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Just got sent the ad for Chenchen's textbook on Machine Learning in Physics & Astronomy today from Princeton University Press!! 💕📖

For the latest edition of our research group blog, postdoc Dr. Sheridan Lloyd tests whether ChatGPT is poised to replace him as an astrophysicist! Rise of the Machines... seramarkoff.com/2023/06/rise-o…

There's a really nice science event for the public in a few weeks at the lovely ARTIS, I'll be speaking along with several of my colleagues to celebrate our institute's 10th bday! Please join us!

This was one of the nicest public events I've done, mixing science with incredible music by arthur jeffes and mindblowing visuals by Julius Horsthuis! A great way to celebrate GRAPPA Centre at 10 years!

Check out the new research group blog post by PhD student Wanga Mulaudzi! Hot off the trail from two exciting international trips to Asia: Science Enables Globetrotting! seramarkoff.com/2023/07/scienc…

Inspirational weekend at #SciFoo where I met astrophysicist Sera Markoff (@profsera.bsky.social) (1st black hole pic-LOVE her dress : ) and reproductive justice anthropologist/author of Period: @KateClancy, and many more! Gave lightning talk on HG and session Pregnancy, Periods, Perimenopause!

I've basically been out of here awhile, off to the blue skies for now. If you are looking for an invite to the other place, particularly if you are a PoC or other URM, lmk! I've got a few...

Our August editorial: Introducing the Nature Reviews Physics Advisory Board. We welcome Prabeer Barpanda, Linda Cremonesi (now on bsky), Yonit Hochberg, Sera Markoff (@profsera.bsky.social), Monica Morales-Masis, Juan Perilla, @tiwarylab, Jianwei Wang & Xiaofei Yang nature.com/articles/s4225…

It's probably too late for most people but after a summer hiatus we are back with research group blog posts, this time by PhD student León Sosapanta Salas, who points out some interesting non-nuclear bomb work of Oppenheimer: Read this before watching Oppenheimer seramarkoff.com/2023/08/read-t…

New research group blog by PhD student León S. Salas, that has some nice links to both science outreach about black holes using music as well as scientific visualisations! Visualizing Black Holes seramarkoff.com/2023/10/visual…

This is a tardy reposting of a new PhD student in my group's first research blog post, Subhrat Praharaj! In this post he talks about sonification, where we 'convert' light into sound for eg. vision-impaired people to understand: seramarkoff.com/2023/11/unders…

Another research group blog post, by recently started MSc student Ruby Duncan, with some personal reflections on research and some tips for citizen-scientists who want to get involved! Reflections on Research, for scientists and non-scientists alike: seramarkoff.com/2023/12/reflec…

It's always a joy to meet a brilliant scientist, in this case a very special one who helped pave the way for the rest of us!

Looking for a postdoc position modelling (astrophysical) black holes in Amsterdam? Look no more! Please pass on to anyone you know who might be interested! jobregister.aas.org/ad/dcc7bb17

I’m teaching a MSc course “Extreme Astrophysics” and a luminary of our field (Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of pulsars, for which her advisor got a Nobel…) gave a talk my students attended. Not only could they understand it, they also got this magnificent selfie with her!!

As the ring turns: our first Event Horizon 'Scope 2018 results are out and check it out: the ring has shifted around the black hole! We're not entirely sure what it means but we have a few ideas, stay tuned for the Theory & Interpretation paper coming soon!

As if there wasn't enough to celebrate with the new Event Horizon 'Scope results today, I just saw that my GRAPPA Centre and Anton Pannekoek Institute colleague Samaya Nissanke (she/her) 🕊️❤️ has just been awarded the AAS High Energy Mid-Career prize for her work on multi-messenger astrophysics!! 🎉🎉🎉

Beste Kim Putters, In Nederland hebben we een groot aantal vrouwelijke hoogleraren en wetenschappers in alle takken van de Bestuurskunde en andere vakgebieden die voor dit formatieproces van belang zijn. Met het oog op de belangrijke opgave (1/2) nos.nl/liveblog/25095…

waarvoor u staat, is het een gemiste kans deze aan te vliegen met een line-up die in vele opzichten niet divers is. Dit moet en kan beter. Het LNVH is altijd bereid mee te denken over de samenstelling van dit soort delegaties. Een lijst met namen ligt klaar. (2/2)

This was hands down the funnest 🧪science🔭 panel I've ever done, getting to nerd out about the science of my fav sci-fi show The Expanse with one of its main actors (who should totally have a "nice off" with Keanu)!! Thx also to THE EXPANSE GEEKS for the cool swag! 🚀🙏