Dr. Matt Finley

George Hospodarsky, @uiowa @physicsastron MSC Instrument Lead Matt Finley - @NASAGoddard , Magnetic Interference Mitigation Lead

Spent some time cleaning up my late-60s Celestron C8 this weekend with hopes to try out some astrophotography this winter. Stacked a few short passes of Saturn through the eyepiece with my cell phone before dragging out my big cameras for more prime focus photography!

Newest paper just dropped! We discuss how a lightweight, unsupervised machine learning tool (typically not synonymous) can be used to detect geophysical events from a variety of time-series spacecraft observations, with an emphasis on the potential for onboard application.

Drove all the way to NASA Wallops for a scrapple breakfast burrito (and the Heliophysics Tech Symposium) 🚀

@erisahasani3 My experience as a postdoc (currently in my second, at a different institution) has been that I was given a laptop for use at work, with whatever reasonable specs I wanted. As a graduate student, though, that definitely was not the case.

I wonder: why don't PhD students or postdocs get work laptops? I haven't heard that being a thing anywhere but it sounds like it should be.

Update on the terminator squad... they look pretty good if you squint 😆

@belltyler I'm considering reading them, my dad highly recommends them! But currently just show-only as well 😅

@MatthewGFinley The show is excellent! Have you read the books? I’m staying show-only but a friend went and read all of the books after watching S1 and really liked them!

Spending a lazy Sunday watching the 3 Body Problem and painting some of my @warhammer 40k Ultramarines!

Newest paper just dropped at Geoscientific Instrumentation! We present a physically-synthesized dataset that can help to validate the performance of magnetic interference mitigation algorithms for spaceflight magnetometers. doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-…

we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because that shit goes hard

Donuts should be mandatory for meetings that happen before 9a 🍩

Went backpacking, did a bit over 1% of the Appalachian Trail for my fiancé's birthday!

This is remarkably pleasing to me.

Second time in a row that my flight from CID -> DCA was canceled, this time due to mechanical issues. Only cut ~14hr off my weekend on this round, which is better than last time!

@KyleMorgenstein Bose QCE Mk2 is by far the nicest noise canceling earbuds I've ever used. Great for planes, subways, calls (even Zoom/Teams with work computers), etc. Since they just released the QCE Ultras, the QCE Mk2 is probably on sale!

need something smaller/more portable than my Sony noise cancelling headphones, what are y’all’s thoughts? I work in an office, travel on planes, and exercise. comfort for exercise is probably top priority. noise cancellation is nice to have but not a must.

Why would anyone want to leave this?

@valeriadepaiva What's the keyboard and mouse combo?

New office at the Hausdorf Institute of Mathematics, yay!

@Natalie_P10 Quit eating rocks, dude

Before and after of the Saturday fire pit build

@KyleMorgenstein @yupes_ Are you ever concerned that the money will, instead of helping, enable potential negative behaviors? Although I try to give occasionally to the unhomed, this question always makes me uneasy.

@yupes_ i usually don’t carry cash but I started trying to always have a few fives in my pocket for exactly this reason