Jaco de Swart
@JGdeSwart
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Historian of the History of the Universe! 💫 Working on the history of dark matter (✒️🧾@mitpress). Postdoc at @MIT. Also: Bassist & Chicken Owner.
Cambridge, MA
Joined August 2014
IT'S HERE! My dissertation! After five insane yrs there's now this: 300 pages of dark matter history! Printed on paper made of 100% agricultural waste 🌱 Oh, and I'll be defending this 'lil book NEXT WEEK!! ⚔️
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🎉 I DID IT!! 🎉 Thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a book contract with @MITpress! 📚✨ Bringing my book on the history of dark matter to life! 🌌💫 Huge thanks to my amazing editor Andrew for his enthusiasm! Nervous, excited & ready to do this! 💪 #DarkMatter #BookDeal
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Dark-matter histories typically center on observations by Fritz Zwicky and Vera Rubin. But equally important, writes @JGdeSwart in #PhysicsToday, was the 1974 realization that they implied that the universe was “missing” a large quantity of matter. https://t.co/azHp2oMuTw 📸:
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Five decades of missing matter<alt-title alt-title-type="deck">Groups on both sides of the Iron Curtain hypothesized in the 1970s that a yet-unknown material makes up most of the mass in the universe.</alt-title> https://t.co/ctgiAYXNYv.
@Josep_Trigo @Martonaona
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Groups on both sides of the Iron Curtain hypothesized in the 1970s that a yet-unknown material makes up most of the mass in the universe.
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A struggle ensued to get their conclusion published: that there might be halos, or coronas, of invisible mass surrounding all galaxies! In Estonia, they even had to deal with KGB! 🕵️
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In the then Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Jaan Einasto wasn't getting his galaxy models to fit the data. And in the U.S., Princeton astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker was puzzled by why galaxies existed in the first place. 🌌
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I worked out the story of how, 50 years ago, teams in the US and Estonia independently concluded that the universe is filled with dark matter--or missing mass, as it was known. 🇺🇸🇪🇪
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✨ My new piece on dark matter's history just appeared in @PhysicsToday! (Incl. publication happy face :) )
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I made some amazing multispecies friends last week at the @STSeasst @4sweb conference! 🐐 #easst4s @geitenboerderij
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Making physics more sustainable raises complex interdisciplinary questions. Answering them needs input from the humanities and social sciences, argue Jaco de Swart, Ann C. Thresher & Carlos A. Argüelles https://t.co/BVsQzOdYFW
nature.com
Nature Reviews Physics - Making physics more sustainable raises complex interdisciplinary questions. Answering them needs input from the humanities and social sciences.
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Who will I see at the EASST/4S conference in Amsterdam next week? 🛰️ Come hang out at my organized session on Un/Clean Science! We'll sweep through cases of science depending on clean and cleanliness 🧹 My talk? Cleaning a dark matter detector! 🧼 https://t.co/HJFanQnzGU
nomadit.co.uk
This is a panel about cleanliness. It investigates how modern scientific practices contribute to, or interfere with, different versions of cleaning and cleanliness—hygienic, environmental, aesthetic,...
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"The humanities can help make physics greener," according to MIT postdoctoral fellow Jaco de Swart. https://t.co/LVrhm4GZst
#thisismit #mitshass #mit @MIT_Physics #humanities #highereducation #mitphysics
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Beyond stoked with my new piece in Nature Review Physics @NatRevPhys!💫 How can we make physics experiments more sustainable?🌱You need experts from the humanities! w/ my friends @carguelles314 @harvardphysics & Anncy Thresher @stanforddoerr link: https://t.co/BbK602Kv22 ⭐
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What if we DON'T find dark matter!? 💥 On American public television, for the new @novapbs documentary! 🤯 THANK YOU for the amazing responses everyone #pullingmyhairout
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satisfying some philosophical cravings: Yale conference on inference and causation throughout the sciences! ➡️ Organized by @SheerPriya! @FrankeSciAndHum
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had a really fun session presenting at @Cornell just now! 🧼 on my draft paper with Annemarie Mol. Thanks to @SumanSeth42 and all the nice people of the #sciencestudies reading group!
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