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  1. If you can't see the complete #eclipse today, I can reassure you that the photos of the #sun arriving in my TL look just like round #pancakes.
    Here’s my suggestion for young and old alike: make two pancakes. Spread dark jam on the slightly smaller one. Drag it extremely slowly over the larger one. Then use your mouth to create a Black Hole! Slurp the sun, the moon ... Cosmic experience guaranteed! 😋🤭

    If you can't bake, an alternative: social.bund.de/@dlr_next/11707

    #sciComm #astrodonchatter

  2. If you can't see the complete #eclipse today, I can reassure you that the photos of the #sun arriving in my TL look just like round #pancakes.
    Here’s my suggestion for young and old alike: make two pancakes. Spread dark jam on the slightly smaller one. Drag it extremely slowly over the larger one. Then use your mouth to create a Black Hole! Slurp the sun, the moon ... Cosmic experience guaranteed! 😋🤭

    If you can't bake, an alternative: social.bund.de/@dlr_next/11707

    #sciComm #astrodonchatter

  3. I do love the thrill of writing an observing proposal well into the night, but maybe next deadline I should aim to finish before 1 AM...

    Life of a scientist, y'all!
    #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter

  4. I do love the thrill of writing an observing proposal well into the night, but maybe next deadline I should aim to finish before 1 AM...

    Life of a scientist, y'all!
    #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter

  5. As a Professional Astrophysicist, my job is to {SEND EMAILS} and I am very {A LOT OF} at my job!
    #AcademicChatter #AstrodonChatter

  6. As a Professional Astrophysicist, my job is to {SEND EMAILS} and I am very {A LOT OF} at my job!
    #AcademicChatter #AstrodonChatter

  7. I've been working with a colleague on a paper on a very weird object. No details on here until it's accepted, but it's now submitted! #AstrodonChatter

  8. I've been working with a colleague on a paper on a very weird object. No details on here until it's accepted, but it's now submitted! #AstrodonChatter

  9. Just about done writing this 6 page paper, and I see it's now ... 17 pages. Huh. Not sure how that one happened. #AcademicChatter #AstrodonChatter

  10. Just about done writing this 6 page paper, and I see it's now ... 17 pages. Huh. Not sure how that one happened. #AcademicChatter #AstrodonChatter

  11. Day 5 of "how long can I ignore my boring admin TODO items and play with astro data instead?"

  12. as a description for is a useful term: there is a daily dose of anti-social behaviour beyond a person's threshold. So the there are three paths forward: 1) reduce the negative dose by increasing positive behaviour (compliments, positivity) and 2) reducing the unwanted behaviour *and* 3) increase the person's resilience / tolerance level so they can cope with a wider range of people.

  13. as a description for is so useless: it gives no tangible thing to improve and no gradient to measure improvement over time. Once toxic, those coworkers are contaminated and beyond redemption?

  14. Hot take: the arXiv needs to realize it isn't 1997 anymore and ban joke papers on April 1. #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter

  15. Hot take: the arXiv needs to realize it isn't 1997 anymore and ban joke papers on April 1. #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter

  16. Good: One cannot "lose an hour of sleep" if one is deep in the muck of submitting observing proposals.

    Bad: One can lose "an hour of working on proposals."

    #Astrodon #AcademicChatter #AstrodonChatter #ChandraCycle26

  17. Good: One cannot "lose an hour of sleep" if one is deep in the muck of submitting observing proposals.

    Bad: One can lose "an hour of working on proposals."

    #Astrodon #AcademicChatter #AstrodonChatter #ChandraCycle26

  18. Non-Yanks are keen to complain about temperatures in Fahrenheit, but, being an astronomer, I just can't cotton to those arguments. I've used so many weird temperature units in my life that "But water freezes at 32?" doesn't really rate for me. #AstronomyChatter #AstrodonChatter

  19. Non-Yanks are keen to complain about temperatures in Fahrenheit, but, being an astronomer, I just can't cotton to those arguments. I've used so many weird temperature units in my life that "But water freezes at 32?" doesn't really rate for me. #AstronomyChatter #AstrodonChatter

  20. As someone neck-deep in planning for #AAS244, I'd like to make my annual appeal to other astronomers to stop calling it the "Super Bowl of Astronomy."

    It's a flawed analogy for a number of reasons (chief of which: this isn't a competition!), but there are also so many better analogies already out there! If anything, it's the ComicCon of Astronomy!

    #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter #Astronomy

  21. As someone neck-deep in planning for #AAS244, I'd like to make my annual appeal to other astronomers to stop calling it the "Super Bowl of Astronomy."

    It's a flawed analogy for a number of reasons (chief of which: this isn't a competition!), but there are also so many better analogies already out there! If anything, it's the ComicCon of Astronomy!

    #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter #Astronomy

  22. Perks of working at the #CenterForAstro: the view.

    (Downsides: Boston's wicked hot right now)
    #AstrodonChatter #CfAHS

  23. Perks of working at the #CenterForAstro: the view.

    (Downsides: Boston's wicked hot right now)
    #AstrodonChatter #CfAHS

  24. Grad students: please, for the love of all things, make it so if I google "Your Name Astronomy Your University" I can find YOUR email. Please don't make me email your advisor. No one likes that.
    #AcademicChatter #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter #AcademicLife

  25. Grad students: please, for the love of all things, make it so if I google "Your Name Astronomy Your University" I can find YOUR email. Please don't make me email your advisor. No one likes that.
    #AcademicChatter #Astrodon #AstrodonChatter #AcademicLife