
Physics Prof. at UT Austin, @TexasScience. Former @FulbrightPrgrm Fellow and @UCSDcosmology Postdoc. Research focus @SimonsObs. @astrodrnick@astrodon.social
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We put the first @SimonsObs Small Aperture Telescope in its vacuum bag and on its comfy shipping pallet yesterday at @ucsdastro and then said goodbye until we meet it in its final home in Chile! – at San Diego, CA
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Up up and away! SPIDER took to the skies just 20 minutes shy of the southern hemisphere summer solstice. #GoSPIDERGo #ScientificBallooning #Antarctica
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It is a flurry of activity around the high bay today, leak checking the cryostat and vacuum windows, and prepping the telescopes for installation later this weekend. #AntarcticScience #SpiderCMB
Finally the content we've all been waiting for, more cosmic inflation jokes! xkcd.com/2688/ @xkcdComic #GUT #inflation
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While we've been busy removing dusty foregrounds in our hunt for cosmic inflation signals, Stanford grad student @halal_george led work together with @suzIQUV using our data & maps of neutral hydrogen emission to characterize Galactic dust #filaments. 1/6
arxiv.org/abs/2210.05684
Join the party in welcoming SO-UK to our efforts to understand the early universe with CMB observations. Two more SATs will expand on @SimonsObs capabilities. I'm looking forward to stronger ties and more collaboration with our partners across the pond! ukri.org/news/uk-joins-missi…
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In its lifetime, SOFIA made a total of 732 nights of observations. This map shows all of SOFIA’s science flights, color coded by observation cycle.
Map data ©2022 Google, INEGI Imagery ©2022 NASA, TerraMetrics

ALT This image is of a map of the world centered around the Americas. Colorful scribbles are shown all over the map, concentrated mainly around the West Coast of the United States toward the center top, and New Zealand toward the bottom left. These lines indicate all of SOFIA's science flights from 2013 to 2022, color coded by observation cycle.
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Congrats to our faculty members who’ve earned @NSF Early Career Development Awards! 🎉
• José Alvarado, @UTPhysics
• Gregory Durrett, @UTCompSci @GregD_NLP
• Antonio Linero, @UT_Stats
• Joseph Neeman, UT Math
• Yuke Zhu, @UTCompSci @YukeZ
cns.utexas.edu/news/five-nat…
Nicholas Galitzki retweeted
So close we can almost taste it.....okay, please don't lick the camera.
Our #LSSTCamera, the biggest digital camera in the world, is getting close to completion @SLAClab! 🎉 It's not done yet, but it's looking pretty photogenic 📸
Images: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/@SLAClab
Doing my first pub talk in ages tomorrow night at Darwin's Pub in Austin, TX. Come join me for Schrodinger's Pint event, Oct 4th, 7pm! fb.me/e/3tV7S1RK7
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AND THAT'S A WRAP! SOFIA's flights are over, but its legacy lives on.
This month FLEW by. We hope you enjoyed learning with us! Though our flight operations are ending, we will continue to share exciting science with you. #SOFIAFinalFlight
Holography in action with the SAT, a long awaited moment! #pumped #CMB #optics #BRock #millimetercameras
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That was a good show, and not just because I aced the quiz! Fun to learn a thing or two about exomoons and some of the big observational challenges ahead with guest @alexteachey
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Got the bivalent booster and flu shot, ready to hit the couch and watch some #LordOfTheRings and/or #HouseOfTheDragon this weekend. Going to assume the plots are pretty simple and easy to follow in case I'm not totally awake.
Ig-Nobels are out! And meese collisions are terrifying... Physics coming in 'd'awww cute' this year with studies of duckling formations. bbc.com/news/science-environ…


















