Oliver Müller, Ph.D.
@VoltarCH
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Stargazing astrophysicist, data scientist, nerd, blogger, guitarist, Pen & Paper enthusiast. @EPFL_en, formerly @UniBasel, @ObsStrasbourg, @Google_CH. He/him.
Basel, Switzerland
Joined October 2014
Yesterday was my last day of working at Google. Perhaps this comes as surprise to you twitter folks, as I haven't widely announced that I left academia to try something new. Here's what I learned in 9 months as a Data Analyst who (temporarily) left Astronomy for Big Tech. 1/n
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RT @8minutesold: We (with @VoltarCH) have a new preprint out today: Long story short: if your only tool is "planar…
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@GoAstroMo Was at a coffee break and had a chat in a round. After we left somebody asked me if I'd recognized the person next to me... After realizing it was Bell Burnell I was star struck for the rest of the day. Good thing I didn't realize it during the chat, otherwise might have frozen.
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Or the disgust of French bakers when you order a Banette but accidentally call it Baguette.
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Any ERC Starting Grantees out there willing to have a chat with me for tips and tricks?
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For an ERC Starting Grant, I see that many recommend not to do a "continuation" of your current research project, but rather go for a "dream project" (e.g. . What if your current project *is* your dream project? Any thoughts on that?
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Kudos to Kravtsov (2024, . This is how you use a compilation and give credit to the hard work of the community!
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RT @sysadafterdark: If you needed proof you’re being manipulated on this platform, here it is.
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RT @8minutesold: New paper, lead by @Heesters_N, in which we find an increased incidence of significantly lopsided (asymmetric) satellite g…
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Check out @Heesters_N's second paper of his Ph.D. on anistropies in dwarf galaxy satellite distributions. It's a very cool work and showcases what you actually can do with the growing catalogs of nearby dwarf galaxy systems.
It's paper day! incl. Helmut Jerjen, @VoltarCh, @8minutesold and Jamie Kanehisa. We quantified the degree of lopsidedness in a large sample of isolated satellite systems in the Local Volume and beyond. 🧵
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@johngizis I had very good experiences with them. However, I have the feeling that my paper published there slipped under the radar of my peers (maybe due to it not being in one of the big Astro journals?). I would rather save on senior people's page charge money than grade students though.
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RT @MarkHamill: I WANT people to know it was me that liked their tweets. Now my only option is to reply & write the word "like". This will…
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RT @ReadDark: Paper day! @IzzyGrayAstro proposes a new model for NSC formation in tiny dwarfs. Prediction: NSCs should have CMDs with >2, d…
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