Jake Postiglione

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court.

I do not say this lightly.

🧵 Thread about how the NSF GRFP eligibility policy change is bad for science, but especially bad for bridge program students:

My first 1st author paper is published!

Explainer thread from when it originally went live on arXiv quoted! 🔭🧪

Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by a Supermassive Black Hole
doi.org/10.3847/1538...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

Take away the only thing they care about.

Hi @crittermamma6.bsky.social

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Hey! Leave my senator alone!

The Honorable Chuck has done many impactful things during my life. Like speaking at all of my graduations, and even interrupting my college graduation by stopping the processional half-way since he had to leave early (hes a very busy man).

👀 incoming Mastcam mosaic / Stereo3D view of this most peculiar rock. Stay tuned!

rkinnett.github.io/roverpics/?m... @rkinnett.bsky.social #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci

a man in a plaid shirt and tie is sitting in front of a computer monitor with a fire behind him Alt: Clip from The IT Crowd where Moss, a man played by Richard Ayoade in a plaid shirt and tie is sitting in front of a computer monitor, trying to focus on work while sometimes glazing at a fire burning next to his desk in the office.

I love having a job where nearly every day I look at thousands of images we took of outer space, with their stars and galaxies and all, but the contrast with the situation down here has me like…

Screenshot of a headline from Jacobin magazine. It reads: "Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale by Zohran Mamdani At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here."

Screenshot of a NYTimes headline that reads: "Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering to support former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.” There's a photo of Andrew Cuomo and another man entering a building.

Choose your fighter.

Black bubble letters on light orange background reading: This meeting could have been a fist fight.

I feel so seen: @jakepost.tech got me this sticker which now lives on my laptop!

😂🤣😂

Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.

Just finished teaching my first in-person class after two semester of being online.

We’ll see how the rest of the semester goes, but the first day was awesome! Students were super engaged (for an 8am lab) and polite, we had great discussions, and only one student took my whole pad of sticky notes 😂

Find the friends you can talk to, I promise we’re here 🫂

Talk to a chatbot if you find yourself in mental crisis. No wait, call 911 & have the cops shoot you. No wait, call 988 & have a social worker lock you in the psych ward. The options are shit & if the culture didn’t hate the mad they wouldn’t be.

So, what can we say about the latest GWTC 4 catalogue?
In some ways, it's not too surprising, it's a 'firming up' of the clues we were getting from GWTC 3. But there's a couple of neat things: So, AGN channel perspective follows
1/n

Ok so my comment on GWTC4 & associated rates & pops paper (2508.18083) is: if you model redshift evolution purely as a power law, you can only get a single value slope. If you model it with a spline (as they do in Fig 10 below), it rises pretty steeply to z~1, then flattens.

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So, @xevra.world leads a great paper out today on arXiv
arxiv.org/abs/2508.13412
on how the recent event GW231123 detected by @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social could've happened in an AGN.
With @saavikford.bsky.social @spacekaila.bsky.social @astrowithemily.bsky.social @jakepost.tech & McFACTS crew!

After getting my first tattoo I can confidently say extensive allergy tests are way worse and you don’t get a fun sticker to take home just hives

And here we go, spotted in the wild: a Bluesky user (member of the public) who read this piece and thinks ChatGPT developed new antibiotics - it *absolutely* did not.

Overusing the term "AI" is bad science communication. 🧪

Do you think he wanted Greenland because it *looks* big on a map?

Good Charlotte just released a new album!?

If thats not a recession indicator, I don’t know what is

Instagram automatically turning on location tracking AND it being viewable by followers is one of the dumbest features I’ve ever seen added to an app.

Like whoever thought “let’s add a doxing feature” to the app where people already get doxed for what they support is fucking insane.

Hey everyone! Please congratulate @jakepost.tech on passing his oral qualifier with flying colors!! He is now a level II PhD student @cuny.edu Grad Center in the Physics PhD program!!

Also, did you know you* can write a whole science talk using a game rendering engine?!?

*you=Jake—I cannot do this

I think its about time we get a new, over engineered, email protocol

always 🙃

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