 Hey, what's new? Anything? Nothing? Yeah, me neither. Welcome back Astro Vlog fans. It is apparently May, late May even. Well, it's been it's been it's been like that long since I talked to you last really. We find ourselves in this strange strange time And I hope you're doing okay. I'm doing good. Thank you for asking. My kids have a little bit of cabin fever So do I. Today I think is 75 days since I brought my kids home from daycare and we've officially been in family isolation mode and Well, it's a lot now in the last few months. I've made some videos I've made a few videos some fun if you haven't checked out the musical number that I did with Jess work Please please go check that video out. I've done a couple of coffee time interviews with people over zoom or whatever Those have been really fun. I have another one already shot I'm still working on editing it and and I have three pieces of good news the first. Hopefully you can hear I got a new microphone the venerable vlogging mic that I've been carrying around for two and a half years finally stopped working and We got our money. We got our $25 worth out of it. Okay, two I got a new job It's much like my old job I'm still working at the University of Washington But instead of being a research scientist, I will now be a research professor and as part of that promotion I'll be transitioning into the role of the associate director of the Dirac Institute This is a position held by my friend and colleague Daniela. Hope and Cotun She's been an amazing leader the last three years and I have really really big shoes to fill More about that hopefully soon and third in the good news department in two days on Thursday, May 28th 2020 8 p.m. Seattle time We will have the first in a series of public talks Dirac my Institute that I work with in the UW is Partnering with the astronomy on tap Seattle crew Dirac an astronomy on tap presents Astronomy at home a series of public talks like everybody else live via the internet and I am the inaugural speaker I'll be talking about Boyajin star about the search for the most mysterious stars in our galaxy that we're conducting At Dirac with the ZTF survey And then in other news, I really need a haircut. Just I really just really Just really need a haircut. Okay, that's it The life of an astronomer goes on Hultingly and I'll see you on the internet