Astronomy PhD student @Cornell researching Cosmology & Galaxies
Ithaca, NY
Joined May 2021
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Chad Popik retweeted
I keep seeing cosplayers from the fan expo and thinking that I deeply misunderstood the vibe of #AAS243 and came severely underdressed
I'm at #AAS243, come around this afternoon to hear me (briefly) talk about how we can learn about galaxy feedback using CMB observations!
Chad Popik retweeted
HEY CHECK IT OUT!!! what gorgeous art from my DPS talk yesterday!!!!!
Madeline Pettine—@NASAJuno’s polar orbit gives unique views of Io that enable global mapping of infrared volcanic emission. They find that the heat flow doesn’t match tidal heating models particularly well. #TeamIo #DPSEPSC2023
ALT A sketch of a talk from DPS/EPSC 2023 showing the results by a talk from Madeline Pettine. The sketch shows the Juno spacecraft flying past Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io. In the distance is Jupiter. Io is mottled, yellow and orange, with active volcanic plumes over the horizon. To the bottom right is a Mollweid projection of Io showing their derived IR flux map, which doesn’t have any particularly striking pattern. Their paper is currently on ArXiv.
Chad Popik retweeted
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension
JWST finally weighs in on the expanding Universe, and confirms previous results from Hubble about Cepheids, with the smallest errors yet.
The puzzle over the expanding Universe deepens.
bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b…
WOOOOOO
this is gonna sound wild but I actually AM a real scientist some of the time, and I just put my very first first-author paper up on the arxiv!! please go read it and tell me how good it is (it is NOT peer-reviewed yet though so grain of salt etc etc) arxiv.org/pdf/2308.05717.pdf
The code is taking much longer to run after some changes, which sucks, but also when it was running fast it was very wrong so maybe it's onto something now
Yeah I do data science and by that I mean I spend several hours determining the best way to name and organize my files
I'm at the part of the research project where every code takes forever to run which is awful for my productivity but fantastic for my buzzfeed quiz repertoire
Oh god just realized I've gotten used to scrolling on a touchpad the opposite way that I scroll on a mouse
Professors have an advantage (from the power dynamic) that any weird/funny thing they say has more impact than if you had said it so you have to equalize the relationship by saying much weirder/funnier things
Chad Popik retweeted
Expanding the search for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, @CornellAstro researchers are monitoring wideband pulsating signals from a star-dense region toward the core of our galaxy.
reuters.com/science/scientis…
Happy pride everyone! Remember, space is gay! And the moon is a lesbian (in a long distance relationship with the ocean)
I'm not a religious person but have you ever gotten a package to work after spending days struggling with dependencies and nesting issue
My hot take about window offices is that if you almost never come into the building you probably don't need one