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Astrophysicist and BoV Research Prof at @NUCIERA | Gravitational Waves | Humans of @LIGO curator | Meme enthusiast | Husband | IG: @/actualdrdoctor | He/him

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As someone with a PhD, I can say that you do not need a PhD. You need a PhD and a postdoc (or two) and hundreds of citations and tens of papers and a significant other willing to move with you every few years and
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@CatRoyans Fixed it
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Who wants to be my thousandth follower? Here are some reasons to follow me: - My name is Dr. Doctor - My name is Dr. Doctor - My name is Dr. Doctor - I tweet about astrophysics - Did I mention my name is Dr. Doctor?
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AT LONG LAST! Pulsar timing arrays show evidence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background! Itโ€™s likely the signature of many orbiting supermassive black holes across the universe ๐Ÿคฏ What does this all mean? A little ๐Ÿงตโ€ฆ
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all these people who arenโ€™t wearing masks are vectors and itโ€™s making me tensor
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hi i am a gravitational physicist and still have to look up the units of big G on wikipedia every time
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Mom with the jokes
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I hate apps. I donโ€™t want to download your app to do a one-time task which could be achieved in a browser
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Alright let's hear your best TECH hot takes. Like the ones you agree with to bump them to the top ๐Ÿ‘€
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@HungryScribbler Hot dog salad I literally ate a salad with cut up pieces of hot dog in it for lunch ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Yโ€™all will code in Python to write a paper and then call yourself โ€œfirst authorโ€ instead of โ€œzeroth authorโ€ smh
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5โ€™11โ€ guys, youโ€™re not fooling anyone, we see you rounding up
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Behold! No more image cropping!
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Name a bigger upgrade
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Only real ones get this
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i heard ellenโ€™s replacement is log10
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To other young scientists: It's always good to remind yourself that it's okay not to understand something the first time. Or the second. Or the third. The important thing is to keep trying to understand and to ask those around you for clarification if you're confused.
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Canโ€™t believe an apple fell on Newtonโ€™s head and he thought it was due to a gravitational force rather than the curvature of spacetime. Rookie mistake
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Quantum mechanics and general relativity have been irreconcilable โ€” until now! I just put out a new pre-print describing a path to reconciling the two theories, and it was right under our noses the whole time! Hereโ€™s a link to the pre-print [1/2]
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did you like being a physics major? ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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Wonder how Einstein would feel if he saw a bunch of us learn GR in a quarter of grad school and then spend the rest of our careers dealing with software package dependencies
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Whatโ€™s the difference between quantum mechanics and rock-hard abs? One requires Planckโ€™s constant, and the other, constant planks.
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Physics fan: Oh oh oh! Albert Einstein, Iโ€™m your biggest fan! So nice to meet you! Can I get your signature? Einstein: - + + +
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Hot take: All recipe blogs should have an abstract at the top that is just the recipe.
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imposter syndrome is like โ€œoh, youโ€™re not even good at the one thing youโ€™re good atโ€
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I learned physics and then forgot it
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A friendly reminder to everyone who is applying for things: Your acceptances/rejections are not a measure of your self-worth! You have a lot to offer, even if you don't get an offer.
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Forget Twitter, letโ€™s all chat in one shared Overleaf
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If academia doesnโ€™t work out I guess Iโ€™ll become a priest. As they say, publish or parish.
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Incoming!
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Astronomy cliches ranked: 1. We are star stuff 2. We are the universe knowing itself 3. Gravitational waves are a new window on the universe 4. Weโ€™re just a floating speck of dust 5. I have no friends
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deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old-fashioned way (orbiting each other, slowly coming together due to gravitational-wave emission, finally touching in a violent merger that shakes the fabric of spacetime before ringing down to a kerr black hole)
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Yโ€™all are not ready to hear this
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@Herbianaa Turtle business card is also great. then the person will always remember you as they care for the turtle for its lifetime ๐Ÿ˜‚
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People pay govt Govt pays scientists Scientists pay journals Jฬถoฬถuฬถrฬถnฬถaฬถlฬถsฬถ ฬถgฬถiฬถvฬถeฬถ ฬถpฬถeฬถoฬถpฬถlฬถeฬถ ฬถaฬถcฬถcฬถeฬถsฬถsฬถ ฬถtฬถoฬถ ฬถaฬถrฬถtฬถiฬถcฬถlฬถeฬถsฬถ People pay journals
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I'm extremely easy on myself so I figured I'd list some things I used to know but that I donโ€™t anymore: Classical mech Thermo Stat mech Quantum mech QFT Complex analysis Special relativity Solid state Electrodynamics Particle physics What I want to be when I grow up
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applying for academic jobs dating ๐Ÿค getting ghosted
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Doing model selection based on what sparks joy
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Officially Dr. Doctor! Taking recommendations for twitter handle changes.
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One of the worst things you can take away from a physics degree is the notion that reductionist thinking based on simple principles is the best approach to understanding everything.
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Hello new followers! You came for my name, but now you're gonna get some astrophysics: Collisions of neutron stars may expel heavy elements like gold. So some of your jewelry might have been produced from neutron stars colliding in our galaxy millions of years ago!
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WHY DOES IT FEEL COLD TO GET INTO A POOL AND ALSO TO GET OUT OF A POOL EXPLAIN THAT LORD KELVIN
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The CDC is now saying that the divergence of a curl is non-zero
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Physicists: I like to think out of the box. Iโ€™m not a sheep. Also physicists:
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Everyone can be happy
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It seems to be missing friends of Jeffrey Epsteinโ€ฆ
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I learned quantum field theory before I understood what a deductible is
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Why does my brain retain these things instead of literally anything else???
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Pay up โ€” you know who you are
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Physicistโ€™s nightmare
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Olympic Computational Sprinters Scientists ๐Ÿค โ€œMy job is runningโ€
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THE COPS WHO MURDERED BREONNA TAYLOR HAVE STILL NOT BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE
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If youโ€™re a STEM major, donโ€™t neglect humanities classes! Beyond the important content of these courses, learning to write clearly and quickly is an invaluable skill that will benefit you in your scientific endeavors.
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Every poster at a conference should have a different snack to sample, just like at Costco
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Fixed it
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Yum ๐Ÿคค
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This is a real email I got yesterday
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Please, dear scientists, let's keep using Twitter for only sharing memes and shitposts. I mean, that was the original motivation to start using Twitter among scientists right? For the rest you can still use publications and email.
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Who else does this?
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STEM teachers: guessing and checking is not the way to get the answer. All of machine learning:
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sorry babe, vim stays ON during sex (couldnโ€™t figure out how to exit)
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0: position 1: velocity 2: acceleration ... 9: corn
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Physicists be like
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Not true! We model stuff all the time.
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Donโ€™t bring a gun to a quantum fight, bring aโ€ 
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The one-year wedding anniversary is known as the "paper anniversary," so like a good academic I wrote my wife a paper about our marriage.
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Started out with a lot of potentialโ€ฆ
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Sometimes you have to reframe the problem
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Good morning to everyone except people who write โ€œlogโ€ without specifying the base
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All models are wrong, but some are pip installable
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Physicists when they see a chance to use spherical harmonics
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๐Ÿ‘ = xยฒ d๐Ÿ‘ = 2x dx โˆซ2x cos(xยฒ) dx = โˆซcos(๐Ÿ‘) d๐Ÿ‘ = sin(๐Ÿ‘) + C = sin(xยฒ) + C call that a ewe substitution
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Physics nursery rhymes: Mary had a little lambda Itsy bitsy spinor Old MacDonald had a far-field approximation Twinkle twinkle binary star system Baa baa black hole If youโ€™re |โ†‘ ใ€‰and you know it
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Astronomers will legit be like โ€œletโ€™s take the data from this perfectly engineered, multi-million-dollar space telescope and fit it with a power lawโ€
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A gravitational wave detector feels a bump in the night. Astronomers scramble to point their telescopes at the right location of the sky. They see a massive nuclear explosion in space. It is a gender reveal party.
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A handy chart for remembering which gravitational wave event is which
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Aladdin didnโ€™t need to flex this hard
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board? Me: Iโ€™m a PhD FA: Not that kind of doctor Me: My last name is also Doctor, so technically Iโ€™m Dr. Doโ€” FA: Sir, this man is dying
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Heading to Mexico, will eat one taco for every like this post gets
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When I visited MIT during college visits, our tour guide was like โ€œI got my acceptance to MIT on Pi Day, which I remember clearly because of course I was wearing my Pi Day t-shirt!โ€ and that was when I decided I didnโ€™t want to go to MIT.
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Field work is so exhausting ๐Ÿ˜ซ
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The last name โ€œDoctorโ€ helped me get my doctorate. Now Iโ€™m switching to โ€œGrantโ€ so I can get more grants. Itโ€™s only logical.
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@InertialObservr Gravitational wives
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Had this on repeat all year
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โ€œIโ€™m a physicist, I understand opticsโ€ ok well do you understand the optics of minorities saying that your department culture is toxic?
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If you run Zoom on a quantum computer, itโ€™s called โ€œspooky action at a social distanceโ€
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Hereโ€™s my public apology
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Love this example for going beyond empty apologies! ๐Ÿงก
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g-2 is 7.8 m/sยฒ donโ€™t @ me
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@chris_belcher Make sure theyโ€™re using a sativa so they donโ€™t fall asleep
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Iโ€™m a big fan of u substitution, but there is no substitution for u โค๏ธ
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Advisor: And what do we do when we have a bug in our code? Me: rm -rf Advisor: No
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Physics isnโ€™t the search for truth. Itโ€™s better thought of as problem solving using concepts like energy and momentum. Solutions in physics donโ€™t have to be โ€œthe truthโ€ or โ€œrigorousโ€ โ€” they just have to be commensurable with the problems at hand. 1/
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Are you really a Python programmer if you donโ€™t have a script called in every folder?
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Cosmologists: - make up models - study the Big Bang - learn to de-blend Cosmetologists: - put make up on models - cut big bangs - learn to blend
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Me as undergrad: wouldnโ€™t it be cool an equation was named after me? Me now: forget equations, wouldnโ€™t it be cool if I got a permanent job in a city I like?
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In the same way that we donโ€™t need to erect statues to powerful dead white men who often turn out to have been terrible, we donโ€™t need to name #physics equations and principles after powerful dead white men either! Equations of electromagnetism not Maxwell, eg.
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