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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 :)

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 14h

i have acquired so many snoopy themed face masks (of the skincare variety) im SO hyped to try them

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 17h

not me thinkin about color palettes for my next paper instead of working on my current paper oopsie

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 18h

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026

docs.google.com

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 23h

i enjoyed the saint motel album but not as much as saintmotelevision and the original motion picture soundtrack

im only half thru the khalid album (BLESSED with an hour long album) and about three songs in i told my friend that khalid's never released a bad song in his life so thats how thats going

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

new khalid and saint motel albums both dropped today im about to have the best breakfast and commute to campus

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

also it was so cold last night i had to close my windows and pull out the winter blanket im living

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

new khalid and saint motel albums both dropped today im about to have the best breakfast and commute to campus

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 1d

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

cella.io

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

real

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Prof. Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social · 1d

can someone please make an explainer on how to remove the new "AI features" from like every app and program in existence? plz thx.

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

if you use notion you can email and ask them to disable it on your workspaces

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

i think thats just a book club you start

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

I'm absolutely convinced what makes Shakespeare inaccessible to a lot of audiences isn't the iambic pentameter old english it's the fact most plays are rehearsed as spoken verses and not acted with meaning

because when actors actually act out what they're saying it is So Clear

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another great piece about how it's okay to reject AI. ⬇️

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 1d

what a wild way to say "we have stolen and will continue to steal everything you ever put on the internet"

Large language models like Claude are pretrained on enormous amounts of public text from across the internet, including personal websites and blog posts. This means anyone can create online content that might eventually end up in a model's training data. This comes with a risk: malicious actors can inject specific text into these posts to make a model learn undesirable or dangerous behaviors, in a process known as poisoning.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1d

UT Austin is hiring faculty in cosmology (Physics department), astronomy, and scientific machine learning (Oden Institute; 2 positions). Feel free to contact me for more details! 🧪🔭☄️

apply.interfolio.com/175261
aas.org/jobregister/...
apply.interfolio.com/174445
apply.interfolio.com/174449

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Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t matter where you stand on inclusionary zoning; all Pittsburgh residents deserve an honest and transparent process and we should rightfully expect our councilmembers to act in good faith.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 2d

yeah the whiplash i get when i see like "this tech is a net negative" and "so we should teach people how to use it better" one after the other is wild like just stop using it?

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 2d

run 21 yesterday

a) first cold night of running was glorious

b) was very intimidated by two rounds of 8 min of jogging but we did it!

c) first 8 min covered a km! i know that sounds pretty slow but its a huge accomplishment for me haha (in the second round i think we got to maybe 0.7 or 0.8km?)

gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 2d

idk if i have any dramatic essay writing stories or if i just blocked out a lot of my procrastinated writing assignments LOL but i did spend a summer writing 1.5 hr long lectures for the day from scratch right up until class time (summer classes are every day)

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 2d

Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 2d

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 2d

looks delicious now i want a hot sandwich