Astrophysicist and artist @DrNiaImara is crafting 3D cosmic clouds to model how stars are born. Take a visual journey into complex stellar nurseries in this short doc 🔗 bit.ly/49LpEjt 🎥 Tulika Bose, Kelso Harper 📊 Jason Drakeford 🎞️ Jeffery DelViscio

To everyone who got bad JWST news today, here's what I often say to myself after reading a negative proposal review: ... ... ... "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PROPOSAL DOESN'T EXPLAIN [X]!? THERE'S LITERALLY AN ENTIRE HALF A PAGE EXPLAINING [X]" Hope that helps!

If the worst part of TAC Results day is not getting time, the best part is cheering on those that did. :-)

In light of todays events in Lancaster, a quick reminder: Homophobia is death. Transmisia is death. Christian Nationalism is death. Drag queen story hour and the public library are not going to hurt you. lancasteronline.com/news/local/bom…

From astrobites: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues. astrobites.org/2024/03/27/ast…

what a Monday. got clouded out in Buffalo ➡️ made a last-minute decision to drive to Erie ➡️ parks were full ➡️ ended up at a Benedictine monastery ➡️ nervously watched the clouds ➡️ eclipse!

Never forget THIS is the dude NYT Opinion put its reputation on the line for, pretending he wasn’t calling for violence against protesters - something he’s obviously continuing to do.

Wow! For the last decade, astronomers have been mumbling about low metallicity as a way to produce the massive BHs we see in gravitational wave events. Here is the first empirical validation of these models! And a giant, only 600 pc away. There must be a boatload more.

This is the face* of a man who will not teach a class** for the next 16 months. Lots of grading to do, but Happy Sabbatical to me! * I honestly thought I was smiling but apparently I’m too tired? ** at my usual institution at least

Cant go to my office today because my ID wont get me in. First time ever in my West Indian life that I feel bad about being told to stay home from work (!!) But my employer just doesnt want faculty present to witness whatever they are going to pull on protesting students today

Thrilled to share that, after three wonderful years at Census, I’ll be joining USC Price School as an assistant professor this fall. I couldn’t be more excited to be back at a policy school and to work with the amazing faculty, undergrads, MPPers, and PhD students at Price. #FightOn

I am so honored to receive the 2024 Maryland Outstanding Young Scientist award! hubblesite.org/contents/news-…

I'm so honored to receive this award! Some photos and words of thanks here: x.com/jwuphysics/sta…

Some exciting Fri morning news! Some of you may know I have been working on an introductory level Python textbook for astronomy --- it is now published! iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-… Anyone with institutional IOP access should be able to view the PDF for free.

There’s a sequel??

I did a podcast with Paul Duffell on imaging exoplanets, and now it's out! I had a lot of fun on it, and Paul was a great host, but he has zero social media presence, so I'm spreading the word. rss.com/podcasts/astro…

I haven’t posted for a while, but I decided it’s finally time to I’m delete Twitter from my phone—no need to give the fascists more ad revenue. Not deleting my account yet, but I’ll consider it. It’s been nice knowing you all, and I’ll hope to see you again under bluer skies 🥲