If you don’t recognize this your pecan pie will never know the adoration of God

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/21/g...

It’s real upsetting having to go to a conference and pretend everything is normal while ICE is snatching people off the streets of my home.

👀 👀 👀 On the other hand we've been running LIGO for like 10 years at this point, so a once in every 6.2 years false positive rate may make it hard to say anything definitive.

Little concerning the number of senior astro faculty I've heard of (in the past week!) that are leaving the US (2 to China and 1 to Canada so far).

i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)! i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social! apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...

Ok it's time for AOC to primary Schumer

Mail should have an option to add "Very sorry for the slow response" automatically to the header of emails...

Very rude to make us put all the DECLINED proposals we've submitted in our CVs for tenure.

Fun new paper from LIGO on two binary black hole mergers that are dead ringers for hierarchical mergers (mergers where one of the two black holes was produced in a previous merger). 🧪 🔭 doi.org/10.3847/2041...

Fun new paper from LIGO on two binary black hole mergers that are dead ringers for hierarchical mergers (mergers where one of the two black holes was produced in a previous merger). 🧪 🔭 doi.org/10.3847/2041...

Bookmarking this, as I started using uv but keep forgetting how it works 🙃

It should be illegal to start a new slack space without clicking the "disable new member notification" button.

Fuck yeah MIT www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

Congrats @kelbadry.bsky.social !!!

it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years

Had a great time visiting State today!

Really looking forward to when I can just upload my whole codebase to a GenAI and have it find all the bugs for me.

Re-upping my take that many swing voters aren't really moderates: they're actually a collection of highly chaotic (and sometimes deeply insane) beliefs that, when mapped onto a simple left-right spectrum, cancel each other out.

This is incredibly asinine, and also completely unenforcable.

Periodic reminder that, as faculty, you should never agree to do anything ever for any reason.

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/...

I love how every choice Adams makes maximizes the entropy of whatever space he's in. God I'm going to miss him.

How is the tech industry ok with this?

How many/where do you put hyphens in "extreme mass ratio inspiral"? This feels like something the GW community has a lot of thoughts on.

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 🧪🔭

Hell yeah

an article asking whether it's feminist to use AI? i will get right around to reading that, but first, would you join me in the cellar for a moment? i have a lovely new cask of sherry of dubious origin i'd like your opinion on

Great paper on stellar streams led by Carnegie Postdoc Nondh Panithanpaisal. Specifically, streams formed by globular clusters pulled apart by the gravity of their host galaxies. But because they trace the full gravitational potential, they're an excellent way to measure dark matter in galaxies.

Great paper on stellar streams led by Carnegie Postdoc Nondh Panithanpaisal. Specifically, streams formed by globular clusters pulled apart by the gravity of their host galaxies. But because they trace the full gravitational potential, they're an excellent way to measure dark matter in galaxies.

Ok, there's a lot of cool stuff in the new @ligo.org collaboration paper (and I'll let the actual LVK members talk about most of it), but one very cool thing from the populations paper (arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083) that jumps out to me is this plot of the effective spin for 30-40 solar mass BHs: 🔭🧪

Ok, there's a lot of cool stuff in the new @ligo.org collaboration paper (and I'll let the actual LVK members talk about most of it), but one very cool thing from the populations paper (arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083) that jumps out to me is this plot of the effective spin for 30-40 solar mass BHs: 🔭🧪

We’re so back

Have your collaborator asked you for a letter of collaboration less than 24 hours before a proposal's due? You may entitled to compensation!

Heading to Chicago for the week! Really looking forward to…possibly getting asked for my papers by active duty military.

Looks like someone forgot to renew the Benty Fields webdomain...

Maybe maybe maybe!!!

I’m sorry how do you contaminate food with Cesium-137, one of main daughter products of uranium fission?

Easy one for me is Tom Clancy. Very reactionary and right wing views on the world, but the books are great (and very nerdy at times).

Teaching my students to use Fortran COMMON block variables like God intended.

The people yearn for the Khanate

Honestly the whole nuclear Moon idea was a lot cooler in the 50s

…what?

Ok it can stop being Too Damn Hot now.

I’m not sure what’s more likely: that there really is a conspiracy and they’re failing spectacularly to contain it, or there isn’t one, but they’re flailing so badly it looks like a coverup. Either option requires an almost stupendous level of incompetence!

So what's the deal with Nature Astronomy? Do people typically submit to Nature, it passes peer review, and then they're like "actually we don't feel it's appropriate for Nature but how about Nature Astronomy"?

Current mood

CAREER proposal asking the important questions