Jeffrey Hazboun

I love being in a large collaboration, but there are cons.

What a neat time to be an assistant professor 😭

For a pop sci video I did for WIRED. So basically YouTube comments and tweets.

So how do my #scicomm colleagues handle "the comments"? (like the semi-anonymous internet kind)

What level of interaction do people engage in?

Physicist Answers Physics Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED Physicist Jeffrey Hazboun visits WIRED to answer the internet's swirling questions about physics. How does one split an atom? Is light a wave or a particle.....

I tried my hand at some large scale outreach. It was frankly a bit unnerving 🤪 But thanks to the folks at WIRED is was really fun!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65m...

Meme that features two panels. On the left are two women who are clearly upset. Above them the words "40 years of MSP literature by prominent scientists" are annotated. On the right is a white cat sitting in a black leather chair, pulling a smirk face. Above it are the words "Me: "MSPs are not all that stable" annotated.

I have my first formal PhD meeting with a panel of scientists in a few hours, where I have to present my work so far (first 6 months, research plan, etc.) and be locked into the candidature.

My topic for my PhD is 'The Ongoing Stability of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs)"

Will go down like this:

"But dad those all come from the same animal!"

"Yeah right Lisa, a wonderful magical animal."

Sugar maple tree showing its fall colors; greens, reds, oranges and yellows.

This time of year I am drawn to every sugar maple tree like a beacon. They feed my soul. Thankfully there are a few on the #oregonstate campus!

#newyorker_in_oregon

Man standing in a field talking about the eclipse with a very overcast sky holding a bright orange soccer ball.

Man standing on a box in a field talking about the eclipse with a very overcast sky holding a bright orange soccer ball.

Well, here in Oregon I had to use a bright orange soccer ball as a stand in for old Sol. #oregonstate_astro

Continued analysis on the continuous search for continuous waves (continued) Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expe…

From William Lamb: Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have! 🔭

astrobites.org/2023/10/12/c...

Fantastic astrobites article featuring results from my latest first-author paper! I’m using this as an excuse to shamelessly promote our paper, which demonstrates how much we can learn about SMBHB populations and evolution from Continuous Waves and GWB anisotropy. 🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2309.07227

My white-ass looking sister got shoved and elbowed in the face today for getting in a semi-heated argument while holding a "Free Palestine" sticker near some Palestinian students tabling. The assailant wasn't even part of the conversation!

This is getting to post 9/11 levels of Arabaphobia.

Any idea what the albedo of the moon is in radio?

This is so cool!

A blue cloudy moon with a bright flash of light in the middle.

Can you believe this is the Moon?!

Captured in radio by CSIRO's ASKAP telescope.

The bright spot at the centre is the equivalent of Earth shine, but in radio waves .. and it is reflecting all of humanity's transmissions (TV, phones, radar etc.). 🧪🔭📡

📸 E. Lenc, V. Moss, K. Bannister, D. Price

Tee shirt with a print that shows a series of pulsar signals, stacked vertically, and running from the bottom of the shirt upwards. At the top of the chain of signals, is a series of large waves with three long canoes. The print is combining the images that appeared on an album cover from Joy Division as well as a famous 1830s Japanese artwork.

Pulsar timing astronomers - you like?!

New tee arrived yesterday and it merges together two excellent pop culture pieces with some beautiful science.

I call it: ‘The Gravitational Wave Background’ 🌊📡〰️〰️〰️〰️🔵

Can’t wait to wear this in summer just so I can talk about the GWB to randoms.
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You can get away with saying whatever you want as long as you have a conditional in title.

I was thinking Hot Toddy which is whiskey, lemon juice and either hot water or tea in fairly equal amounts. It's definitely less weird than mulled wine, and does well in a small thermos skiing! But I would almost always rather my whisker cold.

What are your feelings about warm whiskey drinks?

Split image. On left is a radio chart showing a squiggly line annotated with the date and sky reference, of where the pulsar was detected. On the right is a woman standing with a chart in her hand, with a large radio telescope in the background.

A woman wearing a hood, sitting by a red and white stripped tent, and working on instrumentation, while a man is stood up and working on connecting wires to metallic poles.

Obvs biased, but still think this has been one of the biggest game changers in modern astronomy. A whole new type of star that complements stellar evolution models and gives us a fantastic lab to test GR!

And now ... gravitational wave backgrounds!

📸CSIROpedia & University of Cambridge

Air force had early warning of pulsars - Nature Staff sergeant spotted neutron star before astronomers.

Fascinating story of how an 81-year-old former Air Force chap has come forward to announce he saw pulsars well before they were discovered but could not talk about it for half a century until instrument was decommissioned.

Bell Burnell agrees with him! 🔭🧪

https://www.nature.com/articles/448974a