It's great that I can get all the way from Oxford to Leiden for #Exoplanets5@exoplanets.bsky.social 🔭
Are there any pre-schoolers in your life? Check out this great new “Earth and beyond” activity pack from the British Science Association and Ogden Trust. The “crater creator” activity looks particularly ace 🤩 #scicommprimarylibrary.crestawards.org/crest-star-f...
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Applications are open for the pre-doc program at the CCA! This program is for current astro grad students to come visit NYC for 5 months and collaborate with a CCA scientist on a research project. I ❤️ this program so much!! Please apply and/or share! www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron-ins...
Congratulations and so delighted to have you around for 3 more years (at least!)
Approaching stars are red Receding stars are blue Starspots mess with my head And convection cells too
Thank you!
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 101yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was just wonderful.
The prediction -> experimental design -> observation -> refinement loop is just that: a loop. There's no specific point that is intrinsically a better starting point than any other. Of course, when it becomes a tangled knot is when you know you're doing real science...