Shawn Ryan

Yeah, so I do my research there.

So I do my celestialography research and it's basically like your faculty.

You don't have to teach.

You mentor mostly like master students up.

And then you're, but they're more forgiving or like the kind of institutional things that you're helping with.

And so normally it's like, instead of being on committees that are just like in a big department at a university, we don't care, you're closer to being able to help guide the institute sometimes.

And so it's kind of fun because you get to think, okay, like we're this institute that has like outreach teams, that has like teaching teams separate, like that really value each of those facets of physics.

How can you help with that as the researcher?

And I love that type of question.

I love thinking about, like, how we can position ourselves to collaborate more with, like, tech companies for, like, AI for physics or things like that.

And I don't think that question is as meaningful if you're at another university because, you know, that university doesn't care about theoretical physics.

They can change their mind on who they hire later in the commuter over time.

And sure, there's probably awesome, like, CS departments at places.

But, like, you know, like, you can really focus on a thing when it's your whole mission.

And I love that about AI.

I'm excited.

I'm sorry.

Like, I used to be more – so, like, again, I think my opinion – at least I'm happy that my opinion can change.

I feel like that's a positive thing.

But, like, I was definitely more, like, jaded by, oh, people oversell things.