Duncan Watts

Big news! I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project Origins! Thanks to @ERC_Research, I will spend the next five years unveiling the Cosmic Infrared Background, along with my new postdoc and two PhD students. Keep an eye out for job openings at @UniOslo!

From @astrobites: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues. astrobites.org/2024/03/27/ast…

BREAKING: Anat Schwartz, one of the principal authors of the NYT "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax, not only expressed support for genocidal mass murder of Palestinians right before they gave her that job, but also served in the Israeli military's intelligence service

Doctors Without Borders says children as young as 5 in Gaza have told them they want to die

@anweshadatta @Forsker No (UiO, ITA)

Reaching out to the Non-EU and non-Norwegian academics in Norway. Does your institute cover costs of renewal of your temporary work permit (6300NOK)? I am working together with @Forsker on this since it seems quite arbitrary across the sector. DM /reply.

If you're just tuning in, Israeli intelligence ignored mountains of information that the October 7 attack was coming and left Israelis completely undefended, then the IDF killed significant numbers of Israelis with indiscriminate fire and pinned the blame for 100% of Israeli deaths on Hamas, and all those deaths are now being used as justification to push Gazans off their land to the south and shoot them if they try to return while Israeli officials keep talking about how great it would be to get all Palestinians out of all of Gaza.

Israel’s Intelligence Minister just wrote an op-ed advocating for the permanent displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and that other countries pay for it. That would be ethnic cleansing — a crime against humanity. @POTUS must ensure US aid and arms are not used in such crimes.

New Interview: I talked to the Holocaust historian Omer Bartov about how genocide has been defined historically, as well as his concerns about Israel’s actions in Gaza and rhetoric about Palestinians. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/h…

Israeli soldiers pointed guns at NPR reporters. It detained, questioned + mocked their interviewee, a Palestinian farmer. The farmer was showing NPR his land, which the IDF won't let him access, causing him to lose income he earns from selling olives. npr.org/2023/11/13/121…

Biden: I don't believe Palestine's self-reported death toll Biden's own diplomats: It's actually much higher Israeli officials: Yeah, we k*lled DOUBLE that many

All that fake moral panic about the meaning of “from the river,” and Israeli government ministers are just like ‘we’re doing a Gaza Nakba’ — yet crickets in the US about what’s obviously happening.

Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died that day were killed. A growing number of reports indicate the Israeli military was responsible for some of those deaths. bit.ly/3S4CeVi

For those who don't speak Norwegian... CosmoglobeHD is hiring! khrono.no/deler-ut-285-m…

i don’t know about you, but if somebody changes their story about bombing a hospital multiple times, edits their social media posts, brags about doing it on other accounts in different languages, after saying they’ll do it over and over again, i think that they actually did it.

“Israel would never bomb a hospital”

@cosmic_mar It seems real (partnerships.thespherevegas.com), I have half a mind to reach out with a Concept

Is this real and also how can we get the CMB on here

I’m at the university of Manchester today and exited to hear Duncan Watts from Oslo talk about #cosmoglobe

🙉 Hear ye, hear ye! 🙉 Our new paper "CLASS Data Pipeline and Maps for 40 GHz Observations through 2022" is now on the arXiv! 📡Maps etc will be released with the upcoming companion paper on power spectra and map components. 🌐#NSFfunded 🤓 arxiv.org/abs/2305.01045

New cosmic birefringence (CB) paper! We look for CB in the improved Cosmoglobe reprocessed maps of WMAP and LFI Planck. We find a weak signal (1.9sigma) in the synchrotron-dominated maps where instrumental uncertainties are now also taken into account arxiv.org/abs/2305.02268 1/2