Every astronomer needs to watch this excruciating video. Jill Tarter is a pioneer and this is how he treats her? Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has hosted some of my favorite people, but if they continue allowing this then I will do all that I can to stop people I care about from going there

My grad program's Friday social video call spontaneously became a thoughtful, respectful group debate about the need for major reforms in US higher-ed. Good reminder of both what the pandemic has taken away and what we'll need to do when it's over. #AcademicChatter

ERES is back!!! To be held virtually May 24-May 26, 2021. The deadline to apply is April 2nd. Early career exoplanet scientists are especially encouraged to apply. Go here for details and application form: eres2021.com

On our to-do list: 1) Short term: see if enough Senators will support some kind of increase in the minimum wage 2) Get a $15 minimum wage measure on the ballot in as many states as possible 3) Nominate Dem Senate candidates in PA, WI, NC, FL, and OH who support $15 min wage

FLUID DYNAMICS, holy crap. Normalize it as part of a grad Astro curriculum. Everything is *basically* a fluid on at least some scales. Traffic? A fluid. Hundreds of billions of stars? A fluid.

I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if hundreds of astronomers on Twitter just read this comic and cringed. File it under #JWSTMemes, I guess.

Even if you're fully vaccinated, the CDC still recommends that you begin your exoplanet paper by citing the astonishing and baffling discovery of 51 Pegasi b (Mayor & Queloz 1995)

The coming weeks are likely to be important for the future of ground-based astronomy in the face of the threat of satellite constellations. How is it a threat, what are astronomers doing, why are these weeks important? Thread 👇

This one goes out to everyone who has ever tried to convince an astronomer that astrology is "harmless fun" and to every astronomer who has been called "close-minded" for pointing out that it's crap.

And maybe it is.

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Imagine thinking the people who care about the murder of a child are radicals and that the people who argue for impunity for the murderer are the moral ones.

"but abolishing the police is bad politics" - so is the murder of children, in less perverted societies

Things that physics instructors should avoid #372: Giving a pantomimed demonstration of how a dashpot works using one's hands. 👉👌

Eeeeeeeeek! A new friend for WD 1856b!

Surely there are already people out there choreographing TikTok dance routines set to the #JWST hold music

Maybe they're having Sam Seaborn rewrite POTUS' remarks 'cause the NASA Pub Aff writer said "very unique" #TheWestWingSpaceTelescope

Bad product idea: A password manager that only uses long strings of capital "I"s and lowercase "l"s.

I am now observing WD1856B using NIRSpec Bright Object Time Series for 2 hours and 22 minutes. Keywords: Exoplanet Systems, Exoplanets, White dwarfs. Proposal: stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-pu… 1:1