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Victor Chan

@Viithinks

Astronomy graduate student. 📡🔭💫⭐🌟🌠🌌

Joined May 2013
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Queer astronomers everywhere: help me out! I am a producer on the Cosmos From Your Couch team from the @DunlapInstitute. We’re putting together a feature video of LGBTQIA2S+ astronomers to release during Pride Month and we would like your help!
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Jo Bovy@jobovy1 Feb 2022
Way to go @Viithinks!!
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I’m delighted to share the @DunlapInstitute “graduate student of the month”, @Viithinks who is my student (co-supervised with the uber-talented @jobovy). dunlap.utoronto.ca/february-… Victor is a great member of the #hnauts and doing awesome work on #cosmology inference and analysis!
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I’m delighted to share the @DunlapInstitute “graduate student of the month”, @Viithinks who is my student (co-supervised with the uber-talented @jobovy). dunlap.utoronto.ca/february-… Victor is a great member of the #hnauts and doing awesome work on #cosmology inference and analysis!
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Jon Heyman
@JonHeyman23 Dec 2019
Breaking: Ryu to Jays. 80M, 4 years.
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Folks, this is the reality of #Starlink. My heart literally just sank into my stomach. I used DECam as a member of @theDESurvey for 5 years. This is horrifying. If you're still wondering what the controversy is over these satellites, this is only part of it.
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Jo Bovy@jobovy16 Sep 2019
Excited to announce the new version (v1.5) of galpy! galpy.readthedocs.io/en/v1.5… Many new features, see them all here: galpy.readthedocs.io/en/v1.5… Watch the video below for a quick intro to some of the most exciting new capabilities:
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Thank you @akkagawa for this article. As a Mi'kmaq person and astronomer, I struggle with the question of how I talk about astronomy and STEM to Indigenous youth. medium.com/@akkagawa/maunake…

Maunakea: Redirecting the lens onto the culture of mainstream science

The fight for the future of the Maunakea is a fight for the soul of mainstream science

medium.com
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Things are about to get started at KITP for the #KITP_H0Takes conference!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk20 Jun 2019
Stonk tip of the day
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Presented my poster at #CASCA2019 using the #betterposter design by @mikemorrison
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Carl Ziegler at #CASCA2019: the 0.5m One Hit Wonders telescope will follow up single-transit @NASA_TESS detections.
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Fellow #hnauts member @tinapeters tells us how to deal with problems that come up with determining photometric redshifts. #CASCA2019
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@GwenEadie to speak about new approaches to time-domain astronomy. #CASCA2019
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Looking at time series of star brightnesses can tell us about their inner workings, but there are some challenges to that
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The development of a multitapered Lomb-Scargle periodogram allows for low-bias estimates of power spectral densities especially for unevenly sampled data
Alright people... it's time for some serious poster bingo!! @AstroCanada #CASCA2019
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Once again, please come by to poster 2 to talk about probabilistic methods and Gaia systematics! I'm in the back corner next to the RASC booth! #CASCA2019 #posters #imlonelycomevisitme
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Ryley Hill will tell us about galaxy proto-clusters that he's found! #CASCA2019
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Martine Lokken is a newly minted #hnauts member talking about comparing large scale mass clustering in simulations to real data! #CASCA2019 @AstroCanada
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