gina ✨
@astrogina.bsky.social
they/them | aroace | cmu (astro)physics | monstera lover | trying to romanticize my life a little
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gina ✨
@astrogina.bsky.social
· Nov 14
hello everyone, I'm Gina (they/them), a PhD student at CMU working on binary black hole mergers (specifically from a computational perspective: trying to get our modeled populations to line up with our observed population)
generally interested in black holes and binaries and stellar evolution :)
generally interested in black holes and binaries and stellar evolution :)
its not a want it's a need
One of the new sticker designs for my next shop update (Dec 1st)! I mean who doesn't love cosmic fish swimming in a fountain pen ink bottle?
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
its not a want it's a need
spent a while scratching my head this afternoon about a plot i made that wasnt matching my expectations and fearing it broke my entire paper's thesis only to realize half an hour later that it was because i had plotted the wrong thing
every time the papers write “new discovery, astrophysicists don’t know what’s going on” they’re talking specifically about me
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
spent a while scratching my head this afternoon about a plot i made that wasnt matching my expectations and fearing it broke my entire paper's thesis only to realize half an hour later that it was because i had plotted the wrong thing
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Astronomers, question! If you have a dedicated astronomy major, what upper level *physics* classes do you require your students to take?
We are getting our Astro major together at Oregon, and while I think a class of classical+E&M, we’re wondering if a class in QM is actually useful 👀
We are getting our Astro major together at Oregon, and while I think a class of classical+E&M, we’re wondering if a class in QM is actually useful 👀
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Astronomers, question! If you have a dedicated astronomy major, what upper level *physics* classes do you require your students to take?
We are getting our Astro major together at Oregon, and while I think a class of classical+E&M, we’re wondering if a class in QM is actually useful 👀
We are getting our Astro major together at Oregon, and while I think a class of classical+E&M, we’re wondering if a class in QM is actually useful 👀
all i wanted was to upgrade from gwtc3 to gwtc4 🫠
vid alt text: 10+ seconds of me scrolling through error messages on jupyter notebook
vid alt text: 10+ seconds of me scrolling through error messages on jupyter notebook
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
all i wanted was to upgrade from gwtc3 to gwtc4 🫠
vid alt text: 10+ seconds of me scrolling through error messages on jupyter notebook
vid alt text: 10+ seconds of me scrolling through error messages on jupyter notebook
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
nothing like being real excited about submitting soon only to find that its not actually happening and bc of conference scheduling might be pushed to after the new year 🫠 i scheduled a really long trip to visit my brother for winter break this year in anticipation of being freed from this paper too
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
nothing like being real excited about submitting soon only to find that its not actually happening and bc of conference scheduling might be pushed to after the new year 🫠 i scheduled a really long trip to visit my brother for winter break this year in anticipation of being freed from this paper too
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me scrolling past names like nuzzi and lizza
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
me scrolling past names like nuzzi and lizza
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
meanwhile profs at cmu keep talking about integrating this shit into their classes "with considerations to equity" or whatever that means
you are outsourcing your job to a thing that doesnt even do it well and your students are worse for it
you are outsourcing your job to a thing that doesnt even do it well and your students are worse for it
Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
meanwhile profs at cmu keep talking about integrating this shit into their classes "with considerations to equity" or whatever that means
you are outsourcing your job to a thing that doesnt even do it well and your students are worse for it
you are outsourcing your job to a thing that doesnt even do it well and your students are worse for it
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Harvard custodians launched a strike at 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
Harvard Custodians Begin Two-Day Strike for New Contract | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard custodians launched a strike shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Harvard custodians launched a strike at 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
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can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
who is that man??? why are there so many of you
maybe sit this one out, bud
Ryan Lizza appears to be accusing Olivia Nuzzi of an affair with Mark Sanford when she was covering HIM in 2020? 🤦🏼♂️https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
who is that man??? why are there so many of you
who tf is chris clizza 😭
I'm sorry Ryan Lizza, Chris Clizza and Olivia Nuzzi thats too many z names for me to keep straight
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
who tf is chris clizza 😭
didnt know who any of these people aside from rfk jt were before this week and its just been downhill from there
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
didnt know who any of these people aside from rfk jt were before this week and its just been downhill from there
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math textbook covers for some reason:
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
math textbook covers for some reason:
even for mondays today is extra miserable omg
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
even for mondays today is extra miserable omg
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Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
this is the kind of content i come here for
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
this is the kind of content i come here for
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This is what I mean when I say “my collection”. Real photos, postcards, slides, and film negatives plus a box of glass plate negatives. Not screenshots of things found online.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is what I mean when I say “my collection”. Real photos, postcards, slides, and film negatives plus a box of glass plate negatives. Not screenshots of things found online.
watching bobbybroccoli again and just feeling sad
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
watching bobbybroccoli again and just feeling sad
i am on book buying moratorium owing to the several foot tall stack of books ive bought and havent read yet but i did submit a request to my local library to purchase a copy!
Anyway, if you want to support my work, consider preordering my next book
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
i am on book buying moratorium owing to the several foot tall stack of books ive bought and havent read yet but i did submit a request to my local library to purchase a copy!
WHAT????
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
WHAT????
WHAT
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
WHAT
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭