Prof. Joey Neilsen
Black hole astrophysicist at Villanova. Formerly: MIT, Boston University, Harvard, Kenyon College | X-rays | husband | dad of 2 | cooking. He/him. Skeets are my own.
- Look at this cute lil loaf of bread 🍽️
- Everyone should have a friend they can bother with weird General Relativity questions
- have just coined the term "nisly-grisly," please clap
- Last year, I was racing to finish a proposal for time on a shiny new space telescope. But mom had been sick, and there hadn't been time to work on it. 30 min before the deadline, I got a call to come home, and I dropped everything. Today, that proposal is submitted. I think Mom would be proud. I am.
- Me: I’m not going to buy regalia from my alma mater because it’s so expensive. It’s not worth it if I can rent University: we can make it worth it
- My wife’s upside down rhubarb cornmeal cake looks like abstract art 🍽️
- If you want to irritate armchair physicists on Reddit, just tell them that length contraction isn't a visible effect. Are Bluesky physicists more open-minded? ⚛️🔭🧪 Explanation: You don't see an object's length (dist. between its endpoints at a fixed time). You see photons that arrive simultaneously.
- Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Astronomer: Great question! There are a couple competing theories. One is that the resume may have formed with a gap for reasons that we're still trying to figure out. Another possibility is that you're selecting for candidates with resume gaps.
- Apparently I have finally sleep-deprived myself into being cool
- Reupping this, starting shortly!
- Hey I've been busy grading, but that doesn't mean it's not #BlackHoleWeek! Have burning questions about black holes? Join me and some of my colleagues from @ehtelescope.bsky.social for a Reddit AMA, today from 3-5 PM ET (19-21 UTC)!
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- Hey I've been busy grading, but that doesn't mean it's not #BlackHoleWeek! Have burning questions about black holes? Join me and some of my colleagues from @ehtelescope.bsky.social for a Reddit AMA, today from 3-5 PM ET (19-21 UTC)!
- Hey I've been busy grading, but that doesn't mean it's not #BlackHoleWeek! Have burning questions about black holes? Join me and some of my colleagues from @ehtelescope.bsky.social for a Reddit AMA, today from 3-5 PM ET (19-21 UTC)!
- Uh wow new pope went to Villanova! Possibly before I started here, but.. I COULD have taught him
- – Classroom discipline enforced via embarrassing tasks followed by raucous laughter
- I remember this sort of comment about images of black holes. "Well even for the closest, largest black holes you'd need a telescope the size of Earth." [later] BREAKING: a telescope the size of the Earth has taken the first picture of a black hole!
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- They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
- What’s your best “I am old and uncool” story? Mine is: I first learned about memes in a college philosophy class.
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