Asad Hussain Salvatore Vitale Ignacio Magana Marios Kalomenopoulos Carl-Johan Haster storm explains how normalizing flows can be used to interpolate population synthesis simulations between fixed training points in order to perform continuous inference on BBH formation channels using GW data (with Michael Zevin Christopher Berry)

im at #AprilAPS putting togather summaries of interesting science here daily with some of my fellow astrobiters! check out the first day's coverage here, including highlights from multi-messenger science, talks from Sylvia Biscoveanu, Floor Broekgaarden 💫, and Justin Myles.

From astrobites: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues.

astrobites.org/2024/03/27/ast…

'As astronomers & members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering & devastation inflicted on our colleagues [...] US scientists especially should consider how their work perpetuates harm caused by collaborations between academia & the military.'

From Storm Colloms: Learn how greedy stars can store overflow matter to eat later in today's bite!
astrobites.org/2024/03/18/ham…

#LIGOMagazine issue 24 is out now! We catch up with #ObservingRun4 news, celebrate with LISA Mission, discuss parenting in academia, chat climate change, explore the Tactile Universe & more!

Read all about it at: ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-…
LIGO EGO & the Virgo Collaboration KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a #GravitationalWave candidate in O4... 🤔

Image by Storm Colloms (storm) with Rapid Response Team managers Francesco Di Renzo, Keita Kawabe, Hisaaki Shinkai, Peter Shawhan

ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-…

LIGO EGO & the Virgo Collaboration KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory

From Storm Colloms (storm): Are your fairy lights being warped by a black hole this holiday season? Find out in today's post!

astrobites.org/2023/12/09/bla…

I had a lot of fun writing this comprehensive guide to Gravitational Waves with Jessie Thwaites. Featuring all possible spacetime rumblers seeked by detectors like LIGO EGO & the Virgo Collaboration NANOGrav PFC International Pulsar Timing Array, it's mind-boggling how much progress this field has made in a few short years!

highlight of tonights powerpoint karaoke was when my friend defined chirp mass as 'the amount of mass needed for a black hole to form if it is made out of birds'

If you're a US-based STEM graduate student interested in science communication and want to change your life (for real), apply for the AAAS mass media fellowship! It has opened up a world of new experiences for me and I cannot, I repeat, cannot recommend it enough 😇

Applications are now open for the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund for full/part-time graduates wishing to study towards a doctorate in physics from groups that are currently under-represented in physics. Find out more about the fund: iop.org/about/news/bel…

From Sahil Hegde: Today’s authors take a quantitative look at the role of diversity in scientific research! astrobites.org/2023/09/28/qua…

Oddly enough, one of the best ways to learn about dark matter is through its interaction with light.

(Gravitationally!)

You can explore, and learn about, gravitational lensing in The Hunt for Dark Matter web app gravitational-lensing.explored.info

#SciArt competition: In 2025, UofG Institute for Gravitational Research are hosting the GR & Amaldi meetings. We would like *you* to design a conference logo. Institute of Physics are kindly sponsoring a £250 prize! Deadline is 09:50 GMT 14 September

More info: gla.ac.uk/schools/physic…

my latest bite up on Saturday about stellar magicians 🪄😶‍🌫️🌟✴️

my first ever paper is up on the arxiv! here's my work on biases in hierarchical bayesian inference of gravitational-wave data with astrophysical models :)
arxiv.org/abs/2307.03129

this is great 😂

Thoughtful and sobering insight from Eliot Walton (she/her) about the non-male experience of physics; I recommend reading the astrobites piece as an appetiser before diving into the arXiv paper astrobites.org/2023/06/02/gue…