Dr. Michelle Ntampaka

We've written a short guide for early career astronomers on how to fairly referee a manuscript. It has a few sneaky use cases, though: 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2205.14270

@jwuphysics x.com/baym/status/18…

r/machinelearning and r/physics are livid. HN is happily e/acc. Twitter a weird mix of the two.

lol. lmao, even

@fringetracker The student should reach out to nhfp@stsci.edu to ask!

Question for a student about the NHFP: eligibility "or who will receive their degree before September 2024" seems to indicate you can't apply for the Hubble at all until after you graduate - is this a typo for 2025?

@VincenzoRoccaro @cosmobasu

@cosmobasu So basically just 1

As a physicist, the easiest Japanese character you can learn is the one written as h bar c (を).

Very nice thread! Our team is trying to understand exactly this: how do researchers use LLMs and how do we optimize that interplay? At @jhuclsp JSALT, we're starting with astronomy, where the stakes are low and the data are free!

You will never regret picking the supervisor who will mentor you well. Projects fail and pivot, and funding ebbs and flows, but a supportive PhD advisor will help you weather the storms and come out stronger on the other side.

Interested in learning more about ML interpretability for astronomy? Check out Oliver Lin's new notebook in the Hello Universe repository! The notebook gives a pedagogical overview of Saliency Maps, Grad-CAM, RISE, and Ablation Analysis: archive.stsci.edu/hello-universe…

@SiaraRouzer As an undergrad, I got a C in computer programming. And now I'm a PhD Astrophysicist who specializes in machine learning 🤷🏻‍♀️

Looking to prove a point with my undergrad RAs. Can any fulltime scientists (all career stages) share if they received a 'C' grade or lower on their undergraduate transcripts? Bonus points for sharing the class title.

@MarkusDeserno @AlexanderRKlotz ... conservation laws.

@AlexanderRKlotz ...mastering physics.

How would you complete the sentence, speaking to undergraduates? "Mastering physics isn't about memorizing equations, it's about ___________"

@MarkusDeserno @grodriguezlemus You should! Though I'm not going to lie - this cost more than my wedding dress 😳

@astro_michelle @grodriguezlemus Definitely a big plus. Maybe I should advertise that during visiting weekend? 🤔

@baym ... a perfectly cromulent thing to debate!

Today’s discourse appears to be whether words have meanings?

After a brief memorial, the cigarette was lit at 5:17. The 2024 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

@KRHornberger Physicist here 🙋🏻‍♀️ I once dropped a box containing about 20 spectral tubes (glass tube lamps filled with hydrogen) that were needed *the next day* for an undergrad physics lab. IIRC, I broke 5 of them (so, about $200) and we almost had to cancel the lab 😬

My son texted me a bit upset this morning because he broke a beaker in his high school chemistry lab and brother can all we chemists tell him some stories What’s the biggest / most expensive piece of glassware you’ve ever broken?

@HariniSridhar3 It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through. (and wrapping up to again give credit where credit is due -- this is from Ira Glass) 6/n

@HariniSridhar3 It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met.

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice Then I tackle the green things first, and address the orange and pink items as I have time and energy to fix them. Somehow, getting the easy things out of the way helps me to get traction and it makes the big items feel more manageable. 3/3

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice green highlight for easy things like typos or small figure edits, orange for medium things like "write a paragraph in the intro that says X", pink for difficult things that will take me more than an hour. 2/n

Anonymous question “How many comments you got on your first draft? I got so many comments on my first draft. Is it Normal? Please share your experience of comments on your first draft and how you planned to handle them?” #PhDVoice @PostdocVoice