tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post6041377865384178542..comments2024-02-09T02:43:18.031-05:00Comments on Mahalo.ne.Trash: A Young Black Scientist Making History!erinjohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12836341362965670520noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-31419881923688181432013-09-04T04:14:56.480-04:002013-09-04T04:14:56.480-04:00John,
You might be interested to know about the B...John,<br /><br />You might be interested to know about the Bridge to Ph.D. program at Columbia:<br /><br />http://academicplanning.columbia.edu/bridge-phd-program-natural-sciences<br /><br />There have been a number of bridge students in astronomy, and several have gone onto to Ph.D. programs. It will be a few more years before we see how many of these students stay in the field.malfaldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07357869510758658640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-3135669930968822882013-09-03T16:02:45.244-04:002013-09-03T16:02:45.244-04:00It is incorrect that Harvard has not admitted a bl...It is incorrect that Harvard has not admitted a black student to its astronomy PhD program for 30 years. Offers have been made to black students, but have not been taken up. I know this for a fact, having tried to convince at least one black student to accept their offer from Harvard and to work on my projects!<br /><br />I would expect that students from a minority background who are good enough to get into Harvard also have a huge number of other offers, with some places providing extra incentives to accept.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18328051023044722230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-62140384516849144942013-09-03T11:55:37.950-04:002013-09-03T11:55:37.950-04:00Folks, we've been asked by reporters to differ...Folks, we've been asked by reporters to differentiate flicker from asteroseismology, so I'll share an analogy that we've been using. Flicker is seeing directly the granulation on the surfaces of the stars, whereas seismology sees the global "ringing" of the stars resulting from granulation and other convective motions. The analogy is a pot of boiling water. Flicker is seeing the roiling of the water, seismology is seeing the vibrations of the pot caused by those roiling motions. The vibrations are a much more accurate way to determine the size and density of the pot, but the roiling motions are much easier to see, and the accuracy is not so bad! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08435921938088425984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-86823796306408157232013-09-03T11:53:31.293-04:002013-09-03T11:53:31.293-04:00No problem - very happy that it's not quite as...No problem - very happy that it's not quite as bleak as it seems! Thanks again for posting about this, John.Kyle Willetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608184720046638385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-4496518658682940622013-09-03T10:49:27.959-04:002013-09-03T10:49:27.959-04:00Kyle: Thank you SO much for alerting me to my terr...Kyle: Thank you SO much for alerting me to my terrible oversight. I have corrected it here:<br /><br /><a href="http://mahalonottrash.blogspot.com/2013/09/hold-on-correction-on-young-black-makes.html" rel="nofollow">Correction</a><br /><br />John Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639090412826787107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-24363411376376449812013-09-03T10:44:01.643-04:002013-09-03T10:44:01.643-04:00Hello John.
Don't forget about Franck Marchis!...Hello John.<br />Don't forget about Franck Marchis! He was a postdoc at Berkeley while we were graduate students.<br /><br />Discovery of the triple asteroidal system 87 Sylvia, Franck Marchis, et. al. Nature, 436, 822-824, August 2005.<br /><br />A low density of 0.8 g cm-3 for the Trojan binary asteroid 617 Patroclus, Franck Marchis et. al. Nature, 439, 565-567, february 2006.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997059538600510776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-4677486986578097982013-09-03T10:07:17.263-04:002013-09-03T10:07:17.263-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Kyle Willetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608184720046638385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-65991768501752340572013-09-03T10:06:33.457-04:002013-09-03T10:06:33.457-04:00Hi John,
I'm curious to know - how did you de...Hi John,<br /><br />I'm curious to know - how did you determine that this was the first-ever Nature article by a black astronomer? Franck Marchis, for example, mentions that he identifies as black and has published multiple Nature articles already. Just wondering about your methodology (and congratulations to Fabienne).Kyle Willetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608184720046638385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-74710727759956386362013-09-03T07:19:27.344-04:002013-09-03T07:19:27.344-04:00Yup, sadly, that is correct. Harvard astro has not...Yup, sadly, that is correct. Harvard astro has not admitted a black student in 30 years. The last was Leonard Strachan, who is a solar physicist working in the SAO. I checked with him.<br /><br />We'll be improving on that number right away...John Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639090412826787107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856406874129245290.post-64897800544018875092013-09-03T06:35:58.418-04:002013-09-03T06:35:58.418-04:00Hey John,
I was surprised about the first senten...Hey John, <br /><br />I was surprised about the first sentence of your last paragraph: "Also encouraging is that Harvard astronomy admitted a black student into their graduate program this year---the first in ~30 years---" ... do I have to understand that Astro Harvard didn't admit any african american student for 30 years? or that they have been invited to the program and rejected it? or that no black student applied to the program during those years? <br /><br />Kudos to everyone involved in the Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program, and specially to Fabienne! <br /><br />BabsCosmicBabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653560311174019335noreply@blogger.com