Shami Chatterjee

Fluffy dog lying on the carpet, face up close, eyes partly closed.

Looking at the sudden surge in people joining like …

Lovely op-ed by @astrokatie.com featuring our recent @nanograv.bsky.social results!

They’re skipping the collection of underpants and going straight to step 3, profit.
(It’s venture capital.)

Nice!

Join Us for our Live Briefing! | NANOGrav

The NANOGrav public briefing is live in a minute! https://nanograv.org/news/2023Announcement

Thanks to the efforts of the U.S. National Science Foundation's NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center a new milestone in gravitational wave detection can be reve... Vibrations in the Fabric of Spacetime

Here’s a nice video summarizing the NANOGrav result on the background hum of low frequency gravitational waves. https://youtu.be/c2EKbvnee3o

It’s been a long time coming!

News from pulsar timing arrays is hitting the big time! https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/28/gravitational-wave-background-nanograv/

Oh, this isn’t over! We want more, more, more.

😂😂😂

As black holes spiral around each other in the distant universe, Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric... Building a Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Wave Detector | Dr. Shami Chatterjee | Talks at Google

What's a pulsar timing array? How do you detect gravitational waves with that? Obviously I'm biased, but I think you could do worse than watch this talk I gave a few years ago. https://youtu.be/taeABpFjjQg You might even enjoy it!

On June 29th, we in the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) are announcing our results. The culmination of 15 years' work! The Australian (Parkes), European + Indian, and Chinese Pulsar Timing Arrays are also releasing their independent results on the same day.

Goofy dog lying upside down on the couch, legs sticking up.

We’re sorry, your dog has encountered a system exception and needs to be restarted.

A Bernedoodle (Bernese mountain dog - poodle mix). Both his parents were Bernedoodles. We needed a low-allergy dog but were warned off poodles as typically more high-strung.

Dog lying on the floor, snoot up close.

Quality canine content? Sure, here’s more Rocket. (Am I supposed to tag @darthbluesky.bsky.social for posts like this?)

It's a real shame. But that site is no longer usable for science stories, I think.

The NANOGrav collaboration has a big announcement coming up - people in our collaboration might already be talking to you about it.

Oof. Can't argue, but bad timing for us... :(

Photo of a dog with a big grin.

I’m told that a pet photo is required to start, so here’s Rocket.