astrocurator.bsky.social
Researching the formation of planets, stars, and galaxies, mostly through numerical simulations. Curator-in-Charge, Dept. of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History. All opinions are my own and not the institution's.
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He seems to be pretty hardcore! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26...
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I admit that I went on to get a PhD after completing the BA, then wandered the world in postdocs for a decade...
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Eh, all my degrees were in physics!
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I also got that degree in 1983. But I'm the oddball who was able to continue on in the field to the present day!
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You mean beyond donating a quarter of a billion? That's not enough?
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hmmm... horse bell, huh? Wonder if that has anything to do with the general resemblance of a pile of potatoes to horse droppings?
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ðŸ”
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ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi... (2/2)
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Joining California yesterday! bsky.app/profile/bill...
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Are there any viable alternative hypotheses? Or should we go with the 5% chance as a winner in a universe of infinite possibilities?
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Could it be that you have discovered another application of Sturgeon's Law? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...
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And yet the House wants to lower tax rates on the rich.
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No, my error: the URL got jammed up with the next sentence and I didn't see it. Erase "Surely" to get the right URL! (or see my replies for the correct URLs)
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www.nature.com/nature-index... to see all recent years.
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www.nature.com/nature-index... Sorry about the bad URL above. (Just erase Surely from it to fix it... error in composition!)
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Successfully. Hope it was the change you were looking for.
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6 Peking University (PKU), China
7 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
8 Nanjing University (NJU), China
9 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China
10 Tsinghua University, China
(5/5)
On this measure, Chinese institutions have gone from one to seven of the top 10.
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The top 10 in 2024:
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
2 Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
3 Max Planck Society, Germany
4 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China
5 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China
(4/5)
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6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
7 Helmholtz Research Centres, Germany
8 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan
9 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)
10 University of California, Berkeley, USA
(3/5)
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The top 10 in 2018:
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
2 Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
3 Max Planck Society, Germany
4 French National Centre for Scientific Research
5 Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(2/5)
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with a chaser of hard X-rays
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As we saw at last week's symposium @stsci.edu, thanks to facilities like @jwstobserver.bsky.social and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
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Rereading, I should have qualified, "...than anywhere else in the Milky Way!"