Meg Schwamb @megschwamb@mastodon.online

Sorting the finer details of next week's public event. Getting everyone's slides ahead of time so we can quickly sort tech issues/swap presenting computers. I find if I prep for these things, then it rarely actually happens during the event and everything goes smoothly.

Currently thinking about how I can be engaging and create a quick change of pace between the three talks.

Attempting to write some notes/prompts to be witty and charming for this next week https://www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats-on/listing/oursolarsystemandbeyondfromhawaiiandbelfast.html

A really nice comparison of the two black holes observed by @ehtelescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOESt-G34vE #ourblackhole

If you're interested in reading the science paper about the close up of #OurBlackHole it is open access https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674

You can learn more watching the recording of the press conference https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIQLA6lo6R0?autoplay=0

We know have one more image of a black hole shadow and the snapshot of the material orbiting around the black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope now has the best image of the black hole in the heart of our Galaxy (Sgr A*) Image credit: EHT Collaboration #OurBlackHole

If you're in London in July, worth checking out https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2022/summer-science-exhibition/all-exhibits/

First inperson research group meeting since March 2020. We talked about writing tips, tricks, tools, styles, etc. It was a nice discussion.

Organized what turned into a mini-3 hour hack sprint on a code my research group and collaborators are developing. The group got a bunch of things ticked off the development todo list

This is so cool! I love Gonggong’s one, but I am biased as a co-discoverer https://blog.unicode.org/2022/05/out-of-this-world-new-astronomy-symbols.html

What do you folks do for this kind of thing?

Set up my laptop and phone to today ignore notifications from email in the morning until an hour when I would be in the “office”. Aim is that I am only start dealing with email at 9am or later. I usually jump in once I am awake between 5-8am.

Partially trying to carve out some non-thinking about work time in the morning and also maybe build in some thinking time for research

Lecture 2 of the grad astro outreach and communication skills module is in the bag. Students gave mini-practice talks and got feedback. We talked about different types of professional talks and also about poster designs.

Next week is all about social media both for science communication and networking and outline outreach.

This came in the mail today. My group will be reading through this book over the summer starting in June.

Friday mood

"Women who reported that their classrooms communicated a fixed mindset and that negative stereotypes were widespread showed an eroding sense that they belonged in math during the semester, and they were less likely to express a desire to take math in the future. Women who said that their classrooms promoted
a growth mindset were less susceptible to the negative effects of stereotypes, and they were
more likely to intend to continue to take math in the future. " #womenInSTEM