 Good afternoon, you need to be clean. What was happening was I would have lots of people like hanging out on the couches talking and We'd be doing science and I only had like like like this much space to write and draw and doodle and it became a nightmare So it was time. It was time to clean house. I have designated a spot on the chalkboard that is only for doodles Today is a perfectly average day. I am working on a paper I went to a really awesome talk by a former undergrad here He gave a really awesome talk about our galaxy and how the chemical abundances of stars are different and how we might track the evolution of our galaxy and how it was formed By looking at the different chemical signatures in each and every single star really really cool We thought of some cool ideas. I think there might be a cool collaboration there tonight I've been invited to come speak at the astronomy on tap Event Brett Morris asked me to come talk about Gaia, which if you've watched this channel, you know I have no shortage of cool things to say about Gaia, so No problem. So right now I'm working on slides for my talk, which will be a highlight reel of how Gaia does its thing and the awesome stuff That it's found It should be about 20 minute talk should be kind of fun. Let's see another news The design of my office space is finally coming together I finally moved all my stuff out of my other office at Western and other than a hard drive and a couple odds and ends I am basically fully moved in here I find that my productivity is really tied to The environment that I'm in I need times when things are quiet so I have good headphones that can block out the noise And then I need times when I can talk to people and I can sketch ideas on the board and we can dream and think and And write and that's what this whole space behind me is all about so right now We have a couch we had like the love seat and the chair and the little coffee table but this whole space is meant to just be a place for me and other people to talk and Be productive and come up with ideas I'm really excited about this coffee table as well I get lots of stickers at conferences I mentioned this at double s that I love to collect stickers at conferences But I don't like putting them everywhere I like things sort of tidy and sleek and so I gave myself a restrained piece of real estate to just go nuts with stickers It's mostly astronomy, but there's also like a few coffee shops. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's kind of cool I'm excited about it it also actually is a stool and so you can sit on it and It means you have an extra chair Worrying about space worrying about areas to collaborate is all part of my mission here at UW I have funding to be here for about the next four or four and a half years right now Which is great Which is a level of stability and sort of a runway to get things going but at the same time It's only three or it's only four and a half not infinite amount of time to do things So I got to think a lot about what I want to actually be working on and what I want to be doing in five years So I'm at sort of an interesting transition moment in my career where As part of that I'm thinking a lot about What am I good at? What am I what do I enjoy doing? What are the things in my job that bring me meaning and that I actually want to be working on? And a big part of that for me a huge priority for me is mentorship. It's working with people. It's collaborating It's empowering people to do science and to do projects and to better themselves in their careers So I've been trying to like set myself up To be a mentor to be a collaborator So I've been having coffee with people as many like the graduate students and people around here as I can to get to know them To hear what's working. What's not working to see if there's things that we can work on together Or if there's ways that I can make their work better I'm also thinking about organizing meetings and maybe a recurring group meeting that I lead That talks about various astronomy topics that I'm interested in but also like puts an emphasis on productivity and collaboration and grant writing and writing papers Talking about sort of the discipline of doing astronomy the practice of astronomy as a discipline and not just the actual science itself But talking about the writing talking about the productivity talking about the career trajectories and decisions that we have to make I have a lot more to say about this, but it boils down to a human-centered project and Mentorship design. Hopefully I'll be able to explore this a little bit more in these videos All right, I gotta finish making this talk The addition of astronomy on tap. I am talking at about a Half hour. It's time to get a quick drink relax talk some people and then talk about science All right, it's filling up. Let's say it's gonna be a full event tonight exciting Number 39 We've had a lot of astronomy on tabs. Yeah, that's a lot of success. It's a full house I'm pretty pleased you can never quite tell based on Facebook RSVPs But it it looks good this week and it turned out Do you get nervous? I don't get nervous speaking. I do get nervous that people won't show up. Yeah, that hasn't happened yet So I think I should learn by now. It's been three years. We're doing okay Proud of you man. You ready for your talk? I'm ready. You're going on in 15 minutes. 15. I go on now Welcome everyone to astronomy on tap. Welcome back