NSF explicitly asks about training students in progress reports, NASA doesn't. The program officers always say nice things about this in response to reports, so clearly they are looking at it. Maybe you think the balance isn't ideal, but the difference is baked into the culture.
In the US context, there is a big difference between NSF and NASA. NSF has always had developing broad scientific capacity (people) as a central goal; NASA was founded and still operates in a more mission-driven manner. even e.g. the Hubble Fellows were originally selected to advance HST science
Every day I see papers on the arXiv with clearly AI-written text. Far better that we encourage disclosure.
submission fee of X, refunded on acceptance?
One person who did it is public, but who was involved changed over time
www.chronicle.com/article/whos...
It's been clear for a long time TMT isn't ever getting built in Hawaii.
(if you have to click "Save Letter" after uploading the letter, or else it is lost, you should also lose 1 of your degrees)
Evaluation as an academic administrator should be a 1 question test:
1) Did you ever hire an external company to provide recommendation letter collation that requires each letter writer to make a unique login?
If so, you lose your job and never get another one.
writing my NSF proposal on cardboard shirt inserts Gay Talese style
this is happening at every level, from undergraduates to career astronomers to non-professional astronomers. while the difficulties getting into grad school and the low JWST success rate have different proximal causes, i think they are part of a much larger change that we aren't grappling with well
high success rates typically reflect a limit in who is able to apply. we mostly don't have such limits for applying for time or $$. improvements in communications and computing technology + more astronomers has led to a system where, objectively, there is just an enormous demand to do astro research
i don't see "we gave out $$ randomly" as a politically defensible position.
cancelling admissions is a bigger deviation from N when N is large, as it is in most physics departments. lots also have GTA positions that need to be filled one way or another. my guess is we see some severe curtailments in physics but few cancellations.
I think most folks know that intellectually grad admissions is going to be tough this year, but it's going to be tougher than most anticipate.
number of astro bachelor degrees over time, showing rapid recent increase
~ 1000 astro bachelors degrees given out last year, a new record, while most grad programs are planning to admit fewer students this year (due to reduced or uncertain federal funding).
Past experience shows that it's very difficult to separate "random HI cloud" from "galaxy that has only HI" and the prior probability on the former is large. Are you more sanguine?
is acorn tv the one with coffin flop?
And pump gas
These sims exclude gas accretion, yes? I.e. they are modeling the IMBH growth post tidal stripping of w Cen.
Jaylen is reigning finals MVP for a few more minutes
another day, another paper proposing one of the most metal-poor galaxies known is strongly tidally stripped.
'hycean' is a terrible word. hydrogen means "water forming" (since, when burned, hydrogen produced water). ocean is stream or body of water enclosing a large land mass. so hycean means water forming body of water.
It's far from clear to me that more $$ to GRFP as they currently exist is the best way to help students. More grants to pay for students to go to rich universities that fund them already? I think the program structure needs rethinking.
N6791 is somewhat mass-segregated, which makes the odds of a pulsar far from the center low. Since it's too faint to get a parallax distance until the ngVLA is operating, proper motion is the most likely way to assess the association.
you could relabel this list as "didn't think we needed to publish in nature to prove our results were important"
sean baker's other movies are also great! go watch red rocket.
some long-standing REU programs are being cut this year. i would take an offer in hand ASAP.
we are not (actually larger than typical). however, some places that have not yet send out acceptances are delaying while trying to get some clarity on funding pauses.
Screen cap announcing David lynch has died
oh no this is awful…RIP David Lynch
