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Comment on Feeling Stupid Doesn’t Have To Hurt by the road to somewhere better « porto sentido

the road to somewhere better « porto sentido — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:16:43 +0000

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Comment on About by sarah

sarah — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:01:25 +0000

@Michel thanks for pointing it out – fixed now.

Comment on From Didcot with Love by belfast taxis

belfast taxis — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:39:25 +0000

Thanks for the post..I really appreciate this..
BelfastTaxis

Comment on About by Michel

Michel — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:58:31 +0000

Hello Sarah,

I discovered your blog this evening. it is very interesting.
I got a link with a not existing page in your “about” page on the link “here” in the following sentence :
“Posts about my own work are here.”

Michel

Comment on American Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin by Milky Way Project: Data Release 1

Milky Way Project: Data Release 1 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:46:34 +0000

[...] like peer review….) with the referee for the paper, and coverage by the BBC at the AAS conference in Austin, TX, in January, we posted the paper to Arxiv a couple of weeks ago. From here it’s [...]

Comment on Astronomy impact in unexpected places by allsaints

allsaints — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:47:33 +0000

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Comment on American Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin by Live-Blog „von“ der 219. AAS-Tagung in Austin, TX « Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null

Live-Blog „von“ der 219. AAS-Tagung in Austin, TX « Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:14:27 +0000

[...] – was bei entsprechenden Tagungen in Europa leider noch nicht der Fall ist – kräftig gebloggt und getwittert. Und es gibt neun Pressekonferenzen, die auch per Webcast verfolgt werden können. Bei der ersten [...]

Comment on Feeling Stupid Doesn’t Have To Hurt by Impostor Syndrome « In the Dark

Impostor Syndrome « In the Dark — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:15:39 +0000

[...] Syndrome is pretty commonplace in academia, though more prevalent among females than males. Sarah Kendrew has blogged about this, for [...]

Comment on Lemaître: Lost in Translation by Chandra

Chandra — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:52:19 +0000

Here is some research about this debate:
Nature 479, 171–173 (10 November 2011) doi:10.1038/479171a

Comment on The Galactic Centre black hole in close-up by Gas cloud meets Black Hole: Nature most definitely wants to eat you

Gas cloud meets Black Hole: Nature most definitely wants to eat you — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:16:40 +0000

[...] Incidentally, the lead author of this paper, Stefan Gillessen, is Instrument Scientist of GRAVITY, the infrared interferometric instrument I work on at MPIA; co-author Frank Eisenhauer is the project’s PI. The design of GRAVITY, which combines the beams from 4 different telescopes at VLT (combinations of the big Unit Telescopes and the smaller Auxiliary Telescopes), is optimised to carry out exactly this kind of observation: ultra-precise tracking of objects around Sgr A*. As part of the project, MPIA is leading the implementation of infrared wavefront sensing on the adaptive optics systems of each of the VLT 8-m telescopes. I wrote a post some time ago about science with GRAVITY, here. [...]