Today I had the opportunity to visit the ESO 3.6m telescope at La Silla. A georgeus telescope that hosts both HARPS and NIRPS. Not my first time but I never grow tired of visiting it. #AstronomerLife #astronomy #exoplanets

I love the jaws saga, but it is really 1 excellent movie, 1 OK movie and after that a total shitshow. Watching 3D and revenge involve a whole lot of "what were they thinking?". It was probably not just Dennis Quaid who was high on coke. #astronomerlife #astronomy #jaws3d

Another fun fact. Years ago Denis Quaid admitted doing a "very aggressive" use of cocaine during the filming of the movie. He said he is high in all his scenes, and that really explain a few things. #AstronomerLife #astronomy #jaws3d

Some nice facts about Jaws 3D. Roy Scheider (lead actor on the previous two movies) agreed to do the movie Blue Thunder to make sure he wasn't available for this movie. He said "Mephistopheles couldn't talk me into doing [it]. They knew better than to even ask" #AstronomerLife #astronomy #jaws3d

The movie also decides to end with this glorious sequence, which is both absurd and so poorly done it's funny. What's with the jaws late sequels and crappy endings? #AstronomerLife #astronomy #jaws3d https://youtu.be/arsAllZIa1Y

For a cash grab 3rd installment based on the 3d gimmick there's a surprising lack of shark stuff. We barely see it, there are almost no attacks, and when it shows up it is SO SLOW it is painful to watch. #AstronomerLife #astronomy #jaws3d

I have to say I adored this as a kid, and it is still kind of a comfort movie for me, but it is so sloppy, absurd, technically incompetent, and tonally all over the place it really it's difficult to believe it was a big budget movie. #AstronomerLife #astronomy #jaws3d

I'm arrived today to the observatory of LA Silla to observe with NIRPS. As it is traditional, I watched a not-excellent movie during the transatlantic flight. This time it was non other than Jaws 3D! A doh boy it is non-excellent... #AstronomerLife #astronomy #jaws3d

So... my flight to Chile for the NIRPS observations in La Silla has been cancelled less than a week in advance. Let's see how that goes now... #astrophysics #Astronomerlife

This year I have redone my CV, publication list, research statement, etc. 3 times already for 3 different calls. I'm probably doing a fourth one in a couple weeks. Not my favorite activity #academicchatter #AstronomerLife

I keep reading about it and I just cannot believe how massive of a trainwreck that is. Including a serial sexual harasse as 3rd author, not telling the rest of coauthors until a few days before submission, excluding all the junior observers and not credit them. What the fuck? That's a big amount of malice and/or stupidity for a single paper. #exoplanets #AstronomerLife

Been following the latest case of poor ethics in the #Exoplanets community from the sidelines. It's quite sad that in 2023 a part of our community still protects George Marcy (known serial sexual harasser). It's also sad that they'd rather credit his old observations than the modern/current observations of young scientists. #Astronomerlife

Being at conferences and hanging out with renowned scientists is great, but what about hanging out with cat? #AstronomerLife #cat #EPRV5

I do not enjoy proposal season #astrophysics #AstronomerLife

A fantastic group of researchers together working on the design the future #ANDES spectrograph for the future #eso #ELT telescope (actually just a sub-section of the team). With this ambitious instrument we will be able to study the atmospheres of nearby Earth-like planets, such as Proxima b, and probe the fundamental constants of the universe. #AstronomerLife #exoplanets #Tenerife

#Astrophysics sometimes is an extremely collaborative science. Here are all the institutions behind the future #Andes spectrograph #AstronomerLife

Astrophysics is composed of too many meetings and then some science happening in between #AstronomerLife #academicchatter

Do not read that video until you are done with your #deadline stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WKhyRDWYzOU

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicLife #JWSTCycle2 #AstronomerLife #DeadlineMode

The night was uneventful and the weather was good, the best and most boring kind of night. We got to observe everything we wanted and the data seems good quality. The telescope crew did a fantastic job, as always. We couldn't have asked for much more. #astronomy #AstronomerLife

Remote observing has some disadvantages, but also means observing with them, which is a massive plus #AstronomerLife #astronomy #cats