Go Mercury go!

Jesus it’s enormous

Fun fact: #AstronautSnoopy made his first debut in the #ThanksgivingDayParade in 1969. 🎈👨‍🚀✨ Working with PEANUTS for decades, we have a long history of partnership in our safety and human space flight awareness program. Take a look: go.nasa.gov/2JW1D0t

It’s fun to think about all of the Americans today, visiting their families, sitting down for— oh crap, I’m American. Gotta run; I think I’m late for something.

Hey, American brewers? A stout or a porter does not automatically mean “something flavoured with coffee”. Get your act together.

I’m currently indexing several million FITS files. Current HDU record: the GALEX file CDFS_00_0021-fg-xsp.fits with 1,739 HDUs.

I am so behind on my Twitter feed that people are still wishing me a happy Thanksgiving.

I was looking up how to check out a single subdirectory from a Git repo. This is the answer on StackOverflow. Always remember: Git hates you.

Happy to announce the release of QLSC (Quadrilateralized Spherical Cube), a new Python package. Need to perform cone searches on a large number of points in Python? Need to segment a sphere into different resolutions? This is for you: github.com/demitri/qlsc

If you’re familiar with Q3C and want that functionality in Python without a PostgreSQL database, QLSC is the answer.

Bob and Doug didn’t make it to space. Hosers.

Stop posting this bullshit bad science. There’s ONE very flawed, stupidly done small study, that did not take bisexual women into account, and took really bad photos. And honestly, IMO, men are pretty much ONLY attractive if they have a cat.

Astronomers: Do we have any super-nova follow-up people up in here? I need to ask a question. Demitri Muna

Doing a PhD #Academia #phdchat

How to be a good friend or boss to a PhD student. #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

My advice to PhD students #phdchat

Academics, want more people to read your research? Why not reformat it to look like a planning permission notice and stick it outside a house with a lot of foot traffic.

I love the serendipity when my astronomy and indiepop Twitter feeds collide!

They have palm-rejection on trackpads. Surely it would be a small step to have paw-rejection on keyboards? C’mon technology, show me what you gotttttttttttrttty

If you wait long enough you can sell those boxes and manuals to vintage computer collectors which would pay for the pizzas! (Except the IDL stuff of course. No one wants that.)