LISA moves forward! 〰️ Today, at the #ParisAirShow, ESA and OHB System AG have sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. The triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 1/

The LISA Science Team has just been completed! Two new members joined as Complementary Scientists for Space Weather and Multi-messenger astronomy 🧪🔭🌌 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/lisa/lis... @lisacommunity.bsky.social

🆕 This new NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope image shows a rare cosmic phenomenon called an 'Einstein ring' 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @spacetelescope.bsky.social

Finally finished a small guide on -how to lie with data- ! Take a look: karnesis.github.io/2023-09-05-h... Or, in other words, how to protect ourselves from the chaos of information out there... 🧪🔭📈

An amazing piece by M. Cobb! Reads like a spy movie 🕵️ doi.org/10.1038/d415...

They found a way to litter from space

A very fascinating paper went up on the arXiv today! Jesse Han & El-Badry et al. reanalysed the 21 known 'hypervelocity' stars in the #milkyway. They find strong evidence that the LMC (Large Milky/Magellanic Cloud) has a supermassive black hole at its core! 🤯 arxiv.org/abs/2502.00102

My favorite serendipitous alignment of paper topic and author names occurred #OTD in 1992, when Dr. D'Eath and Dr. Payne submitted 3 papers to Physical Review exploring the physics of black holes smashing into each other at relativistic speeds. 🧪 ⚛️ ⚫️→💥←⚫️ journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

I've always disliked the view that the value of a degree is in landing a job Education is for life. A job is a small (but important) part of life I would love to teach because you find the topic fascinating, rather than because your employer doesn't want to train you themselves

Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault! 🧵

Yey, the LISA Consortium is here!

OK- here we go. Sorry for the delay, I was not prepared for the exertion required in the thrill-a-minute adventure that is… CACAO FERMENTATION. Yes, this will actually take 5 days. After that two days of drying. I’m not making this up. Nothing happens. Really. You’ll see. Anyway, off we go!

A super nice video explaining the LISA mission! 🧪🔭

Ok, lets put out my first post here about a new paper that we uploaded on the arXiv! 🧪 #astronomy #science #gws The paper is about detecting departures from Gaussianities using a heavier-tailed likelihood. 🔕 Check it here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.14354 🧵 1/5

"cold, desolate, empty space" is a great name for a band 🔥

The "Arecibo Message" was beamed towards globular cluster M13, in the constellation Hercules, #OTD in 1974. The broadcast took place during the dedication of an upgrade to the radio telescope. It was the first message sent with the intention of alerting extraterrestrials to life on Earth. 🧪 🔭 👽

Moon news 1: The first candidate #exomoon has been discovered by gravitational lensing. http://goo.gl/x4HVIV