Cool. Apparently Black Hole Apocalypse is airing again tonight on PBS @novapbs with yours truly #BlackHoles #BlackHoleSurvivalGuide #BlackHoleBlues
Joe Patterson was my first astronomy professor. He would pace at the front of the old lecture hall in Columbia’s physics department, writing equations on green chalkboards while a hundred undergraduates sat scattered among the worn, wooden auditorium seats. Joe was everyone’s favorite. He’d throw chocolates to anyone who piped up enough to ask a question. Around the 1990s, Joe wrote and illustrated a seasonal newsletter, in the style of an old-fashioned paper zine, of astronomical highlights visible from New York City. His affable style mixed wit and history with astronomy for a completely charming, largely undiscovered cult classic: Big Apple Astronomy. We hope to convince Joe to revive the zine as a quarterly column on The Broadcast; in the meantime he has shared with us a February 2022 issue of Big Apple Sky Calendar, the daily guide to sky viewing that used to conclude the seasonal newsletter. Steal a few moments of reprieve from the city’s mayhem to take in these sights. As Oscar Wilde said, “we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Now on The Pioneer Works Broadcast: https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/big-apple-sky-calendar-Feb-2022 @pioneerworks #PWBroadcast #astronomy
My former street corner in The North End, Boston. My roommate was Shep Doeleman, who became the director of Event Horizon Telescope. We were deep in tumultuous graduate school struggles. Capturing an image of a black hole was a foolish dream. Gawd we laughed so much. There were some tears too. To think that in an uncertain future, I’d travel to the National Press Club to watch Shep reveal the image, to join a billion people around the globe looking together in that moment at a black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun & 55 million light years away…gah. What a time to be alive. In the background, The Old North Church: “One if by land. Two if by sea.” And all that. #BlackHoles #BlackHoleSurvivalGuide @ehtelescope @mitpics
Sci Con is back. RSVP: There may be billions of trillions of planets in the observable universe—possibly more planets than there are stars. These exoplanets range from giant storms of pure gas, like Jupiter, to rocky planets, like Earth, orbiting all manner of stars including dead collapsed neutron stars or even black holes. In our galactic neighborhood, we’ve already found over 4,000 to date, and scientists continue to scan these proximate celestial bodies for any signs of life. I’m excited to host Natalie Batalha (@beccasubstellar), astrophysicist and project scientist for @nasa’s Kepler Mission, and Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer, comparative exoplanetary scientist, to discuss exoplanets, undiscovered life forms beyond our solar system, and if we will ever encounter kindred inhabitants of the Milky Way. [Presented in partnership with @scientific_american] 🗓️ Sunday, November 7 📍 Brooklyn, NY https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets
Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the extraordinary women at Harvard’s Observatory. We’re excited to share the staged reading of “The Harvard Computers” pilot episode @PioneerWorks now on The Broadcast: pioneerworks.org/broadcast
Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the extraordinary women at Harvard’s Observatory. We’re excited to share the staged reading of “The Harvard Computers” pilot episode @PioneerWorks now on The Broadcast: pioneerworks.org/broadcast
Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the extraordinary women at Harvard’s Observatory. We’re excited to share the staged reading of “The Harvard Computers” pilot episode @PioneerWorks now on The Broadcast: pioneerworks.org/broadcast
Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the extraordinary women at Harvard’s Observatory. We’re excited to share the staged reading of “The Harvard Computers” pilot episode @PioneerWorks now on The Broadcast: pioneerworks.org/broadcast
Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the extraordinary women at Harvard’s Observatory. We’re excited to share the staged reading of “The Harvard Computers” pilot episode @PioneerWorks now on The Broadcast: pioneerworks.org/broadcast
Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the extraordinary women at Harvard’s Observatory. We’re excited to share the staged reading of “The Harvard Computers” pilot episode @PioneerWorks now on The Broadcast: pioneerworks.org/broadcast
Amazed on my first day back to campus in eons to see these two stunning @kehindewiley portraits in Barnard’s beautiful Milbank Hall. So proud and honored. (Also, spotted Kehinde at the fantastic Moses Sumney opening this weekend @pioneerworks .) Art and science must triumph in these troubled times
Amazed on my first day back to campus in eons to see these two stunning @kehindewiley portraits in Barnard’s beautiful Milbank Hall. So proud and honored. (Also, spotted Kehinde at the fantastic Moses Sumney opening this weekend @pioneerworks .) Art and science must triumph in these troubled times
Spot anyone familiar in Dustin Yellin’s gorgeous collage for Natalie Wolchover? Love it! Another great article from @natty_bats : “The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.” quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-jame… via @quantamag @dustinyellin
Very, VERY excited that we are now hiring a Science Editor for our Science and Culture cornucopia, The Broadcast (for which I am editor-in-chief). The Broadcast is a virtual experience in the likeness of @pioneerworks. Join us. Link to the job description below. Please share with talented folks. https://pioneerworks.org/jobs/science-editor #PWBroadcast #PioneerWorks
Very, VERY excited that we are now hiring a Science Editor for our Science and Culture cornucopia, The Broadcast (for which I am editor-in-chief). The Broadcast is a virtual experience in the likeness of @pioneerworks. Join us. Link to the job description below. Please share with talented folks. https://pioneerworks.org/jobs/science-editor #PWBroadcast #PioneerWorks
Very, VERY excited that we are now hiring a Science Editor for our Science and Culture cornucopia, The Broadcast (for which I am editor-in-chief). The Broadcast is a virtual experience in the likeness of @pioneerworks. Join us. Link to the job description below. Please share with talented folks. https://pioneerworks.org/jobs/science-editor #PWBroadcast #PioneerWorks
Scientific Controversies: DOGS! My friend just happened to have such an angle on the talk that the dog portraits—courtesy my sister the veterinarian @drstacey — filled his field of view. Brian Hare looks to be part of the pack. We will release the full video soon on Pioneer Works Broadcast pioneerworks.org/Broadcast @pioneerworks @alexandrahorowitz @dogcognition #PioneerWorks #dogs #PWBroadcast
There may be billions of trillions of planets in the observable universe—possibly more planets than there are stars. These exoplanets range from giant storms of pure gas, like Jupiter, to rocky planets, like Earth, orbiting all manner of stars including dead collapsed neutron stars or even black holes. Their landscapes, weather, and astronomical calendars are stranger than science fiction could predict, as though the universe has experimented with every physically conceivable possibility. It seems unsustainable to imagine that only here on Earth has life emerged. Despite the plethora of exoplanets, we can only observe those closest to us in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy. They are simply too small and too faint to see across vast distances. Still, in our galactic neighborhood, we have already discovered over 4,000 to date. Scientists are scanning these proximate celestial bodies for any signs of life. For our newest collaboration, Pioneer Works has teamed up with our friends at Supercluster (@superclusterhq) to provide you with your guide to these planets found across space, time, and imagination: the Exoplanets Playing Card Deck. These Playing Cards will have an exclusive release at our Scientific Controversies No. 22: Exoplanets event on November 7th at Pioneer Works. My fantastic guests will be NASA’s Kepler Mission Scientist Prof. Natalie Batalha and comparative exoplanetary scientist Prof. Rebecca Oppenheimer. Visit the link in the @pioneerworks bio RSVP required for the live event: https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets
Tonight! Psyched that Scientific Controversies is back. Join me and my brilliant guests Professors Natalie Batalha and Rebecca Oppenheimer. RSVP required https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets @pioneerworks #exoplanets
4 gorgeous men. @moses @dustinyellin @kehindewiley @gabriel_florenz . If you’re in New York, you must see Moses’s show @pioneerworks curated by @gabriel_florenz . If you’re not, come
