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Rebecca Milllar

@astrobec.bsky.social

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Professional word nerd. Postgrad astrophysics student. Trekkie 🖖 Disabled. Alligator Loki is the superior Loki 🐊 I talk about poverty, rheumatoid arthritis, ADHD, inclusion and astro stuff a lot.

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Feb 5

How in the hell did we get to ethnic cleansing in two weeks?

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Jan 5

Until I forget it exists again anyway 😂🤦🏽‍♀️

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Jan 5

Ok I logged in.

Hi 🖤

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Feb 27

Right back at you! 🖤 Hope you're doing ok?

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Nov 12

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!

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Nov 12

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.

Goodnotes screen that reads Rock people stuff idk. Rocks are hard things that are sometimes shiny. They are made of minerals and geologist like them a lot because reasons idk. Maybe just cos they're rock people, or maybe they're actually secretly penguins?

Additionally there is a graphic of a plain smooth rock, with a hand drawn arrow pointing to it and a label that says 'rock.'

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Nov 12

I hope you get to use it soon! (Also thanks for having my back before 🖤)

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Nov 12

Sounds very restful 😂 How'd the concert go?

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Nov 12

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! 🔭

Trying to gauge numbers, so let me know if you're interested 🖤

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Nov 12

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?

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 18

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 😅

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 13

My brain is so fried 😬

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 13

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!

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 13

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!

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

What even is that peak?! 🤯

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

Reposting because I need this for later in my semester (thanks, Andrew!)

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Aug 11

Folks in Australia - it’s National Science Week! 🧪🔭🎢👩‍🔬

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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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 12

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 takes🔥. 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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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 11

When you see a peer-reviewed scientific journal article, it often says “pay $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. 🧪🦑🦈

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oooooooh!!!!

Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

I need this on a poster 😂 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"

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Rebecca Milllar @astrobec.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Aug 10

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. 🧪🔭

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

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