@BashStKid Hard agree.

This thread has a wonderful story about how we investigate the world, and childhood curiosity setting the stage for a scientific career.
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110135230130517945

Best Steely Dansk song.

Turt’s out.

@hannah I knew I saw it somewhere. You don’t really forget that.

@hannah Skokie, right? I think we saw it when we were looking at places a few years ago.

*glides into the faculty meeting wearing a cape and holding a candelabra*

Velcome to… dark academia.

@hfalcke Who amongst us hasn’t forgotten a factor of 4 pi in an estimate!

@lxsameer Data. Check link in first post. It’s a real image produced by combining info from multiple observatories.

How it started / how it’s going

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has released their latest results, including this image of polarized light from the region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-edge-milky-way’s-central-black-hole

Image: EHT Collaboration

Physicist Caroline Herzenberg was born #OTD in 1932. She is known for pioneering early work in Mössbauer spectroscopy, including an analysis of the first samples returned from the moon by the Apollo astronauts.

Image: Herzenberg as Finalist in the 1949 Science Talent Search

“Happy Meal II” by the Cardigans was the best possible song for that scene in the last episode of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”

Good evening.

@internic Prof -> Proves!

Elf -> Elves
Dwarf -> Dwarves
Smurf -> Smurves

Happy Noether day!
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110072925812796303

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if you set aside six hours to work on a really complicated project, you’ll have your only good insight in the last five minutes, or maybe the next day in the shower.

@lffontenelle I sort of miss Gnome, tbh.

@lffontenelle I used GNOME for years. At one point (early-mid 2000s) my gtk2 and metacity themes had over quarter-million downloads on the old gnome themes website!