27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Anonymous asked:
he froze basically all government funding for research
Anonymous asked:
Yes! The ‘dark ages’ is a purely European term. During the European dark ages, eastern society, especially middle eastern societies, were making incredible strides in the sciences. Most of what we consider ‘European discoveries’ in astronomy actually come from middle eastern or Chinese discoveries.
Dark Academia?? I’m sorry. I only subscribe to popofunk tacky academia
if you don’t get dressed at the abandoned clown factory before coming to class then don’t even talk to me.
Anonymous asked:
I left the university where I spent the last year doing research and they were like “ah cool all that work you did…. that’s ours now” despite the fact that I’m continuing my research at a better lab now so my old boss and I went in and purged the servers of my work and saved it all on portable hard drives for me to take to the new lab, where I will still be working with my old boss / new coworker
Our little physics squad got to tour the NSCL today and it was really cool getting to go and see where my research advisor does some of his research and where I’ll probably end up doing research and also seeing people I recognized from lectures on our own campus and the same lab setups that I use it was so cool
I love academic papers written solely for the purpose of dragging another researcher. It’s like Jersey Shore but in academia.
Any title including the phrase “A Response To: ” is basically an intellectual bar fight.
velvetgloveautomail asked:
I did it I stole it and my research poster now hangs on my ceiling
Computer simulations that teach themselves to walk.
Please cite the papers this is from, this is no better than posting stolen, unsourced art. This is someone’s results from their research: their PhD dissertation, ACM TOG, and SIGGRAPH/Eurographics.
DON’T JUST REPOST IT WITHOUT CITING THE PAPERS.
Mood: generation 80 emu.
Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)
It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.
Plus, librarians are research monkeys by profession. Find one and say “Hey, I need to know a bit about yak urine in Tibetan hunting practices” and they’ll provately say “FUCKING WHY?” but outwardly say “Let me check a couple places, see if I can get you some articles.”
You can also look up potentially incriminating things on a library computer; we wipe them automatically when you log off.
kittenclysm asked:
i'm always amused when you talk about work and people get confused because you don't have some kind of Science! job. but then i got to wondering, what kind of jobs are there actually in your field that pay? it's always been my understanding that research is kind of a Starving Artist sort of deal unless you work for some kind of Bond villain.
Kissing the ass of a professor to get research work or like… shitty aerospace company
