Chris Haines

@pickover 49/99

Mathematics. In front of you is a stone labeled 1, a stone labeled 2, another labeled 3 -- all the way up to 100. (No numbers are repeated). You remove 2 stones at random. What's the probability their sum is even?

I've posted these a lot but it's worth remembering that all NASA spending *ever*, across 65 budgets, fully adjusted for inflation, is less than the last three pentagon budgets. The soft power ROI contrast is insane.

💫 Reunión Anual CHANCES en @UAtacama , Copiapó 🌌 Estudiantes de doctorado de nuestro Instituto de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias @bmamrutha93 junto a dos profesores, el co-PI del proyecto @CP_Haines y nuestro coordinador del progama, Dr. Ivan Lacerna

📣 #JobAlert: Two Postdoctoral positions in extragalactic #astronomy to support the 4MOST CHANCES project in Copiapó and Valparaíso #Chile linkedin.com/posts/yara-jaf…

¡Chile fue escogido como sede del evento de astronomía más grande del mundo! 🔭🌌 La Asamblea General de la Unión Astronómica Internacional se realizará en nuestro país en 2030, lo que consolida a Chile como un país de ciencia capaz de organizar grandes eventos mundiales. 🌎

Amrutha talks about multi-lambda identification of infalling groups around massive galaxy cluster #Sestogroups24

Kick off of the last day of the conference ! We keep going with the powerful spectroscopic surveys with Haines showing CHANCES, the 4MOST public spectroscopic survey for cluster galaxy evolution #Sestogroups24

@pswidlicki Liked the disastrous election campaign of Jo Swinson. Loves the disastrous election campaign of Rishi Sunak.

@sundersays Sunak would have us believe that asylum seekers in France got wind of the July 4 election date even before his gambling election campaign team. Impressive.

This really is one of the daftest things Mr Sunak has said while Prime Minister. If this nonsense was true, then 2024 crossings would be falling below 2023 and 2022 while asylum seekers studied the polls & waited for the exit poll

@Conservatives The Conservative party coming out against women getting stuff sorted. OK. Note taken.

@sundersays That was one of their April fools stories though.

Mail already ran this survey 8 weeks ago A survey on "might you withdraw if VAT" [threaten to withdraw in this survey about the tax] is a really poor method to predict actual behaviour though a good method for headline grabbing

These numbers are nonsense. The method is highly unreliable. The authors/advocates will look very silly in Sept 2024 and Sept 2025

@PolitlcsUK @DailyMailUK Tomorrow we'll learn from the same survey that 150% of them will leave the country the day after Labour get in.

🚨 NEW: A new report claims 4 in 10 students will quit private school due to Labour's VAT plans [@DailyMailUK]

@AbranCancha8 No hay estadio disponible en la Región Metropolitana? Hacen sorteo para elegir canchas? Parece de sí.

Menos de 100 espectadores en el Barnechea Antofagasta disputado en La Calera...

@StretfordPaddck That feeling when Antony comes on.

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@UKinChile @BritGeoSurvey @sernageomincl @meconomia @MinMineria_cl @udeantofagasta @UTarapaca @Gob_Copiapo Sorry that I missed this event at my university. I had do idea it was happening.

Durante su visita a #Copiapó, expertos de @BritGeoSurvey realizaron un taller sobre producción sostenible de #litio con el objetivo de fomentar la colaboración entre la comunidad de investigación socioambiental, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y comunidades indígenas

@BestForBritain @EdConwaySky It is notable how every single forecast since 2007 looks exactly the same, with debt rising rapidly for 3 years, flattening in year 4 and magically declining in year 5. And yet this decline never materialises in real life. A mystery to behold.

1/ The 4MOST instrument, led by @AIP_Potsdam , will be installed at ESO's VISTA telescope, where it will collect spectra 🌈 of millions of objects over several years. And one of its key components is about to start its journey from Europe to Chile! ⛴️ 📷 AIP

@RobDotHutton Even the house looks sad at the thought of living through 2024 under Sunak.

@t0nyyates "These MA courses are far too popular!", laments Professor Matt, thinking sadly about all the teaching he will have to do.

Universities aren't running a Ponzi scheme. They're selling courses at high fees 2 foreign students who want them. These are used 2 subsidize UK students' fees. The system does not depend on ever larger student numbers, but balancing the subsidy with the home student deficit.

@angrypiln There is no pleasing some people. Complaining when the tree is not felled. Complaining when the tree has fallen.