Alex Pettitt
@arptttt
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British astrophysicist faculty member at California State University Sacramento. I'm interested in galaxies, numerical methods, and our own Milky Way. (he/him)
Sacramento, USA
Joined March 2015
Proud to announce that I will nominate Kai Winn as Secretary of Education where she will oversee the Federation Department of Education which guides the direction of schools and education across the United Federation of Planets member worlds. CONGRATULATIONS KAI WINN! #StarTrek
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Labour Party officially wins 2024 UK general election after reaching the required 326 seats #BBCElection live ⬇️
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@Keir_Starmer Congratulations on your much deserved victory. Now, the important business of my meal times: I like breakfast at 10, lunch at 11, dinner at 3. And 5. And 7. Plenty of snacks in between. Get that right and the rest of your job is a doddle.
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I am delighted to share that our work investigating the gut-brain axis published in Biophysical Journal! I’m very excited to share the science and our findings. Let me take you through the journey and the science! A 🧵: https://t.co/A65lEAdgNa
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Very excited about this program! Please share with any UCSD or SDSU transfer students who might be interested in Astro research!
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In search of the USA, Christoper Columbus set sail across the Atlantic. However, in 1492 he stumbled across what he thought was Scotland – a place that would later be known as Japan.
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The crab, and by extension the milli-crab, is my new favorite unit https://t.co/pLN4U3nwTC
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If you use Compressible Flow analysis on the USPS eagle, it’s going Mach 4.9
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Yes yes rockets are cool etc., but holy smokes I want that MW artwork in my office. As it's Lego, you I just alter the morphology accordingly whenever @ESAGaia has a new data release!
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Pretty sure @TheNRAO have the Solar position wrong by π/2 in this outreach video (@ 20s), or have I been staring at spirals for too long? https://t.co/nvytah4Sa1
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New email rule; you refer to my classes as astrology and you are getting ghosted.
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A map of all countries that use the MMDDYYYY date format
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Found this slide from a few years ago, not much has changed apart from swapping Japanese -> "American".
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The complete, incredible view of the Great North American Eclipse of 2024. A spectacular view of a breathtaking event. #Eclipse2024
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