I recently learned that some of the cabinets in my shared office have data taken at Parkes and Arecibo in the mid 90s -- on cassette tapes. So there goes the rest of my week.

The NASA Astrophysics Advisory Committee's letter to NASA Leadership from the Summer meeting has now been posted, including recs on the Chandra and Hubble budgets. Read it here: science.nasa.gov/wp-content/upl…

reported to arxiv on the basis of: - plagiarized content - undisclosed financial interests - undisclosed AI writing - promotion of HIPAA violations

34 years! A timing solution almost old enough to have a mid-life crisis. arxiv.org/abs/2410.21648

Very cool to see this code made publicly available! CHIME's VOEvent service is super helpful for enabling followup observations of new (or newly active!) FRBs. arxiv.org/abs/2410.22468

When I went out to tend the garden yesterday, I saw a rainbow over the hills. Gonna try and think about it today.

Worth a read. popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-m…

I've very excited for David! It would be cool to find out what the heck Zeta Pup is doing. . . swarthmore.edu/news-events/as…

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It looks like v1 of the paper was removed by arXiv administrators and v2 was withdrawn by the lead author, all of which is great to see. A comment was added to each version's abstract page (v1 and v2, shown below, respectively).

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