Douglas P Finkbeiner

Astrophysicist at Harvard with an interest in Data Science and ML. Director, Scientific Image Analysis Group.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

Announcing SIAG, an interdisciplinary effort at Harvard to develop advanced algorithms that facilitate science with images, and share them. Key Projects on bio imaging, hyperspectral, and astronomy. Taking postdoc applications now!
https://t.co/PPsX49cTt5

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@GovKathyHochul Felt it near Boston also. Mild shaking, but certainly noticeable.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@TinAlerts Felt it in Somerville, Massachusetts around 10:25am. Mild shaking, no damage, but certainly noticeable.

[Alyssa A. Goodman @AlyssaAGoodman]

A gorgeous way to see the new #Decaps2 mosaic in context! Thanks @WWTelescope @ADavidWeigel + @NOIRLabAstro @cszucker @DPFink @jegpeek et al

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

Calling all pie lovers! Renee @petsipies is a legendary baker, supporter of many causes, and general pillar of the community. She’s been there for others so many times — please support her now!

[Renée McLeod @PetsiRenee]

Support our pie staff during this pandemic! https://t.co/aDDTNRoMCb

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@KyleCranmer @anelson77 I’m so very sorry to hear about Ann. I didn’t know her well, but I do know she was brilliant, kind, and an inspiration to so many. As you said, an absolutely devastating loss.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@Xenon1T @nature Congratulations to XENON1T on this great result!

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

Thanks for the shout out. Yeah, Marc made me remove that footnote...

[Jason Wright @Astro_Wright]

@jleous @planet4589 @StartsWithABang Shortly after the units disaster for the Mars Climate Orbiter, @DPFink worked out that horsepower per acre was a surprisingly convenient unit of flux (about 0.2 W/m^2) and toyed with the idea of sneaking it into a paper.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@AnnFinkbeiner I find your closely reasoned argument compelling. The judge and I are about the same age. Even “back then” we knew right from wrong. This is way beyond “youthful indiscretion” and all the way to “no decent man does that.”

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

And for this vast pain, suffering, and expense, what is the result? A peaceful Middle East? Remember the war mongers who started this -- they will try it again. Will we, the public, be wiser next time?

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

Today is the 15th anniversary of the greatest foreign policy blunder of my lifetime, the invasion of Iraq, 3/20/03. Don't say "nobody could have foreseen..." I was in the streets of NY with 250,000 people who did. Plenty of people knew the war was based on lies and greed.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

In addition to the vast destruction and lives lost, the total expense exceeds a staggering 3 trillion dollars. That's about $30,000 per household in the US. Imagine what a responsible, forward thinking government could have done with that much money.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@mjuric Thanks!

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

Amazing! @LIGO and @ego_virgo have made the 1st detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars. https://t.co/SEkjCt5WP7

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@LaurenMWeiss Great ad. My money's on her. I pity the fool running against her.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

@ErinCram @AstroKatie This was written in 1998? It reads like 1955.

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

It was a pleasure to watch #Eclipse2017 at Jackson Lake, WY. Some photos here: https://t.co/7zvLY80YJA
I'm a convert!

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

Congratulations to #XENON1T on their first results!

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

Thanks to @elonmusk, this may be what will really makes residential solar take off:
https://t.co/fokfOvJdmm

[Douglas P Finkbeiner @DPFink]

I could just watch supercooled water droplets explode all day, couldn't you? https://t.co/tPilhYW1v0