Toka Alokda 🌌
@astrotoka.bsky.social
Cosmology PhD student. Interested in ML and the LSS ✨, collecting cool earrings, and making stuff.
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A PhD is very challenging but 80% of the challenges are probably psychological. The science part works out eventually but the truth is that one wouldn't manage if they just kept crashing out every time they felt like things were out of their control. It has been such a relief to realize this.
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A PhD is very challenging but 80% of the challenges are probably psychological. The science part works out eventually but the truth is that one wouldn't manage if they just kept crashing out every time they felt like things were out of their control. It has been such a relief to realize this.
It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a world to raise a scientist.
April 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a world to raise a scientist.
me starting April (I teach a course in summer where I have to grade homework sheets)
March 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
me starting April (I teach a course in summer where I have to grade homework sheets)
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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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*opens internet*
*closes internet*
*goes outside and stares at Jupiter*
*closes internet*
*goes outside and stares at Jupiter*
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
*opens internet*
*closes internet*
*goes outside and stares at Jupiter*
*closes internet*
*goes outside and stares at Jupiter*
I feel like environment can really make or break the progress and motivation of a person (at least when person=me).
It is such a shame and I hope that ~2.5 years from now I will have learned to be more independent.
It is such a shame and I hope that ~2.5 years from now I will have learned to be more independent.
January 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I feel like environment can really make or break the progress and motivation of a person (at least when person=me).
It is such a shame and I hope that ~2.5 years from now I will have learned to be more independent.
It is such a shame and I hope that ~2.5 years from now I will have learned to be more independent.
sometimes it really blows my mind to think that everyone I meet and speak with in context of my career is an astrophysicist or a cosmologist... such a happy and crazy thought!
September 22, 2023 at 9:02 PM
sometimes it really blows my mind to think that everyone I meet and speak with in context of my career is an astrophysicist or a cosmologist... such a happy and crazy thought!
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It's already been 8 years since LIGO made its first gravitational wave detection! Happy birthday GW150914!
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September 14, 2023 at 12:30 PM
It's already been 8 years since LIGO made its first gravitational wave detection! Happy birthday GW150914!
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I have been waiting for new bumblebee earrings since the beginning of the month and i have a silly little belief in my head that they will make me more productive...
September 13, 2023 at 12:54 PM
I have been waiting for new bumblebee earrings since the beginning of the month and i have a silly little belief in my head that they will make me more productive...
My heart is broken over the news of all the damage floods are doing to the city of Derna in Libya; my family lives in Egypt on the same coast, less than 500 miles away... It is devastating to imagine how everyone who had their entire home and family wiped out must be feeling.
September 12, 2023 at 6:02 PM
My heart is broken over the news of all the damage floods are doing to the city of Derna in Libya; my family lives in Egypt on the same coast, less than 500 miles away... It is devastating to imagine how everyone who had their entire home and family wiped out must be feeling.
I am far from being a radio astronomer but I KNOW it is a cannon event for my astrophysicist character to have at some point a pfp with the biggest telescope she ever met.
September 9, 2023 at 6:23 PM
I am far from being a radio astronomer but I KNOW it is a cannon event for my astrophysicist character to have at some point a pfp with the biggest telescope she ever met.
idk if it's the master's degree or subconsciously realizing i am almost 25 but i feel like my brain is going from "weeee i am still too young to care" to "i am too old to be a mess" just overnight
September 8, 2023 at 1:36 PM
idk if it's the master's degree or subconsciously realizing i am almost 25 but i feel like my brain is going from "weeee i am still too young to care" to "i am too old to be a mess" just overnight
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GREAT NEWS! From the latest JAXA briefing: Solar panels deployed, nominal voltage seen, sun acquired, initializing thrusters and reaction wheels.
XRISM LAUNCH SUCCESS!!! Congratulations JAXA
XRISM LAUNCH SUCCESS!!! Congratulations JAXA
September 7, 2023 at 3:12 AM
GREAT NEWS! From the latest JAXA briefing: Solar panels deployed, nominal voltage seen, sun acquired, initializing thrusters and reaction wheels.
XRISM LAUNCH SUCCESS!!! Congratulations JAXA
XRISM LAUNCH SUCCESS!!! Congratulations JAXA
Good morning to everyone who doesn't have to figure out the funny way scipy orders fourier-transformed things in 3D for the first time
August 25, 2023 at 8:28 AM
Good morning to everyone who doesn't have to figure out the funny way scipy orders fourier-transformed things in 3D for the first time