Dan Giles

Astrodata scientist (he/him/PhD) seeking anomalous data (plural). Off hours: a regular, lifelong, social activist. Black lives matter.

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

I'm on bluesky and I don't know what I'm doing, follow me and I'll follow you probably [at]danielgiles[dot]bsky[dot]social

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Is it hard to understand that “safety” and “defense” in the form of military violence and war crimes is, in fact, oppression? #FreePalaestine

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

It's a bold choice to host an entire event about a photo and never show the photo full screen
#JWST #RenameJWST

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

When police inevitably kill protesters who have had their medical autonomy stripped away because those police felt their lives were in danger, will they understand the irony?

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

@RocketToLulu yOu caN UsE yOuR SicK leAVe and VaCaTioN

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Absolutely terrifying. I wouldn’t be surprised if every protest from here on has armed white supremacists seeking to provoke ANY response to justify murdering protesters.

[🇵🇦Dr. Ronald Gamble | Theoretical Astrophysicist @Dr_Gamble21]

My #AAS239 special session on DIVERSIFICATION OF ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS AT NASA is coming up soon in January!! I’m still looking for your stories to be told! Just fill out the google form here: https://t.co/6VQ9VtoNKW

#BlackInAstro #BlackInPhysics Fam help spread this around!

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Just flew @AirCanada for the first time, pretty lackluster. As a sample: apparently a 10h delay for a connecting flight doesn’t even merit a meal voucher. Currently sitting on the tarmac after 38 hours of travel because they couldn’t organize the arrival gate.

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

It’s wild that all these businesses changed zoning laws across the country to set up semi-permanent buildings on streets and sidewalks. In those same places architecture is designed to prevent people from lying down who don’t have beds.

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

How long into a pandemic until it becomes precedented?

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@EmDwarf But like, is there an NFT for the TESS pixel data I could buy?

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@devintron Rude.

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Reminder that in addition to land acknowledgments you can choose to pay rent to tribes whose land you occupy.

Unless, of course, that acknowledgment was just performative

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Hot take: “meets expectations” is the correct amount of effort for students and employees

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Hey siri, make all my friends move to California

Hashtag addie's listening to bo

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Woke up. In the. Morning. Feeling like a… ok actually, then the pup (our geriatric peekapoo) peed on the carpet after his shower 🤷‍♀️🤷🤷‍♂️

Like I said, @AddieDomske puts inside on, I tweet

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

I’m now just tweeting whenever @AddieDomske puts #boburnhaminside on, so I’ll be tweeting a lot more

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

what music should i binge on after #boburnhaminside? tiktok won't stop saying I'm depressed

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

Lookout everyone, my family text is getting heated

[Dan Giles @DanielKGiles]

So like, no fireworks or baby genital nonsense this year right?