Benny Trakhtenbrot
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Benny Trakhtenbrot
@bennytr.bsky.social
Drinking coffee, watching black holes grow. z=0.
מסתמן שהמוצרים של Boox אמורים לעבוד טוב. אבל טרם הספיקותי להתנסות בעצמי...
October 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I think the common English spelling is "Shavit" (in any case, it means "comet" in Hebrew)
September 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So people can float along the magnetic flux tube? OMG
July 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@vrooje.net no no I'm still young! Look at me I ask chatgpt what time it is and what is "George Bush"!
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But seriously, see my point about students' papers. They don't have to suffer for our burning ideology.
May 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I would also hesitate to have my students' papers going to the OAJ path until I'm convinced it's not going to harm their chances of getting a good postdoc down the line.
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So basically this welcome change will have to be led by the senior faculty :)
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A huge issue for postdocs and junior faculty is that many hiring and P&T processes require "Q1 journals", based on impact factors etc. And some of the committees have senior faculty from disciplines that are just now realizing that preprints exist and are legit. The change is going to take a while.
May 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yes I've witnessed people struggling with these dilemmas for longer-than-expected periods, and they were paid for that! One nice thing I've seen done for social median and E/PO purposes is to create a gif animation that "scans" through wavelengths - one can see line emission regions "light up"
May 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The on-target exposure was supposed to be done just before/after that background measurement. One could, in principle, "collapse" the integral field spectroscopic "cube" along the wavelength axis to get an "integrated" MIRI image, but I'm not sure how this can be done with your (fantastic) bot.
May 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This off-target pointing was specifically designed to measure the multi-wavelength background emission separately from the main target. This allows to subtract the background from the signal obtained "on target" so to be certain that the interpretation is robust.
www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
www.stsci.edu
May 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Just curious, as I have no experience with such a system: how "remote" are the leaders of something like the UW CAS from normal teaching/research faculty? how many years have typically passed since they had to submit or manage a grant? get reimbursed on a conference? hire a postdoc? etc...
April 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Should we just get a huge hair dryer to work over Ky? (I think I know how hair dryers work)
April 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Now HAVE TO buy a real 5L container with this design!
March 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
half-jokingly...
March 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
עתיד החברה האנושית בסכנה כולנו נישאר בלי עבודה לא ברור מה תפקיד המחקר וההוראה במציאות של בינה מלאכותית
March 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM