Had fun deriving the response of a GW detector in the context of PTAs with Joe Romano at the #MaNiTou summer school on gravitational waves - he's a great lecturer!

That joy when you start reading a new textbook and they use -+++ convention 🙏

Found a way to solve the Hubble tension: use an arbitrary error bar! (From: Creighton & Anderson - "Gravitational‐Wave Physics and Astronomy: An Introduction to Theory, Experiment and Data Analysis")

Nominating JAX's docs on its random number generator as most unhinged docs page I ever read

Excellent example of work-life balance spotted in the wild on Github: an academic taking the weekends off!

The LIGO Hanford press conference announcing the detection of the neutron star merger, GW170817, six years ago today! #gravitationalwaves #astrophysics 🙂

I just found out my master thesis is on inspirehep? How did it get there??? Kind of confused, but it is pretty cool nonetheless. Thomas Van Riet is this done automatically for all hep-th master theses? :)

Saw this book on Gerard 't Hooft (Physics Nobel laureate from Utrecht University) in Maastricht. Interesting, but why are the indices not contracted in the equation? Gerard 't Hooft

Holy shit is Github copilot really roasting me right now???

And here comes the double whammy! This is another paper that just came out, which integrate harmonics, an open source package for computing evidence, with jim, a gravitational wave PE code I am developing. arxiv.org/abs/2410.21076

Fun fact of the day: The height of Utrecht's Dom Tower perfectly aligns with the Fibonacci sequence. 🟥⬜