Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him)
@geodesicvoyager.bsky.social
Astrophysicist @monashastro.bsky.social | Previously @ Northwestern & UMN | తెలుగు | Gravitational waves | @LIGO | LISA
Decarbonization now ✊🏽
All opinions my own and do not represent past or present employers.
orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-7484
Decarbonization now ✊🏽
All opinions my own and do not represent past or present employers.
orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7852-7484
Does anyone know of any sustainability focused eco-tourism programs or experiences in India? Thinking primarily in Kerala but would love to hear of other programs elsewhere in India too
October 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Does anyone know of any sustainability focused eco-tourism programs or experiences in India? Thinking primarily in Kerala but would love to hear of other programs elsewhere in India too
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
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We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
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I am very pleased to hear this. I will be writing and encouraging others to as well.
There’s hope in Victoria for a ban on these sponsors. Pls email the Education minister commsdeclare.org/2025/10/07/v...
Victoria to review school sponsorship rules with climate in mind - Comms Declare
There’s progress in the push to protect children from coal, oil and gas propaganda in Victorian public schools.
commsdeclare.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I am very pleased to hear this. I will be writing and encouraging others to as well.
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“What we’re seeing here is certainly not something that’s been seen before in our historical data”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Ocean heat was off the charts, and Australia bore the brunt
For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — as far away from the coast as you can get.
www.abc.net.au
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“What we’re seeing here is certainly not something that’s been seen before in our historical data”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
Fuckin yikes, man
September 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
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Sure would be nice to have a media industry that wasn’t three billionaires in a trench coat
September 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Sure would be nice to have a media industry that wasn’t three billionaires in a trench coat
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The latest issue of @ligomagazine.bsky.social is out now and free to read
🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉
ligo.org/wp-content/u...
🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years
🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉
ligo.org/wp-content/u...
🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years
September 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The latest issue of @ligomagazine.bsky.social is out now and free to read
🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉
ligo.org/wp-content/u...
🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years
🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉
ligo.org/wp-content/u...
🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years
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The sheer amount of fuckery that AI enables while burning down the planet at the profit driven whims of a handful of very stupid and malicious people might be our defining moment as a species.
Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
August 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The sheer amount of fuckery that AI enables while burning down the planet at the profit driven whims of a handful of very stupid and malicious people might be our defining moment as a species.
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Front page news! 📰 Monash PhD researcher Christian Adamcwicz leads new LVK results revealing the mysterious 40 M☉ gap in black hole populations. Exciting clues about how the universe’s heaviest stars live and die! #BlackHoles #LVK #Astrophysics www.theaustralian.com.au/science/grav...
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Front page news! 📰 Monash PhD researcher Christian Adamcwicz leads new LVK results revealing the mysterious 40 M☉ gap in black hole populations. Exciting clues about how the universe’s heaviest stars live and die! #BlackHoles #LVK #Astrophysics www.theaustralian.com.au/science/grav...
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Big props to @daniel-williams.co.uk in leading this project to where it stands today!
August 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Big props to @daniel-williams.co.uk in leading this project to where it stands today!
Forgot the #astro
The O4a results (GWTC-4) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA are now out 🥳
We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year
The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083
We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year
The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083
GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravitational-wave data pro...
arxiv.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Forgot the #astro
The O4a results (GWTC-4) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA are now out 🥳
We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year
The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083
We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year
The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083
GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravitational-wave data pro...
arxiv.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The O4a results (GWTC-4) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA are now out 🥳
We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year
The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083
We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year
The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083
spent nearly half a day reading half a dozen papers to figure out the right way to write two sentences in my paper 🙃😭
August 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
spent nearly half a day reading half a dozen papers to figure out the right way to write two sentences in my paper 🙃😭
For the love of god can tech companies stop shoving AI down our throats. I don’t want your annoying AI overview Google, give me a button to turn it off
August 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
For the love of god can tech companies stop shoving AI down our throats. I don’t want your annoying AI overview Google, give me a button to turn it off
procrastinated doing something tax related for two weeks that literally took me two mins please clap
August 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
procrastinated doing something tax related for two weeks that literally took me two mins please clap
Oh fuck off with this nonsense. What's the point of learning about the world around us if we also don't learn about ourselves? This is as anti intellectual as anything the T govt is doing. And this guy doesn't seem to mind the action of the govt, only their target.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
thedispatch.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Oh fuck off with this nonsense. What's the point of learning about the world around us if we also don't learn about ourselves? This is as anti intellectual as anything the T govt is doing. And this guy doesn't seem to mind the action of the govt, only their target.
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DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
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WoodCIDE spilled 16,000 litres of oil into the Indian Ocean north of Ningaloo in May 2025 & today, news of #NingalooReef's mass coral bleaching & mortality
It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day
It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day
#NingalooReef "annual surveys of the northern section of the reef in May found up to 90 per cent of coral had been bleached down to 20 metres depth", the "lowest cover of live coral" observed since 2007
"up to 50 per cent of the examined coral was dead in May" but "more would be dead now"
"up to 50 per cent of the examined coral was dead in May" but "more would be dead now"
‘You realise your children are probably never going to see Ningaloo the way you saw it’
The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, that’s changed.
www.smh.com.au
August 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
WoodCIDE spilled 16,000 litres of oil into the Indian Ocean north of Ningaloo in May 2025 & today, news of #NingalooReef's mass coral bleaching & mortality
It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day
It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day
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Billionaires say we need to increase the population so we can have more Mozarts while simultaneously saying we don’t need Mozart because AI can make music better than a human anyway.
They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.
They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.
They're probably not listening to even one Mozart
August 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Billionaires say we need to increase the population so we can have more Mozarts while simultaneously saying we don’t need Mozart because AI can make music better than a human anyway.
They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.
They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.
This is a town hall in a Trump +20 district in Nebraska. If this isn’t a guide to Dems on what to focus in the midterms, how to capture back popular support, I don’t know what is
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
August 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This is a town hall in a Trump +20 district in Nebraska. If this isn’t a guide to Dems on what to focus in the midterms, how to capture back popular support, I don’t know what is
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
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Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.
You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.
You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.
LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...
www.dropbox.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.
You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.
You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.
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Having a virtual carbon price would enable us to see how rubbish our current emissions abatement policies are, according to the Productivity Commission.
The grim reaper of Australian politics is back. Finally
www.crikey.com.au
August 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Having a virtual carbon price would enable us to see how rubbish our current emissions abatement policies are, according to the Productivity Commission.
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As someone who worked for years, and learned so much from doing so, on the NOVA series, produced by WGBH for PBS...I can't believe that we are throwing away so much of our vital cultural capital.
We are led by nihilist morons.
We are led by nihilist morons.
I remember hearing the words "brought to you by the corporation for public broadcasting" every time I watched Sesame Street as a kid. Horrifying that this tiny pot of funds for educational media and public information is being stolen from us. www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.
www.npr.org
August 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
As someone who worked for years, and learned so much from doing so, on the NOVA series, produced by WGBH for PBS...I can't believe that we are throwing away so much of our vital cultural capital.
We are led by nihilist morons.
We are led by nihilist morons.
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Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖
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July 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖
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