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Sylvia Biscoveanu

@sbisco.bsky.social

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NASA Einstein Fellow at Northwestern studying gravitational waves with LIGO | previously PhD at MIT | violinist and cat lover

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Honored to receive the GWIC-Braccini thesis prize for 2023 and thankful for the opportunity to share my past and more recent work on NSBH mergers earlier today at #GR24Amaldi16

A woman wearing a pink blazer stands near a podium in front of a slide presenting individual-event posteriors for four NSBH mergers

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In this morning’s plenary at #GR24Amaldi16, Amanda Farah introduces the newest (and most massive and likely most rapidly spinning) @ligo.org - @egovirgo.bsky.social - KAGRA event, #GW231123! Read more about this exceptional event in the discovery paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219

Amanda Farah at a podium in front of a slide introducing GW231123

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CIERA @nuciera.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Congratulations to CIERA Postdoc Sylvia Biscoveanu on receiving the GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize! The award recognizes her Ph.D. thesis work, completed at MIT, as a significant contribution to the growing field of gravitational-wave astronomy

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Postdoc Sylvia Biscoveanu wins GWIC-Braccini Thesis Prize

In late February 2025, the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) and the Friends of Stefano Braccini announced CIERA Postdoctoral Researcher Sylvia Biscoveanu as the recipient of the 2023 ...

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🔭 (Clearly still figuring out the feeds thing 😅)

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

With Feb 15 (astro deadline) rapidly approaching, here’s a 🧵 of tips and guidelines for folks navigating postdoc offer decisions: 1/5

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Looking for input on undergraduate paper authorship in astro: I am writing a paper with an undergrad (just the two of us). They’ve performed the full analysis (with significant help and guidance), but I expect final written version of the paper will be mostly my words.

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected for the @forbes.com 30 Under 30 list in Science! I’m honored to be part of this amazing cohort of young scientists. www.forbes.com/30-under-30/...

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

To accompany all those BlueSky science/academia #starterpacks, let’s share introductions to the literature of our fields Gravitational-wave papers (created with observablehq.com/@guillaume-l...) When the intro starts "We have opened a new window" you know you can skip a couple of paragraphs

Most scientific papers in xkcd comic style, with titles:

We did. We detected gravitational waves!

2000 people worked for 3 years on this and you're just going to read Section D5 and look at plots

We calculated these pN equations so you don't have to

Binaries stars: Even more complicated

We know you're tired of citing Abbott et al. Here's an Abac et al

This will be great if we build it in 2050

We thought of a new way Einstein could be wrong. The data say he isn't. Yet

Upper limits are neat: We looked really hard and still haven't found anything

We hid the quantum uncertainty down the back of the sofa and improved detector performance

Something exploded and we all saw it! Isn't multi messenger astronomy fun (paper 1 of 49)

Some thoughts on what even is a black hole really?

Glitches: caused by dark magic?

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I am hiring a postdoc to work with me on gravitational wave astrophysics at Princeton next year! Two more weeks until the deadline to apply: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... 🔭

puwebp.princeton.edu

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Sylvia Biscoveanu @sbisco.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

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Rhiannon Silva @rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Here's the beginning of starter pack for people and groups working on the theory, detection, or analysis of gravitational waves, or whose work is closely related to the field of gravitational waves. Please let me know who I've missed and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/HrAJX35

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