I am particularly impressed by the efforts of the rest of my colleagues when it comes to public outreach. Our members attend loads of local events around the wo

I am particularly impressed by the efforts of the rest of my colleagues when it comes to public outreach. Our members attend loads of local events around the world, sharing LIGO outreach material across the collaboration; members are often invited to talk at science clubs and societies; we conduct Reddit AMAs after each detection announcement [1-3] and tweet to the public about the goings-on. There are even apps [4]! Two other things we've gotten a lot of positive feedback for are our open science center [5], which has tutorials where you can conduct essentially the same analysis we did in our discovery on the same data (using Python notebooks), and Gravity Spy [6], which lets the public hunt for glitches in our data (a new type of glitch was identified by the public, showing how important it can be!). So, while we can always do more to reach out to the public who fund our work, I feel like I'm surrounded by colleagues who are really passionate and dedicated to interacting with the public! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_lig... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4odza8/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4odza8/we_are_the_lig... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6fekz5/science_ama_series_we_are_the_ligo_scientific/ https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6fekz5/science_ama... [4] https://www.laserlabs.org/spacetimequest.php https://www.laserlabs.org/spacetimequest.php [5] http://losc.ligo.org/ http://losc.ligo.org/ [6] https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/gravity-spy https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/gravity-spy