Several studies on gender bias in science appeared recently. One study found that “men had about 14,000 more lifetime citations than women” and another that “women were 15 times more likely to be accepted into NAS”. science.org/content/articl… They cannot both be gender biases.🧵

thread of medieval jokes that still kinda go hard:

ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are teaching me C++, sometimes living in 2023 is so amazing

We heard from Jaimee about the connection of fluids dynamics and gravity

New paper from our own Conor Dyson and Maarten

Welcome to the fourth observing run! #O4IsHere O4 will last 20 months, with EGO & the Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory joining us in the run. We expect the detection rate will be roughly twice in our past observing run More news linked from ligo.org/news.php #ObservingRun4

arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892 #lk99

Honestly being a PhD student at a conference can feel like this sometimes

Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration is proud to announce GW230529, the first exceptional #GravitationalWaves event from our fourth observing run (#O4). You can learn more from Shanika Galaudage's excellent infographic, or by visiting our detection page! ligo.org/detections/GW2…

> independently discover a Zeno's paradox at age 3 > MIT at 17, grad level math in 1st year > graduate in 3 years > drive motor scooters from Boston to Bogotá with the boys > start a company in Colombia > start code breaking with the IDA for money > solve minimal varieties in

This is amazing!!! 🤩🤩

What is the impact of self-interactions on scalar dark matter environments around binary black holes? New paper today with James Marsden, @KatyAClough and Pedro G Ferreira arxiv.org/abs/2409.01937 Movie: youtu.be/ZeoMlUHknUM