We interviewed NASA Astrophysics Division Director Mark Clampin on the state of the division given the lean budget for FY24 and FY25. We discuss NASA's goals for the future and the status of ongoing missions such as NASAHubble and Chandra Observatory

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LSST Discovery Alliance is hiring a Director of Finance and Administration. Come work with me! lsst-inc.prismhr-hire.com/job/788309/dir…

Isotope Cosmochemists need to stop assuming 'r-process = supernova'

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The You're Wrong About... episodes about the OJ Simpson trial were so eye opening, showing how violent and abusive Simpson was in his marriage, and how well known this was in their families and social circles. Just awful. The first of many episodes is here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…

Colloquium today at Flatiron CCA, featuring:

Stellar variability!
Pulses & pulsations! what's the difference? also, why would you do that
Asteroseismology in places it shouldn't be!
Betelgeuse hot takes!
Hungarian content!
At least 1 meme!

Join me today at 3pm for this and more

Great thoughts from Laurie Leshin. Never trash other missions, don’t fight inward even amid really tough budgets. The entire SMD portfolio is worth advocating for, with huge societal+technological ROI. NASA Science repays the nation & taxpayer by many multiples in many ways.

Remarkable Hubble work on omega Cen's spin from proper motions over a baseline of 20 years - see rotation curve below:
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03722…

Awesome colloquium on star-planet interactions by evgenya shkolnik! Got to keep an eye on the UV - crazy to think you can have a flare on an M dwarf that increases the flux from the star by 14000 times in the UV but only an order of magnitude in optical

Do you want to see 30 years of progress in astronomy? On the left is the iconic 1995 Hubble Deep Field. On the right is (a portion of) the 2024 JADES GOODS-N Field, focusing on the same region, but going significantly deeper. It's an insane triumph of technology and effort.

Are you struggling to put the work into a writing project? Need some accountability? LUMA and Movement Consulting are hosting weekly writing accountability group called The Lightening Collective! Join us Fridays at 12pm ET - sign up form sent to our mailing list ✍️

I am hiring a new editor for my team! (based in the northeastern US or Germany). Apply within: careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-A…
(Happy to answer questions) #hiring #vacancy #job #astronomy #astrojob

The Webb Telescope is one of the most incredible things ever built. But it’s only as good as the scientists that get to use it.

We’ve spent two years following 2 teams as they became some of the first scientists to ever work with Webb. Thrilled their stories will air on Sunday!

Just recalled an exchange with Daniel Kahneman.💔

Shane: 'What is the most important trait for becoming a successful academic?'

Danny: 'The ability to exaggerate the importance of your research.'

Living your life to the fullest does not have to involve selfies with bison.

Dear awesome people,

We are pleased to announce that the registration for our annual Cosmology from Home is open.

Head over to cosmologyfromhome.com/registration/ to register.

Abstract submission by May 7

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Setting aside the whole question of “maybe it is ok to have a transcendent moment even if it impacts ‘productivity’?”, I note that $700M is a very small amount of money for the US, about $2/person.

As some others have already pointed out, these prices were there before open access; they were just baked into subscriptions. The second best thing OA did was to make these numbers evident to everyone, not just to the libraries footing the bill.

Want to change the system? Post preprints and only post preprints - don't submit to journals, don't subscribe to journals, don't read journals - only hire and fund people based on their preprints.

A scheduled IT systems outage will cause some STScI websites and tools to be unavailable from noon on Friday, April 12th into Monday, April 15th. Get the details: bit.ly/4aR0D74