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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 5d

MIT is the first university to reject the Trump administration‘s offer for a compact that trades control over their policies for preferential funding treatment

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10d

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 10d

“I’m not going to argue with you about this” -someone who started an argument with you and then realized halfway through that they were wrong

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13d

confirmed sighting today

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13d

my boss calling me into his office and reading my posts aloud from a printed page and me saying "nice" and "good one" after each

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13d

studying a light curve intently and saying “looks like Dracula walking in front of a door” to annoy the astrophysicists

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13d

vampires are canonically very difficult to capture directly on camera, but have we tried the transit method

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 13d

So pretty, congrats to you both!!

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 14d

yes, it was above my house today 🙏🙏

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 19d

AI vibe coding is like hiring a million monkeys on typewriters in the hopes that one of them will eventually produce the entire Linux kernel source code

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 19d

*dealing with life stresses of extreme scale and scope*: ok
*hot guy at the lebanese restaurant near my house who would give me free pita bread transferred to a location across town*: I’m not going to survive this

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 25d

When people get mad at you for having a fulfilling personal life with lots of hobbies and say stuff like “well you can do that because you don’t experience the crushing sleep deprivation, loss of self identity, and financial strain of parenthood!” It’s like. yeah.… that’s kind of the idea…

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 26d

Guy outside the state building hawking knockoff Jordans and notary services… man said I am going to diversify my business offerings

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 26d

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications mission has successfully concluded after two years of beaming back data from space with lasers! (This was the first mission I worked on at JPL and a large part of my PhD). A big step toward the future of space communications. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDLS...

From Taters to Terabits: NASA Wraps Up Deep Space Laser Test

YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

www.youtube.com

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 28d

Embracing my people‘s tradition of sauna every single day by going from my frigid air conditioned lab into my baking hot car

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Not to brag, but big and exciting things are currently happening in my personal life (I’m taking the Amtrak through an industrial zone)

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Me, engineer at the astrophysics workshop, making everyone mad: a binary star system is when it has either 0 or 1 stars

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Aug 25

This weekend in the Redwoods and Crater Lake

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you Avelo for strengthening my brand 🫡

Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Aug 25

When you go on a trip to a remote area and then the airline out of the small regional airport cancels the return flight 1 hour before departure and goes out of business… that is unironically very cool

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excuse me, I thought this was America

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 19

The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope

FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.

abcnews.link

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · Aug 18

…. exploding the house seems like a bit much to resolve the bug issue …. but I’m not an expert …..

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