Watching a high-speed chase on local LA news (about 20 minutes and counting) feels simultaneously creepy, inappropriate, and strangely compelling.
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A comprehensive explanation of the pseudo-crisis that is “forcing” UK universities to severely cut our pensions — and, hence, why we are striking in return. Made in Westminster – Sean Wallis – The Convention for Higher Education
Via @DrBrianKeating: What a treat! @defjaf gives @ucsdcosmology a private lesson on his epochal paper with Bond and @LloydEKnox, published 20 years ago this year! twitter.com
This doesn’t capture the wonderful disorientation inside Do-Ho Suh’s “Fallen Star” at @UCSDJacobs with @antoniogm and @DrBrianKeating.
Surprisingly difficult to find halloumi in California — it seems to be a specialty item here (you can get it at the corner store in London).
In the second week of my visit to the @ucsdcosmology group, enjoying the science (and unseasonably warm temperatures) with @DrBrianKeating and other theorists, observers, experimentalists and visitors
Anecdotal evidence that macOS 10.13.2 supplemental update (Meltdown/Spectre) is extra-slow on Fusion Drives. Could this be a stealth APFS test?
The Surprising Timeliness of “Hamilton” in London (becoming obsessed with @HamiltonWestEnd @HamiltonMusical)
Back from @HamiltonWestEnd tonight: yes, believe the hype.
(Biggest applause line: “Immigrants — we get the job done”.)
First #Supernova results from @theDESurvey! w=-1! Hey theorists, its Lambda, you can stop now! #AAS231 #DarkEnergy #cosmology https://t.co/nuYWX3Mo64 via @ChrisDAndrea
Seeing the special birthday show of @HamiltonWestEnd @HamiltonMusical tonight (with someone else very special who shares the birthday!). https://twitter.com/ObiomaUgoala/status/951359261669511168
New Year’s Day lamb shawarma, via Ottolenghi, with tahini, bulgar wheat, flatbread, and salad.
I think Trump doesn’t understand the difference between rights, powers, and responsibilities.
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” premier at the Royal Albert Hall.
WMAP team wins $3M Breakthrough Prize for CMB cosmology (with wise and not at all envious commentary). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07759-8
Academic friends: when did people start using “+” in place of “et al” for references in more informal settings like talks?
Great talk by @RachaelEvelyn Ainsworth on 1/radio obs’ns of star formation and 2/open science: github for data, not just code. Also, zenodo.org & Mozilla’s Resources for Open Science in Astronomy.
Sad but true: Britain has become irrelevant. Would brexiteers just say ‘who cares?’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/13/britain-irrelevant-world-transatlantic-brexit
Identity Crisis: No One Knows What Britain Is Anymore https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/sunday-review/britain-identity-crisis.html
Kensington Sunset
I am not the unnamed London-based Professor.
Hi-tech security for access to internal site of a large astro collaboration: email 1 w/global username; email 2 w/global password.
Flake, Corker, &c are cowards, not truth-telling mavericks. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/trump-republican-party-critics.html
Another fun paper, Predictions After Many-field Reheating. Glad to be working & writing more with just a few smart colleagues rather than hundreds.
@manton (Cont’d, sorry) 4) should @-mentions at the beginning of these posts be underlined in my timeline so that I can click to you? Others are, but not in my own posts. (If so, I hope you are actually seeing these!) FWIW, I am posting via my own movable type, not your hosting.
@manton Also, 1) having trouble selecting text & placing cursor (double/single click) on macOS. 2) iOS version let me make an empty post due to accidental click. 3) compose window stayed open during posting operation and let me start writing new post which then disappeared.