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Cantankerous astrophysicist and editor. Grandfather and dog owner. I could probably drink less coffee. I think about magnetized turbulence and what it means for the universe. Orcid 0000-0002-2307-3857
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youtu.be/3jjze_R0sQo 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Bo Peng (彭博) and Diana Valencia on 2024ApJ...976..202P Bo Peng (彭博) and Diana Valencia (University of Toronto) chat about their article on exo-Venus atmospheres.

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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youtu.be/TWYGpjlYRnc 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Juan Luis Rizos on 2024PSJ.....5..262R Juan Luis Rizos (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, University of Maryland) chats about his article on the chemistry of Ceres. (NB “organic” means carbon chain molecules, not life.)

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youtu.be/F0WISM4qqjo đź”­ AAS Journal Author Series: Carrie Holt on 2024PSJ.....5..273H Carrie Holt (Las Cumbres Observatory) chats about her article on distant comets.

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The world is burning but I made it to the Chihuly museum in Seattle last weekend. Apologies for my mediocre camera skills. It was amazing and you should all go on person.

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youtu.be/BJersSpLanE 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Chun Huang on 2025ApJ...978L..14H 🥄 Chun Huang (Washington University in St. Louis) chats about his article on measuring the size of neutron stars.

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all signs point to cooked www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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youtu.be/4tZZAzdxzS0 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Marbely Micolta on 2024ApJ...976..251M Marbely Micolta (University of Michigan) chats about her article on the composition of disks around young stars. 🥄

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youtu.be/UZee8KQ8Z9I 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Stephen Markham on 2024PSJ.....5..269M Stephen Markham (Université Côte d’Azur, New Mexico State University) chats about his article about the internal structure of Jupiter and Saturn.

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I’m putting this question to the universe because I’m genuinely baffled. Why USAid? I guess there’s some South African-related grudge that Elon has, but if so I don’t know the story.

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youtu.be/vhdN2_ORu-0 AAS Journal Author Series: Alex Reda and Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte on 2024ApJ...976..163A đź”­ Alex Reda (Yale University) and Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte (University of British Columbia) chat about their article on CHIME holographic beam-mapping.

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youtu.be/tUfuJWnFlwA AAS Journal Author Series: Sena Aleyna ĹžentĂĽrk on 2024ApJ...976..175S đź”­ Sena Aleyna ĹžentĂĽrk (Akdeniz University) chats about her article on new line lists for infrared spectroscopy for solar-type stars.

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