A real life interstellar love story, right here in our Center. Meet WVU astronomers, Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin ⬇️💘⬇️

This picture is amazing Matthew Bailes ! International Pulsar Timing Array isn't there a pic from the student workshop this summer with a similar background?!

A supermassive black hole, 3.5 billion light-years away, was just found by Priyamvada Natarajan and her team using NASA Webb Telescope. Its mass is between 10 and 100 million Suns, meaning that it may have formed by the direct collapse of a gas cloud, an idea she pioneered.
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Thanks to everyone at #WIRED for letting me answer some great internet questions!

#WI_Tech_Support
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The robot apocalypse is upon us!

Congrats to Steve and the nanohertz gravitational wave community. This is so well deserved!

Well, here in Oregon I had to use a bright orange soccer ball as a stand in for old Sol. #oregonstate_astro

My white-ass looking sister got shoved and elbowed in the face today for getting in a semi-heated argument while holding a 'Free Palestine' sticker near some students tabling. The assailant wasn't even part of the convo!

This is getting to post 9/11 levels of Arabaphobia.

The IPTA gravitational wave analysis group just finished a comparison of the PTA (NANOGrav PFC European Pulsar Timing Array InPTA) results published this past summer.  You can read all about it here: arxiv.org/abs/2309.00693 🧵

A new PhD started today. She asked for general advice for the first few months. This was my advice:
1. Don’t work evenings or weekends
2. Don’t aim to prove yourself (to me), I’m already convinced of your capacities
3. Go for a walk when things dazzle you (1/3)

We’re hiring! The Dept. of Astronomy at UMich is searching for a new faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position is open to all fields, but the department is prioritizing candidates who complement UM’s partnership with the ELT: jobregister.aas.org/ad/4e029f84

This is super cool!
We really do have a beautiful campus. #oregonstate
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You know you work on pulsar timing array data when...

✨Check out Part II of the video featuring Tyler Cohen (NRAO), as he demonstrates how PTAs act as a telescope made of stars! ✨
📷 Video Title: 'We Found Gravitational Waves with a Telescope Made of Stars'
📷 YouTube Link: youtube.com/watch?v=2ApRct…
#NANOGrav #GravitationalWaves

Taylor expanding to first order, pausing to acknowledge I should check if higher order terms contribute, and then proceeding without actually checking.