Excitement is mounting in Chile's Atacama Desert, as the CCAT Observatory prepares to hit first light in 2026! 🔭 We interviewed @michaelniemack.bsky.social and @evevavagiakis.bsky.social to take a look at the research and instrumentation of this project: bluefors.com/stories/ccat... #CoolForProgress

Closing out the Schrödinger Sessions at UMD with a conversation with @seanmcarroll.bsky.social! Such a great workshop on quantum and how to communicate it to the public

🔗 Part 1 - Sherry, Aziza and Eve: bluefors.com/stories/insp... @azizasuleymanzade.bsky.social @evevavagiakis.bsky.social 🔗 Part 2 - Natalie, Judy and Tamanna: bluefors.com/stories/insp...

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Summer 2025 group ice cream celebration!

We are fighting for our lives here to keep our eyes open in the sun, but it was a pleasure talking about CCAT at mm Universe ‘25 last week in Chicago!

A nice article about my colleague @evevavagiakis.bsky.social 's physics books for children: https://trinity.duke.edu/news/if-you-think-physics-just-grownups-think-again

The third Michigan Cosmology Summer School in Ann Arbor kicks off now with Maya Fishbach discussing gravitational waves and standard sirens!

“I’m a Photon” comes out next week! trinity.duke.edu/news/if-you-...

Look at this glorious view of the CCAT site! The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope structures are now all present on Cerro Chajnantor, over 18,000 ft (5,600 m) above sea level. 📸 Diego Maldonado

Excited to publish this #NSFFunded animated video project introducing neutrinos as imagined by the illustrator of “I’m a Neutrino”! A 60 second intro to the neutrino particle, the video features the Atacama Cosmology Telescope @act-pol.bsky.social! youtu.be/EHECLxbRN5w

“I’m a Photon” has received a starred review from School Library Journal! @slj.com “VERDICT This is a surprisingly captivating introduction to particle physics that will serve as a helpful selection to libraries and classrooms.” www.slj.com/review/im-a-...

@evevavagiakis.bsky.social introduces Large™️ @simonsobservatory.org telescope to a standing room only crowd at @astronomyontap.bsky.social Durham!

A stop work order at Cornell includes programming funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Department of Defense for materials and manufacturing studies. This research directly translates to industrial research and defense. What are we doing to this country?

Come to Astronomy on Tap tomorrow night at the Durty Bull in Durham to find out what our telescopes really look like! I’ll chat about the most ancient light in the cosmos and what we’re building to study it

Very happy to be back on the hill this week! 🐻

These days, this doesn’t even seem like much of a reach…

send us your pollen pics 💚💚💚🤧🤧🤧

@drjmo.bsky.social cross stitched this incredible sign for the lab, and today our amazing undergrad researcher Haley sent me this photo of a new plant next to it 🥲 I can’t handle how nice this is

What is it like doing research at an R1 as a high schooler? 🧵

Great (and rare!) @wired.com story on the transformative story of Arxiv, and its creator Paul Ginsparg www.wired.com/story/inside...

Enjoying a very important CMB-S4 meeting at Berkeley this week: discussing the future of CMB observations from the ground

CCAT update: the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is being unloaded in Chile this weekend, beginning its long journey by land up to the mountain!

We enjoyed the cherry blossoms yesterday at Duke Gardens! A lovely end to Phil Mauskopf’s visit. @drjmo.bsky.social

Good morning from Duke

Today in spam: I am Duke, and I’m getting a free knife and a human-written, 5x AI-validated article. What a day!

From slack today

The @act-pol.bsky.social DR6 dataset is now included in the Aladin Sky Atlas, how cool is that! #astrosci

Featuring words from Duke cosmo’s Troxel: www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...

I hosted cosmology group faculty at my house for the first time tonight to welcome Phil Mauskopf who is visiting from ASU!

Living near Raleigh has destroyed my ability to spell Rayleigh Scattering

The first weekend of #DurhamCreekWeek was a bit wet, but still a success! 💦 During 6 cleanup events, 76 volunteers removed just over 1,200 lbs of trash! The fun isn't over yet, head to durhamcreekweek.org to sign up!

It’s Creek Week in Durham NC! Check out all these ways you can get involved

UIUC Astrophysics/Relativity/Cosmology Seminar speakers get unparalleled quantities of swag

I had such a wonderful time at dinner with these amazing UIUC postdocs!! So fun that Ayan Mitra was just at Duke last week

It is a gorgeous week to be visiting UIUC! ☀️

Taking pop science literally! 🫧

The odds of your starting a conversation about dilution refrigerators in the airport because of your Bluefors hoodie are low, but never zero

We had the most amazing cosmology group meeting last Friday: gifts and cards in celebration of International Women’s Day from the generous @nikosarcevic.com, and an incredible gluten free chocolate cake from the masterful Lauren Aldoroty 😍

Happy International Women's Day! And thanks to @BlueFors_Ltd for a nice feature: bluefors.com/stories/insp...! It's an honor to be among Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang and @evevavagiakis.bsky.social 😎 😎

We have two preprints out on the arXiv today 🔭☄️! The first one is about an #NSFFunded upgrade to our Large Aperture Telescope, roughly doubling the number of detectors in it: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00636 enabling us to probe the sky deeper than ever. The paper was led by Susan Clark and Colin Hill.

two weeks, two readout harnesses for advanced @simonsobs.bsky.social!

#WomanAstro #WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM

Excited to have been featured by Bluefors for International Women’s Day! #WomenInSTEM bluefors.com/stories/insp...

Hi from Duke, @sptelescope.bsky.social 👋🏻 @evevavagiakis.bsky.social

It hasn’t been a good day to forget your umbrella here!

The physics REU program at Duke has been canceled this year. It was one of two programs in the country that enabled students to do research at CERN. www.science.org/content/arti...

Enjoyed my first ever NC BBQ guided by the wisdom of lifelong North Carolinians! Well worth the wait!!

About to talk about mm/submm surveys at the TriStar Astronomy Festival at Guilford Technical Community College in Greensboro, NC!