Finally out! I started writing this article back in July, but as I wrote, the people involved kept emailing me with updates. It was an exciting assignment! ๐งช www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Forget atomic clocks. Nuclear clocks, which only drop a second every 300 billion years, can test whether nature's fundamental constants are constant after all
I wanted to record myself playing trombone with a cool background (instead of my bedroom) so I tried Zoom. It turns out that Zoom has a "noise cancelling" feature and it completely eliminated my playing... Trying not to take it personally ๐ฌ
When I talk about how scientists can avoid contributing to misinformation, I talk about the importance of understanding the information landscape around one's research findings. How will your results be interpreted by the public? How will they be framed or abused by the parties in existing debates?
School is starting up this week here -- that kind of marks the last days of summer too.
Rooftop photo using a point and shoot in "starry night" mode. Hope everyone is savoring their summer nights -- we're getting close to Fall!
I think it is 'bout time we declared today (Aug 6) International Pulsars Day since today was the day that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (aka Queen JBB) discovered them! I wrote about this a little while ago: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-y... A thread of pulsar graphics to celebrate ๐งต๐ ๐ญ๐งช๐ก
In basically everything Iโve published, my ideas have changed in some substantive way during the writing. Sometimes the entire paper is different. This is also why I advise my students to write the introduction and abstract last: you need to introduce your final draft, not the first draft.
One of the best bits of wisdom Iโve taken about writing is that you write the first draft to explain it to yourself and then a second to explain it to others. They skip all that and make sure no one understands anything.
2nd time getting quoted in the dictionary! :-0 www.merriam-webster.com/sentences/co... I'm sure it's temporary :-)