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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 1d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 5d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Dame Sarah Mullally has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to hold the Church of England’s most senior clerical position. on.ft.com/3Kywkdg

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 7d

A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 9d

Some heads up would've been good...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13d

Here we go!

Over 13,000 H-1B workers have joined 200+ land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions so far this fiscal year.

I also found that public institutions in large, Republican states are disproportionately affected by Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee.

Find your state or your school:

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 13d

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

www.thexylom.com

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Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social · 13d

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/...

Postdoctoral Associate Positions in Theoretical/Computational Astrophysics | American Astronomical Society

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill invites applications for postdoctoral associates to conduct research in theoretical and computational astrophysi...

aas.org

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Stephen Green @stephenrgreen.bsky.social · 15d

Job Announcement!

Postdoc in Gravitational Waves at University of Nottingham

* Two year position
* Deadline soon: 29 September
* Details and application form: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed Term)

We are looking for a researcher, whose expertise lies in gravitational waves. They will be expected to conduct research on perturbative or nonperturbative waveform modelling, with applications to data...

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 16d

Eller dystopiska post-apokalyps historier.

Men det finns definitivt en tjusning i historier såsom "alla dog utom två kompisar och prinsen av Danmark" 😉

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spookjamin 👻 @jenbanim.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy · 18d

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 18d

I assume that in order for you to "be allowed" to take this photo, you're dressed as the human equivalent of this town 😉

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 18d

The #GR24Amaldi16 art gallery is now online! Some really amazing pieces on display - I especially like the papier mâché and clay one by Riccardo Buscicchio
(And of course all of @theastrophoenix.bsky.social's art but does that need to be said?)

🐡🔭🧪

uofgravity.github.io/amaldi-art/

GR AMALDI 2025 ART SHOW

uofgravity.github.io

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Giedre N @giedrenord.bsky.social · 18d

Igår var det exakt 26år sedan jag kom till Sverige för att plugga 1år. Men jag blev kär i min K och stannade
Jag sökte uppehållstillstånd och oron var så påtaglig att jag hamnade på akuten pga yrsel. Ett tag levde vi på Ks CSN och bostadsbidrag på 1000kr. Det var inget smörgårsbord av bidrag som

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 19d

Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 19d

But just to be safe: all hail our robot overlords and so on.

Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 19d

Seams good with me.

And I assume you're knee-deep in butterscotch pudding today?

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 20d

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.

ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

ourworldindata.org

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 22d

Or you could go full chaotic:
No hyphens at a all, one m-dash between ratio and inspiral 🤪

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 25d

We think this is a great occasion to show you the first images of the new LISA Spacecraft. The ESA led mission is now in the co-engineering phase. The instrument of LISA, provided by national space agencies across Europe and beyond, will be integrated by the primary contractor OHB SE.

#GW10Years

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 24d

arxiv.org/abs/2509.09741

GW231109_235456: A Sub-threshold Binary Neutron Star Merger in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a Observing Run?

We present a sub-threshold search for gravitational-wave inspirals from binary neutron stars using data from the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. To enhanc...

arxiv.org

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 24d

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 🧪🔭

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record

Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

www.them.us

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