andreaurbanphd.bsky.social
@andreaurbanphd.bsky.social
When classes are “graded on a curve”, the teacher messed up, not the students.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
When classes are “graded on a curve”, the teacher messed up, not the students.
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NICK & I STILL NEED 2 MORE CONTESTANTS!! Ping me if you think a for-funsies data gameshow sounds like a good time & you're available from about 8-10pm East/5-7pm Pacific Thursdays in June #rstats #python #databs
What's Viz Buzz? A gameshow by @nickwan.bsky.social! Check it: youtu.be/rvnG7W4UI6I?...
What's Viz Buzz? A gameshow by @nickwan.bsky.social! Check it: youtu.be/rvnG7W4UI6I?...
Viz Buzz Episode 1 Highlights
YouTube video by Nick Wan
youtu.be
May 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
NICK & I STILL NEED 2 MORE CONTESTANTS!! Ping me if you think a for-funsies data gameshow sounds like a good time & you're available from about 8-10pm East/5-7pm Pacific Thursdays in June #rstats #python #databs
What's Viz Buzz? A gameshow by @nickwan.bsky.social! Check it: youtu.be/rvnG7W4UI6I?...
What's Viz Buzz? A gameshow by @nickwan.bsky.social! Check it: youtu.be/rvnG7W4UI6I?...
And every galaxy contains BILLIONS of stars.
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
And every galaxy contains BILLIONS of stars.
Gotta love astronomy’s acronyms.
This is a new one for me.
ORC = odd radio circles
This is a new one for me.
ORC = odd radio circles
FInding Orcs in Middle Earth is one thing, but finding ORCs in the heavens is entirely another.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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Astronomers Still Don’t Understand These Strange Circles in the Sky
ORCs—odd radio circles—are one of the weirdest recent discoveries in the heavens above
www.scientificamerican.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Gotta love astronomy’s acronyms.
This is a new one for me.
ORC = odd radio circles
This is a new one for me.
ORC = odd radio circles
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This whole thread is gorgeous & amazingly useful for giving students a sense of several important concepts for observational astronomy!!
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For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
January 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This whole thread is gorgeous & amazingly useful for giving students a sense of several important concepts for observational astronomy!!
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Aperiodic reminder that the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars is wider (590 km) than Saturn's icy moon Enceladus (504 km).
So this image is pretty much to scale.
(Not a real image, mind, but a boy can hope)
So this image is pretty much to scale.
(Not a real image, mind, but a boy can hope)
December 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Aperiodic reminder that the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars is wider (590 km) than Saturn's icy moon Enceladus (504 km).
So this image is pretty much to scale.
(Not a real image, mind, but a boy can hope)
So this image is pretty much to scale.
(Not a real image, mind, but a boy can hope)
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Maybe the schedules hadn’t been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.
June 2, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Maybe the schedules hadn’t been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.
So happy to find @vickiboykis.com here. Funny. Insightful. Hopeful. Real talk. 😊😊😊😊
i am begging you to stop making me talk to my computer in natural language, in voice calls, in group chats with sparkle emojis, if i want to talk to my bits i am firing up my ide in complete silence, writing my for-loops and sending them to the big SWITCH statement in the sky
May 15, 2024 at 3:37 PM
So happy to find @vickiboykis.com here. Funny. Insightful. Hopeful. Real talk. 😊😊😊😊
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
May 5, 2024 at 1:20 PM
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)