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It's 3:30 pm. And it's the first time today I found the time to make myself a cup of tea. It has been a day.

#ScienceLife #astrodon

It's 3:30 pm. And it's the first time today I found the time to make myself a cup of tea. It has been a day.

#ScienceLife #astrodon

I’ll just put this here… #Science #ScienceLife #ScienceFightClub

I’ll just put this here… #Science #ScienceLife #ScienceFightClub

Palmer Station (USA) A "warm" summer day on the Peninsula! 🧊 Temperatures hovering around 2°C with light rain and low clouds. The ice is melting fast around the station—perfect weather for the local penguins! 🐧 #Antarctica #PalmerStation #ScienceLife

Palmer Station (USA) ❄️ Summer in the Antarctic Peninsula! At #PalmerStation, we’re seeing a high of 2°C (36°F) with overcast skies and light sleet. The glaciers are calving actively in this "warm" weather. Winds are steady from the West at 20 knots. If you're out in the Zodiacs, watch for ice floes! #Antarctica #ScienceLife #PalmerStation

Palmer Station (USA) ❄️ Summer in the Antarctic Peninsula! At #PalmerStation, we’re seeing a high of 2°C (36°F) with overcast skies and light sleet. The glaciers are calving actively in this "warm" weather. Winds are steady from the West at 20 knots. If you're out in the Zodiacs, watch for ice floes! #Antarctica #ScienceLife #PalmerStation

Davis Station (Australia)
🧊 A "warm" summer day at Davis with temperatures around -5°C. The sun is up 24/7 now, so there’s no escape from the glare! Skies are mostly clear with light winds off the ice plateau. It’s perfect for outdoor research operations. Don’t forget your high-grade sunglasses—snow blindness is a real risk! 🇦🇺
#DavisStation #Antarctica #ExtremeWeather #ScienceLife #Ice

Davis Station (Australia)
🧊 A "warm" summer day at Davis with temperatures around -5°C. The sun is up 24/7 now, so there’s no escape from the glare! Skies are mostly clear with light winds off the ice plateau. It’s perfect for outdoor research operations. Don’t forget your high-grade sunglasses—snow blindness is a real risk! 🇦🇺
#DavisStation #Antarctica #ExtremeWeather #ScienceLife #Ice

Great science, great views, and great company — our joint retreat with Rodrigo Villaseñor’s lab (LMU) at Schloss Ringberg was a real highlight. Here's a snapshot from our hike — thanks to everyone who made it such a memorable and inspiring few days!

#Neuroscience #LabRetreat #SchlossRingberg #ScienceLife #NewsMayerlab

No Water. No Shade. Just Me, an Observatory, and Fly Hell.

I flew into the actual furnace of Australia to do some routine maintenance on an observatory… but nothing about this trip was routine.

The observatory needed repairs. The flies needed blood. The sun wanted me dead.
It was hot, it was remote, and I was aggressively outnumbered by insects with no respect for personal space.

This is what happens when you mix astronomy, the Outback, and a complete disregard for self-preservation. 🔧🪰☀️

#observatorymaintenance #astronomy #outbacklife #flyhell #telescopes #nerdchaos #chaoticadventure #spacestuff #sciencelife

https://youtu.be/mgfSjvitugQ

In a meeting, we're discussing someone's PhD plans.

How best to design this retrospective study, how to approach that prospective study, how to implement a technique to better monitor disease, discover early relapse of cancer.

All are paying attention, me and others are involved, asking questions.

Someone's asking, about the results and reporting to MD's, "if they need further explanation, do they know who they gonna call?"

GHOSTBUSTERS!! someone screams inside my head.
😬

#ScienceLife

This single-author paper is my first ever. I did have one with 2 authors, which was great, but my previous first author paper was in the Euclid context and had 436 authors...

Still scared because I have no idea if this is a rather trivial contribution or if it's really adding to astrophysics. At least it's a first, to use the z=6 black hole to galaxy scaling relations to calculate total black hole mass at z=6 and then interprete this.

#astronomy #astrodon #sciencelife

This single-author paper is my first ever. I did have one with 2 authors, which was great, but my previous first author paper was in the Euclid context and had 436 authors...

Still scared because I have no idea if this is a rather trivial contribution or if it's really adding to astrophysics. At least it's a first, to use the z=6 black hole to galaxy scaling relations to calculate total black hole mass at z=6 and then interprete this.

#astronomy #astrodon #sciencelife

A good general rule in science is this:

"If you are not beating up on your own work as much as you are beating up on _other people's_ work, then STFU."

There is nothing that I hate worse than so-called "selective rigor."

Fortunately, the vast majority of people I know who work in science follow this rule pretty well. But I have run into a few exceptions. And they tend to cause more chaos and problems than anything else.

#science #sciencelife #lablife #research

A good general rule in science is this:

"If you are not beating up on your own work as much as you are beating up on _other people's_ work, then STFU."

There is nothing that I hate worse than so-called "selective rigor."

Fortunately, the vast majority of people I know who work in science follow this rule pretty well. But I have run into a few exceptions. And they tend to cause more chaos and problems than anything else.

#science #sciencelife #lablife #research

#ScienceLife paradoxes:

The one that's always late for meetings, complains someone else 5 min delay.

The one who takes *months* or infinite to answer emails, says "hey you took more than 48 h to answer!".

The one with the blurriest/low res images fiercely criticizes every pic.