Congrats to Jared Termini, a winner of Iowa Space Grant’s undergraduate research fellowship! Jared will be examining the quality of a X-ray gratings made with electron beam lithography! Exciting things going on with @uiowaicru!

Let’s go Hawks! Beat those Boilermakers! #FightForIowa #Hawkeyes

Building on the University of Iowa's rich space exploration legacy, Iowa physicists have won NASA funding to further their research and upgrade astronomical space telescopes. spr.ly/6018ycw9o

Hey all! I'm looking to hire an astro postdoc that'll help us run HUSL, the newest UV space astrophysics lab at UIowa! I'd appreciate the help in spreading the word: jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/post…

Congrats to @crfasano_astro on her NASA Iowa Space Grant Fellowship for her research into next-gen UV gratings! (She’s so talented that the rec. letter writes itself) Full article on our lab website: deroo.lab.uiowa.edu/news/2021/09/f…. UIowa Research UI Graduate College Iowa Space Grant

Congrats to Dustin Swarm on his successful comprehensive exam on using ML to find interesting sources in the CSC2! Next stop, Dr. Swarm! UI Graduate College

Third “workday” in two weeks with a sick kid at home with me. Looks like that Work/Life Balance section of the P&T doc is gonna need some extra space… On the upside, “Baby Shark” makes for some sick programming beats.

How many errant keystrokes can your child “contribute” before you’re expect to offer them co-authorship? Asking for a friend.

Toddler working on a space puzzle: “Dad, why are there no planets that start with Y?” Me: (half distracted by email) “uh…um…” Toddler: “You don’t know? Ha! (Long pause) I’m smarter than you.” 🤣🤣🤣

In retrospect, asking G.R.R. Martin to write the foreword to the #Astro2020 #decadal might not have been the smartest to get a timely release… I’m sure it’ll beat Winds of Winter though.

I wrote a python script that checks for updates on the #Astro2020 site by comparing hashes. It sends me a slack message when it detects a change. This is a cry for help.

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Hey Mom! I’m on TV!

Congrats Arran Gross on your Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! physics.uiowa.edu/news/2022/03/g…

Researchers led by University of Iowa Associate Research Scientist Zachary Girazian have learned how a discrete aurora on Mars is formed. physics.uiowa.edu/news/2022/05/i…

PhD supervisors have two moods:

IT'S CALLED INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT COST RECOVERY. YOU PAY OVERHEAD ON MOST EVERYTHING INCLUDING FRINGE BENEFITS AND IT SCALES WITH LAB OR OFFICE ACTUAL SQUARE FOOTAGE TIMES THE RELATIVE ENERGY UTILIZATION INDEX AND TH

Jared Termini landed a highly competitive national fellowship working with scientists and engineers NASA centers Dr./Prof. Keri Hoadley Prof. Casey DeRoo physics.uiowa.edu/news/2022/11/g…

Graduate student Jacob Payne in the Prof. Casey DeRoo group has been accepted to the NASA JPL Astrophysics Mission Design School! physics.uiowa.edu/news/2022/11/p…