John ZuHone
@jzuhone.bsky.social
Father, husband, Anglican Christian. Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian; works for Chandra, researches galaxy clusters, develops in Python
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Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
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AAS Alarmed by Rumored Deep Cuts to NASA and National Science Foundation
Recent reports have indicated that the White House may soon be proposing drastic cuts to future budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). aas.org/posts/news/2...
Recent reports have indicated that the White House may soon be proposing drastic cuts to future budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). aas.org/posts/news/2...
March 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
AAS Alarmed by Rumored Deep Cuts to NASA and National Science Foundation
Recent reports have indicated that the White House may soon be proposing drastic cuts to future budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). aas.org/posts/news/2...
Recent reports have indicated that the White House may soon be proposing drastic cuts to future budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). aas.org/posts/news/2...
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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent
“It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…
arstechnica.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Slack: *any message*
Astronomers:
Astronomers:
a cartoon drawing of a green parrot with a large beak .
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a green parrot with a large beak .
media.tenor.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Slack: *any message*
Astronomers:
Astronomers:
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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
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All the best to @planet4589.bsky.social with his retirement. Will gladly welcome him back to the UK!
www.newscientist.com/article/2468...
www.newscientist.com/article/2468...
Meet the man who single-handedly tracks every spaceflight mission ever
For more than 40 years, Jonathan McDowell has tirelessly catalogued the space industry. Now he is planning to retire, and looking to pass on his extensive collection of knowledge
www.newscientist.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
All the best to @planet4589.bsky.social with his retirement. Will gladly welcome him back to the UK!
www.newscientist.com/article/2468...
www.newscientist.com/article/2468...
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Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.
February 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.
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Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...
US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World
US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences
physicsworld.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...
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From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : Today’s paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies! 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x...
astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x...
Cosmic Rays vs. Thermal Emission: An X-ray Showdown
Today's paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies!
astrobites.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : Today’s paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies! 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x...
astrobites.org/2025/02/12/x...
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NSF funded this 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
February 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
NSF funded this 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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NASA senior review reports from 2022 (the PDFs linked on this page) have been scrubbed from NASA websites. I am grateful to archive.org who retains these and other important reports for our field. 🔭🧪⚛️ science.nasa.gov/astrophysics...
2022 Senior Review of Operating Missions - NASA Science
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) periodically conducts independent, comparative reviews of its operating missions. NASA uses the findings from these
science.nasa.gov
February 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NASA senior review reports from 2022 (the PDFs linked on this page) have been scrubbed from NASA websites. I am grateful to archive.org who retains these and other important reports for our field. 🔭🧪⚛️ science.nasa.gov/astrophysics...
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The people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d pull the U.S. back from foreign entanglements and overseas adventurism are really among the prime suckers of our era.
February 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d pull the U.S. back from foreign entanglements and overseas adventurism are really among the prime suckers of our era.
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If they "are serious about slashing NSF, the result would be catastrophic, the same program manager warned. Cutting the $10 billion grantmaking agency in half would “gut the intellectual center of U.S. leadership in science and technology,” the official said. www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
www.eenews.net
February 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If they "are serious about slashing NSF, the result would be catastrophic, the same program manager warned. Cutting the $10 billion grantmaking agency in half would “gut the intellectual center of U.S. leadership in science and technology,” the official said. www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
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Reassuring scared colleagues that their third shift work over the years supporting their community is valuable and good and they should get to own that, and I hope they can again.
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Reassuring scared colleagues that their third shift work over the years supporting their community is valuable and good and they should get to own that, and I hope they can again.
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"pip install sk8plotlib" if you want to give it a try!
Note that rescaling the skateboard to the data in the plot isn't supported yet, & the skateboard always spawns at (0,0) still, so if you have large or small numbers (or a log plot) then it won't like it
Instructions on GitHub:
Note that rescaling the skateboard to the data in the plot isn't supported yet, & the skateboard always spawns at (0,0) still, so if you have large or small numbers (or a log plot) then it won't like it
Instructions on GitHub:
GitHub - emilyhunt/SK8plotlib: Turn any matplotlib line chart into a line skateboarding game.
Turn any matplotlib line chart into a line skateboarding game. - emilyhunt/SK8plotlib
github.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"pip install sk8plotlib" if you want to give it a try!
Note that rescaling the skateboard to the data in the plot isn't supported yet, & the skateboard always spawns at (0,0) still, so if you have large or small numbers (or a log plot) then it won't like it
Instructions on GitHub:
Note that rescaling the skateboard to the data in the plot isn't supported yet, & the skateboard always spawns at (0,0) still, so if you have large or small numbers (or a log plot) then it won't like it
Instructions on GitHub:
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Still not allowed back to our house for another night, but grateful that so far it looks like we have a home to return to. My heart goes out to all my friends and colleagues who lost everything today. #LAFires
We have evacuated. Please stay safe, everyone. #LAfires
January 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Still not allowed back to our house for another night, but grateful that so far it looks like we have a home to return to. My heart goes out to all my friends and colleagues who lost everything today. #LAFires
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Solstice imaging with Celestron Origin - these all came from 2 ~hour-long exposures. Stay up late this time of year, you can see into the Realm of the Nebulae (plus an occasional photobombing actual nebula). M108/M97/M96/M105 and friends.
December 23, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Solstice imaging with Celestron Origin - these all came from 2 ~hour-long exposures. Stay up late this time of year, you can see into the Realm of the Nebulae (plus an occasional photobombing actual nebula). M108/M97/M96/M105 and friends.
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Recently talked to a student who admitted to using ChatGPT as a study device - by feeding it all of the class lecture slides and having it generate summaries. So now OpenAI has ownership of all the slides my co-instructor and I created from scratch…
December 23, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Recently talked to a student who admitted to using ChatGPT as a study device - by feeding it all of the class lecture slides and having it generate summaries. So now OpenAI has ownership of all the slides my co-instructor and I created from scratch…
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The Prime galaxy: the points in the plot have coordinates
x = p*cos(p)
y = p*sin(p)
where p are prime numbers.
x = p*cos(p)
y = p*sin(p)
where p are prime numbers.
October 27, 2023 at 4:38 PM
The Prime galaxy: the points in the plot have coordinates
x = p*cos(p)
y = p*sin(p)
where p are prime numbers.
x = p*cos(p)
y = p*sin(p)
where p are prime numbers.
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The Oort cloud is full of comets or as Jupiter calls them, snacks. 🔭
October 25, 2023 at 3:29 PM
The Oort cloud is full of comets or as Jupiter calls them, snacks. 🔭
Is there life after proposals?
October 23, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Is there life after proposals?
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And people* wonder why I search for new planets. Look at this. LOOK AT THIS. It’s Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Isn’t that just about the most evocative surface you could imagine? WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE?
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
*my mother
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
*my mother
October 17, 2023 at 4:58 AM
And people* wonder why I search for new planets. Look at this. LOOK AT THIS. It’s Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Isn’t that just about the most evocative surface you could imagine? WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE?
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
*my mother
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
*my mother
Look, John Wheeler was a brilliant physicist, but I just read the famous “it from bit” essay and it is quite the hot jumbled mess.
September 19, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Look, John Wheeler was a brilliant physicist, but I just read the famous “it from bit” essay and it is quite the hot jumbled mess.
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How you know Elon announced a new feature on Twitter
September 18, 2023 at 10:17 PM
How you know Elon announced a new feature on Twitter