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Drumroll please….

Ok I was too tired last night (or rather, early this morning) to complete my report from Amsterdam/EHT “Pajama Central Command” outpost, sorry to leave the ~10 people reading this in suspense! It turned out to be quite a harrowing situation. Shep (the PI) referred to it as a more typical “angst-ridden” decision, because the […]

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Amsterdam Central Command

I am really excited, I get to participate in the go/no go decision tonight with EHT Central Command!! We’re going to decide if tomorrow is the big day for Sgr A* (remember, my favorite black hole), when we might observe for something like 10 hours. What is extra cool is that we have some overlapping

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As if it weren’t enough…

So the first EHT run last night has gone really well, though of course there were a few technical issues. I really enjoyed being on the Slack channel and following the communications in realtime from all the stations across the globe. Not to mention the snarky comments (people competing between SPT and LMT for being

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It’s on now!

The Event Horizon Telescope (see here for a nice article about the project) just triggered it’s first 2017 observation, the first ever with phased ALMA at its core, as well as several other facilities across the globe of the Earth!! Tonight we’ll be observing the tiniest scales ever seen before in “Track D”, which means

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It’s official!

I just got back from a month at UT Austin as a visiting Tinsley Scholar, which was great. Two years ago I went for three months as a Tinsley Professor, and got to bring part of my research group with me, but this time was a smaller scale visit. I started two projects that I

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Please make sure all your daughters read this (or any sexist bastard you know while we’re at it):

Ok, I realize that my language here is a bit politically incorrect, but sometimes you just can’t say it any other way. Prof. Fiona Harrison kicks ass! She’s professor and the current department chair at the Astronomy/Physics Dept at Caltech, one of the top universities in the world. But more importantly, she designed a friggin’

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Big subsidy for the group!!

I was thrilled to find out last week (around the time of the big Gravitational Wave detection!!) that I was awarded a Vici grant from the Dutch National Research Organization (NWO), basically 1.5 million Euros to hire 3 PhD students and 2 postdocs over the coming 5 years! The title of my proposal was ““From

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