For trailblazing work in gravitational wave data analysis techniques, computing, and cyberinfrastructure, and for leadership in gravitational wave science that enables multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational wave observations.
We look forward to the Isaacson Session at the APS meeting!
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Headshot of Patrick Brady
Congratulations to Patrick R. Brady, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, on being awarded the 2026 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science! His citation reads:
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You can read more about APS Fellows, read the citations for their nominations, and see all the 2025 fellows in the APS Fellows Database: www.aps.org/funding-reco.... Congratulations to all fellows!
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Their Fellowships will be conferred at the DGRAV Business Meeting at the APS Global Physics Summit 2026, March 15–20, 2026, in Denver, CO (summit.aps.org).
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Anamaria Effler
Sam Gralla
Brian Lantz
Congratulations to Anamaria Effler, Sam Gralla, and Brian Lantz, who were elected Fellows of the APS, nominated by DGRAV!
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A photo of me (right) presenting my work on poisson variance of the gravitational wave background spectrum (Lamb & Taylor 2024)
AHHHHH! I won the award for @dgrav.org Best Student Presentation at the Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting this weekend in UMiss, Oxford MS 🏆
I didn't get a photo at the meeting, but here's a photo of me giving an earlier draft of this presentation at @apsphysics.bsky.social Global Physics Meeting 🔭🧪
Professor Sarah Vigeland of UWM gives an invited plenary in the Kavli Special Session at APS. Fantastic talk! @nanograv.bsky.social @dgrav.org
Xavi Siemens gets his APS Fellow on! Highly deserved and great to see! @nanograv.bsky.social @dgrav.org
@astrobites.bsky.social is a site ran by graduate students across the world. We write accessible articles summarising the latest astrophysical research 🔭🪐🧪
Our @apsphysics.bsky.social specific coverage can be found here!
astrobites.org/category/prj/
#APS2025 @dgrav.org #APSGlobalSummit
Learning about history of Loop Quantum Gravity. Awesome ideas. Terminology of the morning is Quantum Riemannian Geometry. Plus, curvature at Planck scale is 1e76 larger than at horizon of Solar Mass Black hole. Amazing. @apsphysics.bsky.social @dgrav.org
See you in Anaheim!
✈️ Off to Anaheim for the APS 2025 Global Summit! Looking forward to some exciting talks, support my students and postdocs, cheering on NANOGrav folks, and delivering two talks on PTAs and LISA! 💫 @apsphysics.bsky.social @dgrav.org @nanograv.bsky.social @lisacommunity.bsky.social
The annual election for DGRAV Vice Chair, Members-at-Large, and Student Representative will be initiated shortly! You should receive an email message within the next few weeks that contains instructions for voting, and has a personalized link that you should follow to find your ballot.
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Please help spread the word—We're accepting applications for the 2025 DGRAV Student Travel Grants for the APS Global Physics Summit (the joint April/March meeting). Student members of DGRAV who are giving a talk or poster are eligible! Head to engage.aps.org/dgrav/honors... for details and to apply.
Hello, newskies! We are the APS Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV), and we just unlocked the ability to post to some feeds 🧪⚛️🔭! Who wants to talk about black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves, oh my?
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You can read more about APS Fellows, read the citations for their nominations, and see all the 2024 fellows at www.aps.org/funding-reco...
Congratulations to Emil Mottola, Mark Scheel, and Xavier Siemens, who were elected Fellows of the APS, nominated by DGRAV! Their Fellowship will be conferred at the DGRAV Business Meeting at the @apsphysics.bsky.social Summit 2025, March 16–21, 2025, in Anaheim, CA.
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Thanks, astrobot!
General relativity (which replaces both Newtonian gravity and special relativity) has gravitational waves, which travel at the speed of light. Or maybe we should say that light waves travel at the speed of gravity, because it's the metric (which *is* gravity) that controls the speed of light! 2/2
It's at the speed of light! This was one of Einstein's realizations about why Newtonian gravity had to be replaced with something else (namely, general relativity): because in Newtonian gravity, there was an "absolute time," which violated special relativity.
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The highest compliment!
We are the APS Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV), a community for (astro)physicists working on theory, computation, experiment, and astronomical observation — anything related to gravitation. We want to join the astro conversations here!
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Hi, Physgal — This is the account of the APS Division of Gravitational Physics (engage.aps.org/dgrav/home). We'd like to join the physics conversation here :)
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But if you, dear reader, *did* fall head over heels for gravity, DGRAV is your home!
Hello, Bluesky! We are the APS Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV). Hope to take part in the gravity conversations here!