Rebecca Milllar
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Rebecca Milllar
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Professional word nerd. Postgrad astrophysics student. Trekkie πŸ–– Disabled. Alligator Loki is the superior Loki 🐊 I talk about poverty, rheumatoid arthritis, ADHD, inclusion and astro stuff a lot.
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How in the hell did we get to ethnic cleansing in two weeks?
Until I forget it exists again anyway πŸ˜‚πŸ€¦πŸ½β€β™€οΈ
Ok I logged in.

Hi πŸ–€
Right back at you! πŸ–€ Hope you're doing ok?
It would have closed captioning, but I'd also be happy to set up something else that's inline with what would be inclusive for you? 😊

Neptune is gorgeous! Fell in love with it after hearing a lecture from an awesome astronomer!
Geologists I promise I love you all, but I've been listening to this dude talk about salt for ages now and I am struggling in astrophysics here.

Also can you confirm if you are actually secretly penguins? Thank you and Go Science!

Ps. Your volcano stuff is super cool.
I hope you get to use it soon! (Also thanks for having my back before πŸ–€)
Sounds very restful πŸ˜‚ How'd the concert go?
Was distracted with uni, but I'll be setting up a regular Saturday night (AEST) astro zoom chat. Casual place to discuss all things astronomy (work, why Neptune is superior to Jupiter, TESS etc)

Looking at once a month - all welcome! πŸ”­

Trying to gauge numbers, so let me know if you're interested πŸ–€
Bit too much ableism floating around on the other place right now.

So anyway, I'm all up in plate tectonics today.

What are you lot up to?
My brain is completely fried after 3 hours with a psych yesterday 🀯

Thankfully it's a neuroaffirmative clinic, so I could move/doodle on my ipad etc during it else I'd never gotten through it.

Also - watching my ADHD meds kick in on zoom was the weirdest thing ever πŸ˜…
My brain is so fried 😬
Do they all have such big spikes with the flux density? And what does that tell you about them, if you don't mind me asking? It's intrigued me now!
This one is actually fairly common. The more regular content you post, the higher your analytics will be so it's common practice to recycle content with decent intervals between.

This particular content did make me chuckle though!
Uni: This assignment will take you ~64 hours to do.

Me: It's 8 questions wtf

So anyway, 11 pages and over 4000 words later and I have not actually answered a single question yet. This was all inputting/formatting data, assumptions, one equation and one unit conversion...
What even is that peak?! 🀯
Reposting because I need this for later in my semester (thanks, Andrew!)
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Folks in Australia - it’s National Science Week! πŸ§ͺπŸ”­πŸŽ’πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬

Starting from today, across AUS, you can attend and get involved in so many science activities and events.

Check out the schedule/calendar here. All ages can attend many events, so great for the fam and young people too!
Home - National Science Week
www.scienceweek.net.au
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Hey folks! I’m starting (or, technically, re-starting) a monthly ✨NEWSLETTER✨ which will contain various writings/speakings by me and some otherwise unpublished physics/astronomy hot takesπŸ”₯. Sign up here if you want to check it out! New issue arriving soon! https://mackkatie.activehosted.com/f/1
AstroKatie -
mackkatie.activehosted.com
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When you see a peer-reviewed scientific journal article, it often says β€œpay $35 to read this.”

Did you know that $0 of that goes to the authors of the article?

Just email us and we’ll be happy to send you a copy for free. We’re usually thrilled that anyone cares. πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸ¦ˆ
Study problems 101: I have read/said/written/heard the word 'quasar' so many times today I feel like my soul is no longer in my body.

IYKYK.
I need this on a poster πŸ˜‚ It is the better option to "youtube it, google it then overthink it and wonder if you even know how to use a calculator by the end of it"
What I will be putting in my key topic development for the approval: The Huge-LQG and the large-scale structure of the Universe

What I am actually over here like: FAM, IT'S CALLED THE HUGE LARGE QUASAR GROUP AND IT MAKES THE COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE GO "WTF?!"

I am huge large serious about science.
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How many of us use Jupyter Notebooks?

This is a long, but important read on how to make our notebooks more accessible to blind and visually impaired people.

Lots of good recommendations, not just with infrastructure, but authoring practices in here.

Pass it on. πŸ§ͺπŸ”­
Notably Inaccessible -- Data Driven Understanding of Data Science...
Computational notebooks, tools that facilitate storytelling through exploration, data analysis, and information visualization, have become the widely accepted standard in the data science...
arxiv.org