I decided to make a little graphic demonstrating with actual #data (the awesome Cas A supernova remnant observed by #JWST) to highlight how different data looks depending on the colormap. I chose a few that I have seen used a bit from matplotlib & cmasher. What colormaps do you often use and why?

Plus, this little nugget of ridiculousness in their footnotes. Also, it's quite bold to be a co-author on a paper naming a classification system after yourself. In their examples discussion, it is another clear example of a Loeb coauthor paper inflating their claims and ignoring scientific works

For those who may not know, July is #disability pride month. Within #academia (& #astronomy), there are still many pitfalls and barriers that make things difficult for astronomers with disabilities. So, I figured throughout the month, I would share some of what I have experienced with my disability

Ah, you're right! A bad typo in the label... I have fixed it, in case you have any use for it!

Got bored again, and decided to update to include the Oxygen line for diffuse gas, and a version where the contributions are normalized to 1 instead of the temperature! (The temperature version taught me some lessons on quirks doing fill_between plots in log-space...)

Thanks for the suggestion Ilsa! I had debated this beforehand, myself... here's a new version though with only sans serif fonts.

"I'm bad at vacationing" Part 2. I decided to try to make an #astronomy #infographic on what determines the temperature of molecular clouds. Here's the result - let me know what you think! It shows the different physical mechanisms in the balance between heating and cooling in these clouds.

I'm bad at vacationing. I get bored, and make plots like this, which puts into context timescales #astronomers often call "rapid". This shows a chemical model for dense gas in an energetic environment, highlighting the "rapid" freeze-out of CO gas onto ices and converting to methanol ice "rapidly"

Cheesy advertisement: We're hosting a really cool special session at this year's #EAS2025 conference in Cork! The session is planned to include talks on #astrochemistry across scales - from galaxies to disks to stars to planetary bodies. Abstract deadline is March 3rd: eas.unige.ch/EAS2025/sess...

The best representation I could find of the GOP House trying to govern

Many of my colleagues have been using AI to uncover the mysteries of the universe and do amazing science. I took a different approach. As a theorist, I wanted to investigate a vital question: what if Jar-Jar Binks was secretly a genius? The results?

My paper presenting the first results from the High-resolution Accretion Disks of Embedded protoStars (HADES) is now on arXiv! These high-resolution (maximal 0.1 mAU) simulations protostars highlight the role of the magnetic field in determining the accretion modes. arxiv.org/abs/2410.14777