Fund Me, Maybe?

[@joetheastronomer]

Wonderfully lighthearted entree to the high-pressure world on science funding. Thanks for making this!

[@ScottLewis]

Oh Emily... thank you for making us look so professional :D Astronomy is serious business! Luckily we also know how to have fun when we're not working our hind-quarters off. Thanks for all your work with editing!

[@rayoflight6673]

Oh NOOOOO! I hope we, the scients, do not look as boring as presented in here :D :D :D never the less, the text is spot on:)

[@astronomerssay]

Good point. I added it to the video description, and I'm happy to share my results with Carly Rae Jepsen once the research is funded.

[@thornews]

I typed in 'JWST Trouble' & it led me here. Oh the irony.

[@radiogg]

This video remembered me that I have some deadlines. D'oh!!!

[@planet4589]

the last guy is Geoff Marcy, famous exoplanet discoverer and all-around ham

[@GerardvanBelle]

So I appreciate - and even applaud - the attempt in the caption here to make the unfortunate cameos into a teachable moment. Unfortunately, its sufficiently ambiguous that it could cast a cloud of suspicion onto anyone present in the video. Unless one happens to be privy to the 'astronomy whisper network', that ambiguity remains unresolved. A similar problem was faced with the recent scandal at Leiden surrounding Tim de Zeeuw; with the university unwilling to name the accused, a number of other individuals in that community had to step forward and say, "It is not me." I don't know what the right answer is here, and I don't want this otherwise charming video snapshot of astronomy life to be taken down, so I guess all I can say is, "It is not me."

[@leonardodavinci303]

So glad I went to med school..... but I love astrophysics!!

[@animegirl1986]

Pretty cool I love it :) I am a grad student and I feel the PIs pain as they try to get funding :) GOOD LUCK FOR YOU GUYS on the next gran application continue making SCIENCE AWESOME. I love the end with Carl Sagan :)

[@FrancescoFortiPhysics]

Genial ! I hope the authors of the video can insert it as scientific credit in their next round of funding applications.

[@leM0NSTER]

I love how the last guy gives Carl Sagan a kiss on the cheek!

[@RashedTuhin]

Could have given it a 10 on 10 if the line , #so here is my science# was something else with at least rhymes with #Maybe#.

[@misslaurenbiddle]

The actual song doesn't even have something that rhymes with maybe. "so here's my number, call me maybe"

[@wahurakanyoro]

This is so funny and so sweet. :-D *thumbs up*

[@JMUplanetarium]

Fantastic! Good job! Posted this on our facebook page! :)

[@NoisyAstronomer]

I frakking love you, Emily

[@lolye7265]

I love it! It is a fun video to watch...good luck in your search for FUNding..:-)

[@sailancer]

lol was somewhere behind the camera in the background ...

[@knightcam85]

Brilliant, well done. Good luck with your Grant.

[@HeyRuth]

LOVE this!!! So awesome!

[@NielsC68]

Hmmm, I would've loved to see Tony Darnell in this video. :)

[@enorling]

love it! stirring the pot now to see if my research community can match you ;)

[@DrDeeDot]

That's Geoff Marcy, one the leading exoplanet astronomers in the world.

[@magdalini84]

This comment didn't age well

[@Ekergaard]

Of course, if we remember the“twist” in the original video, this video should end with the scientists discover that no one has any money to donate anymore.

[@Piorze]

Well done guys!

[@helenagunther]

I hope you got the funding after this. =)

[@PerWillner]

:-) Don''t quit your day job! Keep up the good work!

[@ahlemabbaci666]

C'est tellement vrai !!!!! So TRUE!!! :) J'adore

[@lilianoization]

nerdiest song ever!

[@hlookie]

Who doesn't know that this song is by Carly Rae Jepsen?

[@iwicaks]

very well done. where's the can for donations?

[@NoisyAstronomer]

Sadly, he had left for home before the day of filming.

[@miltonreina7057]

Buena manera de patrocinar la empresa jajajajajajaja good luck.

[@spbamford]

Love it!

[@MarcJX8P]

Awesome! :-)

[@HAL0kittyable]

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[@NetMassimo]

LOL good luck with your search for funding!

[@pennyhedron]

... I find it somewhat disturbing that the acklowledgement section names anyone BUT the artist who's song you're actually covering.... wtf!?

[@yiminghu2491]

天文学家伤不起

[@pennyhedron]

thanks. Plagiarism can have very nasty long-term-effects on your career. See Germany's current governement :)