I've heard some disturbing news that a Chinese student's post-doc offer was revoked by a Canadian institute (I believe it is Herzberg) due to "pressure from the U.S. government."
Two things: 1. We are keeping a list; 2. It would be nice to let us know before our students apply.
Important milestone achieved for our project - MUltiplexed Survey Telescope: we have STICKER now!
If you are at the IAU Symposium #396 for Massive Galaxies at Naples, my student Xiaoya is giving a talk on Thu!
I know everyone is excited about the high-z stuff, but there is more to understand in the halos of our local giants. And Xiaoya did a great job pointing in an interesting direction!
Had a great hackweek at Santa Cruz with my students!
The work is intense, but Santa Cruz always has a way to make you chill 😃
This is such a beautiful visualization that it makes me read about exoplanets again!
This is already a good list! I hope we can gradually get the good vibe back for astronomers under the BlueSky...
Beijing's spring is usually not very pleasant. But this week seems to be an exception.
I am sure this won't hurt my productivity...
Is this because a lot of LLM people are "harvesting" training data?
Thank you for your service...
Just saying, now that you will be in Japan, we are only 2 hrs away. We don't have a Ghibli museum, but it is much cheaper to buy knockoff Ghibli souvenirs in China 😊
Had a nice break in Hong Kong. Now it is time to back to work.
Today I learned that there is a popular lemon tea in Hong Kong called the "VLT" 😂
Not gonna lie. This is my happiest moment of 2025...so far...
Oh, it is a cult...they also fund a political party and they support...Trump
I really don't understand this determination to use the wrong term 😂
It is a simple fact that this is not the "Lunar New Year"...
Call it whatever you like, but why use the wrong term? Especially when there are a lot of people who still rely on an actual lunar calendar (e.g., Islamic calendar)...
Understand. Here is my student's cat...
But, hey, the food is much better in our oligarchy!
Meanwhile, DeepSeek is literally telling people: I am having a lot of traffic today, please try to use ChatGPT for now 😂
Have you ever seen the traditional way of making popcorn in China?
Here is a demonstration by my old man...who replaces the firecrackers with popcorn.
The BOOM is much louder in person 😂
Not sure who the "adversaries" are, but here I saw my colleagues discussed the news in a worrying tone...it affects many Chinese students in the U.S. and collaborations. I think this is the time, at least for folks working in fundamental research, to view this as a universal threat to all of us.
What the f is going on in the U.S???
Hi, Everyone; this is Limpy.
Limpy has one functional leg. But it is Ok, because Limpy has been getting free food for the last three years on my parents' apartment's balcony.
Wish everyone a happy year of SNAKEEEEE!
Happy New Year from Kyoto! 💥💥💥
I wish 2025 will be less crazier than 2024 for all of us!
So I won this "Good Educator & Friend of the Students" award this year.
I am deeply humbled by this recognition...but maybe I should choose a different photo if I know it is going to be used in the official announcement 😂
Semester done!
And the tradition of giving out <The Last Stargazers> by
@emsque.bsky.social as parting gifts continues.
I aim to use my class to ensure they keep printing the Chinese version.
Prof. Josh Speagle from Toronto dropped by today and gave us an atypical astronomy talk on why we should have faith in interpretable AI's application in astronomy.
It was a great talk with the appropriate amount of memes😂
All the students in my class were born after the release of the Fellowship of the Ring, therefore...many of them do not understand this meme...
This saddens me every year...
