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Ankit Barik
@astrodoc.bsky.social
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Assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Studying planetary interiors and dynamos. Developer of codes. Lover of fluid dynamics and MHD. https://ankitbarik.github.io
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 12d
Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.

This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 13d
🌀The stratospheric polar vortex is a belt of high-speed cyclonic winds around 12-20km high over the poles. When temperatures in the stratosphere – which contains the ozone layer – start rising in the southern spring, the ozone hole over the Antarctic grows.

2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 13d
As a physicist and martial artist, if you're ever talking about #3., I would absolutely love to hear!
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 19d
Being in #academia means having constant FOMO about what people are working on. 🧪⚛️
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 22d
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 23d
First proposal as PI submitted! 🥳🎉
Wish me luck!

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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 23d
Great, thank you!
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 23d
Congratulations! Did you have to pay for the covid shot out of pocket? (I was told the Hopkins insurance isn't covering it yet. :\ )
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · 28d
Wow! Excited! 😍😍
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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 28d
BREAKING NEWS: NASA has found a potential sign of past life on Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA
A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken
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Royal Observatory of Belgium @orb-ksb.bsky.social · Sep 5
☀🌕 On September 7, there will be a #totallunareclipse. However, totality will only be visible in Belgium between 20:17 (moonrise) and 20:53 (end of totality), local time in Uccle. For better observation, find a place with a clear horizon between east and south-east. robinfo.oma.be/en/as...
Copper red full moon
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Sep 4
The Europa clipper is on its way to investigate the ice shell and ocean of the Jovian moon Europa. Here's what the interior of Europa looks like as we know today. Values of layer depth estimates taken from Vance et al., 2018. 🧪⚛️

#EuropaClipper #PlanetaryScience #FluidDynamics
A picture showing the interior layers of Jupiter's moon Europa. It shows an inner core, on top of which is a hot mantle, an ocean overlying it and finally covered by ice. The surface texture is also included showing crisscross "chaos" terrains, craters etc.
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Sep 3
Like how shameless do you have to be? Above all, the paper on which this is based was recently retracted, someone showed that it produces basically the same results as a coin flip. (3/3) 🤣🤣

retractionwatch.com/2023/08/24/p...
Paper that helped form basis of pricy research tool retracted
Donald Morisky Nearly four years after a critic pointed out flaws in a paper about a controversial research tool involved in nearly 20 retractions, the owner of that instrument has lost the article…
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Sep 3
There have been studies that needed to be retracted because they did not pay these hefty licensing fees. And I mean ... look at these questions! They're basically "did you forget to take meds?". This stupidity, btw, was publicly funded and he's charging money for it! (2/3)
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Sep 1
Should've definitely phrased my rant better. :D

What you said is sort of what I wanted to mean. I have heard "quit" used in the sense of "giving up" or "dropping out" but what you said definitely puts it in a much better phrasing, in my mind and anyone else who's reading it.
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 31
And of course I am talking about folks who would have ideally liked to stay in academia but couldn't because of the hassle of constant funding uncertainties and few permanent positions. Moving on to something else is always an equally valid choice.
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 31
I agree! And I didn't mean it that way. What I really meant is that we should diversify the types of permanent positions that are around and the system shouldn't require everyone to become a PI to have financial stability. Sorry that didn't come across, I didn't want to make the thread too long. :)
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 31
And let's be clear, PI's are usually not that person. Many well-known PI's I have met haven't looked at fine grained details of research or even written code by themselves in a very long time. They have great big picture ideas, but they cannot execute those ideas themselves. 🧪⚛️ (4/n)

n=4
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 31
Imagine having a student or postdoc starting to work on something. Now you could ask them to figure things out from scratch, which may take months. Or you could have a person in your group who knows this stuff inside out and can set things rolling in less than a week. 🧪⚛️(3/n)
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 31
At the same time I feel sad that we are losing these brilliant minds because they weren't working on the "right" topics or didn't apply for "right" grants. A human encyclopedia on a field of research is extremely valuable and we should do everything we can to keep them around. 🧪⚛️(2/n)
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 31
I just learned that one of the most brilliant science minds I ever met during my PhD "quit" academia. I say it in quotes because I really hate that language. It keeps so many people feeling guilty about want to leave a system that does not value their skills, experience and knowledge. 🧪⚛️ (1/n)
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Aug 12
What are you using to animate this? Looks cool!
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Jul 26
Yes 😂
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Jul 26
Reminds of someone who worked on the moon for a long time, and we started talking about Earth's interior and he went "a hundred Gigapascals ... what?!! Oh right, Earth, yes ..."
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Ankit Barik @astrodoc.bsky.social · Jul 23
This is so accurate omg 😭
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · Jul 23
'Who killed Hannibal'? meme from the Eric Andre show. In the top panel a man in a grey suit (labeled 'NATURE') kills a man sitting in a chair (labeled 'NULL RESULTS'). In the bottom panel the man in the grey suit turns to the camera and says "WHY DON'T SCIENTISTS PUBLISH NULL RESULTS?"
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