Notices by Prof Heino Falcke (hfalcke@mastodon.social)

Help! My granddaughter asks why the spoon in a glass of water looks bigger than in air. How do I explain geometric optics and the reflective index of water to a 2 ½ year old … 😳🙈?
#physics #scicomm

Some of the young scientists in the team who led the new Event Horizon Telescope polarization results and their culinary inspiration …. That has become sort of a tradition since some people misinterpreted our ring of fire as an orange donut 🤷🏼♂️ Not sure what happened to the color though.

(From left Freek Roelofs, Sara Issaoun and Angelo Ricarte. The first two did their PhD with me. So nice to see how they continue to take leadership in such a big collaboration 😊).
#Astrodon #astronomy

Me: Searching for galaxy NGC 4038 on Hubblesite.org

Google: „You got to be a robot“!

#astrodon #astronomy

@petersuber what‘s the point of no embargo? Embargo is an effective measure to give equal access to journalists and give them time to properly research a topic without having to go into a rat race 🤔

@petersuber Fields a different. In our case an embargo is usually 2 days only. In most cases those two days won’t change the course of the world. However, it gives journalists the chance to check a story and collect independent- sometimes critical- voices. This gives better science reporting and increases trust rather than having to race after the next hype. Moreover, you are sneaking something into the open science discussion that doesn’t belong there.