Trying to keep it classy! 😀

Please re-route any emails to my personal gmail.

Brief life update: On Monday I resigned from my appointment at Lowell Observatory. I wish my remaining friends and colleagues the best of luckin their endeavors in increasing new visitor center visitation, and continuing to pursue world-class research in the face of having ended tenure today.

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Excited to have a tour today of the new AAO building at Macquarie, where the astronomers and engineers are just beginning to bump into their new facilities! The atrium and forum are going to be awesome event spaces and the labs are enormous.

Nobody *needs* to drive.

What people need is to get around.

A century of bad urban policy has led to the two being synonymous.

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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Tickets to this Europe?

Yesterday, newly-discovered #asteroid 2025 SU4 🦒passed closer than our geostationary satellites.

We have job opportunities in the APEx department at MPIA - please spread the word!

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Tenure-track staff: aas.org/jobregister/...
Max Planck Research Group Leaders: aas.org/jobregister/...

+ happy to host ERC, Humboldt, and other third-party funds.

Daily bunny no.3081 just has to make it across

Ain't that the friggin truth

My salary cut makes everything more expensive

My periodic reminder for #astrosci #astrodon #exoplanets Early Career Researchers to please, please, please have a simple web site with your current email address on it - rationale here: kenworthy.space/advice/

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship apps are OPEN! 🔭 However, app only appears on research.gov if your role "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"! Click "Proposals", "Prepare and Submit Proposals", then "Prepare New". If you do not see NSF 22-621, change role to "Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow"!

So - again, with the Miras - we see compression-expansion cooling of mass loss outflows, in shocks that form in those outflows. So a similar principle here could [?] cool the Ni-56. Though to the point of being a BEC? Sure, why not

Y'know, that just might work

We have evidence of natural maser emission from Mira variable stars (eg arxiv.org/abs/0705.4614), so maybe a SN neutrino laser is also possible

LOL not surprised with G-M

This is the spectroscopic transit of a #planet with an orbital period of 1.5 YEARS !! #HIP41378 🪐

In case you missed the great paper led by Salomé Grouffal (#ProudAdvisor), arXived over the summer, here is a recap'.

#Thread [1/8]

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If our elected leaders truly believe we're in a new space race with China, then we cannot afford to abandon space science.

Read the NEW OP-ED by me and Maxwell Zhu today in Payload Space: payloadspace.com/op-ed-space-...