Congratulations to Elizabeth Mone, who just submitted her ApJ paper on massive black hole formation! She is one of the top undergrad researchers I've mentored in my 13 years as faculty. She's applying to astro grad schools this year, so be on the lookout for her application! arxiv.org/abs/2412.08829

Nerd alert: Excited that I can run Arch Linux instead of Ubuntu on Windows. I ❤️ the bleeding edge

Don't worry- I still dual boot

Bluesky with a partial covering factor 🤩

For context, here are the papers and a pretty picture. Looking forward to reading them!
arxiv.org/abs/2309.13115
arxiv.org/abs/2310.04506
arxiv.org/abs/2310.04507

I love having a small car squeezing into spaces where your typical car / SUV can't

So I'm playing more Starfield than working these days and look what I saw a few nights ago! WTF is a LIGO sensitivity curve doing there? It's like work is taunting me

Look what came in the mail today! I can't wait to see what @sciencevivi.bsky.social can teach me. I teach grad computational physics every spring, so it'll be a great resource for my ML module

It's a joy to be back at KIPAC for their 20th Anniversary Conference, seeing many old faces and hearing about all the exciting science that KIPAC has enabled. Time flies, it's been 16 years since my PhD! Here I am with my advisor Tom Abel and the wonderful Martha Siegel. kipac.stanford.edu/kipac20

Things you see in the Bay Area. Cybertruck's still ugly in person as in the pictures

Hol up does this count

No stickers for me. I like the clean minimalist look

Yay?
Took 12 years including no travel during the pandemic

Oh and I got this a couple months ago 🤩

Upgrading the gaming PC for Starfield! It needed a refresh anyways

Old(2017): Ryzen 1700X (8-core), 16GB RAM, GTX TITAN
New: Ryzen 7800X3D, 32GB, RTX 4060Ti

ZS is at it again trying to get me to delete my tweet (2nd photo shows the deleted quoted tweet). He's already filed ethics complaints and emailed my chair and dean 🙄 I had just ignored him.

But in his latest attempt he's using a student as a pawn, and I don't want to hurt them.

PhD graduation time at Georgia Tech! 🎓🥳

Or a toilet paper tie. He was not amused

Yesterday we submitted a paper (led by grad students J. McCaffrey and S. Hardin) showing that the latest JWST high-redshift galaxy observations are consistent with our simulations and not unexpected, building upon earlier work by Ben Keller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13755