Data Scientist - once Galactic archaeologist 🌌 He/Him
Moelfre, Wales
Joined July 2016
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If it wasn’t for wonderful astrophysics lectures at @LJMU_Astro - I would have likely ended up leaving my undergrad, never doing a PhD. Those lectures made me realise the value of the dry foundational stuff. Do what interests you!
A big reason for me having left Astro was the constant fear of not being able to keep up & push out papers in a matter of days - it just eats away at you and detracts from why we do the science
Am I one of the only people who hasn’t joined in the GPT-4 fun yet?! @OpenAI I cant make an account because of this error - please help! I’m not suspicious, honest!
This was always a wild aspect of working at UoB for me - classes running till 7pm and no one (seemingly) thinking that was weird/unacceptable
Sometimes I miss thinking about the universe…
I’d never thought about this until @AstroHopkins calculated it. What percentage of stars ever formed in the Milky Way are still alive?
32%0-20%
23%20-50%
20%50-90%
25%More than 90%
2,198 votes • Final results Ted Mackereth retweeted
About that "but having no HST/JWST proprietary period means that science will happen faster" argument:
Geez, people, we're doing astronomy, not delivering a cure for cancer.
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A lot of hard work (including @OceanMindGlobal) went into this @ClimateTRACE release, which makes up the most detailed facility level global inventory of Carbon emissions! #COP27
OceanMind is proud to have played a central role in today’s @ClimateTRACE release — the most detailed global inventory of #GHGemissions ever assembled and made publicly available. Explore data on 70K+ highly-emitting individual sources worldwide here: climatetrace.org/
Ted Mackereth retweeted
Next week, @ClimateTRACE will release the first facility-level inventory of the largest known individual sources of the 162 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution emitted into the troposphere every day.
Learn more in a #ScienceEditorial by @algore: scim.ag/sx
It was an absolute pleasure to talk about our upcoming work in the Andromeda Galaxy with JWST for this little documentary!
🔭 Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images, it’s time for the science programs to begin.
Meet five scientists who'll use it to analyze the earliest galaxies and unexplored regions of our own solar system. Watch in full: bloom.bg/3yDWce9
Yesterday I was sad to leave @CITA_ICAT, @DunlapInstitute and @UofTAstro for the last time, before I move back to the UK to start my new job (and new career!) as a data scientist for @OceanMindGlobal
Leaving is scary - my colleagues are some of my greatest friends as well, and many people have warned me that this is a one way ticket and that the industry has the same problems: I guess I’ll let you know on the other side!
Although unlucky to get such a terrible reviewer #2, This paper was lucky to have multiple reviewers! Folks like reviewer #2 need to realise just how damaging their flippant and unprofessional remarks can be to early career researchers - this is not science.
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Fine - a paper might need improvement or even truly a rejection, but science should be about taking that journey together in a united front - not taking cheap shots from behind your anonymity.
fellow astronomers (and academics generally) - please google yourself and, if your current email address is not reachable within two clicks, either a) make a website or b) ask your department to list your email - you are probably missing out on opportunities!