Riverside just blew the whole galaxy up, our sophisticated expert futuristic AI reports.

Tap water is something that I have strong political opinions about. Access to clean water is a human right. It bothers me so much when I see how many people use "commercial" bottled water in their everyday use. If our water quality is low, the solution is not to give money to some corporation, -->

There is no justification for using ChatGPT, or other "AI" products, in an academic setting. I'll heavily judge you if you're a "just ask ChatGPT" person.

The PhD student's constant existential crisis of being so excited about what you're doing, and at the same time, being too depressed to really do it.

Not niche at all, but serious and basic: - Profit in inherently immoral. Keeping the society away from it could help fixing a lot of problems. - Sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry should be absolutely unacceptable and intolerable by every single one of us.

ICE is indeed our state-sponsored terrorist organization. Not only we must abolish ICE, but also should abolish our cruel prison system.

I know that it's too much to ask for this in the current full-fledged Fascist regime, but who the f*** decided that Amber alerts should be posted on Xitter? An official government-issued emergency communication is notified to people solely on a for-profit website that can not be viewed without ...

This is fantastic! 😍 Silly nerdy question for some nerdy astronomers out there: How many millisecond pulsars, with how much stability, do we need to encode our phone's GPS scale location on earth? How should we even encode all the dynamical parts?

This is the most important time to invest in love and community. This is the time to be expansive, even as so much in the world is pulling inwards. Joy is our rebellion. We take care of each other, and we stand up for each other.

Same thing here. Decided to keep my (almost civil) comments to myself, as I didn't want them to be the only things seen from me online. 🫣

The other day, someone introduced me to their friend as "This is Pooyan, he is in the Physics department and advocates for the gays and the under-represented". I haven't ever been so satisfied of an introduction. :)

Just so that we scientists have an idea of the scale of the bill that just passed in the congress, the money that is appropriated to ICE in the one BBB is more than the sum total of 2026 budget requests for NASA, NSF, NIH, CDC, NOAA, and the whole of DoE.

An audio recording of this town hall is available at bsky.app/profile/nasa...

This is the courage I expect from my fellow Americans. She seems to be afraid, and still stands up to these thugs.

This! We, the people, with our values, our loved ones, our communities, and our joy are all that we will have at the end of the day. We oppose Fascists, wars, racists, and the rapists because of this. Let us all make art, strengthen our communities, and beat the Fascists in solidarity.

You know your mental health status is rapidly tanking when one of the things that you're thinking about is that if/when ICE comes for you, would there be anyone out there who really cares or not. The fears of Fascism, loneliness, and the war are all combined in one huge amalgamation at the moment.

"We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country" and then arrests a US senator. So, are we live observing a military coup?

I'm guilty of writing that the gravitational wave detectors have "opened a new window" in understanding the universe far too many times more than what I'm comfortable with.

OMG! Watching this was painful and fun. I don't know how Sean can be so patient and calm here. Also, I watched it right after this other video, which is a nice coincidence. Weinstein could be an example of the "bros" mentioned in the video, though a crackpot one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LenX...

From Catherine Slaughter @catieslaughts.bsky.social : Resilient researchers know how to fail. Learning how to fail, however, is easier said than done. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/09/rock-climbing/

The second day of the APS GPS is over and I've had so much fun so far. I'm excited, nervous, tired as hell, and lack some sleep. I've seen a few people that I know from the social media, but have been too shy to say hi, yet.

Hmmm, it's not the first time we are hearing this as a defense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superio...

The US (and the world) is going towards fascism day by day, my best friend has stopped talking with me (and I miss her), and there's a guy in my head whispering to me every second that I'm worthless. Let's see what else 2025 has for me. I do love my research, this beautiful life, and the kind people

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One of my resolutions for the new year is that I want to express myself more often. As a result, I will be posting stuff on Mastodon and Bluesky, blogging on my website, and maybe start a video course that I have been thinking about recording for ages now. They probably would mostly be my takes on

I had a hard time finding women physicists here. So I made a starter pack for #female and #under-represended #minorities in #physics, in short #FURMIP. Please spread the word and let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/2JeYsDz

If you're looking for a genius, here is the greatest physicist of all times. vixra.org/author/alire...

I reported this paper to the author's institute and the journal editors. If you know any other papers like this, just let me know. This is a hill that I will gladly die on.

Here's the beginning of starter pack for people and groups working on the theory, detection, or analysis of gravitational waves, or whose work is closely related to the field of gravitational waves. Please let me know who I've missed and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/HrAJX35

Finally starting to put together a starter pack of awesome people working in black holes and relativistic astrophysics, gravitational-wave science, and related areas of gravitation. Suggestions for additions welcome! go.bsky.app/7AYfSd1 [🧪🔭⚛️]

It's a sad morning. Let us take our times to acknowledge our emotions first. But then, it's a morning on which all of our future personal responsibilities has quadrupled. It's now on us to protect each other. Women, climate, POC, lgbtq folks, immigrants, and even the science's future rely on us now.

I had a physics crackpot in my office today, trying to explain how he has created a mathematical framework that unifies the whole physics. He started by saying that "I'm not sure if you are familiar with Einstein or not", right after I told him that my research is on gravitational waves. :)

Over a billion years ago, in a distant galaxy, two massive black holes spiraled into each other. Nine years ago #OTD, the resulting ripples in spacetime made some mirrors here on Earth move about 1/1000 of a proton radius. Scientists predicted this effect, then measured it with lasers. 🧪 🔭

yay!!! amateur radio astronomy rocks and is easier to do than you think! another good intro is a cheap wifi antenna, sdr dongle, and preamp. just point it straight up and you can see the hydrogen spectrum of the Milky Way (attaching my github feel free to ask Q’s!) github.com/nategri/simp...

After what happened to Twitter, I decided not to join any new un-federated social media, hence I moved to Mastodon. The problem is that there's not many Physics and Astronomy folks over there. Bsky seems to be moving towards an open federation, and Physics community likes it; so let's give it a try.