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Vincent MacKay
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Postdoc at MIT, previously University of Toronto, McGill

You can mostly trust my posts on:
🌌 cosmology
📡 radio telescopes
🎹 piano
🎼 music theory
...take everything else with a grain of salt.

Fr/En | He/Him | vincentmackay.github.io | Somerville, MA
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Look at this little guy
April 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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J'ignore l'origine de cette photo mais c'est de la fiction... le gnosticisme est essentiellement disparu un bon 500 ans avant que les notes soient nommées. Leurs noms n'ont d'ailleurs rien à voir avec l'astronomie (malheureusement!), mais plutôt avec un hymne religieux en latin du IXe siècle.
Capture d'écran de l'article Wikipédia sur le gnosticisme, qui mentionne entre autres que le gnosticisme connaît son apogée au cours du deuxième siècle. Le passage suivant est surligné : "Les sectes gnostiques ont ensuite progressivement disparu à partir du quatrième siècle". Capture d'écran de l'article Wikipédia de l'hymne pour saint Jean-Baptisme (Ut quant laxis), qui a donné aux notes leurs noms. Le passage suivant est surligné : "L'hymne, datant du neuvième siècle".
March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I could've saved the Planck team a whole lot of trouble by just saving the COBE map in jpeg a bunch of times
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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distracted boyfriend meme but the woman in a red dress has the new JSWT picture as her face, the girlfriend is the JWST carina nebula pic as her face, and text on the boyfriend says "all of our device wallpapers"
January 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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This is too good not to share in English too: Ravel's heiress is his brother's nurse's brother's second wife's daughter from another marriage.

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
The heiress deplored the way that she and her mother had been vilified for decades by the media over the unusual succession. With no descendants, Ravel left everything to his brother Édouard. The brother left the estate, worth some €400 million, to Jeanne Taverne, his nurse-housekeeper whose husband, Alexandre, a former miner and barber, was his driver. After Jeanne’s death, the driver married Georgette Lerga, a manicurist, whose daughter by a previous marriage is Pen de Castel. The daughter became guardian of the Boléro millions when her mother died in 2012.
January 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Le pire, c’est que Ravel n’avait pas d’enfant, donc d’héritiers directs, lorsqu’il s’est éteint, en 1937. C’est donc la fille de la seconde femme du frère de la masseuse que le frère du compositeur avait engagée en 1954 qui est devenue bénéficiaire des droits d’exploitation de ses œuvres. Et non, ça n’est pas une blague.
January 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I hope all the new bots that started following me in the past week will enjoy this picture of the moon that I took with my phone and a 127 mm telescope
Nice picture of the moon that I took
January 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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December 22, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Screenshot of tweet that says "a funny prank Disney keeps playing is finding young directors who won a Palm d'Or for a self-funded surreal drama about a woman in Bhutan who can speak with all of the women she is descended from, and then asking them to direct Captain Miraculous 4: The Goblins of Foothand"
December 18, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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People talk about wickeds marketing budget, but the boys must be huge
NYT: Trump picks a guy named Vought for his cabinet
November 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM