John Forbes

Theoretical astrophysicist building galaxy models. Fan of big structural change. Married to @erzampag. he/him

[Alex Alemi @alemi]

Why don't we measure probabilities in degrees?
https://t.co/uqLw9f5C2Y

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

Anyone else have the experience that @zotero connector no longer works nicely with abstract pages on @adsabs ?

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@kjb_astro @ESAGaia Would you expect a similar uncertainty inflation to be necessary for other parameters in the binary orbit fits?

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@aussiastronomer

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@dr_paul_woods Interesting! Thanks for the clarification.

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@Noahpinion In astronomy journals the official policy is to capitalize for our Universe, but outside of that it shouldn’t matter!

[Sandro Tacchella @sandrotacchella]

Excited and honored: our picture of the most distant galaxy currently known is the Astronomy Picture of the Day. If you want to scroll around the image, check out our viewer: https://t.co/zjJHfRRyea

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

Congratulations to Antonio and the team for this recognition of their incredible achievements!!

[Alex Alemi @alemi]

In which I try to make sense of most of machine learning: https://t.co/IfB73XinFs

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@ElectricKeyLime @Noahpinion For a numerate conservative perspective Lyman Stone seems to be the go-to

[David W Hogg @davidwhogg]

Black mathematics postdoc fired for nonviolent political protest: https://t.co/jCKNTBX0DR #blackinstem #blackinmath

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@aussiastronomer Malicious bending?

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@chrislintott and straight after the eclipse too. Banger after banger.

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@PlanetaryGao that Took me a second

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@danprice_astro That's very kind of you! Here's a photo of my laptop 😅

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@karinsandstrom There's some discussion of similar issues in the mailing list archive. Something that seems to help is cranking up the wind mass loss rates, but not sure if you'll get through fast enough. The issue is that MESA is simulating something with a short physical timescale.

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@drvolts Serious potential for a motte and bailey meme here

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@nrui_tweet @toomanyspectra It's been a little while and with a different version of MESA, but the run setup would have been similar to what I used in https://t.co/XueVmLuWI8

[John Forbes @redshiftless]

@toomanyspectra This proceeding claims they don't go through a red giant phase, though the last time I ran a MESA model of a 0.08 Msun star for 10^13 years it did do something interesting at the end of its life, but I never dug into the difference. https://t.co/BszDjMvOyO