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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From @kelsie137.bsky.social: Many cosmologists look toward the CMB for answers about reionization… but should they? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/09/02/density-clouds-our-judgement/

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Density Clouds Our Judgement: Reionization’s CMB Imprint

Many cosmologists look toward the CMB for answers about reionization… but should they?

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Kelsie Taylor @kelsie137.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New preprint out with colleagues from NANOGrav led by Joshua Foster. We explored extending pulsar timing searches for scalar dark matter to account for its correlated structure across distances, using machine learning techniques to do so! Take a look! arxiv.org/abs/2607.24912

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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to ultralight dark matter (ULDM) in the $10^{-24}$-$10^{-20}\,\mathrm{eV}$ mass range, with existing datasets already probing otherwise open parameter space a...

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Kelsie Taylor @kelsie137.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Mark was my advisor for undergraduate classes, taught me quantum mechanics, and his charm/wit always made me think I wanted to be just like him. He will be dearly missed.

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Kelsie Taylor @kelsie137.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This happened a week ago, but I passed my quals! Maybe it’s cause I had a cute arrangement of my drinks in the Hellings-Downs curve

Drinks arranged in the Hellings-Downs curve, cokes as the x-axis and teas as the curve.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

From @kelsie137.bsky.social: Another day, another interesting LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detection! Find out why the extreme parameters of GW231123 create problems for gravitational wave modelers and may have new information about black hole formation! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/18/a-clash-of-two-titans/

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A Clash of Two Titans: Why GW231123 pushes the limits of scientists’ models

Another day, another interesting LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detection! Find out why the extreme parameters of GW231123 create problems for gravitational wave modelers and may have some new information about bla...

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

From @kelsie137.bsky.social: In the race to resolve the tension between cosmological and local measurements of the Hubble constant, another method enters the contest… using gravitational wave signals without an electromagnetic counterpart!! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/08/hubbles-dark-horse/

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Hubble’s Dark Horse: New measurements of the Hubble constant from LIGO’s dark sirens

In the race to resolve the tension between cosmological and local measurements of the Hubble constant, another method enters the contest… using gravitational wave signals without an electromagnetic co...

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Kelsie Taylor @kelsie137.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

conda install -c conda-forge bluesky

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Kelsie Taylor @kelsie137.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Decided to finally make this account to get more involved in scicomm! Here's a little bit about my research history: -My interests are broad, spanning particle physics, cosmology and gravitational waves. -I focus on theoretical research connecting different subfields.

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