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Mike L

@Lowbacca
 Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2009
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Welcome addition to academic conferences here is the addition of a discussion about mental health in academia, as this feels more impactful than these discussions happening in separated venues (talk by psychiatrist Jonathan Chou at MIT) #TESScon3
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We'd like to thank all of the Postdocs and PhD students at the @UoPCosmology who participated in the internal research poll (yes even those of you who voted incorrectly), the editing staff at Acta Prima Aprilia for the quick turnaround and to all of you for reading! 9 / 9
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Following rigorous surveying, the results are clear: our local community supports the use of AGNi going forward, as you can see from the paper's 'Money Plot' 🤑 7 / 9
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Hello everyone! It's paper time again, and this time you can all get involved! (Don't pay attention to the date 🤫🤡) arxiv.org/abs/2403.20302 1 / 9
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I'm pleased to release the 2024 issue of Acta Prima Aprilia, as it marks another solid body of research up on the arXiv
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I thought the link was on there and it's not, so: actaprimaaprilia.com/2024-is…
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And particularly pleased with my submission this year: Vulcan: Retreading a Tired Hypothesis with the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse arxiv.org/abs/2403.20281
Vulcan: Retreading a Tired Hypothesis with the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Vulcan: Retreading a Tired Hypothesis with the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

The number of planets in the solar system over the last three centuries has, perhaps surprisingly, been less of a fixed value than one would think it should be. In this paper, we look at the...

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Tangentially, it really is impressive what one can do with Google Lens' ability to do real-time translations on scanned papers in multiple languages over the last few centuries.
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New Episode! "Lite Switch: March 22, 2024 | X-Men '97, Balatro, Burnout Paradise, and more" Dive into another installment of The Old Switch-a-roo: Light Switch, where Mike and Jaymo take a break fro… Player links & show notes: theoldswitcharoo.com/lite-sw…

Lite Switch: March 22, 24 | X-Men '97, Burnout Paradise, and more

During this Lite Switch episode, Mike and Jaymo talk about X-Men '97, Balatro, Burnout Paradise, Splatoon 3, and more

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They wanted the hashtag to not say Twitter... but no, I didn't join X 15 years ago. #MyTwitterAnniversary
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Check out Jaymo's list of four forgotten video game franchises, written for our friends over at Smashing Game Time! The top answer may surprise you! (Are we still doing those teases? Is it okay if it's ironic use?)
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Our latest guest list comes from Jaymo of @oldswitch_a_roo with some long dormant series that need a jumpstart! smashinggametime.com/words/j…

Jaymo’s Sega Suicide Squad: Four Forgotten Franchises Rarin’ for a Reboot — SmashingGameTime.com

Jaymo from The Old Switch-A-Roo shares his list of video game series that need to make a triumphant return.

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You know what boat i wouldn't be getting on? Anything with a name this close to Poseidon Adventure. I saw how that goes (yes, i know the boat's just the Poseidon)
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Andrew Vanderburg's summary on a really interesting talk about using TESS and JWST and a tantalizing image showing planet candidates around a white dwarf that will need some confirmation to identify as planets with any confidence #AAS243
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Someone in the session I'm in at #AAS243 has a shirt with the pillars of creation with googly eyes (or a facsimile of that) on them and it is glorious. And slightly distracting as the columns are now peering over the seat back
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I enjoy Mallory Harris using the last slide to solicit for clever acronym ideas for a new search for planets around M dwarfs #AAS243
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Catherine Clark discussing at #AAS243 how high resolution imaging is necessary to supplement something like Gaia in detecting multistar systems
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LSST Scialog providing finding to early career researchers to get seed funding as more of that support of the collaboration members #AAS243
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Federica Bianco showing some interesting evolution in the LSST survey strategy, which has been a heavily community driven process #AAS243
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With the Rubin Observatory really this close to completion, it's quite exciting to me (given how long ago I started doing the work I did with LSST) to hear at #AAS243 just how close to completion this really is now.
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Peter Williams at #AAS243 discussing that DASCH (the 100+ year baseline of Harvard plates being digitized) is now just a few months from completion after 20 years and will be opening up access significantly soon. Exiting milestone
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