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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 13d

They are now also included in this ESA page! 🙂

www.cosmos.esa.int/web/lisa/con...

LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 19d

Looking for some more #GravitationalWave listening today?📻 Check out this podcast from The Naked Scientists, including interviews with Gaby González (@ligo.org) & @ithorpe.bsky.social from #LISA!

Find it at www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...
or wherever you listen to podcasts!

#GW10Years

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 19d

These images are not currently available on a website. However, you could also take a look at the recent #LIGOMagazine article about the LISA prime contractor selection.

On page 34 of (pdf): ligo.org/wp-content/u...

@ligomagazine.bsky.social

ligo.org

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 20d

Want to listen to a bit of LISA talk today?📻 Tune in to the last episode of StarTalk where Kelly Holley-Bockelmann talks about all things #LISAMission 🛰️ 🌌

Find it on the Star Talk website 👉 startalkmedia.com/show/gravity... or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

Gravity’s Cosmic Symphony with Kelly Holley-Bockelmann - StarTalk Radio

Could LISA detect waves from the Big Bang? Neil deGrasse Tyson & Chuck Nice explore LISA & gravitational wave astronomy w/ Kelly Holley-Bockelmann.

startalkmedia.com

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24d

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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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · 24d

10 years ago, the first gravitational wave #GW150914 was detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. This was a significant step to confirm LISA as a flagship mission, and we as a community are profoundly grateful for the decades of research effort that made the discovery reality.

#GW10Years

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Aug 26

Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today!

We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars

📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4

New masses in the stellar graveyard plot, showing astronomical observations of black holes and neutron stars. The number of gravitational-wave observations of black holes is overwhelming. The plot is arranged to look nice, the horizontal axis has no meaning, but the vertical one shows masses. We have a significant range of masses from about 1 solar mass to over 200 solar masses for our largest merger remnant. New out today is a neutron star black hole binary GW230518_125908, as well as a lot of binary black holes.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out the full playlist of #LECSTalks so far at:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

LECSTalks! - YouTube

Welcome to the LECSTalks! series, where we showcase the people, activity, and science taking place around the LISA Early Career Scientists community 🎤LECSTal...

www.youtube.com

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎤 What can you tell us about your talk?
This talk offers advice on writing effective research and teaching statements for prospective faculty and postdoctoral positions in STEM fields. Examples of and extensive resources for these statements are provided.

The text is a summary of the talk: "This talk offers advice on writing effective research and teaching statements for prospective faculty and postdoctoral positions in STEM fields. Examples of and extensive resources for these statements are provided."
The image shows a cartoon illustration of a pile of paper labelled "Research" around the pile of paper are five thought/speech bubbles: "Who?", "What?", "Where?", "Why?", "How?".

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎤 Tell us something about yourself
I am the Associate Head for Graduate Programs and a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

More about Lance in the graphic & alt text!

A photo and bio of Lance Cooper. The text reads:
I am the Associate Head for Graduate Programs and a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of quantum materials under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, and magnetic field. I am also interested in science communication and graduate education and I run several professional development programs for graduate students, including an alumni Physics Careers Seminar series, a grad student internship program, a physics grad student travel award program, and a science communication course.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Sep 4

In this episode of #LECSTalks we feature Lance Cooper, a professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a talk titled "Writing Effective Research & Teaching Statements for Faculty/Postdoc Positions".

You can watch on YouTube 📽 youtu.be/vjqgjTfpYG8 📽

The talk title and speaker name displayed on a red background.
Talk title: Writing Effective Research & Teaching Statements for Faculty/Postdoc Positions.
Speaker name: Lance Cooper.

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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · Jul 16

What a wonderful evening, meeting old colleagues and new at the #GR24Amaldi16, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first gravitational wave detection - how time flies and now we are constructing @science.esa.int #LISA for the coming decade to probe new scales of spacetime disturbances!

LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 16

Carole Mundell (@cmundell.bsky.social @esa.int ) is presenting a journey "From Earth to the Fabric of Spacetime" this evening at Glasgow SEC!
#GR24Amaldi16

Carole Mundell presenting - she is standing on a stage with slides behind her.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 16

Carole presenting our favorite mission!

#GR24Amalsi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 16

This year it is 10 years since the discovery of #GravitationalWaves in 2015!

www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20...

@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social
#GW150914
#GR24Amaldi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ways to 'see' black holes include cosmic indigestion (when a black hole is over fed!), imaging the shadow of a black hole, and (our favorite) ripples in space-time!! #GravitationalWaves

#GR24Amaldi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 16

Did you know that getting a space craft out of the plane of the solar system is quite difficult - but Solar Orbiter is doing just that using gravity slingshot!
Find out more about getting up close with the Sun - www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
#GR24Amaldi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 16

Carole Mundell (@cmundell.bsky.social @esa.int ) is presenting a journey "From Earth to the Fabric of Spacetime" this evening at Glasgow SEC!
#GR24Amaldi16

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · Jul 15

A rich morning of @lisacommunity.bsky.social science at #GR24Amaldi16 with Oliver's talk followed by Adam Pound on modelling extreme mass ratio systems

Nihar Gupte @nihar-gupte.bsky.social · Jul 15

My favorite slide today from Oliver Jennrich at #gramaldi #amaldi16. It shows how rich gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals are for testing general relativity

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 15

And here's a look at the #LISA launchstack showing the three LISA spacecraft
#GR24Amaldi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 15

Did you know? The #LISA optical bench will be built at UK ATC, Edinburgh!
#GR24Amaldi16

A slide at a conference showing the LISA optical bench.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 15

The LISA payload geographical distribution includes many teams across ESA, NASA, and ESA Member States.
#GR24Amaldi16

A slide showing LISA teams in US & Europe.

A slide showing the LISA telescope is made by NASA.

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 15

#LISA will be in a heliocentric orbit. The three spacecraft fly in an equilateral triangle with sides of 2.5 million km!
#GR24Amaldi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 15

First up today, Oliver Jennrich (@esa.int) presents #LISA!

#GR24Amaldi16

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 15

Kicking off day 2 of #GR24Amaldi16 in the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow!

The Armadillo building in Glasgow - a white building with layered panels a bit like an armadillo

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LISA Community @lisacommunity.bsky.social · Jul 14

Looking for multiband gravitational-wave sources in #LISA data - a needle in a haystack problem!
Shichao Wu presented a search for stellar origin binary black hole signals in LISA & next generation ground-based detectors (LISA+3G) with pyCBC.
#GR26Amaldi16
Find out more: arxiv.org/abs/2506.01898

A photo of some slides being presented at a scientific conference.

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