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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 11/03/2026

I'm sorry for all that has happened but there is so much light amid this darkness. And note that the US Senate has just declared the X-ray Workforce a "national strategic asset". Hang in there.

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 23/02/2026

Looking forward to hosting @ohdearz.bsky.social at the CfA for her colloquium tomorrow!

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 06/06/2025

Most of my emails in the last 6 months have been incredibly bleak but this one was just 👌 to write

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 06/06/2025

Not a lot of great news these days. But celebrating *Dr.* Osase Omoruyi yesterday was a bright light. Being lucky enough to advise her has been the highlight of my career. Congratulations, Dr. Omoruyi!

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 17/03/2025

@scibry.bsky.social found this at the CfA when I removed and old nameplate in front of it and felt like Indiana Jones

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 16/01/2025

Join us starting at 3:40 for the LAST TWO PLENARIES of what is officially the largest single gathering of the astronomical community in history. They’re going to be incredible. 👀👀 #AAS245

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 14/01/2025

The legendary - the *LEGENDARY* - Neta Bahcall is on the stage right now, delivering her lecture for the Society’s highest honor. She’s currently talking about how she was hired as a postdoc by Lyman Spitzer 🤯 #AAS245

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 13/01/2025

#AAS245 there is an official AAS Bird in the plenary hall. I hear its name is Birdy McBirdface. Birdy is friendly to astronomers and brings good luck if it lands on you. 😎🕊️

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 12/01/2025

We are SO excited and grateful to welcome Rep. Glenn Ivey to #AAS245. Please join the Congressman in the Exhibit Hall tomorrow (Monday) at 9:20 am for his remarks. Rep Ivey will also be meeting with students and many of our friends including @blackinastro.bsky.social Welcome, Rep. Ivey! 🔭

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 12/01/2025

It’s day one of #AAS245 and our Vice President @dawngelino.bsky.social is already wielding a 12 inch butcher knife. Doesn’t bode well for the week. 😬

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 29/12/2024

A low-stakes joy of the year has been discovering that the favorite-of-my-life book, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has been adapted into a 16 part Netflix adaption that is ... exquisite? Sublime? This was supposed to be an unfilmable book but it's just beautifully done.

Poster for the Netflix Adaption of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Image shows a man tied to a tree, a major event in the novel.

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 12/12/2024

This, from my dear friend (and recent @aasoffice.bsky.social President) @profkelsey.bsky.social is a beautiful, profound, moving read. An extraordinary meditation on our connection to the cosmos and the biggest questions that animate us. Highly recommend read (and gift!).

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 16/09/2024

The American Astronomical Society is delighted to announce that the Astropy Project, and all contributors to it, will receive the 2025 Berkeley Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. Astropy will deliver the honorary closing Plenary of #AAS245. PRESS RELEASE: aas.org/press/astrop...

$A mosaic of the GitHub Avatars for a large fraction of the Astropy collaboration$

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 03/05/2024

🤩🤩🤩 our dear friend @janerigby.bsky.social will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom!!! www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 22/01/2024

@profkelsey.bsky.social did you get my $3.5K venmo transfer? Haven't heard back so just checking

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 13/12/2023

Osase Omoruyi, a *brilliant* PhD student at Harvard, wrote this absolutely monumental and gorgeously multiwavelength magnum opus on one of the prettiest galaxies and clusters I've ever seen. What she found was even more awesome: arxiv.org/abs/2312.06762

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 30/10/2023

The American Astronomical Society is delighted to announce a phenomenal slate of Plenary & Prize Speakers for #AAS243. It's going to be awesome. Also: our friends at AAPT are holding their meeting adjacent to ours at the same time. Stay tuned for a coming announcement. 👀❤️

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 23/10/2023

The American Astronomical Society is delighted to announce that Prof. Wen-fai Fong will receive the 2024 Berkeley prize at #AAS243 Press release: aas.org/press/wen-fa...

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 18/09/2023

oh I see! ok, that makes sense. I didn't realize you could just fiddle with a default source straight from the calculation tab.

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 18/09/2023

JWST friends: is there any reason why these tabs in the ETC shouldn't be reversed? I can't think of any ETC use case in which one wouldn't first set up a Scene+Source, then run a calculation. Feels better for the mental flow to have the tabs in L->R order of operations?