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Rhiannon Silva
@rhiannonsilva.bsky.social
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Astrophysicist. Currently working on my second PhD on gravitational waves from black holes, at the Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University. They/any 🏳️‍🌈
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Nov 12
Resharing this gravitational waves starter pack because I've added more people now. If there's anyone still missing from it, please let me know.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d
@walkerbragman.bsky.social was a delightful hang and fantastic guest!
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · 14d
"If we portray breakthroughs as purely human triumphs, we reinforce an outdated view in which machines are just tools."

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profannawatts.bsky.social Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 14d
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 14d
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 18d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 22d
This is, as they say, weak sauce.
royalsociety.org The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 22d
"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...
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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 23d
"Millisecond pulsars, whilst remarkably stable, may not be the perfect timekeepers we once thought they were"

New research by @cosmicrami.com outlines how a pulsar throwing a tantrum could impact precision timing experiments.

www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls...

#SpaceAustralia

📸 NASA SVS

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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · 23d
Helen will always be an inspiration to me.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 25d
Berkeley Lab: Honoring the Legacy of George Smoot

elements.lbl.gov/news/honorin... 🧪 #Cosmology
A portrait of Nobel Prize cosmologist George Smoot.
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 23
Sadly, my main exposure to Welsh these days is listening to Radio Cymru in the car.
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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Sep 23
How embarrassing to have someone from an institution with an extremely well respected medieval studies department sign this utter utter garbage.
katjathieme.bsky.social Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · Sep 22
What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.
30 the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified aim of excluding males who identify as female in par- ticular. Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move- ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche- mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though many others are not. This difference in attitudes starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche- mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind lingering doubts about the possibility of converting iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac- cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi- cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 23
"Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe." No thanks.
katjathieme.bsky.social Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · Sep 22
What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.
30 the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified aim of excluding males who identify as female in par- ticular. Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move- ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche- mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though many others are not. This difference in attitudes starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche- mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind lingering doubts about the possibility of converting iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac- cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi- cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · Sep 21
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Sep 20
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Sep 19
Amid budget uncertainty, NASA gets some good news: Use House funding levels
The House budget still cuts science at NASA, but not as deeply as the White House sought.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · Sep 19
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 19
I didn't want to read this book and now I don't have to, thanks to @nateo.bsky.social . See his thread below to find out more about just how stupid this book is.
nateo.bsky.social Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · Sep 15
Months of waiting but my review copy of The War on Science has arrived.

I read Krauss’ introduction. What the fuck happened to this man? He comes off as incapable of basic research, argument, basic scholarship.

He sounds stupid.

I look into strange claims he makes and they’re demonstrably false
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 19
Did he even google the word "biophobia" to see if it had already been used and already had a meaning before he decided to give it a new meaning?
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 19
Amazing.
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 19
LOL
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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · Sep 13
This is a wonderful mini (< 10 min) documentary about @ligo.org and the first gravitational wave detection 10 (!) years ago, made by my former colleagues at @uofgravity.bsky.social.
I love the inclusion of all the broader scientific applications of the technology.

youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c?...
University of Glasgow celebrates 10th anniversary of first gravitational wave detection
YouTube video by University of Glasgow
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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · Sep 18
She might even be worse. I saw a video of them talking about marriage and Charlie couldn't get a word in. She was talking about how wives should be submissive to their husbands but it looked like she was the boss in that relationship.
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👻 Prof. Ghosty Neilsen 👻 @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · Sep 17
Super cool new results from NASA/JAXA/ESA's X-ray telescope XRISM on a surprisingly strong recurring wind from the neutron star GX 13+1. This was a year of hard work from paper leads Chris Done, Ryota Tomaru, Misaki Mizumoto (and someone else 😇). Open access paper is linked in the comments. ⚛️🧪🔭
XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling superma...
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 17
This number one tip on this advisory is to set public online profiles to private when facing harassment, which bsky does not allow, and which really should’ve been a feature implemented on day 1.
Top Five Tips for Engaging with Social Media 1. Set your personal social media accounts to private mode. setting to make all previous posts private. (From AAUP)
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Sep 13
A new mini-documentary by our colleagues at @uofgravity.bsky.social celebrating the 10th anniversary of our first detection and the progress in #GravitationalWave astronomy

youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c

#GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️🎢
University of Glasgow celebrates 10th anniversary of first gravitational wave detection
YouTube video by University of Glasgow
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