I met someone who said his name was John Wayne, so I said I was Butch Cassidy. …but his name was John Wayne, and we didn’t address the joke.

Thinking of our friends in Arecibo today, the last day for science operations at the site. 📡🇵🇷

I am now proudly 0.3% glacier. (Me, chewing on ice, polar bear rifle strapped to my back, in the northernmost settlement in the world. Ma, I made it.)

I’ve lived exactly 2/3 of my life post 9/11. I started this birthday morning blaring patriotic tunes at 5:30 am on the way to climb a mountain in Colorado, and I ended it with wiffleball, eyeblack, and a cookout. I’ve got some great humans dotted across time zones.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

What an absolutely gorgeous day to watch my first rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California (a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying cubesats). It returned to the pad with a sonic boom (!!!). Happy Veterans Day, Vandy. 🫡🇺🇸🚀

I'm hiring a postdoctoral fellow! If you'd like to join the vibrant scientific community at the CfA and work on the interstellar medium, star formation, stellar populations, or the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way/nearby galaxies, please apply! jobregister.aas.org/ad/d5b28e93

Congratulations to Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin, who are two of only seven recipients of the 2023 Shaw Prize! Lorimer and McLaughlin, who are also credited with helping discover fast radio bursts, worked heavily with GBO over the years. wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023/1…

Take a look at this cover girl, and a paper exploring the huge diversity of Fast Radio Bursts (discovering FRBs 10x shorter than any previously reported!). arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02303… 📡 Green Bank Observatory

👀 Hey there, Moon. See you soon?