Autistic astrophysicist, pulsar enthusiast, avid learner and world traveler. Loves: cats, science, books, Legos and silence. She/Her. @respiewak@astrodon.social
Joined July 2014
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1 Aug 2023
I'm kinda terrible with social media, so I'm trying another, thanks to an invite from a friend! I'm now on the app named for the great expanse of atmosphere that typically appears Blue by day (when not completely white, grey, or covered in warmer colours). Same handle there.
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12 Aug 2023
Welp the android app has updated, so I'm deleting and will probably never log on again. I doubt anyone would want to spoof me after my inactive account is deleted, but just know it's not me. Find me in the sky or elephant zone!
So long and thanks for all the fish!
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1 Aug 2023
I'm kinda terrible with social media, so I'm trying another, thanks to an invite from a friend! I'm now on the app named for the great expanse of atmosphere that typically appears Blue by day (when not completely white, grey, or covered in warmer colours). Same handle there.
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1 Aug 2023
Since this hellsite is rapidly imploding, I'll probably completely cease activity here but keep my handle (although how that works with inactive accounts being deleted is unclear...) and only post over there.
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
28 Jul 2023
Our new voyages have landed! Book online now: jst.org.uk/voyages
ALT Book online now!! For Winter 2023 and Summer 2024 Discover your sea of possibility... www.jst.org.uk/voyages Visual Description: The above text is displayed in large yellow or orange font, over a dark blue background. The 'D' in 'Discover' is actually the JST logo.
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21 Jul 2023
So amazing when a book arrives that you preordered months ago and completely forgot! Past-Me did good for once!!
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
11 Jul 2023
BRAIN CELL LOADING...
LOADING...
...is it ever going to be done? 😭
Enamel pin available at thecathive.com/cwj
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
30 Jun 2023
(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)
Please.
Folks, seriously.
PLEASE.
Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.
ALT D W from the cartoon Arthur wears a D N R wildfire hard hat. She smiles, but the deep bags under her eyes betray a quiet desperation — one only felt by firefighters on holiday weekends that involve fireworks.
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Here’s to the Salt of the Earth types on whom all real progress lies 🍷
Lots of NANOGrav folks are rightly making the news but I want to highlight Prof. Sarah Vigeland, who shies away from the limelight, but is the chair of the NG gravitational-wave Detection working group. It's meticulous scientists like Sarah who make sure the analysis is right!
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Join us now!!
nanograv.org/news/2023Announ…
21 Jun 2023
Rumors of an upcoming announcement from @NANOGrav have not been grossly exaggerated. I can’t wait to share more with you on June 29th! More details about the event will be shared soon, for now, mark your calendars!
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29 Jun 2023
If anyone would prefer to read about the #pulsar announcements in comic form, @PHDcomics has you covered!
29 Jun 2023
Today's groundbreaking gravitational-wave discovery explained in pictures by @PHDcomics. Congrats to @NANOGrav @EPTAGW @InPTA_GW @CSIRO_ATNF and the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array. physics.aps.org/articles/v16…
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29 Jun 2023
If you like open access papers (the best kind, of course), here's plenty of links to peruse!
29 Jun 2023
Lovely coordination of the pulsar timing papers on the arXiv today:
1 @NANOGrav headline arxiv.org/abs/2306.16213
2 @EPTAGW headline arxiv.org/abs/2306.16214
3 @CSIRO_ATNF headline arxiv.org/abs/2306.16215
4 Chinese PTA headline arxiv.org/abs/2306.16216
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action
Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed
The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
BREAKING NEWS: Physicists Have Detected The Background Hum of The Universe trib.al/5xrEpuo
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
absolutely thrilled to report for @PopSci on @NANOGrav’s fabulous new result: the first detection of the gravitational wave background! popsci.com/science/gravitati…
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
This point from @chrislintott is one of my absolute favorite parts of @NANOGrav's work — can you imagine calling up JPL and being like, 'Yo we don't think you know where all the planets actually are"...?!
29 Jun 2023
This is a staggeringly difficult measurement - requiring, amongst much else, knowing the position of the centre of mass of the solar system to a precision of less than 100m. Previous results were confused because we didn't know where Jupiter was accurately enough (5/n)
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
A new window on the universe! Pulsar-timing arrays present evidence for a very-low-frequency gravitational wave background, consistent with a population of binary supermassive black holes throughout the universe.
arstechnica.com/science/2023…
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Q: Give me a nice analogy.
A: The Earth is a ship on a cosmic sea. Every once in a while, we’re hit by a wave, and we know something went by. But now, for the first time, we can start to see the choppiness of the entire ocean, and we’re learning what else lives in our sea.
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Dr Renée Spiewak retweeted
29 Jun 2023
So much fun to talk to @RobinsonErhardt about @NANOGrav and the future of gravitational waves!
youtu.be/Gy7X7Z9oqaI
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