The Astrophysical Journal is on the move!
Word.
The Astrophysical Journal, a primary reasearch publication outlet of the American Astronomical Society is moving. Publication will apparently be done by the Institute of Physics, UK!
And the Editor's office is moving to Canada, we hear (anyone care to confirm that...?)
Third hand reports suggest the University of Chicago Press is doing things differently, and not in an entirely good way, at least from the academic publishing perspective.
One too many MBAs methinks.
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NASA has some official word on what is going on in astrophysics in general and with LISA in particular.
LISA and IXO ended.
Teams supported through Oct '11, if budget is not cut more.
New concept studies.
Sometimes correlation is causation:
“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).” -Bill Bryson
The Kavli Prize in astrophysics, for 2008, has been won by Maarten Schmidt of Caltech and Donald Lynden-Bell of Cambridge.
This may be correct.
No one (except bean counters?) is happy about this. Astrophysics itself was created here at Yerkes/UChicago, after all.