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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 20m

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 26m

On pace to match or beat last year…

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 52m

So far

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 1h

At least 2000 jwst proposals. 🧪🔭💩🍑🍉⛈️🏖️

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 1d

My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭

inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718

INSPIRE

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 1d

My department is hiring a theoretical physicist. I’m not on the search committee but happy to answer questions about the department. Come join our great group of people here. 🧪🔭

inspirehep.net/jobs/3064718

INSPIRE

inspirehep.net

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 2d

52 hours before the deadline is a good time to start a JWST proposal, right? 🧪🔭

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 2d

The UNC employee healthcare has now gotten so expensive and bad that it makes the most financial sense (for me) to decline it. #tarheels

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Dr. Gerard van Belle @fringedoctor.bsky.social · 5d

Brief life update: On Monday I resigned from my appointment at Lowell Observatory. I wish my remaining friends and colleagues the best of luckin their endeavors in increasing new visitor center visitation, and continuing to pursue world-class research in the face of having ended tenure today.

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 5d

I was once again overlooked for the Nobel peace prize.

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 7d

If it’s half, that’s more than most tenured professors bring in by a lot.

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 7d

Remember, if tenure were gone tomorrow, Loeb would certainly be untouched (he brings in tons of private money). The people criticizing him, that’s a bit less clear.

Loeb is an example of why we need tenure, not a reason to get rid of it.

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 11d

Extrapolating from growth just at my house, one day the entire universe will be nothing but Rosemary and toddler fingernails. 🧪🔭💅

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 12d

I’m not the problem here.

Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · 12d

There are two kinds of email inboxes:
0-5 unread emails
>10,000 unread emails.

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 14d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · Sep 10

What happens when a star cluster disperses? Well, it forms a stream of stars - and those streams are all around us!

In a new paper by Sebastian Ratzenböck at the CfA / @univie.ac.at, we looked into streams near to the Sun, and found that the Milky Way's disk is *full* of streams! 🔭☄️🧪 #galactic

Figure from the paper showing detected streams in the Milky Way in Cartesian coordinates, where streams are shown as highlighted volumes. The Sun is at X=Y=Z 0 pc (the red cross): so these streams are all around us!

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · Sep 4

What's one more plot when you've already maxed out the AAS publication charges? 🔭🧪🤑💸💰

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 1

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.

Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Sep 1

I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters.

The latter understand what's going on.

The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.

Brian Schatz
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This is worth reading. I agree it is impossible to justify the govt action then. In Hawaii during Covid, for a time, the bars were open and the schools were not. The smart response to this, however, isn’t to put someone in charge who will cause measles to make a comeback.
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Sean T at RCP
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The damage done by this is incalculable. This, and the closing of churches while liberal-coded institutions were opening was a radicalizing, red-pill moment for so many conservatives. x.com/esotericcd/sta…
Sean T at RCP
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To be clear, I 100% agree, and have never voted for Trump in a primary or a general. As a father of a kiddo with autism, the HHS developments are beyond horrifying. This is descriptive, not prescriptive or justifying.
Brian Schatz
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I know what you meant and I’m glad this is a constructive exchange. I think what you are saying is important because I know people for whom Covid and the govt response seemed so kafakaesque as to reorient not just people’s partisan affiliations but everything else.

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The damage done by this is incalculable. This, and the closing of churches while liberal-coded institutions were opening was a radicalizing, red-pill moment for so many conservatives.
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Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
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It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. x.com/SteveGuest/sta…
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It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this.
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Steve Guest
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Politico 5 years ago:
[screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests]
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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · Sep 1

not worth as much since the new speeder came out

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · Aug 30

For reference, the call was open but this time every prior year since I was a student usually with an October deadline.

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Andrew Mann @amann.bsky.social · Aug 30

So… will there be an NSF GRFP call this year? 🧪🔭

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF)

www.nsf.gov

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