we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Being a workaholic is minimizing slack on your computer, leaning back and pulling out your phone to take a break, and instinctively opening slack on your phone.

In my Oppenheimer era (wearing cool hats and having insomnia during grad school)

Lead-paint poisoning walked so that lead-superconductor poisoning could run

Did something happen to yellow apples? We haven't seen one being sold in ages...

Pre-submission paralysis is real

It's official! 🥳 We have ended our 53 day streak of 100°+ temperatures for Tucson! 🌡️ The high got up to 99° today but with the nearby storms and cloud cover, that has hindered our typical afternoon heating and ended the 100° streak. #azwx

Paper finally submitted 🙌 now I can stop feeling bad for deep-diving into the Starfield promos hype

science:

What DPI do folks use to make their plots for papers? If you manually set it at all?

Another year. Another heartbreak from attaching to a randomly chosen sports team in a tournament 😢 #SWE

Has your astronomer friend been replaced by an imposter? Ask them if oxygen is a metal.

View of the Moon from its orbit by Apollo 15.

Blue super Moon happened on one of the 10 cloudy days per year in Tucson 😫😫

HUGE day for Anti-Isaac Newton

It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals. I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.

How it feels working on a paper on Oct. 24th

Congratulations to (soon-to-be) Dr. Rachael Amaro! 🥳🎊🥂 graduating from the University of Arizona #COSgrads2024

Ask me about characterizing cool Jupiters with the Roman coronagraph instrument today, hall C. #Exoplanets5

The distant #Neptune captured last night from home under great seeing conditions. Triton & a background star are visible nearby. 30 mins of data stacked - see the timelapse animation in the thread showing the orbital motion. #astrophotography #telescope