I may be new in academia but January seems like a very poor time for grants/proposals to be due
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Astronomy PhD student researching Cosmology & Galaxies 
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god tried to murder Alphonse Sax so many times for the same reason He destroyed the Tower of Babel
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Officially reached the stage in the grant writing process where I start looking for other jobs
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My writing style? Simple! I spend an entire 9-5 workday in agony, then I eat dinner and see what I can accomplish before I pass out.
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the audacity of bottom-feeding fake-blue-check content scrapers to insult actual astrophysicists 🙄 usually I don’t QT but here’s an easy add to your block list
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Replying to @fille_delespace
At least 90% of the content is from NASA, which is public domain. Hardly 1 or 2% is without credit as we can't find the original author, hence contact details in the bio. We update asap when the original author is found. Congrats on the most-read tweet on your account though.
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i have to admit that going to grad school was an incredibly thorough way to learn that i am not a particularly good scientist
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How I am nervous about starting another semester I am in 18th grade
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It's very important to me that Rochester wins this please help me support New York's 4th most populous city l
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Getting a PhD in astrophysics so I can possibly one day figure out how showers in other people's houses work
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Just rewatched Inception, when in my grad career can I expect my professor to introduce me to a mysterious man who offers me a very cool but illegal job that my intellectual curiosity compels me to accept
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I think it's unfair to say that Ithaca is in the "middle of nowhere" since that implies it's some sort of centralized location and it is verifiably Not
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Telling my family that the menorah was HR diagram colors last night while they look at me confused
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Making cool visualizations of your data counts as work, right?
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Post-semester hitting like
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Alright I'm three semesters done my astro PhD program, when am I supposed to take the astrology course?
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Watching this movie with a bunch of astronomers especially one with the same name as the main character is incredible 10/10 experience
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watching A Christmas Star, which is about an astronomer named Madeline in upstate New York. ??????????
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In Ithaca public transportation news, Cornell is refusing to increase TCAT funding as TCAT workers voted to authorize a strike with 88% support
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Happy day after Astro PhD apps to everyone who celebrates. Now use parental controls to block a certain website from all your devices until May
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at a truly fundamental level i do not know what is going on
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when is grad school supposed to get better
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job hunting. moving stealthily through the job forest. nocking a job arrow in my job bow
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The main thing this final will be testing is my patience
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*writing a grant*
The funding of this research is pertinent to NASA's interests because I will eat all the rockets if you don't
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Gonna be telling myself "it's ok you don't know what you're doing you pretty much just started grad school!" until the day of my actual thesis defense
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I didn’t realize what academia was doing to me until I received some positive feedback today and it felt like taking a party drug
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At least 30% of my total coding time has been struggling with importing packages
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Me, first arriving at the Cornell astronomy building: Hey this isn't so bad!
Me, three semesters later, to the department chair: Give me a floor plan so I can figure out which walls are structural
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It is bigger than you thought:
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Pasting the exact same code into the other notebooks does not make them work. It is not a factor of its location or when it was created. Copies of the magic notebook also don't work.
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There is one part of one package that kills any kernel I try to import it in with the exception of one notebook that I created just to test imports. I have tried everything to figure out why it's different and have come to the conclusion that it is simply magic
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"This is a whole new chapter in astronomy."
Webb researchers found 2 early galaxies, one of which may contain the most distant starlight ever seen. These 2 unexpectedly bright galaxies could fundamentally alter what we know about the very first stars: go.nasa.gov/3XdhoDa
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![Large, bright white stars with long diffraction spikes are seen among countless glowing galaxies of all shapes and sizes against the black backdrop of space. Some galaxies are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. Towards the bottom left, a small reddish disk is framed in a tiny white box. This box is attached to a close-up view in a much larger inset box. This red disk is a never-before-seen primordial galaxy discovered by Webb, thought to have existed 450 million years after the big bang.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhxljHQWQAAyz_r?format=jpg&name=medium)
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BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by , are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.
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#Artemis I is launching to the Moon!
Nov. 15:
3:30pm ET (2030 UTC): Tanking coverage
10:30pm ET (0330 UTC): Launch broadcast
Nov. 16:
8:30am ET (1330 UTC): Trajectory burn
10am ET (1500 UTC): Earth views from
Stay tuned: youtube.com/playlist?list=
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“omg u study astrophysics u must really want to work for nasa and help colonize mars!!!” ok first off absolutely the fuck not second off
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✨New paper alert!!✨✍🏻📄 If you've heard me talk about plate tectonics on Europa, now's your chance to read several beautiful pages about how plate tectonics on Europa are episodic, regional, and widespread. I'll do a more detailed thread later this week!
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Sorry I did not reply to your text/email I am tragically inflicted with a severe case of Forgetting Everything The Moment I Stop Paying Attention To It disorder
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Reminder to vote today if you haven't already!
And check out this cheatsheet if you want to know about all the important elections happening!
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NEW: One day more! My cheatsheet of what to watch has more than 500 items, from AGs & referendums to Congress & DAs. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-b
And now... it's also a printable PDF worksheet. boltsmag.org/wp-content/upl
Print it out & use it as a worksheet! Share & bookmark!
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