Megan Donahue

I'm an astronomy professor at Michigan State University. I maintain chemical balances of sorts by running. Playing bass in two Lansing bands, GSB & Dr. Decade.

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@JoyceCarolOates The interesting thing he said was that I would not feel the needle once it was in, like a pinch. Imagine my surprise when it felt like a nail gun and the nerves zapped my back

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@JoyceCarolOates My recommendation would be to ask the biopsy Dr to use way more than they think. Nerves and tumors may change the “norms”. My first biopsy was excruciating, my second (where they set the wires) they used a lot more agent, gave me more time, was not awful, although stressful

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@ElenaPewtress @JoyceCarolOates I’m not resistant to lidocaine nor do I have low pain tolerance. I gave birth with zero pain killers twice. They told me they only numb the surface because I wouldn’t feel the rest. They were so fucking wrong I almost tore my own head off and the words I screamed.

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@DennyNorth Check out the concept of reference frames in relativity. In the reference frame of the events, “clocks” tick at the same rate. Someone falling into a black hole would experience very normal time. Their watches etc would neither speed up or slow down.

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A Practical Guide to Hosting a Virtual Conference https://t.co/9k2oyUkGJ5
A best-suggestions guide for on-line science conferences from a successful and productive on-line astronomy conference! Congratulations, Cameron, Ben, Jessica, Mark for a great experience

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@soychotic What if we started with someone else’s TRS-80?

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Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck

I’m just saying

Time is money too

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@MetalShayne2000 Jamie’s Crying takes it up a notch and makes fun of teenage girl that won’t put out.

But the subtext of some of these songs is what a complete and total loser the protagonist is

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@5d_human Gravitational redshift by gravity is real. But the gravitational pull by stars or even dark matter isn’t enough to explain cosmological redshifts size or their correlation with distance metrics like brightnesses of standard candles and the angular sizes of standard rulers.

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Definitely the coolest Astro detective story this week!! (I can leave so wiggle room in my grading scale, just like skating judges…) but how awesome is this? 🫨

Zoozve!!!!!

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

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@jegpeek @astrogrant Too soon, and I agree. Even the Astro decadal report was delayed, a mid term review would be a huge waste of volunteer time.

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I console myself that at least one of the selected probe concepts is for X-ray astronomy, ok

And I yeet , a neat backflip in to the Sun, to Jimi Hendrix channeled by Stevie Ray Vaughn

SRVs 70th bday would have been today
I need some time to be 😔 and 🎸

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@astrogrant Where is the feed?

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@JonArenberg I know. I was 😭🥺

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@astrogrant Nawp. The weather ain’t right yet. 👩‍🌾

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@briankeating How to swim

How to say no

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Pretty substandard 2-day avocados, @WholFoods Bleck

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@astrogrant Hawk & Dove. Good to know. 😂

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@hannah_flom The best runzas are the original, we know this. Everything else is just pretending it’s a Runza, dangitall.

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@ChrisMihos I like author-style to learn at least some new names