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former astrophysicist in the climate space

Vancouver
Joined November 2016
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@AnnaGHughes
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Many people have been using quarantine as a time to perfect their bread or coffee making skills, but I personally have taken this as an opportunity to make increasingly unsettling eggs
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absolutely losing it at my parents' Christmas tree
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This otter teaching a human how to pet it gets me every time
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@AnnaGHughes
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Just got blood drawn and WOW they sure take a lot. It'd be so cool if there was a way to do all those same tests with a smaller volume of blood. I wonder if anyone's looked into that
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@AnnaGHughes
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Ok
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Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests
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Learning that "five gooolden riings" is not in fact referring to 5 literal golden rings, but to five ring-necked pheasants, aka more birds
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these "by age 30" memes are very funny but the truth is that by age 30 you should have an animal people associate with you so when they don't know what to get you for your birthday they can default to something with the animal
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academics will pack like 12 papers to read on a 3 hour flight and then skim one abstract, put on Shrek 2, and fall asleep
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@AnnaGHughes
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My (154k/yr) graduate students (18k/yr) want more money????
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@AnnaGHughes
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It's only physics if it's from the Physique region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling math
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@AnnaGHughes
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I know everyone is obsessed with big cow at the moment, but might I humbly introduce you to show cows?
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@AnnaGHughes
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faculty on website // faculty in person
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@AnnaGHughes
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hexagonal graph paper for organic chem is the only thing that's ever made me want to take that class
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@AnnaGHughes
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In 1975, a cat co-authored a physics paper. Just as Jack H. Hetherington prepared to publish his work, a colleague pointed out that he'd used "we" rather than "I", despite being the only author. Not wanting to edit his paper, he added his cat (pictured) as a second author.
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I'm sorry, were any of you planning on telling me there used to be a species of penguin that was 6'7" (2m) tall and weighed 250 lbs (115kg) called Mega Penguin or was I supposed to just find that out on my own
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@AnnaGHughes
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British coders be like __innit__
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@AnnaGHughes
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what country has the best flag?? 10. you 9. can't 8. rank 7. them 6. they 5. are 4. all 3. uniquely 2. interesting 1. Wales
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My friends, expecting a beautiful high resolution image taken by a professional astrophotographer: So Anna, what does that star you study actually look like? Me:
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@AnnaGHughes
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you should need letters of recommendation from your grad students when applying for tenure
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@AnnaGHughes
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The Matrix but it's just a three hour movie about linear algebra
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@AnnaGHughes
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anyone: *mentions financial derivatives* me, nodding: d$/dx
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@AnnaGHughes
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reading my own phd thesis
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@AnnaGHughes
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what an absolute legend
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@AnnaGHughes
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wavefunctions when you observe them
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@AnnaGHughes
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Hi there - I'm an anonymous stranger who doesn't follow you! I wildly misinterpreted your tweet and I am ANGRY
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@AnnaGHughes
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allow me to introduce my son, -ℏ²/2m∇²ψ+V(x)ψ=Eψ
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machine learning
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@AnnaGHughes
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We go to a party and you see me on my phone the whole time. you think wow that's rude. you come look closer. it is not a phone. It is a ti-83 graphing calculator. who's rude now
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@AnnaGHughes
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while you blockheads have been wasting your time "learning German" on Duo, I've been perfecting my mid-Atlantic accent
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@AnnaGHughes
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the only room-temperature superconductor I recognize
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@AnnaGHughes
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@Gerald_Huggins omg ladies just take his last name take his first name take his social security number hide the body tell no one
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@AnnaGHughes
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anyway here's to all of us who finished our PhDs during the global panini
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@AnnaGHughes
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*ruining an interview* Wow this quantum computing job sounds like a super position!
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@AnnaGHughes
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@2ndamendment19 sir this is an arbys
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@AnnaGHughes
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The world's smallest snowman stands just shy of 1 micron (0.00004 inches). He's made of three 0.9 micron silica spheres stacked using electron beam lithography. The eyes and mouth were cut with a focused ion beam, while the arms and nose were sculpted from platinum.
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@AnnaGHughes
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did it work
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@AnnaGHughes
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getting a PhD as a bit
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@AnnaGHughes
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Getting a PhD in astrophysics.
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19-year-old Kylie Jenner is worth $900 million and on pace to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever. What are you doing with your life?
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maybe if i drink enough coffee my thesis will just pour out of my brain and onto my computer like ectoplasm
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when is arxiv rolling out stories
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Elsevier sounds like a city in lord of the rings
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@AnnaGHughes
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The doctor is 🅸🅽
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@AnnaGHughes
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Never written this thing the same way twice
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@AnnaGHughes
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I found it, my favourite @nathanwpyle comic
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@AnnaGHughes
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"Our results show..."
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@AnnaGHughes
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well well well if it isn't all the things I said I'd do after the holidays
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@AnnaGHughes
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The TRAPPIST-1 star & planetary system
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Happy #NationalTattooDay ! Got any space-themed ink you want to show off? Today’s the day. Leave a picture in the comments.
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oh I'm sorry I thought this was America
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Arkansas men arrested for taking turns shooting each other while wearing bulletproof vest after drinking
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Anyone: *mentions the 1980's* My brain: twenty years ago
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what miracle of physics is keeping wireless earbuds in people's ears during runs and why does it not extend to me
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@AnnaGHughes
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personally I love monarchs. I think they're beautiful both in their larval and adult stages, and as pollinators they play an important role in their ecosystem
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at 30k I will reveal what dark matter is
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biblically accurate egg
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@AnnaGHughes
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My bodybuilding son
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@AnnaGHughes
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Well well well if it isn't my nemesis, me six months ago deciding that I don't need to document my code if nobody else is going to see it
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@AnnaGHughes
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witnessed this at a Berlin zoo yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it
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d/dx is fine if you like that sort of thing I just think it's a little derivative
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"the proof is left as an exercise to the reader"
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@AnnaGHughes
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Lie Algebra? No thank you. I am a woman of truth.
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huge if true
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@AnnaGHughes
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Good morning from me and me enormous son
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Took a real gamble this day last year adopting this three-year-old panther the woman at the SPCA called feral but he turned out to be the sweetest biggest baby I could've hoped for
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*transitioning from astro to quantum research* wow physics is so different at large and small scales. Wonder if anyone's ever tried uniting it all in one single theory
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@AnnaGHughes
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The only thing weirder than my egg pictures is how popular they got
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@AnnaGHughes
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Tired of the normal distribution. Show me the weird distributions
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excited to be known as weird egg girl for the rest of my natural life
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@AnnaGHughes
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"python library" sounds so much cooler than it is
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@AnnaGHughes
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How it started How it's going
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citing myself
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A truly massive solar prominence, captured here in the UV by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This is the result of the sun's magnetic field lines getting tangled and reconnecting along loops, which you can kinda see in this 90-minute timelapse.
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him: will you marry me? her: did you ask my dad first? him: yeah, he said no 😕 you were my backup
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using 'thus' in a paper
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‘Unfilmable’ Books That Hollywood Should Try to Adapt After ‘Dune’
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them lil' squeaks 😍😍😍
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Oh you like physics? Name every physic
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cannot cope with this
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one of the most humbling experiences of undergrad for me was taking quantum mechanics 101 and feeling like this was really ~cutting edge stuff~ and then realizing that it happened like 100 years ago
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Original signed manuscript
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*raising an eyebrow suggestively* so.. is there a Mr. Information?
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every academic discipline: "We drink soooo much coffee 🤪. You wouldn't get it, this behaviour is unique to us"
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I love black turtlenecks but whenever I wear them I get the urge to start a fraudulent blood test company
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"It's not just that the technology wasn't there yet, it's that what she was claiming they could do was biologically 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. So they were watering down very small blood samples and actually testing them on Siemens machines, not the Theranos tech at all. And she-"
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@AnnaGHughes
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For anyone interested here's this year's tree
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absolutely losing it at my parents' Christmas tree
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I will not be taking questions at this time
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I apologise to no one
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At the end of July, @Jacob_White26 and I got married! Don’t feel bad if you weren’t invited, nobody was - we signed the papers ourselves during our 11 hour trek up the 4132 m (13555 ft) peak of Wasatch Mountain.
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his ass is NOT learning
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once again treating coffee like it's productivity serum when in fact it is anxiety juice
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I made a pie
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anyway some personal news
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wistfully murmuring "I wish it need not have happened in my time" whenever I'm even mildly inconvenienced
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when I tell people I'm an astronomer I think this is what they picture but in reality I do not dress this well
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One of the biggest bummers about leaving radio astronomy is that I can't pretend to listen to VLA data like Jodie Foster in Contact anymore
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responding to emails only gets you more emails wtf
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@AnnaGHughes
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Classical Electrodynamics by JD Jackson
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What was the last book you read that made you cry like a baby? I wanna read that book.
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publish AND perish
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when you get a phd in physics Isaac Newton rises from the grave and gives you a tiny kiss on the nose
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spotify wrapped but it's all the stackoverflow pages I visited this year
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