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And folks were frustrated with the draft we kept letting in with this whole “new window” into universe! 🤣 It is such an exciting time to be doing astronomy. Now, let me continue to pray for a binary neutron star… 🙏 #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧬🪐🧑‍🔬✨ A huge shout out to all the #WomenInSTEM for being amazing every day of the year 💪 Learn about some the incredible women scientists and their work at includeher.au/resources

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Let's celebrate some scientists on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! I decided to search Trove, the magnificent newspaper database of the National Library of Australia, to see what I found. I used 'woman scientist' as the search term. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

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Our dark Universe detective 🕵️ Euclid has discovered a stunning Einstein ring! 💍 It surrounds galaxy NGC 6505, which is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a distant galaxy behind it. Why is this rare phenomenon so useful for scientists? 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪 #cosmology

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Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

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Morning gravitational-wave candidate S250204ax If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 100 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/39... Rating 🧙‍♀️🦢🌵 [🧪🔭⚛️]

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I… I have no words…

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Woah, this is wicked cool! 🤩

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The National Science Foundation says that it is complying with Friday's court order and will resuming funding to grants and projects. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

This is facism in action. People will say science is apolitical, but as long as science is studied by humans, it will always be political. Deciding what gets studied and how is censorship.

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LAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

They said don’t make science political But now scientists aren’t getting paid They said don’t make science political But now we’re backing up our data in fear of losing access to servers They said don’t make science political But now our colleagues fear coming to work…

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. That's a wrap of today's 12-hour observing block with #Murriyang. Hope you liked the pics of The Dish! 📡 (one can never have enough, right? RIGHT?!)

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The postdoc life is pretty cool — quite literally this week! 😂 And the view from my hotel room window is 🤍❄️ #GWSnowballs #Astrophysics

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Exciting gravitational-wave candidate from yesterday S250114ax If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 7.7×10^18 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating 🖤🪿🤝 [🧪🔭⚛️]

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to soc media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced X for you? Tell us about it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

submitted 45 days ago • 164 comments

TWO gravitational-wave candidates today S250109f and S250109bi If real, S250109f's source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 11,000 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating 🦢🍦🍊 [🧪🔭⚛️] 1/🧵

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📄 It's new* paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2401.08709 In this one I take a look at 57 gravitational wave signals which were reported in the literature, but not by the LVK collaborations. #astronomy #GravitationalWaves *substantially expanded compared to v1

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Monash University has today admitted to a fresh round of wage theft from casual teachers. Australia’s largest uni has underpaid teachers a further $7.6m, taking Monash’s total underpayments to $17.6m since 2021

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Happy birthday GW170104, here's a new gravitational-wave candidate S250104v If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 33000 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating ⛅️🎱🍰 [🧪🔭⚛️]

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

New year 🥳 New waves 〰️〰️⚫️⚫️

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Bonne année from Nice, France 🇫🇷 (it was a lil scary cos these fireworks went off above my head! 😅) #HappyNewYear #BringOn2025

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

What a year it has been — filled with science, food and adventures! #Astrophysics #Science #PostDoc #LINO24 #ScienceSummit24

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Christmas from the Universe: 2 #GravitationalWave candidates #S241225c & #S241225v If real, S241225c's source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 1.6×10^7 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating 🍐🦚🎁 1/🧵 [🧪🔭⚛️]

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

The winner of cover of the year for 2024 is the September cover connected to the Caleb, Lenc et al. paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to all involved, particularly Carl Knox @ozgrav.bsky.social and @csiro.bsky.social #NAstroCoverComp #astronomy

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THIRD gravitational-wave candidate S241210fu If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 1.2 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating 🍊 [🧪🔭⚛️]

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TWO gravitational-wave candidates this morning S241210d and S241210cw If real, S241210d's source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 0.72 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating 🎂 [🧪🔭⚛️] 1/🧵

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

submitted 82 days ago • 479 comments

MOAR EVIDENCE FOR THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND! Using MeerKAT (super sensitive telescope array) the MPTA team have also found supporting evidence (with their assumptions and models) of the GWB that other PTAs announced last year. This is further independent verification! The Universe rattles!

submitted 82 days ago • 6 comments

Important advice: how to avoid gender bias when writing recommendation letters.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Another Black Hole Friday weekend gravitational-wave candidate S241201ac If real, the source is probably a binary black hole. Virgo glitches may impact source inference False alarm rate 1 in 0.73 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38... Rating 🎄 [🧪🔭⚛️]

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I have a long flight coming up today and I’m bored. Let’s do this. What’s a question about gravitational waves and/or black holes that you always wanted to ask? 🔭

submitted 84 days ago • 21 comments

Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Well ain’t this just… WICKED! 💚🩷 It’s amazing to see the growth in the number of folks with qualifications #physics and #astronomy in Oz 🇦🇺✨

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❤️ ❤️ Black hole binary 💕 Compact binary 💞 Late inspiral, merger 💓 Ringdown ❤️ Remnant 🧪⚛️🔭

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As promised, McFACTS paper II is out! arxiv.org/abs/2411.10590 Leading his first 1st author paper, Harrison Cook shows how varying AGN disk & NSC parameters changes the q-chi_eff relationship from the AGN Channel for BBH mergers 🧪🔭 1/

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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