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John Wise
@astroahura.bsky.social
Astrophysics prof, CRA director, and proud alum of Georgia Tech. Fast cars and fast computers. ATLien and Southerner. Rotorhead and runner. Hapa.
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
December 13, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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
December 2, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Bluesky with a partial covering factor 🤩
November 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM
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
October 11, 2023 at 11:32 PM
I love having a small car squeezing into spaces where your typical car / SUV can't
October 4, 2023 at 10:13 PM
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
September 28, 2023 at 12:52 AM
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
September 25, 2023 at 9:30 PM
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
September 13, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Things you see in the Bay Area. Cybertruck's still ugly in person as in the pictures
September 11, 2023 at 8:12 PM
Hol up does this count
September 7, 2023 at 12:05 AM
No stickers for me. I like the clean minimalist look
September 7, 2023 at 12:03 AM
Yay?
Took 12 years including no travel during the pandemic
September 6, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Oh and I got this a couple months ago 🤩
September 5, 2023 at 1:22 AM
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
September 5, 2023 at 1:20 AM
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.
May 16, 2023 at 12:16 AM
PhD graduation time at Georgia Tech! 🎓🥳
May 5, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Or a toilet paper tie. He was not amused
May 3, 2023 at 7:25 AM
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
April 29, 2023 at 4:23 PM