 It is a beautiful Wednesday. Well, it's kind of cloudy out here. It's typical Seattle spring weather, so it looks kind of like summer and winter at the same time. Today is going to be a really fun day. I'm planning to go up to look at cherry blossoms. The cherry blossoms at UW in Seattle are like world-class, beautiful, totally amazing. So I finally have an hour today to go up there and just kind of walk around. I'm going to go watch a really cool talk about data science from a researcher at Microsoft. And then tonight I'm giving a talk about the Wave at Kepler campaign. Let's get it. Wait, I'm not going anywhere because I have to work. Some things out there in space the regulations don't cover. The cherry blossoms are one of my favorite things about this campus. I like them out for a few weeks, but it's pretty magical. One of the things that makes it so cool is you see so many kids and families taking pictures. We brought our kid here to take pictures. It's the perfect moment in time each year to just stop and think about the beauty of nature and spring and all those cool things. They're just really pretty. Okay, midday check-in. So the cherry blossoms were totally awesome. Hopefully some of those shots turned out. It really was stunning and the place was packed even on a Wednesday around lunchtime. It was totally awesome. The rest of today I have to write this talk that I'm giving tonight and in like a half hour I'm going to this seminar. So we'll see how that goes. All right, I just went to a really interesting talk by Dana Boyd who's a researcher at Microsoft. She's a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, which side note, I did an internship at Microsoft Research four five years ago and it was an awesome experience and I would totally recommend places like Microsoft Research or other sort of industry focused academic kinds of places as a great experience for scientists, even people like me who are not computer scientists. But that's an aside. She gave a really fascinating seminar talk on data and society and ethics and it's super timely right now when we're considering what's happening with our private data and our personal data and the impacts it's having on the structure of our society and democracy. But she also gave a lot of really concrete and interesting examples of ethics should be baked into your practice, baked into the code writing and the culture of your company. One area that got me thinking about is in astronomy. It's easy for us to think we study the stars. We don't study people. We don't study society. We're studying these things. That doesn't mean we're removed from the ethics of how we study them, what we choose to study as opposed to what we choose not to study, how we publish them, how we gather our data, how we fund this data, how we deal with the people that are actually doing the development and the engineering and the sites. One concrete example to talk about, just because it's been in the news a lot lately, has been the TMT or the 30 meter telescope and its location in Hawaii on top of Mauna Kea, which is a sacred place for the native peoples of Hawaii. So even in astronomy, we have to consider the impact of technology and our study and our practice of science. The impact it has ethically on the world around us. It was interesting. It was very thought provoking and a great way to start this seminar series for the quarter. Okay, so now I have to finish the talk that I'm giving later, which is about something much more sort of light, which I'm giving at a bar. So tonight I'll be drinking beers and talking about science. So that's a good evening. All right, I'm almost late. I've got like five minutes to get down to this brewery where I'm giving a talk. Thankfully, I'm giving the second talk, so if I'm two minutes late, it should be okay. Okay, I think I made it. Yes, this is it. That's us. Dude, you're up. Am I up? All right, astronomy on tap. Look at this giant crowd right here. This is gonna be fun. Also, shout out to Peddler Brewing. Really good pale ale. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Jim Davenport. Okay, I'm shamelessly making a vlog today, so you are all now part of it. Say hi to YouTube. That was shameless enough. I'm talking about a very serious subject today of a selfie that was taken from outer space. And just to prove it as serious, I put sunglasses on the earth. Why? Other than to give this awesome five minute spiel at Peddler Brewing. Okay, on the philosophical note, Kepler is a space telescope. It's flying in the magic of outer space. That's you and everyone you've ever known and everything that was and is and ever shall be, except for the one spacecraft is in this dot. It's poignant, right? We're traveling to outer space. Kepler is 94 million miles away and we took a picture of ourselves. It's a poignant thing. It has less fuel in it than I have beer in this glass at this point. It's literally running out of fuel and it will probably be dead in the next, I don't know, six, eight months. Nobody's exactly sure. The data started to come down and it was so amazing that halfway through my PhD, I abandoned my thesis project and told my advisor, I'm either going to jump in this Kepler game or I'm quitting. It's better to be the second person to do something really awesome than the first person to do something that nobody cares about. So we expected it to look like a brightness and we were not disappointed. So this is it. This is you on December 10th. You were here. I hope you were smiling and brushed your teeth because this is you. And here's me, hashtag waving at Kepler in true Seattle style with my flannel and my Seahawks hat. That's my story. That's my personal story today at Peddler Brewing. I want to say thank you to this little telescope that could and that convinced me to drop what I was doing and change everything. And thank you, Kepler. I think that there's this very distinct pattern. The last time that I was here, I looked like this. I'm in the vlog. Hello, YouTube. Thank you. I had not seen your previous stock, so. It was all about beer and how beer is really cool and fun to drink. And it's made all by the big bang and stars. That's about it. Okay, so let's start. We need to start building a star. Hello everybody. As Brett mentioned, my name is Guadalupe Doral. I'm going to talk to you about a telescope that's going to be launching fairly soon. We work on a project called SPAMS, which stands for the search for planets around post-main sequence stars.