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rjme.bsky.social
Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @ U of Auckland - opinions mine. "Astrophysics - it's like a barfight with God" @reasther on the other place. Blog: excursionset.com He/him.
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Heads up, Tāmaki Makaurau: tomorrow is the Friday before a break (school holidays, this time) which means that once again, it’s Take Your Climate Crisis to Work Day… Stay safe out there. 😬 (We really really need to sort this out, it’s stressful and costly and messy and will only get more so…)

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A wee thread -- if you work on gravitational waves one of the first papers you'll see is "Peters (1964)" -- it calculates the rate at which two orbiting black holes approach each other as they generate gravitational waves... 1/N 🔭 🧪

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Doing this in journal club tomorrow, btw Aucklanders.

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Just saw this ad for @universityofotago.bsky.social with the Clean - I love it, but it's aimed at the parents right? I mean, we saw them at O Week but our kids will be dancing to something different. I hear the VC is a big fan of the Dunedin sound, so... (Hit play tho, it slaps) vimeo.com/959338645

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Event: Auckland, July 1 -- Kim Hill, and a panel of four scientists and technologists on "The Quantum Centuries" -- it's 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics and looking forward to a new century of quantum technologies Free, 7pm @aucklanduni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/the-quantu...

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My brother in Christ, this looks like it will be one for the books... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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A wee thread on a paper I think has big holes and some suggestions for grad students out there looking for a fun calculation... (Technical) 🔭 🧪 #cosmology It's this one; it claims at least 1% of the photons in the CMB are actually generated in early-forming galaxies. 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2505.04687

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Was googling for something Sabine wrote and got this. Still a few bugs in the system...

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