I remember when the BICEP-2 results came out and physicists were celebrating the detection of primordial grav waves. I said to a physicist "but are we really sure the Milky Way dust correction is legit" and he immediately started yelling at me that astronomers were just jealous of the result.

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Ahh, I'm seeing a lot of particle physicists riding into astronomy research, ready fix our field and solve all our science questions for us. I mean, how hard can astronomy be, right? Welcome in, dear.

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Mostly people are good about citing data properly, but I've seen a growing number of cases where people seem to just think of observatory data archives as separate from the people who did the hard work of getting the observations in the first place. Let's support each other's efforts, people! 6/6

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The winner of the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award is Dr. Emma Schwartzman for her thesis on “A Multi-Frequency Radio Study of Dual Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxy Cluster Mergers." Congratulations Emma! 🎉🏆🔭 aas.org/posts/news/2...

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I do always smile when I look at my older papers and sometimes stumble across silly footnotes that I managed to get into print...

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