Let’s just say by the amount the heads of these baby dolls are casually banged into things it’s good she’s not in charge of babies 😜

Me with the Artemis I rocket

Artemis I rocket with a sign “we are going!”

Four years ago today I saw the Artemis I rocket up close on its launchpad! (It rolled out and back a few times until its Nov 22 launch.)

My biggest impression at the time of the SLS is it was VERY impressive and big IRL in a way pictures can’t grasp. Just what you want from a moon rocket! 🧪🎢🔭

Very cool! Have fun! 🚀

Got our toddler twin baby dolls because she has twin little sisters now. Problem I did not foresee is after changing and feeding real babies I now get to do it for her babies too 🙃

Marche! :)

Finally made it out for the martini I’ve been dreaming about for months! 🍸

Ah, moms- some colleagues came to visit and hold babies and after they left my mom said “physicists are always nice!” I was like I like that you think that but the better adage is I only introduce you to nice physicists 😂

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Yeah you guys were very nice about waiting IIRC. :) Unfortunately you were an outlier.

Bc they’re making a decision for you over asking what would be best

Trust me, this is a well documented phenomenon if you talk to women who have kids- once people know you’re having one the invites dry up.

Want to support #WomeninSTEM? Don’t hold back an invite for something bc they’re pregnant/ just had a baby/ have a small child. People always say they’ll invite “later” but later never comes- let me lean on my support network and figure it out instead! 🔭🧪

Ok looked into it and it’s not as bad as I feared. For Kent state and OU they’re only getting rid of the BA but still offer a physics BSc

Liking for exposure not bc I like it

I know several graduates from those programs, this is sad 😔

I mean if memory serves, call it Total Fark and I will! 😉

My problem is I would 100% say brontosaurus bc I learned that was one in kindergarten even tho that’s been a genus probably that long

Next time you come to our place ask Floris for a detailed discussion of charging our car off our solar panels on the garage roof :)

I feel I can guess the context but haven’t heard it before

Re: Hungary 🥳🇭🇺

We’ve been waiting for years for this. Never forget that we can still win when we all show up and stick together!

As a Hungarian-American it is downright weird to see so many people caring about Hungarian politics today. The last time that happened was never.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice! But still weird. 😅

South Dakota. I found it so shocking Oregon had none that I had to look it up.

The signal from hydrogen emission is redshifted so much from when it was emitted in Dark Ages that it’s down in ~kHz/ 100m+ wavelengths which are opaque on Earth due to atmosphere. So it would be cool to go to the moon to see it! But MHz/GHz doesn’t have this effect so much easier to do from earth.

As I said it’s like bringing a machete to a knife fight in terms of solving a problem- there’s some benefit, but not a HUGE amount over just, say, building your array in the Australian outback shielded by mountains around it which is infinitely cheaper

Theres actually a cool mission concept that you can just… get robots to unspool really long wires (bc the wavelengths are like 100+m so dipoles don’t really work anyway). Which doesn’t work on work bc weather but nothings gonna disturb the wires on the moon…

I think that’s valid to be clear! I just don’t think it’s gonna happen until ~retirement due to a lack of interest/ will compared to other science, unfortunately. Dark Ages 21cm distinction is too subtle for most to understand who aren’t scientists.

Just my experience discussing it at least

There are of course the lowest frequencies that we can’t see, which are worth considering. But most people think the main goal here is to just reduce RFI/ get away from Starlink, and in that case a lunar far side scope is like bringing a machete to a knife fight in terms of funding/practicality

My cynical criticism about this is I think the public gravely underestimates the money in radio astronomy. You can build SKA+ngVLA for less than a far side radio telescope, and you can do that just as well from Earth.

Like if Arecibo failed bc of a lack of $ I don’t see us supporting this 😕

It actually doesn’t matter very much so long as you’re not pointing towards the sun. If there’s a flare up sure but then the solar radio astronomers take over so it usually works out.

Luckily they hired a radio astronomer to do this job where we don’t care about clouds, and use facilities out of state in places like New Mexico and South Africa!

And some space telescope so the clouds truly don’t matter there.

Thank you! In times like this it’s really nice to be able to focus on something new for the future. Like we might be going to hell in a hand basket but students deserve to learn about the stars who dream about them

Thank you! 😎

Figure if there’s no money to apply for I may as well set up a program w classes I want to teach instead; if the university doesn’t see that as money coming in for tenure it’s not worth sticking around anyway 😅