Category: science journalism
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we used the billion dollar observatory wrong, on purpose
this march, i published my fifth first-author research paper in The Astronomical Journal (not my first fifth-author paper, which i think is yet to come). i was required by my collaborators to use a title prefix to indicate this paper is part of a series published by our team, so in a small act of…
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astronomy communication in the age of slop
i’ve been wading through the increasingly sloppy internet for most of my adult life. one of the places that i always seem to encounter low effort content is in astronomy “communication”
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how to study life in other solar systems
I have a new article out in The Planetary Society that explains at an introductory level how astronomers are using spectroscopy to search for signs of life in the universe.