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Yale Astro '18. Graduate Student at Notre Dame. Buckeye by birth. Exoplanets by Trade. Fueled by caffeine, anxiety, baseball, golf and racing
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Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

submitted 5 days ago • 209 comments

A 3.1% contact rate is abysmal. It's going to need at least an approach change and likely a substantial swing change. 80-grade raw power alleviates those concerns a bit, since it does DAMAGE if it makes contact.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

"Okay so in 2025, I should get over my fear of flying and really start traveling to a lot more conferences..." Also in 2025:

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Don't see Bowman, Blaney, or Bubba in there let's go boys

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I feel this. It's not just with my normie non-academic friends and relatives who are unaware, it's w/ academic friends who aren't political scientists who are carrying on like nothing. I compartmentalize to a degree to stay sane too, but this cognitive dissonance in my life is stressful.

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

I think whenever I graduate, I need to try to find a job in a location where the weather is nice enough that I can golf all year round You may now revoke my Midwesterner card...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

A quick, personal gauge: A BIG LOSS OVER HERE I'M TALKING YAHOO BUYING TUMBLR FOR A BILLION AND SELLING IT FOR 3 MILLION

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly, as long as he also doesn't have shit politics, he's better than 95% of the other dudes who could have gotten the gig so, uh, as I used to say as a kid: in sweater vest I trust

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Kendrick continues to inspire me to be the biggest hater while being the littlest cutie patootie

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

submitted 19 days ago • 202 comments

Nothing like cleaning up your code and rerunning it before you try to submit your paper to double check numbers and now weird errors are popping up and you're getting different numbers and genuinely have no idea what is going on now

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

every day it gets so much worse and i am trying so hard to not get overwhelmed by despair but it just feels impossible

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

*just a deep, long sigh*

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

WISH DEATH UPON ME

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Oh man I'm sitting here at work reading all the tributes to Bob Uecker and I can just feel the tears

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It's Ohio State vs Notre Dame for a National Championship Either way I win!!!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Man now that I'm older, I wish I could retake some of the more interesting classes I had in undergrad. Undergrad was so stressful that I felt like I didn't sink into some of those classes as much as I wanted to. Today though? Hell yeah dude I'd kill to talk about Alexander The Great twice a week

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

😂😂😂😂

submitted 53 days ago • 218 comments

Boise State and Arizona State winning while Georgia and Oregon lose would be the funniest possible outcome

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing the proud tradition of Ohio boys getting off to a quick start against overconfident Volunteers

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I'm watching Here Comes The Irish before tonight's game and look... ...I want Marcus Freeman to come to the physics department to give a pump up speech

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

WHO HATH AWOKEN THE SLUMBERING GIANTS

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

This is why astronomy education is important

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

BEST DAY OF THE YEAR

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

MY KECK PROPSAL GOT ACCEPTED FIRST TELESCOPE TIME!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in hell

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

That scene in Rogue One with the Death Star rising over Scarif, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Using Thanksgiving break to catch up on sleep instead of continuing to work feels so guilty yet so rewarding

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

If I had a nickel for every time I said "Woke up lookin for the broccoli" since last Friday, I could fund my way through grad school

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Did irreversible damage

submitted 95 days ago • 58 comments

Kendrick Lamar just dropped the music video for "Squabble Up"

submitted 95 days ago • 182 comments

Holy shit. New image of the Sombrero Galaxy from #JWST just dropped. Look at that thing 😍

submitted 95 days ago • 14 comments

NEW KENDRICK ALBUM!!!!

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

machine learning is my passion

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

new @fangraphs.com: the final candidate in my Era Committee series is the enigmatic John Donaldson, who may have been the greatest Black baseball pitcher of all time.

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

2024 PitchingNinja Award for Most Uncatchable Pitch (season). 😖🏆 Winner: Matt Waldron's Knuckleball

submitted 100 days ago • 10 comments