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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 16h

For one reason or another, I stumbled upon this book and I'm happy that it exists. They really make a CRC Handbook for everything. doi.org/10.1201/9781... #Birds #Science

CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses screenshot.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 26/09/2026

My thanks to the #GeorgiaTech Montgomery Machine Mall (www.me.gatech.edu/montgomery-m...) for giving a tour to new #GT1000 #Physics students and showing them all the equipment (mills, lathes, CNC machines, etc) that they could be trained on to build and design for projects and experiments. #EduSky

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 21/09/2026

I know it's a marketing stunt, but golly, it's too darn cute. #Space

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 13/09/2026

I had fun at the Provost's Welcome Dinner for New Faculty with my wife Sandy at #GeorgiaTech last Wednesday. Met a lot of new faculty and acquaintances. #Atlanta

Portrait of two people in front of Georgia Tech wallpaper.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 08/09/2026

It's in the news that #OpenAI solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem, but everyone should read cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... by another team who were working alongside a similar solution strategy. Terrible situation which sours what should be an exciting moment. #Math #Science #AcademicSky #AI

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 03/09/2026

Thanks lol. There's a very similar figure in link.springer.com/article/10.1... (and in fact, we pulled much of the data from their compilation) but wanted to demonstrate the illusive nature of fusion predictions a little differently.

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How Many Years Away is Fusion Energy? A Review - Journal of Fusion Energy

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 03/09/2026

New #arXiv preprint! I very much enjoyed making some of the figures for this paper about different #nuclear #fusion processes. Here's the CNO "bicycle", responsible for ~2% of solar energy, with branching at solar core temperatures. #Science #AcademicSky #Physics #Astronomy arxiv.org/abs/2609.01366

The carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) “bicycle,” showing the catalytic hydrogen-burning cycles CNO-I (yellow) and CNO-II (green).

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 01/09/2026

Honestly it was the universe's one magnetic monopole coming back to have a go at us and mess with our minds.

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 30/08/2026

Baby photo of our now grown up spacecraft:

Smiling nerd in front of the incomplete Roman Space Telescope at NASA Goddard.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Science communication pro-tip I learned from setting up my telescope+solar filter on the sidewalk outside the library in a nearby small town this afternoon: you get much more positive reaction from asking "Do you want to look at sunspots?" than "Do you want to look at the Sun?" Also, everybody […]

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 06/07/2026

Look, I think the Balogun red card was dumb, but the overturn smells so dirty. #Belgium has every right to be furious. Maybe #UEFA should consider leaving #FIFA. I'd rather #USMNT wins cleanly without Trump's thumb on the scale. Ridiculous. #WorldCup #Soccer www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

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UEFA statement on the Balogun case

Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 04/07/2026

I was struggling to find a good post for #July4th, but then stumbled on DSCOVR and thought it was perfect. Happy #America250 #Science #Space

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 02/07/2026

I love Pochettino and #USMNT #USA That was a tough game and they did it. Congratulations! #WorldCup (VAR can suck it)

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 30/06/2026

Should have been 9-0. "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Live Updates: Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that blew through our solar system, might have been a truly ancient relic. A new analysis of its unusual composition suggests the comet could be up to 12 billion years old, dating from the earliest era of our galaxy. 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/news/weic2613/

Measurements of specific element varieties by Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument show how different the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is from comets originating in our own Solar System. Researchers used NIRSpec to measure carbon-13, which contains an extra neutron, relative to the more common carbon-12. They also measured the abundance of heavy hydrogen, which is a hydrogen atom with an added neutron.

Webb’s NIRSpec found a surprisingly large amount of heavy hydrogen, with a low abundance of carbon-13, indicating that 3I/ATLAS came from a place very different from our own Solar System. Researchers say early analysis of these results indicates that 3I/ATLAS was ejected from its origin system billions of years ago.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 20/06/2026

Give me a DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde round of 16 for the sheer entertainment value. #WorldCup #Soccer

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 20/06/2026

Also eliminated was Haiti by Brazil, but at least they took it like champs. Made solid plays and attempts the entire way through. This game was... not that. Ouch.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 19/06/2026

Good job #USMNT especially Freeman for 3 WC goals so far! Didn't know y'all switched to playing rugby in the second half lol. Still less chaotic than that 6-0 Canada/Qatar game. #WorldCup #Soccer

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 17/06/2026

The Croatian goalkeeper Livakovic' deserves props for that onslaught of saves he did in like 2 minutes. Great game. #WorldCup #England #Croatia #Soccer

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 14/06/2026

I have a confession: I've kinda become obsessed with making figures in TikZ because I can just straight up code within my LaTeX editor.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 14/06/2026

I haven't touched Mathematica in a little while preferring matplotlib, but I have a feeling I'll be calling back once my work gets a bit more theoretical rather than numerical.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 11/06/2026

I had a wonderful time today at the GT 1000 & GT 2000 Instructor Development Conference. Thank you #GeorgiaTech OUESS. I'm looking forward to teaching #GT1000 this upcoming Fall.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 18/05/2026

Btw, he wrote that in 1995. Pretty prescient to me.

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 18/05/2026

... in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." (4/4)

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 18/05/2026

when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of American is most evident ..." (3/4)

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 18/05/2026

... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; ... (2/4)

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 18/05/2026

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World remains eternally relevant: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; ... (1/4)

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