Carl Haster

@haster.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at UNLV+NevadaCfA looking for gravitational waves and the best music. Previously at LIGO, MITKavli, CITA_ICAT and UoBIGWaves.

Första torsdagen i mars.
An outside staircase at the LIGO Hanford observatory, seemingly going up from the ground and ending into nothing
Picture of Brush Creek bus station, in between Aspen and Snowmass, Colorado. The ground is illuminated red by the rear lights of a bus, the night sky is clear and filled with stars.
An elk muching on a tree outside the main building at the Aspen Center for Physics
Picture taken from an airplane over the Grand canyon, at the top of the picture is a stream of clouds showing signs of a Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (a wavy pattern)
Small (Wild) rabbit sitting on a public lawn in Boston. In the foreground, there is a sign saying "no pets allowed on public green"
Quote from Joanna Maciejewska: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes"
Screenshot of a tweet by the politician Ed Balls, the full content of the tweet are the words "Ed Balls"
Today's featured Wikipedia article is the one about the Virgo gravitational wave detector.
Things might be tough now, but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel The light at the end of the tunnel: (Picture showing the distant light of the Balrog of Moria from the movie the fellowship of the ring)