Ray Garner 🏳️🌈
@astronoray.bsky.social
Astronomer. Nature photographer. Astro postdoc at Texas A&M. he/him. Georgia native, College Station resident.
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Ray Garner 🏳️🌈
@astronoray.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Well, I’m on the academic job market! I’m looking for professorships and other postdoc positions. My academic interests are nebular abundances, galactic evolution, HII regions, etc.
I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)
I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)
Always interesting when a referee's comment causes you to pull out Osterbrock!
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Always interesting when a referee's comment causes you to pull out Osterbrock!
Submitted two job apps, called it a day, and came home to play some RuneScape before trivia night with friends. I’d call that a good day!
October 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Submitted two job apps, called it a day, and came home to play some RuneScape before trivia night with friends. I’d call that a good day!
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The new image of M87* just released today comes to life in this stunning animation, revealing its incredible evolution over the years!
Watch closely and see how this mysterious supermassive black hole changes over time.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Saurabh (MPIfR)
Watch closely and see how this mysterious supermassive black hole changes over time.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Saurabh (MPIfR)
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The new image of M87* just released today comes to life in this stunning animation, revealing its incredible evolution over the years!
Watch closely and see how this mysterious supermassive black hole changes over time.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Saurabh (MPIfR)
Watch closely and see how this mysterious supermassive black hole changes over time.
Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Saurabh (MPIfR)
It turns out astropy has perfectly good photometry tools and I should have definitely been using those instead of my own clunked together code. My fits make much more sense suddenly!
September 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It turns out astropy has perfectly good photometry tools and I should have definitely been using those instead of my own clunked together code. My fits make much more sense suddenly!
If your beliefs deny the right of others to exist, then those are not beliefs of good people.
It is not “indoctrination” to mention that others may not be in the gender binary. It IS indoctrination to say you can’t teach that and students can’t learn that.
Shame on President Welsh.
It is not “indoctrination” to mention that others may not be in the gender binary. It IS indoctrination to say you can’t teach that and students can’t learn that.
Shame on President Welsh.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If your beliefs deny the right of others to exist, then those are not beliefs of good people.
It is not “indoctrination” to mention that others may not be in the gender binary. It IS indoctrination to say you can’t teach that and students can’t learn that.
Shame on President Welsh.
It is not “indoctrination” to mention that others may not be in the gender binary. It IS indoctrination to say you can’t teach that and students can’t learn that.
Shame on President Welsh.
Astronomers be like “yeah, I was there recently” and mean 7 million years ago
September 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Astronomers be like “yeah, I was there recently” and mean 7 million years ago
A week or so ago, I watched this video and I have not stopped thinking about it. How nice it would be to get rid of my iPhone and get a landline and transition away from being constantly available. It sounds so nice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsy...
I hate my phone so I got rid of it
YouTube video by Eddy Burback
www.youtube.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A week or so ago, I watched this video and I have not stopped thinking about it. How nice it would be to get rid of my iPhone and get a landline and transition away from being constantly available. It sounds so nice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsy...
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This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.
And that proposal was just accepted!!! Hell yeah!
Just submitted my first observing proposal for director’s time! Here’s hoping!
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
And that proposal was just accepted!!! Hell yeah!
Well, I’m on the academic job market! I’m looking for professorships and other postdoc positions. My academic interests are nebular abundances, galactic evolution, HII regions, etc.
I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)
I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)
August 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Well, I’m on the academic job market! I’m looking for professorships and other postdoc positions. My academic interests are nebular abundances, galactic evolution, HII regions, etc.
I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)
I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants more info and knows some jobs that are open! (Here or in any other country!)
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once again reminded how much the grad school experience is shaped by your phd supervisor, and thanking the universe for my mentors. If I can do for my students what my advisor did for me, I’ll call myself a success 🙏🏽
August 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
once again reminded how much the grad school experience is shaped by your phd supervisor, and thanking the universe for my mentors. If I can do for my students what my advisor did for me, I’ll call myself a success 🙏🏽
Just submitted my first observing proposal for director’s time! Here’s hoping!
August 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Just submitted my first observing proposal for director’s time! Here’s hoping!
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From Samantha Wong: Looking to add a more modern touch to your physics teaching? Check out “Bringing Contemporary Physicists to the Classroom” for resources, slide decks, and more! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/08/22/c...
astrobites.org/2025/08/22/c...
Representation matters in physics teaching: introducing the Contemporary Physicists project
Looking to add a more modern touch to your physics teaching? Check out "Bringing Contemporary Physicists to the Classroom" for resources, slide decks, and more!
astrobites.org
August 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
From Samantha Wong: Looking to add a more modern touch to your physics teaching? Check out “Bringing Contemporary Physicists to the Classroom” for resources, slide decks, and more! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/08/22/c...
astrobites.org/2025/08/22/c...
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Sending so much love to all our queer family in Florida. You are incredible, and you are loved.
Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
August 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sending so much love to all our queer family in Florida. You are incredible, and you are loved.
I found a new set of lyrics that resonates with me:
"Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do
Even when you don't know what it is
Your job knows what it is
What it is is it's coming to get you
I'm talking to myself even when I'm saying 'you'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV0...
"Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do
Even when you don't know what it is
Your job knows what it is
What it is is it's coming to get you
I'm talking to myself even when I'm saying 'you'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV0...
Let's Get This Over With
YouTube video by They Might Be Giants - Topic
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I found a new set of lyrics that resonates with me:
"Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do
Even when you don't know what it is
Your job knows what it is
What it is is it's coming to get you
I'm talking to myself even when I'm saying 'you'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV0...
"Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do
Even when you don't know what it is
Your job knows what it is
What it is is it's coming to get you
I'm talking to myself even when I'm saying 'you'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV0...
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I will never forgive Apple for getting rid of their headphone jack and giving the wired headphones a lightning cable end. More than ever people seem to use their phones without headphones to watch videos on the subway and you cannot convince me that change isn’t partly responsible.
August 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I will never forgive Apple for getting rid of their headphone jack and giving the wired headphones a lightning cable end. More than ever people seem to use their phones without headphones to watch videos on the subway and you cannot convince me that change isn’t partly responsible.
What gif pops up when you type your name?
August 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What gif pops up when you type your name?
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In my capacity as a professional scientist, once again, I say to my colleagues:
August 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In my capacity as a professional scientist, once again, I say to my colleagues:
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I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.
medium.com/@steve.desch...
medium.com/@steve.desch...
This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed
Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…
medium.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.
medium.com/@steve.desch...
medium.com/@steve.desch...
Fun fact: the show that I’m watching now, E.R., premiered two years before I was born! Do you feel old yet?
August 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Fun fact: the show that I’m watching now, E.R., premiered two years before I was born! Do you feel old yet?
My very first undergrad presented the research that we worked on for the past year! I'm so proud of Liv and all of the work that she's put into this project, especially over the summer. Any future undergrads have some big shoes to fill! (And keep an eye out for the Research Note we'll publish soon!)
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My very first undergrad presented the research that we worked on for the past year! I'm so proud of Liv and all of the work that she's put into this project, especially over the summer. Any future undergrads have some big shoes to fill! (And keep an eye out for the Research Note we'll publish soon!)
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There is a massive opportunity here but only if we can maintain and build momentum; we cannot let off the gas on this, not even a little
Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
June 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
There is a massive opportunity here but only if we can maintain and build momentum; we cannot let off the gas on this, not even a little
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June 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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