@dmiller742 More like "this is in great shape I was a marine architect and know boats, it was sailed by [name] family"
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Zach the Recovering Astronomer
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Zach the Recovering Astronomer
@zpacefromspace
as the great poet hath writ: more data, more problems
Green Bay, WI Beigetreten Kasım 2012
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@zpacefromspace "There are no major issues!"
*the rigging hasn't been replaced this century*
*balsa core actually totally rotted*
*none of the electronics work*
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Happy Monday to everyone except the doofuses selling sailboats on FB marketplace without good detail photos.
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@bunchofmelarkey WHAT this is AWESOME not to mention EXTREMELY well-deserved!
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It's OFFICIAL! This fall, I will begin a position as a tenure track faculty member at Lycoming College's physics and astronomy department!
I'm so thrilled and excited to join the department and to begin teaching courses and mentoring undergrads through research! THE DREAM!
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In other words, when an institution values results more than growth (especially for trainees, who--newsflash--do not spring fully formed out of Modern Physics I), that institution will fail to provide resources needed to enable that very growth.
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For that matter (and this may get me yelled at), their standards of achievement are likely so misaligned with your growth and needs that it will be difficult to wrangle the support you need to continue to grow!
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Yes, and ... Any program so unwilling to invest in you that your apparent individual growth and potential are outweighed by a perceived lack of achievement, is not the right place for you.
Shah Lab@ShahLabUCLA
Some of my most frustrating interactions on grad admissions committees have involved fighting comments to the effect of "this person is not a fully formed scientist, doesn't fully understand the critical qs in their field and has not acquired all of the skills to answer those qs"
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Corollary: your advisor is only allowed to make one carbon-copy of themselves. It's great if that is you, but it doesn't have to be
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It's that* time of year again
* the one where @LeahBisson and I fight about the Pogues Song That Shall Not Be Named
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And here we are, his modern equivalents, on this bird app
onionweigher 🧅⚖️@onionweigher
One of my favorite paintings is the 1795 masterpiece titled "The Discovery of Phosphorus" by Joseph Wright which depicts the most impressive achievement of Henning Brand, a 17th century German alchemist who boiled down 1500 gallons of piss until it started to glow in the dark
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If I'm not mistaken, the average Level 2 charger takes 8 hours to fill up a typical EV. Obviously only fair if a free gas pump takes that long to fill up a single car's tank.
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@woodsandbugs I wish that I had at any point borne witness to this
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@woodsandbugs Never has a more accurate word picture been painted
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@zpacefromspace ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thanks, zach :) appreciate u
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if you want to talk to your coworkers about reproductive rights but don't know how, feel free to look at this email I just sent to the UW Madison astro department and steal as much of it as you'd like.
i'd be happy to provide the email text -- dm me if interested
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@FraserLaser1 @CUBoulder Wowwwww congrats 🎉🎉
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Zach the Recovering Astronomer retweetet
Some jets are straight. Some jets are bent. @bunchofmelarkey is trying to sort out why some black holes have their jets of matter askew because it can tell us a little bit more about how galaxies like ours evolve. news.wisc.edu/speed-and-dens…
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@astrobassball I'm in this tweet, and I don't like it
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@sjs917 Same. This is nowhere near breaking *the* internet, but it's certainly breaking *my* internet 🤣
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I sometimes forget just how many astronomers I follow until there's big astro news. 🍩
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