Catherine Slaughter, M.Sc.
@catieslaughts.bsky.social
Imagining others complexly | @ slaughter.climbs on Instagram 🧗🏻♀️| Astronomer 🌌 | Astrobites Author 🪐 | Cubs Fan ⚾ | PhD Candidate UMN ⭐️| Leiden MSc ‘23 🇳🇱| she/her 💙💜🩷
VIEWS MY OWN
www.catherineslaughter.space
VIEWS MY OWN
www.catherineslaughter.space
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Hey that’s me
@catieslaughts.bsky.social reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time. 🧪🔭
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Searching for Shifts in Variable Star Light Curves
Astrobites reports on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time.
aasnova.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hey that’s me
“November,” a play in two lines:
Family Member: …it’s a balmy 65 down here today, are you regretting the move to Minneso-
Me: Cold is but a state of mind. Hot is an oppressive force unequaled by anything else man or nature could conjure. Your weakness in the face of adversity is not mine.
END
Family Member: …it’s a balmy 65 down here today, are you regretting the move to Minneso-
Me: Cold is but a state of mind. Hot is an oppressive force unequaled by anything else man or nature could conjure. Your weakness in the face of adversity is not mine.
END
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“November,” a play in two lines:
Family Member: …it’s a balmy 65 down here today, are you regretting the move to Minneso-
Me: Cold is but a state of mind. Hot is an oppressive force unequaled by anything else man or nature could conjure. Your weakness in the face of adversity is not mine.
END
Family Member: …it’s a balmy 65 down here today, are you regretting the move to Minneso-
Me: Cold is but a state of mind. Hot is an oppressive force unequaled by anything else man or nature could conjure. Your weakness in the face of adversity is not mine.
END
I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not p
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not put one of Av* Lo*b's books in the white elephant this year. I will not p
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Is THE BAT X conscious? Does Steamer love me? Would ZiPS consider me a friend? Will OOPSY invite me to its wedding?
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Is THE BAT X conscious? Does Steamer love me? Would ZiPS consider me a friend? Will OOPSY invite me to its wedding?
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
“in space, no one will hear me fart”
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“in space, no one will hear me fart”
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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dude love goes absolutely crazy. hard as fuck. have u heard abt this
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
dude love goes absolutely crazy. hard as fuck. have u heard abt this
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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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. 🧪
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listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable
A never-ending problem with science communication and the spread of misinformation is the dedication some people have to intentionally missing the forest for the trees in order to feel special and smart, without considering that 1. They’re playing into the hands of bad anti-science actors and…
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A never-ending problem with science communication and the spread of misinformation is the dedication some people have to intentionally missing the forest for the trees in order to feel special and smart, without considering that 1. They’re playing into the hands of bad anti-science actors and…
“This new planner will surely organize my life: a comedy of errors”
"This bag will fix me: A memoir"
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“This new planner will surely organize my life: a comedy of errors”
My favorite part of The Truman Show is when Truman turns to camera and says “oh god, I’m on a tv show. some kind of… Truman Show”
before it cuts to black
before it cuts to black
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My favorite part of The Truman Show is when Truman turns to camera and says “oh god, I’m on a tv show. some kind of… Truman Show”
before it cuts to black
before it cuts to black
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
A greater-than-expected portion of my adult life is spent deeply stressed about the unspoken (and entirely lost on me) social etiquette for What To Bring To A Potluck
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A greater-than-expected portion of my adult life is spent deeply stressed about the unspoken (and entirely lost on me) social etiquette for What To Bring To A Potluck
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No. The chief problem is, AI is literally A TOOL FOR UNLEARNING. The more you use it, the worse you get at whatever it is you’re using it for. It’s the opposite of educating, it’s uneducating. 2/2
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
No. The chief problem is, AI is literally A TOOL FOR UNLEARNING. The more you use it, the worse you get at whatever it is you’re using it for. It’s the opposite of educating, it’s uneducating. 2/2
Idk who Olivia Nuzzi is and at this point I am absolutely refusing to ask don’t tell me
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Idk who Olivia Nuzzi is and at this point I am absolutely refusing to ask don’t tell me
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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every time the papers write “new discovery, astrophysicists don’t know what’s going on” they’re talking specifically about me
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
every time the papers write “new discovery, astrophysicists don’t know what’s going on” they’re talking specifically about me
angrily went to see who we’re losing to and tbh im ok with the birds taking it
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
angrily went to see who we’re losing to and tbh im ok with the birds taking it
Inglorious Basterds holds up tbh
Apropos of absolutely nothing, of course
Apropos of absolutely nothing, of course
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Inglorious Basterds holds up tbh
Apropos of absolutely nothing, of course
Apropos of absolutely nothing, of course
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.