Katie Mack

I’ve just been re-reading that; it’s so good

There’s a lot more discussion in the post — it’s a good read, and I highly recommend it!

The point is that something went wrong in this case, not that every Twitter Blue check mark is appearing to be a real verification. I highly suggest reading the article!

Good thread about how academic culture often rewards narcissism and abuse. It doesn’t help that media depictions of scientists often play strongly into stereotypes of misanthrope geniuses. We need to stop valorizing people who climb the career ladder on the backs of others.

Anyone who says societal pandemic precautions aren’t needed anymore in the US because “we have the tools” to deal with Covid needs to read this thread in its entirety.

Fire Island is an excellent Austen adaptation; highly recommended

We're less than an hour from the first official image reveal from #JWST -- it's an amazing & exciting mission and I can't wait to see what it shows us! But the telescope's name is a problem. Read this by @IBJIYONGI, @niais, @RocketToLulu & @iamstarnord

That's sort of the implication in one of the articles (this one: [link] but I haven't seen any corroboration of that from official sources

This is a really nice summary of what we know about the Higgs field / Higgs boson and why it’s important to physics. #Higgs10

One of the first images JWST will share will be a deep-field image: a long exposure giving us a glimpse of galaxies more distant and faint than we've ever seen before. This will be an unprecedented view into the dawn of the cosmos. I can't wait to see it!