 That's pretty fun There we go, okay cool your story for the last year and a half has been clearly Extremely interesting and unique and has like resonated with a lot of people But like one one particular angle that I think like other astronomers Especially other grad students might find really interesting is like you've had this huge explosion in your social media presence So something I'm very curious about is if you have put thought to how this impacts what you think your career journey is I for the longest time have loved astronomy and always wanted to do something in astronomy that the logical next step would be To say in academia and do the postdoc to professor out, but the more that I spend time in academia And the more I think I learn about myself While that is still something I'm thinking about that's not necessarily my number one goal I don't think I am a great planner when it comes to things so like I I I definitely think about the future and I think about Possibilities, but I don't necessarily put all my eggs in one basket and say like I have to do this Or I'm gonna be unfulfilled for the rest of my life The nitty-gritty stuff is super cool on some days and then other days I'm like, I don't care about debugging my code. You're working on a book right now, right? Yeah. Yeah I mean that that's gonna be a major exercise and like learning to be a writer and to like be a communicator again It's sort of weird about me personally I love having different projects that overlap but also are separate and so this book thing is actually great because I Mean the chapter that I'm working on right now is titled like stellar pulsations that name could definitely change But it's basically like I get to talk about massive star pulsations before they explode in a really technical way And then also in a way that I'm trying to explain it to people and so having that overlap Maybe will help me with my thesis. I hope can ask you a Beetlejuice question So so I know that that's sort of like your your history right like you when you were you were in Texas, right? And so you were working on Beetlejuice then. Yes, I was so obviously we've gone through a big Beetlejuice episode where unfortunately, it did not explode but But it was like it was fairly dramatic, you know from like It was I mean you could see it with your naked eye. It was crazy There was something for us like are we sure that's Beetlejuice because it's dimmed, you know So talking about like your social media and your public Communication of science like is that an area where you see like the hype around Beetlejuice? Do you think that's gonna are you gonna work on Beetlejuice again? Do you think that's gonna help drive some of your research in your thesis? Yes, literally. Yes I was working on a separate project right before the dimming started happening and I emailed my undergrad advisor Craig Wheeler and my grad advisor Peter Nugent and I was like I want to do something with this So now we are looking for Beetlejuice like stars in M33 I mean part of this is I've been doing Beetlejuice for so long that I have an affinity towards it But it's really incredible to be able to do something astronomy that you can see and see change and See it with your naked eye change like that is Wild in the field and so that is really exciting for me the fact that people all around the world were looking up I think is really magical. This was so dramatic I tweeted that I found a supernova in January and Personally, I was super excited because it was something cool that I did that said it's not that cool All the time and nobody cares like not that big of a deal, but for some reason The internet picked it up BBC picked it up. It just like got way out of control And I like kind of freaked out I don't know what to do about this. Um like really this is not that cool so when BBC contacted me, I Literally emailed them back and I was like you guys like have to realize that this is not a big deal and then like I'm happy to talk to you. But like I mean, I'm just a grad student Ransom code and it works like that's really all that happened. They were like sure whatever. It's fine so anyway, I went into Peter's office and I was like I Did a thing and I think I I don't know it got out of control And Peter was super supportive and he was like, oh, don't worry about it You can talk about like how you found it and just like the cool thing that happened and it's fine Don't worry about it. There definitely hasn't been anything negative It's more just kind of been a silence that I'm pretty okay with I think I mean silence is acquiescence, right? Like if they exactly yeah exactly no one's telling me I can't do it So keep going. That's how your academia works like yeah, what's your YouTube plans? You said you just so I saw you had the drunk you had the the drunk science Which I think is always a great format and then you had just an excuse for me to talk to people during this lockdown and like Interact with other people and drink so I like your your first official video. It looks really good. You shot it very well It looks nice. Thanks. Thank you. Is this gonna be part of the seraphine and nance empire of media? My empire I probably will have a slightly different reach than I do on twitter Which is compelling to me as well. Um, but that said I think I'm still just exploring like I Literally sat down to write a script for my first video and ended up writing a script for something completely different I like the shorter videos mainly because I can only memorize a long enough script that I can't go any longer I like being able to speak to young people and young women Um, I think imaging on my drunk science podcast or whatever channel this last weekend Said something really awesome. She was she said something like I want to be the woman that young imaging would have wanted to see And that was that really struck me and um spoke to me. So I I think I have a very similar goal Um where I didn't I didn't have women that I looked up to in science when I was a little kid And so having that be accessible fun um But also talking about you know things that I love would be really really cool So that's kind of the the general goal. I think well, I for one I'm very excited that another professional astronomer is on youtube talking about the life of being an astronomer And thank you very much for taking the time and hanging out and uh and sharing coffee