Aaron Vincent
@DarkCosmologist
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(he/him) In case you're wondering, that's dark matter coming out of my ears.
Kingston, Ontario
Joined August 2013
few people know the King James bible was actually translated directly from the original Fortran.
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Trying to host a student from Spain for a term. Their university wants my passport number and date of birth. but no information about the host university I work at?.
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Looking back through my notes and found this dramatic page
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RT @cajohare: After receiving many requests for this, I have made a new GitHub repository for dark matter direct detection exclusion limits….
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As we all know, good news comes in twos! I am also not starting a podcast.
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Now that I have a little extra time while on sabbatical, I am thrilled to announce that I am not writing a book.
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Me to students/postdocs: let's keep this cool idea quiet for now, we don't want to get scooped.Them: Got it. Top secret.Me to everyone I run into: HEY LET ME TELL YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT THE COOL IDEA WE'RE WORKING ON.
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Speaker: (Starts a fire. Insults audience. Goes 12 hours over time. Throws a live raccoon).Chair: we have time for some questions.Audience member: first, thank you so much for the very nice talk,.
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RT @anderssandberg: A display at St. Catherine's College - really cool way of showing the periodic table by displaying the electron wave fu….
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Why did it take this long for me to learn about Billy Bishop?? You can fly out of downtown Toronto all while avoiding the Worst Airport In The World
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It's just the light that tells us the Universe is plugged in and running.
Luis Ho ended his talk at @astronomy2024 with a provocative slide on the JWST-discovered Little Red Dots, asking "Are we sure there is a galaxy?" (after presenting a careful subtraction of the central point source that shows no trace of a host galaxy)
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Will never not retweet this.
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Everyone: the most useful part of conferences isn't talks, it's having time to discuss ideas with colleagues.Conference organizers: how about talks from 9am to 8pm every day, for 7 days?.
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Long drive ahead of me. Where can I download the Peskin & Schroeder audiobook?.
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Sad to announce I only officially have 9 days until I become un-trendy.
Assistant profs: cool, fresh, trendy. Full profs: mature, established, wise . Associate profs: 🤔 I'll let you know what I find out. (This is a tenure tweet).
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I am expanding but my density has not decreased. My equation of state is w = -1, and I am therefore made of dark energy. There will be no further questions.
Are we expanding along with the Universe?. #AskEthan. The Universe really is expanding, and no, we aren't expanding along with it. Here's the science behind why, as well as what else is (and isn't) expanding.
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