So, here is my first attempt to make an actual video/vlog #scicomm thing. It's just me talking over some slides, but I PUT MUSIC UNDERNEATH!
I chose the cheesiest possible music. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I was giggling to myself the whole time.
It's 4 mins:
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Does anyone* ever think about who God was sub-tweeting with the whole ‘Thou shalt not cover thy neighbour’s wife’ business? Like, what did Moses’s neighbour’s wife look like? Do we know?!
*okay people with Catholic upbringings 🤣
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Oh man, someone posted a screenshot of this to Reddit and the comments are full of people despairing for this poor teacher reading hundreds of pages of essays. She has 21 seven year olds and they each wrote one paragraph. 🤣
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My son had a short writing assignment about something he was interested in, so he wrote a paragraph on video games. He decided to write it in pixelated/Minecraft font. His teacher's only comment on his innovation/creativity/effort? "Don't write your homework like this again." 
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Tweets that aged well.
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George R.R. Martin says if 'The Winds of Winter' isn't out by July 29, 2020, fans can imprison him
(via @GRRMspeaking | bit.ly/2X0wpJd)
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Evergreen tweet.
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Dance like no-one is watching, but cite like that author will be on the review panel.
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I was halfway through crooning 'Moondance' to my son at the icecream shop last night when I realized... moondancing is sex. Guys I didn't realise. I literally thought Van Morrison was singing about dancing.
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OK this one is good
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"Eat Lead, Zeppelin."
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So what's the latest. #balloonwatch2023
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Mood.
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Getting invited into a new slack channel where people have already been having conversations.
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Yes, kids are brutal. Years ago, told my my wife about my day: "Blah, blah, ... Then I did something stupid; I got on the wrong bus." For weeks after this, my then 3- or 4-year-old daughter would say "Then he did something STUUPID!" whenever we were with other people.
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I love how 's calendar has a 'Local Universe Telecon' scheduled at 1pm. Just, you know, everyone in the local universe is welcome! Let's all chat!
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My daughter: Are you doing something important today?
Me: Yes, actually, I have a very important meeting.
Daughter: I can tell. You’re wearing your very important weird jacket and you have your very important weird combed hair.
Me:
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Actually probably closer to two decades? I think I was using these same maps back when I was a grad student running outreach events in Australia!!!
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Avid Skymaps user here for over a decade now. Any time I will be at a dark site and want to know what I should be looking for!!!
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The Evening Sky Map (PDF) for February 2023 is now available to download at skymaps.com/tesm/ Featuring a monthly Sky Calendar and easy-to-use Sky Maps for the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere & equatorial regions. Please share. Clear skies! #stargazing #CometZTF
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Finally talked to a doctor about the loud whooshing in my ear - suspected eustachian (bless you!) tube dysfunction (tube between nose and ear is blocked!) so now on multiple decongestants for a few days until it hopefully clears up.
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I was halfway through crooning 'Moondance' to my son at the icecream shop last night when I realized... moondancing is sex. Guys I didn't realise. I literally thought Van Morrison was singing about dancing.
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Like, not even a 'Hey this was a fun idea but actually we're trying to assess your handwriting with this exercise so please write it normally next time.'
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I'm so proud of him for trying something interesting to make it fun, and so angry at the teacher for their attempt to quash any imagination he might have.
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My son had a short writing assignment about something he was interested in, so he wrote a paragraph on video games. He decided to write it in pixelated/Minecraft font. His teacher's only comment on his innovation/creativity/effort? "Don't write your homework like this again." 🙄
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has a live stream from at youtube.com/watch?v=_8rp1p. From left to right, both telescopes, IRTF, , North, and UH 2.2m. Thanks to our colleagues for making this available!
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GUYS YOU CAN CALL THE EXOPLANET ARCHIVE FROM ASTROQUERY.
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And for those not wanting to write direct TAP queries, @NExScI_IPAC developers wrote a convenient-to-use #astroquery module. astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ipac
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Just went to look up a planet and went to google maps instead of the exoplanet archive.
One day, google maps. One day!
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Make an interactive and up-to-date plot of all discovered exoplanets in just a few lines of #JuliaLang:
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Guys, be like Adrian and use lovely typeset units in your plots. 🥹
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Nice! Even better:
import astropy.units as u
plt.xlabel(f"[{u.Mearth:latex_inline}]")
plt.ylabel(f"[{u.Rearth:latex_inline}]")
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EMILY YOU SHOULD ALSO BOOKMARK THE DOCUMENTATION PAGE WITH ALL THE LOVELY EXAMPLES OF TYPES OF TAP QUERIES YOU CAN CONSTRUCT.
exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/TAP/using
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I have never bookmarked a tweet so fast
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IT IS REALLY NEAT, WILLIAM. I AGREE.
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ooh this is really neat, I've always been using the pre-generated ones
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Oh and here's the plot, LOL.
Here's how you can make a plot of the mass and radii of the current confirmed planets in one tweet!
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import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
planets = pd.read_csv("exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP/sync?query")
plt.figure()
plt.loglog(planets['pl_masse'],planets['pl_rade'],'.')
plt.xlabel('Planet Mass [Me]')
plt.ylabel('Planet Radius [Me]')
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That's it! Now you have a dataframe that you can do anything with.
The TAP query can bring back whichever columns you like, filtered (using 'where' clauses) if you like.
If you have any questions, check the docs (exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/TAP/using) or ask me!
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import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
planets = pd.read_csv("exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP/sync?query")
plt.figure()
plt.loglog(planets['pl_masse'],planets['pl_rade'],'.')
plt.xlabel('Planet Mass [Me]')
plt.ylabel('Planet Radius [Me]')
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Hi folks. Gather around!
Did you know you can call the Exoplanet Archive contents from within your code??
Here's a snippet of python code that makes a mass-radius diagram for the current confirmed planets:
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Trying to learn a little lushootseed now that we’re out in Seattle, and I gotta say, they absolutely nailed the word for cat
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Dropout's new password-sharing rule: you should share your password with a friend who can't afford Dropout, because it would be nice of you 🤗
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Netflix's new password-sharing rule: Every 31 days your device must log in on your home network — or it will be blocked.
thestreamable.com/news/confirmed
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Know anyone looking for undergraduate research opportunities in Astrophysics? We're launching a new program at UIUC: IDEAS (Illinois Developing Equity in Astrophysics Summer school) publish.illinois.edu/astroideas/
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I mean, I literally collect planets for a living, OF COURSE I'm subscribing to 'Worlds Beyond Number' immediately.
(Also because , , and Lou Wilson are INCREDIBLE, obvs.)
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Utterly and completely blown away by the overwhelming support for @WorldsBeyondPod. Our gratitude is eternally yours. 10k folks by the Fireside in under 12 hours!?!? That's whatcha call a BIG OL' campfire!!! From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!!! twitter.com/WorldsBeyondPo…
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Google being all "Resume your journey" in my search results like I need to be reminded that this is the 50th time I've had to google this specific python question.
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Just watched it! So much information.
The scariest fact that I learned is that any satellites brighter than 7th magnitude will create electronic ghosts in Rubin data - not just local streaks that can be (tiresomely) removed, but artefacts that will affect the whole image. 👀☠️
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My CfA colloquium talk on megaconstellations is now online:
youtube.com/watch?v=ceYt_E
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OMG. HI FRIENDS!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who put this in the calendar to celebrate!
It's also the day of the huge Sydney Mardi Gras parade, so I am just gonna pretend that all the folks partying are also celebrating MJD 60,000!
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PSA. Check yourself before you wreck yourself*
*your code dies spectacularly.
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Ain't no party like an MJD 60K rollover party because an MJD 60K rollover party might lead to Y2K-style code breakages all over astronomy.
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