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Bryon Leigh Hatch and Arecibo have passed on.
We got two pieces of really bad news yesterday. Byron Leigh Hatch, founder of the Carl Sagan team, all around smart and thoughtful guy, and a setizen since shortly after SETI@home began in 1999, passed away in August. There is a thread for leaving remembrances here. He will be missed.

And, of course, we were informed of the collapse of the elevated structure at Arecibo. It was clear after the second cable broke, the structure would come down soon. As much as we were unhappy that the repair efforts had to be abandoned because of the danger, it's clear now that it was the right call. It's our hope that we will find national support for building new scientific facilities on Puerto Rico in the near future.
2 Dec 2020, 18:59:36 UTC · Discuss

Encouraging progress in back-end data analysis
Check out Good non-barycentric news, a summary of recent work in Nebula.
23 Nov 2020, 9:52:01 UTC · Discuss

Update on back-end data analysis
Work continues on Nebula: read about Finding persistent non-barycentric signals (work in progress).
1 Nov 2020, 8:22:32 UTC · Discuss

Nebula-related news
Read the latest installment of the Nebula blog: Observations on observation.
8 Jun 2020, 3:24:06 UTC · Discuss

External design review
We met with a group of outside experts to review some of our back-end algorithms. It was a productive meeting.
22 May 2020, 5:03:17 UTC · Discuss

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