I’m still around. Promise! The last few weeks have been super busy with travel, being sick, and work. Coming up in the next few weeks are my thesis committee meeting, a regional conference for my grant, a bellydance workshop, and a class project to design and guide, and generally trying to keep my project moving! …
My inbox exploded last week due to two things: a good discussion on editing and publishing our research group’s paper and a debate on Intelligent Design. Luckily, I have my Thunderbird inbox set to view as threaded, so it wasn’t that much of a mess. My paper comments will stay with the PAPER group, but…
I’m in major work-mode this week after a fabulous break in New York. I have just a few short weeks to get ready for a conference in early January, and I’m giving a talk! (*Insert Panic Mode Here*) So before I delve into my data in an effort to understand what the heck is going…
You know Ray Comfort, the “banana is an atheists’ nightmare*” guy? Pharyngula links to the latest intellectual debauchery from this man. As a physics-junkie, I’m horrified to the core. *I would link to the YouTube video that famously debunks the banana argument, if only the astronomy presented in it wasn’t so horrible.
The children of Louisiana may now be deprived of a sound scientific education. The creationists are at it again. When ID was struck down in Dover, they shifted their focus to “academic freedom” and “teaching the controversy.” That is, they take their own personal disagreement with certain sound science, such as evolution and human origins,…
So I’m continuing to work my way backwards through the Skepticality podcasts, and they are really, really interesting. Every episode features some member of the skeptics community, or some professional in a field that is (was that week) a hot button news issue. Since none of us can be an expert on everything, it’s a…
There is a great post on Pharyngula about a 20-year experiment on the evolution of E. coli. In that time span, colonies undergo tens of thousands of generations, which make it the perfect test bed for Darwinian evolution. (Although probably not the perfect thesis project!) PZ Myers does a great job of explaining the research…
On March 22, 2013 we found out that many NASA EPO programs will be suspended as a direct result of US budgetary sequestration. We are proactively working to raise money to make sure that CosmoQuest can continue to support its staff and its programs.
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I’m a brand new post-doc in astronomy working as part of the CosmoQuest team. My thesis focused on radio astronomy instrumentation. That means, I got to build cool telescopes that will open up new frontiers in the universe. I also love to teach, both in a classroom setting and informally. I'm happy to talk about the universe with anyone who will listen, and I am skeptically curious about all things.
