Stephan's Quintet: From a photographic plate taken through a 6" refractor in the early 1900's to JWST.
How far we have come in just a short amount of time.
AT LONG LAST! Pulsar timing arrays show evidence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background! It’s likely the signature of many orbiting supermassive black holes across the universe 🤯 What does this all mean? A little 🧵…
Remember kids, if someone says your paper has too many details and that you should remove them, there's a poor grad student trying to replicate results from a publication with barely any information
To add to this, I collected ~50 of the RV points that went into this paper across ~20 nights of observing. Numbers are similar for many other ECRs I work with. I was not offered coauthorship and Geoffrey Marcy was. ⬇️
@NAChristakis
Be careful, it's a slippery slope from "trainees" to "unpaid interns" and then you'll find yourself grading many more papers on your own. Graduate students are the workforce a department runs on, don't patronize us.
That all being said, I do not wish to be on papers with sexual offenders. As someone who is about to be on the job market in the not-so-distant future, this tweet scares me but I feel it needs to be said.
Finally, what sucks the most about this particular aspect of the issue is that this paper is the first in a series and is, effectively, a data release paper. If there was a time to credit the ones who collected the data, THIS paper is it.
However, the nights I spent collecting data along with my ECR colleagues in CPS were unpaid nights. I love observing and I like being able to contribute to incredibly cool projects but at the end of the day, the currency of academia is publications.
Large surveys like this are being made possible by early career researchers who volunteer multiple long nights. If you don't offer a chance for us to be credited for our work, one obvious outcome is that we will choose to use that time on furthering our own publications instead.
Are you an astronomer who’s having a baby? Here are some astronomical names for your child:
Nebula
Nova
Andromeda
Eris
Venus
Quasar
CCD
Seeing
HD 189733b
IRAF
Extinction
Zerodur
In before "privileged millennial" comments: I've always felt a bit weird about accepting coauthorship for publications where I only have contributed data and I have turned down authorship in cases where I feel like I hadn't made enough of a contribution.
Started in community college, now about to start my dream postdoc. Shout-out to
@elcaminocollege
. Even if you're not in academia....it's 👏 an 👏 amazing 👏 option 👏
I feel so incredibly lucky that I get to be an exoplanet researcher in a time where observations made are held in the same regard as ideas contributed. I've been offered coauthorship on papers where I have spent far less of my time collecting other people's data.
Hi 👋 I've been hesitant to post this (and its a little last minute lol) but if you're interested in seeing my defense talk, it's tomorrow! Time and zoom stuff below 👇
Oh yeah it was a paper day! Well, actually a research note, but we measured chemical abundances for 15 elements in 25 exoplanet hosts targeted by JWST's first year of observations!
Having science celebrities that I used to (emphasis on used to) look up to when I first started my career call me and my colleagues "pathetic posturing wimps" is kinda wild ngl
Presentations — every academic has to give them and nobody likes preparing them.
ChatGPT can help you prepare a presentation in minutes. This will save you a lot of time and labor.
Here's how to do it:
I love when people say how exciting it must be to be an astronomer because right now I'm sitting in a motel room in Albany, drinking a beer, and writing postdoc apps.
Very psyched (and still very much in disbelief) to say I will be at
@caltechipac
next February as a Visiting Graduate Fellow 🥲
I'll spend 6 months working with
@aurora_kess
to investigate hot Jupiter chemistry with high resolution spectroscopy!
Well before everyone leaves gonna do some self-promotion ... I make art sometimes! Specifically posters based on space missions or ground based instruments and, inspired by my time at IPAC , I've made a new one for
@ESPRESSO
!
Just want to say a huge thank you to the support I and other ECRs have been receiving the past week. Especially a big shout out to the many mid and late career scientists who have been publicly and privately working to make sure this is addressed properly.
Hey
#EPRV5
! Do you like planet masses? Do you *precise* planet masses? Come see my poster (22) on the TESS-Keck Survey's Mass Catalog and data release! We have masses for over 100 planets and will be releasing our ~10,000 RVs soon.
I was listed as a co-author of a paper with GM. However, I (and some of us) had absolutely no idea that GM was part of the manuscript until ~ 10 days prior to submission. I was traveling with my family during the 10 day timeframe and I absolutely regret that I did not act in time
Next Fall I get to teach an astronomy class at a local high school and holy wow Im so excited to give these kids the class I never got to have in high school
ya boy wasn't even ALLOWED to take physics 🥴
Writing the introduction to my thesis, exhausted, sick of overfull hbox errors but happy because I can go on as many dumb historical tangents as I want because it's my book and I can do what I want
My dad once bought a shirt with this on it because he thought it was cool and proceeded to walk around our white, middle-class, suburban neighborhood with it legitimately not knowing what it meant
You can tell a lot about a person when their reaction to homelessness is "look at these freeloaders invading my public space" and not "where have we gone wrong to let this happen"
Alex Polanski (
@AlexNeedsSpace
) is our newest Visiting Graduate Student Fellow! He's come a long way from
@univofkansas
to study hot Jupiter atmospheres with advisor
@aurora_kess
.
Fun Fact: Aurora was also a
#VGSF
! She joined
@NExScI_IPAC
as an exoplanet scientist in 2022.
After discussions in the UMD Astronomy Exoplanet Group, BANG! Seminar, and EDI Committee, individuals at UMD drafted, signed, and sent this letter to the
@AAS_Office
Code of Ethics Committee to support and uplift early-career members of our community:
Also, I feel like today is an appropriate time to announce that I will be following in Clyde's footsteps... this September I will be starting a postdoc as the next Percival Lowell Fellow at
@LowellObs
😁 I'm excited to join the awesome team they have and do some fun science!
Tomorrow is my last day at IPAC 😭 but what an awesome experience...2 workshops, 4 visiting talks and 3 runs at Palomar. Thanks to all the new friends and collaborators who made the last 6 months simply amazing, especially my wonderful advisor
@aurora_kess
!
My research note got picked up by the lovely folks at ExoCast!
@StellarPlanet
did a wonderful job summarizing the importance of looking at the chemical connection between stars and their planets 😄
.
@StellarPlanet
summarises
@AlexNeedsSpace
's recent paper on the chemical abundances of 25 JWST exoplanet host stars in anticipation of the upcoming publication of a larger elemental abundance catolog derived from Keck/HIRES optical spectra:
#podcast