{"id":1595,"date":"2026-03-21T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:56:15","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"SCIENCE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m now a published academic author! I did the coding, analysis, and wrote the initial drafts of the resulting paper, and my research lead provided the original idea, guidance, and (re)wrote\/edited the paper&#8217;s final drafts. My code is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jonmack3\/illustris-galaxy-mergers\">here<\/a>; the final paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ae10b6\">On the Frequency of Multiple Galaxy Mergers in \u039bCDM Cosmological Simulations<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now a published academic author! I did the coding, analysis, and wrote the initial drafts of the resulting paper, and my research lead provided the original idea, guidance, and (re)wrote\/edited the paper&#8217;s final drafts. My code is here; the final paper is On the Frequency of Multiple Galaxy Mergers in \u039bCDM Cosmological Simulations. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1rmW5-science","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathankmack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}