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Junior Fellow @FlatironCCA @ColumbiaThea studying Black Holes & Gravitational Wave Paleontology Incoming Prof @JohnsHopkins '25 PhD from @CenterForAstro '23
Jul 20, 2022 โ€ข 24 tweets โ€ข 13 min read
A ๐Ÿงต with many resources for applying to *PostDocs* in Astrophysics ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘€ @AcademicChatter What resources do you recommend or did I forget? ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Šโ™ฅ๏ธ #SharingIsCaring Photo of an astronomer looking at the night sky, in the cent First: some "general" resources, that might provide a good overview of the application process (and how to decide whether you want to apply for a postdoc/fellowship):
Jul 18, 2022 โ€ข 5 tweets โ€ข 3 min read
Awesome paper by @Tomer_Shenar from @uva_api and co in @NatureAstronomy today, where they find an "unseen" ~9Msun BH around an O star outside our Milky Way. This might be the first of such BHs that won't be disputed given the properties + it suggests low SN kicks (& mass loss) paper which is written by a large team including @kjb_astro, @jbodenst3 @Paul_Crowther , @silvia_toonen and many twitter-less authors can be found: โ€ฆ-nature-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/s4155โ€ฆ