Skylar

It’s been a productive week! Started off trying to debug an error and am ending it trying to debug a different error! Yay science

I have compiled a giant list of resources for astrophysics undergraduates, grad students, and people generally interested in astronomy. It’s on my website here: skylargrayson.com/references.h... Hopefully it can be of use to at least one person! And if you have good stuff to add let me know!

I’m looking for stuff on internships, grad school, funding, academia, non-academia work, skill building, scientific resources…

Hey a science people…does anyone know of a good website with resources for undergrads and/or graduate students? (Specifically in astronomy, physics, and geosciences.) Or just share your favorite resources in this thread!

Chat GPT is like that one guy in physics classes who answers every question to try and prove he’s smart but he’s always slightly wrong

Fun fact about me you may not know: aside from my galaxy work I also do astronomy education research! I’m so proud to have been a part of this paper which just got published today🥰if you’re interested in providing research experiences to online students check it out! journals.aps.org/prper/pdf/10...

It’s moments like this that I’m glad my work is so computationally focused

Found an old logbook at the telescope I’m at. Everything’s online now but we had to add a final entry…

My first paper has been published!!! 🥰🎉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

What do y’all think are the most common misconceptions about astronomy and physics? (Shamelessly hunting for video topics)

Why does a burger have less energy than a steak? Because it’s in its ground state!

😍 even a partial solar eclipse was an amazing experience

Everyone loves that joke about how a pirates favorite programming language is R…but y’all are forgetting that a pirates first love is the C

Thank you!!

Distinguishing AGN Feedback Models with the Thermal... Current models of galaxy formation require strong feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to explain the observed lack of star formation in massive galaxies since z~2 but direct evidence of...

I keep forgetting about this app BUT my first ever (and first author) paper is up on arxiv! If you like computational stuff, AGN feedback, and the tSZ effect check it out 🥰 arxiv.org/abs/2310.01502

16 sodium atoms walk into a bar followed by Batman

Astrophysicists claim the whole universe is flat, yet they have the nerve to mock flat earthers? Last I checked earth is in the universe. Pick a lane, scientists

Just spent three hours reorganizing our bookshelves and wow do I have a lot of respect for librarians. Classifying nonfiction is hard!

Currently feeling incredibly guilty as someone with a physics degree who has no interest in seeing Oppenheimer 😬

It’s fascinating how much this whole age of the universe thing is bringing out all the people who say “scientists are just stuck in their confirmation bias, LCDM is full of problems and this is proof scientists are stuck in one narrative!” Fellow scientists whats your response?

My toxic trait is every night I tell myself firmly that I will go into the office the next day and then every morning I wake up and decide to work from home

If you’re reading this that means you are a human in 2023 and therefore entitled to financial compensation. No particular reason, just things aren’t all that great so we all deserve to buy ourselves something

Sometimes going home isn’t really a vacation and I think it’s lame that I have to go right back to work after I get back 😤

Nothing like statistics to ruin your science (…and make it better blah blah blah whatever)

Women in STEM (statistics, terrible statistics, erroneous statistics, misinterpreted statistics)

I study galaxy farts by simulating black holes in massive galaxies 💨

I love being home but I hate being introduced as “my daughter the astrophysicist who makes videos on TikTok” to my parents’ friends

I’ve also been featured on “Theory means something different in science” and “JWST did not disprove the Big Bang”

Hi! I’m an astrophysicist. You may know me from such hits as “No, I don’t care what your sign is,” “I promise NASA isn’t lying,” and “Listen, we just don’t really know what the deal is with dark energy”

Ok granted I’m new here but who tf decided we should call them skeets?