[ About ]

Hi, my name is Jim!

I like to tell stories and ask questions.

I am a PhD candidate in Astronomy at the University of Washington. I also previously studied Astronomy at SDSU.

I am interested in open clusters, binary stars, stellar activity on low-mass stars, stellar populations, and next generation time-domain and wide-field surveys.

The open cluster M67 in the SDSS.

This blog is my outlet to explore fun new data (i.e. not necessarily astronomy related), data visualization, and to ask ridiculous questions. I welcome suggestions, feedback, or advice in the comments below each post. I also am interested in forming new and interesting collaborations with people!

I try to give citations/references where available. If you feel I have misrepresented your work/data, please drop me a line and I will rectify it immediately! I collect a small amount of user data in the form of Google Analytics on the site, but only for my own information.

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[ Blogs I admire ]

• The Astronomist
• Cosmic Variance
• Bad Astronomy
• tangled fields
• Limits to Infinity
• Hogg's Ideas
• A Sky Full of Rocks
• Visualizing Data
• Pythonic Perambulations
• WolframAlpha Blog
• visual.ly
• Dubly
• The Roda, The Stars, The Lessons, The Life
• Miner Music
• Rainy Cafe
• Cartographers without borders