I am an astronomer, although I am not at AAS this year (by choice, not because I am a government employee). My NASA colleagues are pretty unhappy, and it sucks seeing my friends, colleagues, and collaborators just sitting there twiddling their thumbs.

Ooh, those are good!

To clarify, this is not the most distant object imaged but rather the most distant object to have a satellite flyby. 

Seriously.  My husband and I have a 2 bed apartment in Playa del Rey and $8600 is 2.5 months of rent.

Yep. To say that it’s poking fun at a robot having a social media presence is fine, but EVERY NASA mission has one, because it’s a great way to communicate the cool things that they do to the public! And when science funding is incredibly low and so many people don’t believe in basic science such as vaccinating and…

As a clarification, the Hubble Deep Field and the Hubble Frontier Fields aren’t the same thing. The Frontier Fields (which BUFFALO is re-observing) were specifically selected because they contain galaxy clusters that are excellent gravitational lenses. The Hubble Deep Field was just a patch of sky.

She is one on the nicest people I have ever met.  

I subscribed to Goop for a while, before she started peddling bullshit woo wellness advice (I am a scientist, so promoting that was a dealbreaker). But 5 years ago it was a lot of recipes, and they were tasty. And city guides, which were useful, along with style guides. It was kind of pinterest-y, but then it…

Well if he only cares about looks, I think Merrick Garland fits the bill quite nicely.

How do you use it in the omelet?

Cottage cheese and peaches is my go to combination.  This morning I also added cacao nibs and coconut flakes.

Literally my breakfast this morning.  With cacao nibs and coconut flakes.

It’s not! In Spanish y is “i griega” or Greek i.

Vote by mail for everyone.

This seems like a good place to put this, but I saw on twitter (I think, and from RoguePOTUSStaff, so huge boulder of salt, since I’m 99% certain that account is fake fake fake) that the reason McConnell is not taking a recess in August is because they don’t want Trump to fire Sessions and make a recess appointment.

Those people are insane. I really, really wanted to like TLJ, both as a person who wants to see women and POC in movies and as a huge Star Wars fan. Sadly, in my opinion, it just wasn’t a good movie. It was too long, and there were too many subplots (not that this is Kelly Marie Tran’s fault, and she was perfectly…

My PhD advisor just had her second kid; she’s 48. She had the first one at 28. She said it was much harder this time.

Here is my question: how can I get my husband to watch and/or be on the show? Come help him, fab five!

I mean, with this guy in charge, I’m not surprised it got swept under the rug: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-usc-dean-20171114-story.html

If I have kids I for sure won’t give them my last name, since I hate being hyphenated.