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Researchers who use Macs, PLEASE don't upgrade to MacOS X Big Sur or buy a new M1 mac yet: a short thread. (1/n)
— Thomas Robitaille 🇪🇺 (@astrofrog) November 20, 2020
Click on this image. Make it full size.
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) November 18, 2020
See that small, white dot, about a third the way in from the left?
That's us. That's home. That's Earth. From Mars. pic.twitter.com/mT9wksZjig
as an astronomer, this upset me
— Giannina Guzmán Caloca 🇵🇷 (@GianniG97) November 19, 2020
as a puerto rican, this actually broke my heart. i cried on the way to class
i don't think people understand the sense of pride and inspiration that Arecibo brought to many Puerto Ricans, especially those who grew up wanting to become astronomers https://t.co/5dIlTkwi1e
Múltiplos relatos de "OVNI" vistos nos céus do Nordeste brasileiro, a oeste. Podem tirar o "N" da sigla. É um objeto voador muito bem identificado, o foguete da missão chinesa Chang'e 5, lançada rumo à Lua na tarde de hoje. Foto: Anselmo Augusto. pic.twitter.com/O4fz3kICMA
— Gustavo Rojas (@gurojas) November 23, 2020
Astronomers have been planet-hunting since the 18th century. Here are those 3 centuries of progress in the form of a single plot.
— Hugh Osborn (@exohugh) November 23, 2020
(Now updated to 2020, with lighter/slower versions available at: https://t.co/xS9eMauVTr) pic.twitter.com/EYbSiiKIm9
Seems sensible when everyone globally is occupied with fighting a pandemic and when we can't even afford to pay for kids to eat during the holidays; the defence budget had me particularly worried. https://t.co/w5Qu3tksuF
— Dr William Dunn (@astro__will) November 18, 2020
— Ed Rivera-Valentín 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 (@PlanetTreky) November 19, 2020
So I was going to write a blog post, but got distracted by my new baking equipment, including an absurd number of piping tips.
— Daniela Huppenkothen (@Tiana_Athriel) November 22, 2020
What to do? Data visualization lessons through the medium of brownies + buttercream! A 🧵
(Thanks to @powersoffour for the inspiration)
(1/12) pic.twitter.com/Ft8vQ8JWy7
It is with deepest of broken hearts that I post this. And it really hurts, so very much.
— Ed Rivera-Valentín 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 (@PlanetTreky) November 19, 2020
"NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo"https://t.co/QX18OsGqe7
If the whole Crab Nebula (~4.5 times the Sun’s mass) were made of crab meat and you seasoned it ~properly~ you’d need to use enough old bay to fill up about 1/3 of the whole ass sun https://t.co/cNm86QJY1s
— Moiya McTier (@GoAstroMo) November 21, 2020
DO YOU ALL REMEMBER THE LAST TIME A EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT GAVE RELIGIOUS MINORITIES SPECIAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS? https://t.co/eO8qSp1WIC
— Ethereal AnarchoPansexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) November 20, 2020
I don’t talk about it much, but I am an adult child of an addict, domestic abuse, & temporary homelessness. It’s something I work through every day & I want other folks with less-than-stellar childhoods to feel like they belong in astronomy, like they have a right to be here too. https://t.co/oa1k5uO3Cx
— Arianna Long (@astroarianna) November 20, 2020
— Erin M. May, PhD (@_astronomay) November 20, 2020
My favorite way to explain a normalizing flow:
— Miles Cranmer (@MilesCranmer) November 24, 2020
- There's a crowd of people; each is a sample of the data distribution.
- Everybody takes a step in some direction according to a neural net
- In steps, the net tries to direct the crowd to form a Gaussian without bumping each other pic.twitter.com/ZaWf6G55h6
It's the kind of photo that makes you stop and think.
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) November 20, 2020
This image by @ridingrobots, taken in Brighton, Utah in July, shows Jupiter—and its four major moons (Callisto, Ganymede, Io, and Europa, from top left to bottom right).
Oh, and Earth, in the foreground.
Astonishing. pic.twitter.com/5bACpyraiz
Here's a thread on lesser-known tools and packages that I could not live without, starting with Python.
— Miles Cranmer (@MilesCranmer) November 19, 2020
(suggestions are very welcome!)
einops:
- https://t.co/pKzsVd7Bva
- Easily-interpretable reshapes + tiling + aggregations for numpy/torch/tf/etc
1/n pic.twitter.com/WjLbBhMA8r
Quick reminder to US students that applying to astronomy PhD programs in Europe/UK is typically *free* -- no fee waivers needed because there are no fees!
— Malena Rice (@malena_rice) November 23, 2020
Brilliant! pic.twitter.com/ZUabADKhIQ
— Alan Stern (@AlanStern) November 21, 2020
Next week in #AstroTwitter pic.twitter.com/DJxGbJkKYW
— Dr. Gerard van Belle (@FringeDoctor) November 23, 2020
if you’re an undergrad interested in studying exoplanets this summer, consider applying to the WAVE program!! the Knutson group is actively looking for applicants; happy to chat about it if you’re interested 😊 https://t.co/rLNdxdwAWv
— Shreyas Vissapragada (@astroshrey) November 19, 2020