Jarron Leisenring
@jarron.bsky.social
Astronomer at Steward Observatory and Director of the Imaging Technology Lab. Worked on JWST NIRCam, ground-based AO, IR instrumentation and detectors, high contrast imaging, exoplanet and disks. Statements and opinions are my own. he/him
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Reposted by Jarron Leisenring
i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:
Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $
Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
For example:
Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $
Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
September 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:
Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $
Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
For example:
Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $
Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
Excited that we don’t have to go all the way to France to see Versailles anymore.
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Excited that we don’t have to go all the way to France to see Versailles anymore.
That's way too low of a management-to-worker ratio.
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
That's way too low of a management-to-worker ratio.
Hoping that UA follows suit now that there’s critical mass. Would be a bad start to the new leadership’s tenure and relationship with the faculty and state governor if they decide otherwise. I wish they had taken a stand early on, and looks bad if they wait much longer now.
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hoping that UA follows suit now that there’s critical mass. Would be a bad start to the new leadership’s tenure and relationship with the faculty and state governor if they decide otherwise. I wish they had taken a stand early on, and looks bad if they wait much longer now.
I may actively look for opportunities to deadpan lines from Airplane. I’ll stop doing it once it actually succeeds.
a man in a suit and tie is saying `` surely , you can 't be serious '' .
Alt: Scene from the movie Airplane with Ted Striker (Robert Hayes) incredulously asking, “Surely, you can’t be serious?” Without skipping a beat Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) responds “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”
media.tenor.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I may actively look for opportunities to deadpan lines from Airplane. I’ll stop doing it once it actually succeeds.
That was an easy block.
September 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
That was an easy block.
There's also a JWST version of the same location on the sky (archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/jades) that comes with a really nifty web interface for zooming around so you can find your favorite galaxies and see what they look like in the infrared: jades.idies.jhu.edu?ra=53.117350...
FitsMap
jades.idies.jhu.edu
September 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There's also a JWST version of the same location on the sky (archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/jades) that comes with a really nifty web interface for zooming around so you can find your favorite galaxies and see what they look like in the infrared: jades.idies.jhu.edu?ra=53.117350...
Care to reevaluate who you’re actually conversing with and try again? Or are you just a bot and incapable?
September 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Care to reevaluate who you’re actually conversing with and try again? Or are you just a bot and incapable?
This is a wild thing to say, but I suspect you're not actually understanding the content to which you're responding.
Also, "Your people"? 🤨
Also, "Your people"? 🤨
September 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is a wild thing to say, but I suspect you're not actually understanding the content to which you're responding.
Also, "Your people"? 🤨
Also, "Your people"? 🤨
(It’s been a week and I am looking forward to sleeping 72 hours straight)
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
(It’s been a week and I am looking forward to sleeping 72 hours straight)
Whew. Thank you. This message came a little later than usual this week, so I was getting worried that I hadn’t yet done enough.
August 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Whew. Thank you. This message came a little later than usual this week, so I was getting worried that I hadn’t yet done enough.
UAZ astro faculty are also retreating. We got kicked out of our fancy digs we reserved because someone more important wanted it. No windows or fancy chairs here.
August 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
UAZ astro faculty are also retreating. We got kicked out of our fancy digs we reserved because someone more important wanted it. No windows or fancy chairs here.