"Thus anyone working in astrophysics is someone who wants to do astrophysics, not someone who wants to learn the answers; there are way more efficient ways to learn the answers."

"If all we really wanted was to know how the Universe worked, we would start a hedge fund, and use the proceeds to pay an astrophysics institute, filled with people who wanted to do astrophysics rather than find out the answers."

'You can’t do science if you don’t live within a network of trust. This point is extremely general: You have to trust your coauthors, you have to trust the literature, and you have to trust the machinery and tools that you use.'

"When we employ a graduate student to perform some work, it absolutely must be because the graduate student will benefit from that work, not merely because that work needs to get done."

"For analysis of the Gaia data, a data scientist who has taken an astronomy class might be better prepared than an astronomer who has taken a data science class."

'There are two points in play here: The first is that teams that produce data are increasingly professionalized, and removed from research astrophysics. The second is that the astrophysics community is increasingly expecting to receive trustworthy, vetted, calibrated, and complete data.'

Reading David Hogg on LLMs in astrophysics should be mandatory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181 (edited with link)