Jonathan Williams
- UMD Astronomy
- https://www.astro.umd.edu/~jonvwill/
NSF Astronomical Sciences/Electromagnetic Spectrum Management · Astrophysicist · Engineer · Posts are my own.
Joined Dec 2017
@VelvetDuchess For the iOS issues, it looks like they acknowledged it, and sent out a patch at the beginning of December as part of iOS 11.2. So if you've already upgraded, you're good.
@skyflow3r You're very welcome. U.S. CERT publishes a weekly list of vulnerabilities, as well as bulletins for more serious issues.
Happy New Year, central timers!
@Botanic Lol! Happy New Year to you, too!
@Cdn_Tooter Hmmm...looks like a classic rock theme?
@SheepOverboard Nope. Though that can be fun!
@Shay And actually, there was more than one paper :) This one details the coincident gravitational wave and gamma ray detection: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa920c/pdf
@Shay The paper itself shortened the author list by listing a bunch of institutions. But it's available here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101
Jonathan Williams
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Happy New Year CoSo! Wishing good luck to everyone in 2018! Special thank you to @th3j35t3r for creating such an amazing platform. CoSo is going to rock in 2018!
@Jennifelroy Thank you!
Even when it seems like things might be going backwards, I think about the fact that we're now a species that can sense the warping of spacetime itself, and is on the verge of being able to control its own evolutionary destiny to an unimaginable degree.
And it's hard not to want to see how it all turns out.
So, along with everything else that happened in 2017, astrophysics had a discovery so big (neutron star merger-associated gravitational waves) that roughly 1/3 of living, active astrophysicists were listed as co-authors on the official paper.
In addition, gene editing/biomed engineering continues to make revolutionary discoveries monthly.
Science marches on. And 2018 won't be an exception.
Jonathan Williams
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Go outside. See that moon? It's the same one I'm looking at.
Online mediums like this can make us feel disconnected at times, but a little perspective can really do wonders at bringing us all together.
So go. Look at the moon, and never forget. We are all here. On this tiny spinning rock. Together.
Happy New Year, my friends. 🍻 https://counter.social/media/wH0SLQzQd7KupfU2MWM
@JCWilder I'm...not quite sure how to handle this. But I'm sure it will work out.
Wow - OK, this is going to take some getting used to :) Thank you for the warm welcome, all!
Jonathan Williams
- UMD Astronomy
- https://www.astro.umd.edu/~jonvwill/
NSF Astronomical Sciences/Electromagnetic Spectrum Management · Astrophysicist · Engineer · Posts are my own.
Joined Dec 2017