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YouTube video by University of Glasgow University of Glasgow celebrates 10th anniversary of first gravitational wave detection

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 🔭🧪⚛️🎢

A portrait of Professor Sir James Hough

Professor Sir James Hough of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social, one of our longest-serving and most distinguished researchers, will receive the Baird of Bute Innovation Award todayAport for his work in gravitational research.

Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers from @uofgravity.bsky.social and @uofgphysastro.bsky.social led the analysis of data from 128 gravitational wave detections made by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration.

Read more about the results, published in a new preprint catalogue paper, here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

That's a wrap!
We've had hundreds of talks from scientists from all across the world over the last two weeks, but it's finally time to say goodbye.

On behalf of everyone on the organising committee, thank you for coming!

#GR22Amaldi16

Les Guthman’s new documentary “Squeezed Light” is showing as a sneak peak at the GR Amaldi Conference in Glasgow

If you’re at the GR- Amaldi Conference in Glasgow this week, here’s our new film, “Squeezed Light” showing as a sneak peak on 2 monitors! 🧪

Tonight @cmundell.bsky.social is delivering a public lecture here in Glasgow for the #GR24Amaldi16 conference, where we're learning about the ambitions of @esa.int to further gravitational wave science with the future LISA observatory.

There's still space, just show up at the Armadillo! Apologies for the website claiming there are no more tickets.

While the website says tickets are sold out there is space; just show up!

Spaces are still available for tonight's talk by @uofglasgow.bsky.social alum @cmundell.bsky.social in the SEC Armadillo at 7:30pm tonight.

We're honoured that parliamentarians recognised the work we've been doing with @scienceceilidh.bsky.social to communicate gravitational waves via dance this week in a Scottish Parliament motion.

www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...

Good Morning Scotland - 15/07/2025 - BBC Sounds The latest news from home and abroad, along with sport, travel and weather updates.

With #GR24Amaldi16 underway in the city, Dr Andrew Spencer from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social spoke to Radio Scotland today about the gravitational wave-inspired Scottish country dance he and colleagues have developed with @scienceceilidh.bsky.social.

Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

GW231123 was weird and wonderful: you can read the take from @philplait.bsky.social on our latest discovery announcement here.

The Armadillo building in Glasgow - a white building with layered panels a bit like an armadillo

Kicking off day 2 of #GR24Amaldi16 in the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow!

A chance to show the world Glasgow’s scientific expertise This week Glasgow welcomes scientists from around the world for the GR–Amaldi conference, the premier meeting for gravitational physics and…

"The #GR24Amaldi16 conference is an opportunity to show the world Glasgow’s scientific expertise," writes @cplberry.bsky.social of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social in @heraldscotland.bsky.social, as gravitational wave researchers gather in the city.

Read more here: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2529...

Springer Nature books & journals display

Springer Nature books & journals display

Springer Nature books & journals display

All set up! Meet us at GR24 & Amaldi16 in Glasgow!

link.springer.com/journal/1071...

#GR24Amaldi26 @springernature.com

GW231123 signal in data from the LIGO Hanford (left) and Livingston (right) detectors. The top panels show the amplitude of the data over time (grey traces). The shaded blue band shows an estimate of the true signal. The bottom panels are spectrograms, also known as time-frequency maps, which show the signal amplitude over time (horizontal axis) and across frequencies (vertical axis). Brighter colors represent a stronger signal.

The most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves have been discovered by scientists, with some of the analyses carried out by an international team led by an astrophysicist from @uofgravity.bsky.social.

Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

#GR24Amaldi16

Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli FRSE standing at a rostrum speaking in front of a logo for the GR-Amaldi conference.

Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli FRSE, Principle of the University of Glasgow, welcomes us to the conference, and reminds us that Glasgow is a friendly city as well as a world-leading city of science.

A photograph of Bailie Hanif Raja standing at a rostrum with the GR-Amaldi logo projected behind him.

Bailie Hanif Raja welcomes everyone on this "not-so-bright" but early morning, on behalf of the Provost of the City of Glasgow.

On the agenda today: the @ligo.org-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration are announcing the discovery of the heaviest black hole binary seen so far!

www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

It's a slightly wet and rainy start to GR-Amaldi, but we're excited to see everyone arriving, and to be the world's centre of gravity for the next week

#GRAmaldiGlasgow

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It's time to boldly go... Into the lecture theatre for @drerinmac.bsky.social's talk.

Let us know if there's someone we should be focusing on today, or if there's a page about GR, gravity, or gravitational waves you think should be added or expanded!

An image of the round reading room at the University of Glasgow. The building is a circular room with art-deco architecture and details. People are sitting at computers on circular benches arranged concentrically, and a presenter is standing next to a screen.

Our GR-Amaldi activities continue today as we host our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in the round reading room at @uofglasgow.bsky.social.

We're aiming to add and improve pages about gravitational scientists, especially from under-represented groups.

Is General Relativity a Strange New World to you? Do you feel like you're left on the Lower Decks while spacetime is a realm just for a Prodigy?

Well let's change that: Tonight Erin MacDonald: Science Advisor will be introducing us to spacetime and gravitation in Star Trek.

New Scottish 'cosmic country' dance set to celebrate Einstein discovery Glasgow University scientists have developed a new dance mimicking ripples of spacetime first theorised by Albert Enstein.

We all love a ceilidh, and we're excited to see that our astronomy-inspired dance moves are building up a buzz around Glasgow!

news.stv.tv/west-central...

Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.

More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q

#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social

🔊Calling #Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - cancel your Sun night plans & book a free ticket to see the Star Trek science advisor and Astrophysicist @drerinmac.bsky.social talk about Spacetime as part of the world's largest scientific conference on gravity 🤓🤗 🖖
Everyone is welcome! 🔭
🎟️: iop.eventsair.com/gr24-amaldi1...

We've been working with the fantastic @scienceceilidh.bsky.social to turn our science into dance.

We're looking forward to taking this around Scotland later in the year to introduce our science through ceilidh.

But first we'll be introducing ceilidh to scientists via science.

Pictured in central grouping surrounded by dancers, left to right: Dr Andrew Spencer, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow; Lewis Hou, Founder and Director of Science Ceilidh; and Dr Christopher Berry, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow. Photo credit: Chris James

We're preparing to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves in September.

www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

As part of this we've created a new ceilidh dance which will be debuted during next week's GR-Amaldi conference in Glasgow!