 Good morning. It's about nine o'clock. I caught a piece of the plenary session this morning But I didn't record anything because I was also making scrambled eggs for my kids. I'm really excited in a couple hours We're gonna try to host a virtual coffee break We're gonna try to get people to come to the gather town and just visit and maybe talk to some people So I'm really excited about that. I stayed up pretty late the last couple of nights editing these videos So I'm a little tired So I think today's gonna be kind of my rest day because tomorrow is my press conference day And I'm really excited about so Man my audio capture didn't work I got my screen recorder working, but it didn't get the audio capture working So Joanna boss was giving a really wonderful talk about the rotation in brown dwarfs I just absolutely loved this animation of this brown dwarf showing this really dramatic variability from hot spots in bands On the question that we asked about these objects is, you know, how do they form? So for giant planets, right? We generally believe that they form via some Version of the core creation pathway for stars They form, you know, broadly speaking by the collapse of a cold and molecular cloud of gas And then you have different flavors of that like in disc fragmentation, etc, etc But the question of you know, how does this object form is not very clear for brown dwarfs Citizen scientists from over 167 countries in all 50 states participate It's hard even to figure out how many there are in total because the barrier for participation is so low People aren't even required to sign in but something like a hundred and fifty thousand folks have Participated at some level for many years now I've been working on kind of a computational project to download every single wise exposure ever taken which is about 35 million making up Something like a quarter pentabyte of raw data and then make co-added maps spanning this full-time baseline here Which is now almost 10 years of public data Okay, good morning. It's about 1015 here. There's been some really great sessions this morning I really enjoyed the first brown dwarf session. So as I've had a little bit of a break today I've been thinking about some of the stuff that I've been missing Yeah, I we all as we all do I miss a lot of things But one thing that I miss Exhibitor hall the poster hall. I miss all the booths so critical to my double-ass experience is the wander around the Exhibitor booth. It's the letting the ideas come to me and finding people that I would never meet otherwise To a small degree one of the things that I'm missing is swag I thought it could be just a little bit interesting to try a new segment that we'll call swag review This is not a terribly well thought out segment So any swag that I can find in my house today That is swag that went that wins the swag review and right off the bat my NASA mousepad This is a really decent mouse pad Jim. You have a you have an optical mouse. You don't need a mouse pad. Yes That's true. You don't need a mouse pad. It's not the 1990s with rollerball mice But I did have a wrist injury in high school and the mouse pad is just a little bit of ergonomic support And it just looks cool. It looks nice. Let's see what else I can find Okay, now there's been tons of stickers I have used every sticker that I collected at the last like several meetings my whole like sticker cash that I had With two little kids stuck in this house. We have used every sticker All right a couple years ago aura started having these little neoprene cases and I have probably taken four of these over the last couple years because they are Great, I keep one in my box of camera gear that sits below my desk aura Please when I see you in a year have some more of these and I think last year you had some red ones Those were really pretty okay in terms of consumables along with stickers. I got it. I always grab Sticky notepads definitely be stocking up on sticky notes and notepads because those are like They're super useful for me and they're great art supplies for my kids Okay, what else last year Apache Point Observatory had some chapstick still smells good. It's probably fine Does it have an expiration date? It's probably fine. Oh, this is a great one shout out to Princeton University Press for having coasters I don't remember if this was at double AS or a triple AS but I grabbed a couple of these little cork coasters I think these are great. They're really simple. They're like nice small cork coasters, which is good. Use a coaster Don't be a monster use a coaster. I had not even remembered these were swag That's that is how you know that's good swag a plus for the coasters. Yes, I keep my pens in a Campbell soup can What do you keep yours in I used to collect every single pen at double AS because I thought it was like a really useful thing to have and then during grad school I did a lot of writing and I got really picky about pens the zoom zebra F 301 Almost without fail It is the only pen I use all those pens that I gathered at double AS all those mission pens There's none here. There's not a single pen here from a mission or a vendor You might love the conference pens my thesis advisor used to say she never bought pens. She just stocked up during double AS not me I Give pens pens get zero. I guess that's the brutal truth of swag review. Okay a couple more things for the swag review little tote bags My kids play with them. They live in my car. We've got them floating around the house I probably got three or four. These are good. I got a few of these a plus on the tote bags They've held up. So this is from a couple years ago not from double AS, but it's an exoplanet coloring book It's hardly drawn in at all actually I think because it actually got shoved to the bottom of the drawer and the last item that I was able to find They get a total recommendation from me for swag these cheap sunglasses Astrobytes Amazing bright orange sunglasses. They're like really basic sunglasses that live in my car This pair has held up like shockingly well a plus plus plus for the conference sunglasses for that's everything I could find like it's surprisingly little considering how much I bring back every year some of it's like candy And it actually gets consumed but the stickers get stuck on things the notebooks get written in The pens get used or in my case thrown away What's interesting to think about is the legacy of all this stuff the material stuff that kind of makes up that conference experience It becomes the texture and the decoration of your life as Emily Rice had about Star toilist even if you don't think a lot about what you wear your stuff tells a story about who you are You probably go through my car and maybe my house and my junk drawer and figure out that I'm an astronomer Just based on the random stuff that I have laying around So I miss you swag I love you swag and my plea to you exhibitors and vendors and companies and organizations who come and support the WS the swag appetite will be strong. So next year bring the good stuff Do you have a swag item that you can't live without tell me below in the comments? 15 minutes, so I got to go make another cup of coffee for the coffee break Hey I saw Lauren briefly. Hey Lauren. All right, some people are showing up. Ooh Do you dance? Yeah, oh, oh Zeta dance Zeta dance. Oh, look at everybody dancing. This is great Line on the South Beach. I gotta go. Oh my god. There's people. This is absurd you people. I love this That gather town coffee time was super fun and ridiculous and there was a conga line And it was just kind of random fun for a half hour Somebody said on Twitter that it was the first time they had run into somebody they knew in like a year I think we did good there Public policy session after that. There's at least three different sessions that I think have talks going on right now That I want to go see that's just like a normal double a s Unlike the real meetings. I am now in two sessions at once. This is a terrible idea Don't do this don't do two sessions at once. This is awful One of the themes that I'm hearing over and over as I visit the booths yesterday and today is that they're lonely There's three thousand people registered for this meeting and the exhibitors are just kind of sitting in the zoom rooms Waiting to talk makes me really glad that we did the impromptu coffee break And maybe we can find a few more opportunities like that to be social One of the other things that I'm seeing at the exhibitor booths is they have they have quizzes that you can fill out And if you're chosen from the quiz then they a bunch of the booths are gonna send real swag So I don't know if they're gonna be sunglasses But I've been trying to tell them that the sunglasses are a good item that I like that's kind of fun Have some swag sent. Maybe I'll win. Thanks for tuning in. Thank you to everybody who came to the coffee time Thank you to all the vendors and the booths that I visited for being fun and funny and pleasant to talk to have fun Talk to each other. I'll be on gather all week if you want to talk to me there See you tomorrow