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Randall Smith
@rksmith.bsky.social
Astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
It's, somehow, Friday night. I've done enough this week. Everything is going to work out. You've done enough this week.
I’m presenting at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival tomorrow on the Starstruck VR project I and my colleague Laura Brenneman worked on for the past year, along with an amazing team at Fever. Should be fun… www.youtube.com/live/sgRSEKK...
Smithsonian Starstruck: An Immersive Experience
YouTube video by Smithsonian Folklife
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Just saw a fantastic talk by Mario Juric (UWash) on early results from Rubin on the solar system. He spent some time talking about his new tool pyacid (acid.juriclab.org) that looks really fascinating for many different uses. #AAS248
ACID — Astronomical Catalog Inference Driver
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I wonder what the average # of times a #Tonys #TonyAwards attendee has seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show movie. I’d say it’s well over 5…
Lambiek has a really detailed biography. Some of it I knew, some I didn't. Nicole was really an altweekly cartoonist who somehow snuck into daily papers w/o the editors noticing. The only one of us who pulled that off.
Nicole Hollander
Nicole Hollander was best-known for her signature gag comic, 'Sylvia' (1980-2012), at the time one of the few US newspaper comics written and drawn by a female cartoonist. The feature distinguished it...
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Last night at a gala honoring George Clooney, the man himself told a few stories, including this one, and it's one of those things that you just sort of will never forget.
Red Sox have won two games IN A ROW what's happening someone hold me.
I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.
Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4mo ago"OUTSTANDING."
We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
Check out @ohdearz.bsky.social great talk at the CfA colloquium on feedback and outflows from nearby galaxies at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Nh.... And thanks for the shout-out for the AtomDB CX model!
Laura Lopez: A Multiwavelength View of Feedback and Outflows from Nearby Galaxies
YouTube video by CfA Colloquium
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We had a retirement party for several longtime Center for Astrophysics staff today: notably Bob Wilson (of Penzias-and-Wilson fame), seen here being introduced by John Kovac
We weren’t sure we had a menorah so the kids decided we needed a Banorah
A real loss. Hopefully we’ll see a resurgence of doing his works around the world- they are all worthy of attention.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 8mo agoOof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
@brucelevenstein.bsky.social question: who else besides The Pixies has been fame-adjacent without being truly famous. 4AD bands excepted.
It has not, on balance, been a good day. Hopefully tomorrow is better.
Hey, @brucelevenstein.bsky.social , did you know His Name Is Alive remastered Livonia a few months ago? Not sure why, interesting listening though.
Postdoc at Black Hole Initiative (directed by Peter Galison), at Harvard University & Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (in Cambridge, MA) AOS: #philsci, Philosophy of #Physics, #histsci Deadline: December 3, Start: September, 2025 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14118
Postdoctoral Fellow: Black Hole Initiative
Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). The BHI is the first interdisci...
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