maddening that fellowship applications heavily rely on doing outreach to support underrepresented communities in the field when one is a member of such an underrepresented community and continuing to exist in the field is writing the application to support their inclusion in the field

Bigfoot is definitely a bottom right?

smh that astronomers still use AB magnitudes when cruelty-free vegan magnitudes are so readily available

Asserting without evidence that most of the ills of today’s society are a direct result of the decline in public support and acceptance of clowns and clownery. When I was a kid a midsized town would have at least 4-5 bozos and/or ronalds mcdonald and now I think I’d struggle to find either in today’s charged political climate

John Proctor: let her cook

Day 2 conference selfie!

Conference day 1 selfie

Happy 4th hrt-iversary! (Sort of, I don’t celebrate the day proper anymore but this 4*52=208 wednesdays back I popped my first pill)

Very excited for the guy behind me in the security line who had gate C21 on his boarding pass at San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (which has no C gates) who was told he was at the wrong airport by TSA and almost certainly wants to be at San Francisco International Airport (which does have C gates)

Can’t believe scientists have been using spectrographs for decades but still haven’t detected a single spectre