ability to change the world, anyway i still feel good about this playlist i made last year ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/genera...

I know it's wild to ask a physics pedagogy question at a time like this but here I go: Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪

Also experimented in parallel w this based on the same blog post and reached the same conclusion - I liked not having to do my own env setup and the odd bit of refactoring but you lose more time to it having nonsense strategies/not trying basic validation than you gain

It's M.E. awareness day! Myalgic encephalomyelitis has one of the lowest quality of life scores of any disease, yet most people have never heard of it. I've spent the last two years bedridden w very severe M.E. Most of us are bedbound/housebound. Rt for awareness please 💙

From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Resilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/09/rock-climbing/

Interesting article from @adiastra.bsky.social I think my hottest take here is that we kind of already have this and it's called "getting an undergrad to do the analysis" and it's probably responsible for a bunch of errors we haven't caught yet aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/

new blog post! I talk about the potential risks to science posed by "vibes-based" LLM programming, and how we could mitigate them aditya-sengupta.github.io/vibescience/

If you enjoy Juxtastat, make sure to spread the word! There's not really any kind of algorithm for this sort of game so we rely on word of mouth — make sure all your demographics/geography/politics friends are aware of it! Also lmk any suggestions for improvement

I am Unreal Unearth Unwell

when you miss out on a tail end wicket because it's a no ball that's called a lagaan

Solar power: it cures what ails you. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux

More reasons to link my medium post on this 😤 medium.com/@notkavi/sto...

I've completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

did you know you can just bike around a bay

🎶and who deserves the credit, and who deserves the blame🎶

this happened to me last week actually

i don't really follow sports but also every four months i will go on an incoherent impassioned rant about how Jasprit Bumrah is superhuman

everyone get excited for "we ported it to Julia", Sengupta et al. 2025ab