Bernard Kelly (he/him/his)

I'm a computational astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, interested in black-hole mergers and their consequences. Views are my own.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@aletoowelll @Glasz_Half_Full @slimeguyethan Where on the printer? On my small desktop laserjet, the feed tray has markings for various paper sizes, and I'd have to move the guide walls in a little if I was switching from US Letter to A4.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@janerrigby @desikanarayanan This is where the "turtles all the way down" cosmology models really came from.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@jorgepullin @LIGOLA Judging by hieroglyphs I've seen, this is exactly how they operated forklifts when building the pyramids.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@pbugprints @clayhepler @NbergWX I think that falls under *how* do people live in Florida.

... or really, anywhere south of Kansas.

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@TSHamiltonAstro @natalieben @marksandspencer @sainsburys @Tesco Needs, no.

Wants, though ...

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@Age_of_Greed @weather_katie Like the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees at you?

https://t.co/P4olO5WC0j

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@jorgepullin We restyled after GW150914: https://t.co/lsBXsdD7CS

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

Lasers are red,
Planets are blue.
Gravitational waves are purple,
Because wireframes are harder than getting poetry to scan.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@s0Disillusioned @skdh I think the Peace Prize has hardly ever been awarded to actual peacemakers. More often, it's been awarded to individuals who've promoted some kind of justice, possibly echoing MLK:

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@katrinagulliver @T3DR05 @jwoLondon @jburnmurdoch In Ireland, PR used ranked choice in each multi-seat constituency.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@jwoLondon @jburnmurdoch I was looking at the past few UK general election results on Wikipedia yesterday, and this kind of huge mismatch in votes/seats has happened before. Only two or three election cycles ago, the Tories had ~36% of the vote, but still an overall majority of seats, which is ludicrous.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@AndrasGaspar @astrojaz @matplotlib Gnuplot is what I start with, especially when examining data on a remote machine over X11. But when I want something cleaner & fancier for a presentation or publication, I move to matplotlib.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@heele760563 @kettupoika @kitten_beloved The whole concept of Hogwarts as an educational establishment is impractical. If the kids' schedules are dedicated 100% to magic (as it appears from the books), where do they learn basic "normal" stuff? Or are they stuck at primary level for all that?

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@janerrigby "Seafood"?

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

The first of a few meme reviews I did for #BlackHoleWeek .

[NOIRLab @NOIRLabAstro]

Meme Review: Astrophysicist Edition?! 🤯

It’s ⚫#BlackHoleWeek! To celebrate this hole-some week, we asked astrophysicists from @NOIRLabAstro and @NASAGoddard to review some viral memes 👀

Follow us & @NASAUniverse for another meme review coming up this week!
🎬NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@lnvestiqate @NASAUniverse ... and indeed the entire opening credits for that film (one of my favorites).

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@jennpiscopo @FromPhDtoLife My university gets me to use one of their approved travel agents, who then book the same flights I found on Expedia & suggested to them. That said, they only charge a $24 fee to do this, rather than a big percentage markup.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

@eedobarganes @ManuelaCampane1 @Dr_CMingarelli @RIT_CCRG Suddenly Stargate seems much more prescient.

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

After a while, everything starts to resemble a Hubble or #JWST image.

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

A new step toward understanding the secrets of cuttlefish camouflage https://t.co/Vi3zQsJF3w

[Bernard Kelly (he/him/his) @physicsbeany]

I'd like this 3D visualization of GW propagation more if it didn't resemble digestive peristalsis quite so much.

[Sophia Gad-Nasr @Astropartigirl]

We've detected a Gravitational Wave Background (GWB). Gravitational waves are formed from some of the most energetic processes in the Universe, like black hole mergers, or inflation! So, what does the GWB mean?

(GIF source: https://t.co/m8yWgW8Vsv)

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