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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · 1d

cancelling admissions is a bigger deviation from N when N is large, as it is in most physics departments. lots also have GTA positions that need to be filled one way or another. my guess is we see some severe curtailments in physics but few cancellations.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · 17d

I think most folks know that intellectually grad admissions is going to be tough this year, but it's going to be tougher than most anticipate.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · 17d

~ 1000 astro bachelors degrees given out last year, a new record, while most grad programs are planning to admit fewer students this year (due to reduced or uncertain federal funding).

number of astro bachelor degrees over time, showing rapid recent increase

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · 24d

Past experience shows that it's very difficult to separate "random HI cloud" from "galaxy that has only HI" and the prior probability on the former is large. Are you more sanguine?

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Aug 29

is acorn tv the one with coffin flop?

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Aug 24

And pump gas

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jul 10

These sims exclude gas accretion, yes? I.e. they are modeling the IMBH growth post tidal stripping of w Cen.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jun 30

www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease

5k words, 23 minutes reading time

www.owlposting.com

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jun 23

Jaylen is reigning finals MVP for a few more minutes

Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · May 12

another day, another paper proposing one of the most metal-poor galaxies known is strongly tidally stripped.

Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Apr 17

'hycean' is a terrible word. hydrogen means "water forming" (since, when burned, hydrogen produced water). ocean is stream or body of water enclosing a large land mass. so hycean means water forming body of water.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Apr 8

It's far from clear to me that more $$ to GRFP as they currently exist is the best way to help students. More grants to pay for students to go to rich universities that fund them already? I think the program structure needs rethinking.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Mar 17

N6791 is somewhat mass-segregated, which makes the odds of a pulsar far from the center low. Since it's too faint to get a parallax distance until the ngVLA is operating, proper motion is the most likely way to assess the association.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Mar 12

you could relabel this list as "didn't think we needed to publish in nature to prove our results were important"

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Mar 3

sean baker's other movies are also great! go watch red rocket.

Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Feb 20

some long-standing REU programs are being cut this year. i would take an offer in hand ASAP.

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jan 31

we are not (actually larger than typical). however, some places that have not yet send out acceptances are delaying while trying to get some clarity on funding pauses.

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Zack Quaintance -> NYCC @zackquaintance.bsky.social · Jan 16

oh no this is awful…RIP David Lynch

Screen cap announcing David lynch has died

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jan 7

MIT Summer Research Program, due Jan 21, open to non-US citizens who are currently US university students with a standard visa

oge.mit.edu/msrp/

MIT Summer Research Program | MIT Office of Graduate Education

oge.mit.edu

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jan 7

LIGO SURF, due Jan 11, is also open to non-US citizens

labcit.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/stu...

Caltech LIGO SURF | Welcome

Caltech LIGO summer programs for undergrads

labcit.ligo.caltech.edu

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Jan 7

This program at MPIA (applications due Jan 15) is open to all nationalities and two positions are guaranteed to folks from non-rich countries.

www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Dec 28

tom brady should be watching ross tucker do color

Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Dec 23

how long until everyone starts giving a 4.3 for an A+ at the university level?

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Dec 22

RIP grant

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKe...

Husker Du - Don't Want to Know If you are Lonely

YouTube video by jat13

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Jay Strader @caprastro.bsky.social · Dec 22

cornell-heads sighing as fox uses husker du for bumper music in SEA-MIN

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