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 :)
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Omgomg my gif demonstrating using the doppler/radial velocity method for detecting exoplanets was used in the latest PBS Space Time!!!!! 🤩
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Omgomg my gif demonstrating using the doppler/radial velocity method for detecting exoplanets was used in the latest PBS Space Time!!!!! 🤩
man i have really got to try making sweet potato pie some time
i have no pie ranking — i like all pie — but i will say that my sweet potato pie once won an award
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
man i have really got to try making sweet potato pie some time
sweet potato pie >>>>>>>> pumpkin pie
Ok this take is unhinged BUT I have my own version of this, which is that I actually hate pumpkin pie.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sweet potato pie >>>>>>>> pumpkin pie
my advisor and collaborator have been making the rounds at conferences and telling me that a lot of people are getting very excited about my plots and that is definitely a good thing but also im stressed omg
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
my advisor and collaborator have been making the rounds at conferences and telling me that a lot of people are getting very excited about my plots and that is definitely a good thing but also im stressed omg
me tomorrow
did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
me tomorrow
in research purgatory in a new way: made a breakthrough on a little detail that's been a problem for several months and need to update some plots and change some stuff in the draft but now everyone is traveling or on holiday for the rest of the year including me 😩😩😩
pls just set me freeee
pls just set me freeee
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
in research purgatory in a new way: made a breakthrough on a little detail that's been a problem for several months and need to update some plots and change some stuff in the draft but now everyone is traveling or on holiday for the rest of the year including me 😩😩😩
pls just set me freeee
pls just set me freeee
yall....i said i was gonna do work today and tomorrow but like........am i really
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
yall....i said i was gonna do work today and tomorrow but like........am i really
looked up a list of best cheap eats in pgh and the fifth place on the list was apteka??
now i love apteka but cheap???
now i love apteka but cheap???
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
looked up a list of best cheap eats in pgh and the fifth place on the list was apteka??
now i love apteka but cheap???
now i love apteka but cheap???
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Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms!
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill!
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms
i have a few sites i used regularly pre genAI ruining the internet (off the top of my head: woks of life, sallys baking addiction, maangchi, future dish) but if i ever look for something that i cant find on my usual trusted sites i just restrict the search to pre 2022-23 ish 😕
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i have a few sites i used regularly pre genAI ruining the internet (off the top of my head: woks of life, sallys baking addiction, maangchi, future dish) but if i ever look for something that i cant find on my usual trusted sites i just restrict the search to pre 2022-23 ish 😕
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
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i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)!
i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!
apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!
apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Research Associate I Computational Stellar Astrophysics (Steward Observatory) | American Astronomical Society
The University of Arizona (U of A) Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory (SO) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will work with Professor Ca...
aas.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)!
i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!
apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social!
apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...
cant tell if the sailor manyo haha ink is less viscous than the sailor manyo nekoyanagi out of the bottle or if my pen was just still wet when i refilled it but its definitely writing thicker lines and pooling more 😩
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
cant tell if the sailor manyo haha ink is less viscous than the sailor manyo nekoyanagi out of the bottle or if my pen was just still wet when i refilled it but its definitely writing thicker lines and pooling more 😩
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November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
i didnt even know there was an airpods 3 wdym
My beloved AirPods Pro 2 are finally dying, so I got a pair of AirPods 4 and promptly had to return them because they’re terrible. You had one job, tech companies — to make products that are better as time goes on — and I don’t think it’s working out
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
i didnt even know there was an airpods 3 wdym
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
man i wish i could get my biscuits to be square
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
man i wish i could get my biscuits to be square
does anyone have a gift link?
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
does anyone have a gift link?
oh ive heard of this demo before but ive never seen it done it sounds so fun
When I was in 7th grade my science teacher had everybody write up the instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Then, he brought in the ingredients and followed the instructions very literally to hilarious effect.
It was an intro to describing methodology, and a good bit
Then, he brought in the ingredients and followed the instructions very literally to hilarious effect.
It was an intro to describing methodology, and a good bit
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
oh ive heard of this demo before but ive never seen it done it sounds so fun
it is extremely distressing to me how often i get the advice to "just use chatgpt" to "make a widget that does x" or "translate code from one language to another" or "make your website" or "figure out a bug"
why is it so easy for yall to dismiss it for writing but not for other things??
why is it so easy for yall to dismiss it for writing but not for other things??
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
it is extremely distressing to me how often i get the advice to "just use chatgpt" to "make a widget that does x" or "translate code from one language to another" or "make your website" or "figure out a bug"
why is it so easy for yall to dismiss it for writing but not for other things??
why is it so easy for yall to dismiss it for writing but not for other things??
my friend decided to get into stained glass so i also got to come along and try it out! going to reconvene in a few weekends to finish up the last few filler pieces for where i broke stuff and start putting it together!
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
my friend decided to get into stained glass so i also got to come along and try it out! going to reconvene in a few weekends to finish up the last few filler pieces for where i broke stuff and start putting it together!
when was someone gonna tell me that ohiopyle isnt in ohio
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
when was someone gonna tell me that ohiopyle isnt in ohio
anyway i didnt check the news like all day today wtf is real anymore lmao
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
anyway i didnt check the news like all day today wtf is real anymore lmao
something about the way our apartment is built or oriented makes it really hard to hear the rain most of the time (like genuinely not audible at all) but today its actually quite loud! i love the sound of rain 🩵
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
something about the way our apartment is built or oriented makes it really hard to hear the rain most of the time (like genuinely not audible at all) but today its actually quite loud! i love the sound of rain 🩵
hosted my second hotpot night with a diff group of friends and everyone was raving about the soup base 😌
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
hosted my second hotpot night with a diff group of friends and everyone was raving about the soup base 😌