Here in the United States, it is the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. While I’m script writing in southern Illinois, Ally, our producer is working on her other podcast, “Big Impact Astronomy.” While I’m sure both our families would rather we took the time to relax, neither of us is really wired that way… which is good, because we have a lot going on. The second week of December is the American Geophysical Meeting in DC. I’ll be there presenting with a few thousand other scientists, including fellow Twitch Streamer VolcanoDoc, Melissa Scruggs. In fact, Melissa and I, along with geology streamer RockitSage, are working on a study of how people use Twitch to learn. If you like to learn from streamers, please checkout our survey at tinyurl.com/TwitchSci.
And this is just the beginning of conference season. January brings the American Astronomical Society meeting, which I’m not attending this year, as well as PodFest in Orlando, which I am attending. I’m also hoping, launch windows willing, to catch the launch of the Firefly Aerospace’s “Blue Ghost” lander and if I’m really lucky, see Blue Origin. If you are in the Orlando area or on the Space Coast and you want to meet up, drop me a message on LinkedIn or BlueSky.
See you on BlueSky: @CosmoQuestX.bsky.social
Yes folks, I said BlueSky. CosmoQuest and all our team members are over on Blue Sky. While we maintain a presence on Twitter, because everyone deserves a chance to learn and no one else gets to claim our usernames, our random chatter has moved over to a brighter place. If you want to follow along with all our adventures in podcasting, conference travel, and consuming way too much sci fi, we’re logged in as starstryder, inaneenglish, and kerbal01. OH… pets… you’ll also get content about pets.
For now though, it’s time for science. This week we’re going to play wack-a-story with a whole bunch of random news before trying to understand how black holes just might be a source of dark energy.