I’m always amazed at how the dancers wear nothing yet don’t seem cold at all. Tho if I had to dance as hard as some of these numbers I probably wouldn’t be cold either!

Thanks!

If NASA doesn’t think 3 under 3 doesn’t prove one capable of grit in the face of adversity I give up 😉

Thanks for those with advice for having kids… but this actually isn’t our first, we have a toddler at home!

It’s cool, she can totally watch the twins, right? 🙃

Hah thanks but that ship sailed some time ago, I already have a toddler!

Actually I think it’s TDEs- Suvi also has twins, Adelle is an identical twin…

Yeah I mean watching my toddler run around thinking how cute she is all I can think is how much cuter it’ll be when there’s TWO of them…

Also, fun fact! I actually am a twin myself, and have a twin brother (aka, fraternal). It turns out that has NOTHING to do with my having identical twins, because identical is just black magic and no one understands how and why the egg splits and it's not genetic. We just won the twin lottery here

Sometimes on reddit I can’t help myself and tell these folks “congratulations, you win the pedantic award of the day!”

Like should I, no, should these people not get all “well actually,” also no

I remember a few years ago going into a club and they played the Macarena and I realized it was not even ironically. Def a moment where you feel like you’re getting old 😬

You mean it’s not to just put something into chatGPT and copy/paste the results?! 🙃

THAT is true! I suppose it's just frustrating because you always have some applicants that I think COULD be a good fit... but yes, if they don't care enough to search their future employer's name on Google or ADS it doesn't really inspire confidence they'd be a good postdoc

Like seriously, if I just use "do you say the words "radio" OR "tidal disruption event" in any capacity" at least a third of applications do not fit that criteria. Yikes.

It's also not a great look if you confuse me for other UO colleagues. UO has a big LIGO collab, but I'm not in it 🫠

I am! Teaching a class on the solar system this quarter and record the class anyway for students, so the trimmed lectures go onto YouTube. :)

Yeah so fun fact I learned today- technically our physics major doesn’t require QM! It’s just a senior year elective and most students take it but you don’t HAVE to, hence this entire “but can astronomy require it?” thing.

Sooo yea obv that’s also dumb and should be fixed, but makes more sense now

Cool!

Ok, so I've hit upon the real issue here- technically we don't require our physics majors to take QM! It's on a list of electives, so ALMOST everyone takes it, but you don't HAVE to, so in that context it's tough to make the astro majors.

Yes, this is dumb, and they're trying to change it 😬

Yeah what I'm mainly getting out of this is how many courses I and others have taken that were taught by physicists who did a really not-useful-to-astro version. I did like 2 years of deep potential well type QM. I never did subatomic physics or radiative transfer.

We actually do the quarter system so even more complicated!

The liberal arts requirement thing is def out of my pay grade. But in its defense I did LOVE taking random classes at uni- I have a history minor, and feel I'm a better writer/teacher/person for having done them.