Nice and cool version of this song!

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

More of this kind of rich person, please.

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

Återigen har @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se skrivit dagens viktigaste text (om AI): "Istället för att fokusera på lösningar för att peka ut vad som lurar människor behöver vi framtidssäkra för en befolkning som inte vågar tro på någonting alls. Som inte går att övertyga, ens med riktiga bevis." >

International conventions should not be held in the U.S.

Improvements ahead! A team at STScI recently launched a full suite of enhanced Jupyter Notebooks for scientific analyses with Hubble. The upgrades improve the functionality of the repository, as well as the DrizzlePac software suite: https://bit.ly/3XJAXVh 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

It's easy to forget we live in a future with a fully operating space station with multiple docking ports for various spacecraft. www.space.com/space-explor...

Happy old year

A really nice Astrobites article about our recent discovery of two really interesting black hole binaries observed with @ligo.org and @egovirgo.bsky.social!

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

Game for cool people

Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on: – spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image, – computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements, – cross-matching astronomical catalogs? Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode

We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger? ligo.org/science-summ... #O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

A little less than a year ago, a large team of cosmologists reported evidence that dark energy (which drives the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe) evolves over time. This made a huge splash but has also been viewed with healthy skepticism. Today they report that evidence has weakened. 🧪

Our next webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 release and the associated data (papers arxiv.org/abs/2508.18080 and arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079) Tomorrow at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Free registration wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... ☄️🔭

A universal mystery 🪐 Recently published research co-authored by UNLV astrophysicist Carl-Johan Haster gives insight into black holes and fundamental physics. #UniversityResearch #Science #Physics #Astrophysics www.unlv.edu/news/release...

We’re closer to solving dark matter thanks to these black holes! OzGrav PhD student at ANU, Aswathi, was part of the analysis team of the GW241011+GW241110 special event paper. Here she explains how these events helped refine our understanding of dark matter. youtube.com/shorts/wW4yp...

A really nice article in AAS Nova about our article that was published today!

I'm incredibly happy to share the amazing results we in the @ligo.org, @egovirgo.bsky.social, KAGRA collaborations have made public today. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... We are today announcing the observation of two new Binary Black Holes, GW241011 and GW241110.

Two #blackhole mergers, GW241011 & GW241110, detected a month apart in 2024 are helping scientists learn how black holes form, spin & evolve. Researchers from OzGrav & ANU, incl. PhD student Aswathi P Subhash & CI Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun contributed key analysis. www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-bl...

this is the people's ballroom

Stairway to heaven #LIGOHanford

How it feels citing your old papers: (Me et al. 2024b) = "per my last email" (Me et al. 2019) = "told you so!" (Me et al. 2009) = "as the prophesy foretold"

I think the technical name for this is Wolf-Rayet star

Cosmologists! We have a faculty job going here in Oxford - happy to answer questions. Brief version is that this remains a great & collaborative place to do science and the students are superb. 🔭 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP628/a...

Schweiziska tågbolaget SBB planerar i vår att inleda natttågstrafik mellan Malmö och Basel eller Zürich. Trafiken finansieras av en flygskatt - idén är ju att fler ska ta tåget. Tänk om den svenska regeringen haft liknande visioner. Men det är förstås för mycket begärt av Tidöpartierna.

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

See that small, moving splotch? That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter. A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS last Friday

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Dame Sarah Mullally has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to hold the Church of England’s most senior clerical position. on.ft.com/3Kywkdg

A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.

Some heads up would've been good...

Here we go! Over 13,000 H-1B workers have joined 200+ land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions so far this fiscal year. I also found that public institutions in large, Republican states are disproportionately affected by Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee. Find your state or your school:

I'm hiring 1-2 postdocs this year! If you're interested in: GW astrophysics (Binary) Stellar Evolution Stellar dynamics (esp. w/ massive BHs) Galactic dynamics (inc. stellar streams) plz consider applying! You don't need letters initially, just a list of references. 🔭🧪 aas.org/jobregister/...

Job Announcement! Postdoc in Gravitational Waves at University of Nottingham * Two year position * Deadline soon: 29 September * Details and application form: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

The #GR24Amaldi16 art gallery is now online! Some really amazing pieces on display - I especially like the papier mâché and clay one by Riccardo Buscicchio (And of course all of @theastrophoenix.bsky.social's art but does that need to be said?) 🐡🔭🧪 uofgravity.github.io/amaldi-art/

Igår var det exakt 26år sedan jag kom till Sverige för att plugga 1år. Men jag blev kär i min K och stannade Jag sökte uppehållstillstånd och oron var så påtaglig att jag hamnade på akuten pga yrsel. Ett tag levde vi på Ks CSN och bostadsbidrag på 1000kr. Det var inget smörgårsbord av bidrag som

Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

We think this is a great occasion to show you the first images of the new LISA Spacecraft. The ESA led mission is now in the co-engineering phase. The instrument of LISA, provided by national space agencies across Europe and beyond, will be integrated by the primary contractor OHB SE. #GW10Years

Victoria Niu (grad student @pennstateuniv.bsky.social) and the rest of the gstlal team have designed a cool search targeting binary neutron star mergers, and then found one in the recently released O4a data from @ligo.org! I helped with the astrophysical inference 🙂 @unlv.edu @ncfa.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Jag känner en skyldighet att inte titta bort. Samtidigt kan jag inte med att läsa detta i detalj. Det blir för hemskt.

Ten years ago, we heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery proved Einstein right. Now, a new gravitational-wave discovery let's us put Stephen Hawking's laws of black holes to the test Check out the article I wrote for The Conversation theconversation.com/10-years-ago...

What a difference a decade makes! Announcing the clearest #GravitationalWave detection ever #GW250114 youtu.be/2XmZ8-XQ9jU 📓: doi.org/10.1103/kw5g... 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #O4IsHere