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Astro Applications Developer and Acta Prima Aprilia editor
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In the newest episode of The Old SwitchAroo, Kristal of The Lazy Circles returns with her friend Nick to talk about Metroid for the NES and Metroid II: Return of Samus for the Game Boy Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Quite excited to get the @letterboxd.social email notification that Hot to Trot is now on Tubi because I've had the accompanying episode of @haveyouseen.us downloaded on my phone for quite some time, just waiting for me to get to watch such a vaunted Bobcat Goldthwait vehicle first

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Truly, it's remarkable how much I can accomplish these days by using my phone's ability to translate whatever I point the camera at. Proper translation would be best, but I hope we're not too far off a lot of older astronomical 🔭 writings being more easily searchable arxiv.org/abs/2503.23614

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Always a pleasure to announce another great issue of Acta Prima Aprilia is out, with 4 submissions on arXiv.🔭 There's some great-looking papers up on arXiv from competing publications as well. www.actaprimaaprilia.com/2025-issue

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

submitted 54 days ago • 100 comments

Season 3 of The Old SwitchAroo begins with The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX for the Game Boy Color, joined by Derick of the Underrated movie podcast @underratedmoviepod.bsky.social and RiRiYells. Find it anywhere that you get your podcasts! 🎮

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

"But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." - Dorothy Thompson, August 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

After seeing more than a few dismal responses from universities in the current dismantling of science in the U.S., I want to applaud this email from the chair of my alma mater, the University of Washington Astronomy Dept. 🔭 (Email is too long for alt text, so I will copy-paste in replies)

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

I can't tell if it's a service thing, a user thing, or a critical mass thing, but blue sky still feels really unsuited to supporting conferences (translation: i don't know how to find other "know thy star 2" posts or if there just isn't anyone posting about it - #knowthystar2?)

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Pretty final version of map of fire agencies that helped Los Angeles fight the Jan 2025 fires. Over 550 agencies outside LA/OC, representing 3 countries and 14 states, sent people and/or equipment. It's been something positive to focus on in a very rough month here www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Finding it somewhat therapeutic to look at how much help the LA area has received for the Palisades and Eaton fires because it's more about the support being given. This map now lists over 300 agencies that sent equipment/personnel (and still adding as I find them) www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Not much I can do about the LA fires themselves, but the amount of firefighting support coming in is incredible. In lieu of finding it anywhere else, I've started making a Google map of all agencies that have sent help (currently have over 200 agencies) www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome addition to academic conferences here is the addition of a discussion about mental health in academia, as this feels more impactful than these discussions happening in separated venues (talk by psychiatrist Jonathan Chou at MIT) #TESScon3 🔭

submitted 288 days ago • 0 comments

By far, one of the greatest contributions to today has been the new Astrobites tradition of adding peer review to the celebrations. And this is impressive turnaround, too. I wish I could get peer review back in under 24 hours (though I also wish I could *complete* a peer review in under 24 hours)

submitted 408 days ago • 0 comments