Tag: Science

• Thesis off-cuts: the reproducibility crisis in cosmology

  

  As we frequently hear1, we’re now in the precision era of cosmology. What this really means is that we’re in the era of measuring things really well, and we’re getting really good at measuring things because we keep building ever more enormous and powerful telescopes. I remember attending the STFC Introductory Summer School on Astronomy…

  Natalie Hogg

  December 17, 2020

  Academia, PhD, Science

  astronomy, astrophysics, big data, cosmology, data science, mcmc, methodology, PhD, phd thesis, physics, reproducibility, Science, scientific method, thesis

• Superior by Angela Saini: essential reading for every scientist

  

  The death of George Floyd in the United States earlier this year sparked a flurry of long-overdue activity in my corner of academia. For a few weeks in June, everyone was interested in the subject of racism, and for us, racism in academia in particular. An informal strike was held on the 10th of June,…

  Natalie Hogg

  December 4, 2020

  Academia, PhD, Reviews

  Academia, anti-racism, PhD, racism, Science, superior

• Tribalism in science

  

  Last week, a tweet by Roberto Trotta drew my attention to a recent paper by Simon Portegies Zwart that studied the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by running N-body simulations in different programming languages. The figure that caught my attention was Figure 3, copied below from the version of the paper published in Nature Astronomy.…

  Natalie Hogg

  September 29, 2020

  Academia, PhD

  astronomy, astrophysics, carbon emissions, climate change, coding, computing, cosmology, hpc, PhD, physics, polarisation, programming, python, Science, social media, supercomputing, tribalism, twitter