Saw the 40th anniversary release of Jaws recently, and I was struck by the fact that basically everyone except the police chief and the mayor travel by bike. Admittedly it’s set on an island, but it was not unusual for the time. With hindsight it looks nothing like modern America.

Had a similar thought. “Which part of your body was inside the very noisy claustrophobia tube?” is not a difficult question.

Thanks Phil - we appreciate the signal boost. 😀

For potential students reading this, by all means ping me and/or @leighfletcher.bsky.social if you have questions about the Physics & Astronomy PhD programme in Leicester. And feel free to contact individual supervisors about specific projects too. 🔭

Presumably tickets for day four of the fourth test are now changing hands for about $5.

The aspect ratio looks more like the torus than the actual accretion disc though. Clearly we need a unified model of parmesagn. 🔭

I wonder if the median shows the same trend? The mean is liable to be skewed by the still relatively small number of papers with very long author lists.

Also curious to see if it changes if you limit it to just the major astro journals? Smaller journals tend to have more single/few-author papers.

I didn't realise they were filming in our living room last night.

Agreed. E&M plus QM (and/or atomic/molecular physics) are necessary pre-requisites for the astro courses that cover where photons actually come from.

Recently exoplanets & planet formation have shifted heavily towards large collaborations. If a student (or their advisor) joins one of those teams they can often get 20+ Nth-author papers during their PhD. I worry that we’re starting to skew the field towards people who got in to big teams early on.

Also doesn’t reflect authorship norms in different fields. In lab-based subjects it’s convention that the senior/supervising author is listed last. But in fields like astronomy/astrophysics the supervisor is usually second or third author. To me, last author indicates smallest contribution. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hard to say if the Wings/Avs rivalry peaked with the regular-season brawl, or the playoff fight night that ended in Crawford's meltdown.

The Wikipedia page doesn't really do justice to Shanahan clothes-lining Roy though. Or mention that he didn't get penalised for it. 🤣

I’m still on a 12 mini, and ditto. I do not want a bigger phone.

Meeste van op de TV is ook heel eng.

Definitely not. If it's a new class, I'd plan for roughly one day of prep per hour in front of the students.

Indeed. It’s not just a lack of new positions either. There are a number of departments where astro staff have recently moved or retired and have not been replaced.

Is the price for buying solar systems, or for heating them? The latter might actually be more...😂