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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Jul 16

Honored to receive the GWIC-Braccini thesis prize for 2023 and thankful for the opportunity to share my past and more recent work on NSBH mergers earlier today at #GR24Amaldi16

A woman wearing a pink blazer stands near a podium in front of a slide presenting individual-event posteriors for four NSBH mergers

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Jul 14

In this morning’s plenary at #GR24Amaldi16, Amanda Farah introduces the newest (and most massive and likely most rapidly spinning) @ligo.org - @egovirgo.bsky.social - KAGRA event, #GW231123! Read more about this exceptional event in the discovery paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219

Amanda Farah at a podium in front of a slide introducing GW231123

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Mar 13

What counts as early career? Asking for myself 😅

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thank you! It’s also my birthday today, so there will be doubly celebratory cake ☺️

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CIERA @nuciera.bsky.social · Mar 13

Congratulations to CIERA Postdoc Sylvia Biscoveanu on receiving the GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize! The award recognizes her Ph.D. thesis work, completed at MIT, as a significant contribution to the growing field of gravitational-wave astronomy

Postdoc Sylvia Biscoveanu wins GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize

In late February 2025, the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) and the Friends of Stefano Braccini announced CIERA Postdoctoral Researcher Sylvia Biscoveanu as the recipient of the 2023 ...

ciera.northwestern.edu

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

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(Clearly still figuring out the feeds thing 😅)

Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

With Feb 15 (astro deadline) rapidly approaching, here’s a 🧵 of tips and guidelines for folks navigating postdoc offer decisions:
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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

3. Financial offers for institutional postdocs are generally quite flexible. Don’t let your decision come down to which position has offered you a bigger research budget. Especially if you have multiple offers, ask for what you want in negotiations!
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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

2. For the other positions that you are still excited about, write to them to say you’ve gotten another offer but you’re still very interested in the position and wondering if they have any updates. If the institution is comparable, name it so they know who they’re competing with!

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

It makes things complicated for recruiters if they’re considering/making offers to people who aren’t at all interested.

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

1. Once you get one offer you’re excited about, please write to withdraw your application from other positions that you’re not as excited about. At the very least do this once you’ve accepted another offer.

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Feb 7

With Feb 15 (astro deadline) rapidly approaching, here’s a 🧵 of tips and guidelines for folks navigating postdoc offer decisions:
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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Jan 22

I don’t think they’d be able to justify and defend analysis choices/motivation for the work, but they stand to gain much more from a first-author paper than I do. Who should be first author?

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Jan 22

Looking for input on undergraduate paper authorship in astro: I am writing a paper with an undergrad (just the two of us). They’ve performed the full analysis (with significant help and guidance), but I expect final written version of the paper will be mostly my words.

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thank you!

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Dec 3

I will now pick some up on the way home. I always appreciate your reminders 🍰

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thank you! ☺️

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Dec 3

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected for the @forbes.com 30 Under 30 list in Science! I’m honored to be part of this amazing cohort of young scientists.
www.forbes.com/30-under-30/...

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Nov 27

Me please 🙋‍♀️
asb5468.github.io/website/

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · Nov 19

To accompany all those BlueSky science/academia #starterpacks, let’s share introductions to the literature of our fields

Gravitational-wave papers (created with observablehq.com/@guillaume-l...)

When the intro starts "We have opened a new window" you know you can skip a couple of paragraphs

Most scientific papers in xkcd comic style, with titles:

We did. We detected gravitational waves!

2000 people worked for 3 years on this and you're just going to read Section D5 and look at plots

We calculated these pN equations so you don't have to

Binaries stars: Even more complicated

We know you're tired of citing Abbott et al. Here's an Abac et al

This will be great if we build it in 2050

We thought of a new way Einstein could be wrong. The data say he isn't. Yet

Upper limits are neat: We looked really hard and still haven't found anything

We hid the quantum uncertainty down the back of the sofa and improved detector performance

Something exploded and we all saw it! Isn't multi messenger astronomy fun (paper 1 of 49)

Some thoughts on what even is a black hole really?

Glitches: caused by dark magic?

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Nov 16

Experience with GW data analysis is not required, but willingness to learn is. Applications from folks with EM follow-up or binary population synthesis experience are strongly encouraged!

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Nov 16

I am hiring a postdoc to work with me on gravitational wave astrophysics at Princeton next year! Two more weeks until the deadline to apply: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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puwebp.princeton.edu

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Nov 16

Experience with GW data analysis is not required, but willingness to learn is. Applications from folks with EM follow-up or population synthesis experience are strongly encouraged!

Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · Nov 16

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Nov 10

Here's the beginning of starter pack for people and groups working on the theory, detection, or analysis of gravitational waves, or whose work is closely related to the field of gravitational waves. Please let me know who I've missed and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/HrAJX35

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