signal boosting for any #BlackInAstro colleagues
new 4 year postdoc fellowship, for people with <2 years postdoc experience, can take it anywhere in the UK, can apply regardless of nationality
The Career Development Fellowship is a four-year, postdoctoral research fellowship, and will initially run as a pilot for researchers from Black heritage backgrounds. Find out more about the scheme here: https://t.co/mIACOBJeaS
I think Spiderverse and EEAAO's success demonstrates why MCU and other multiverse stories aren't working. Two ways to go about a multiverse story:
1) "Look at all the different worlds out there"
2) "Look at all the different *yous* out there"
Here's why option 2 works. (1/x)
Playing around with ONS' data on prices and this is something I hadn't realised before.
The variation in the price of a pint across England has increased *massively* in the last decade or so.
TWO papers on the arXiv today! In the first, Gandhali Joshi asks whether the number of bright satellites around a galaxy tells us about its recent merger history – and yes, it does, but only for about 4 Gyr after the merger. https://t.co/EhFwGIn5Tx (1/2) (funded by @ERC_Research)
academic conferences are wild. $1000 in flights and lodging. talk about your work for 15mins. hear some questions that are more of comments. go to the plenary. a senior scholar says something completely out of pocket. "this is not who we are." overpriced cocktails at hotel bar.
Astro1982 is released in the wake of 13% inflation; huge cost and schedule slip for Hubble; Reagan in ’84 upends NASA priorities toward Space Station Freedom; OMB proposes canceling AXAF; Challenger tragedy in 1986 fundamentally changes the agency and grounds the shuttle program