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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · 9h

I had to try this for myself and wow, thank you ChatGPT. Maybe we all get to wake up after our gas leak season soon?

A chat transcript with ChatGPT where I tell it about ICE and Alligator Alcatraz and it tells me that it's misinformation

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Aug 11

France’s National Assembly votes in favour of legalising assisted dying. I have a solution: wolves.

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Jul 31

True. I suppose they know that climate scientists won’t change their tune based on this cherry-picked and misleading analysis, but the letters PhD after the authors’ names will impress a lot of non-scientists.

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Jul 31

I stand corrected

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Jun 25

No guns, no fentanyl, and the Victoria line runs every 100 seconds? This London really sounds like a hellscape

Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · Jun 25

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Jun 24

My fellow New Yorkers, go vote! I mailed my ballot from Paris - no excuses.

Confirmation from the NYC board of elections that my ballot was received

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Jun 15

RFK's brain worm ate and left no crumbs

Reposted by Alessandra Quigley

Natassa Romanou @aromanou.bsky.social · May 31

Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 29

🧪 It's been a privilege to work at the historic NASA GISS for even the first few months of my PhD. I (and many colleagues) gave quotes in this article about getting evicted; hopefully it changes at least one heart/mind.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Trump Administration Shutters New York City–Based NASA Institute

Since 1966 NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in upper Manhattan. Now a Trump administration directive is ejecting it...

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 26

Thank you!

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 26

I started work at LOCEAN at Sorbonne today, and Notre Dame is on my walk to work! PhD life has its perks.

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 26

Joke's on whoever moves in and finds out that we're testing the range of human habitability, not just with our models, but also with the HVAC system.

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 21

🧪 My amazing and brilliant partner @jaredjeya.bsky.social wrote this paper! Any quantum physicists: please explain this to me. I'd love to understand what he does!

Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · May 15

Our featured article for April 2025
Quantum electrodynamics on a 1D lattice can lead to localization of charges, in contrast to the thermalizing dynamics. This study identifies the origin of such non-thermal signatures and attribute it to the fracturing of the underlying Hilbert space.
rdcu.be/el8h7

Hilbert space fragmentation at the origin of disorder-free localization in the lattice Schwinger model

Communications Physics - Quantum electrodynamics on a one-dimensional lattice can lead to the localization of charges, in contrast to the thermalizing dynamics ubiquitous in nature. In this work...

rdcu.be

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 20

My partner and I played an election day game where we competed to come up with the worst possible policy ideas. This is EXACTLY my winning pitch on immigration. Truly beyond satire.

A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It.

www.nytimes.com

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 17

This is before even considering the cost benefits from our research. Everyone from insurance companies to the agricultural sector use GISS TEMP, CMIP6, and other model products to assess climate risks on all timescales.

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · May 17

DOGE claims NASA GISS is being evicted to save money, but it actually costs taxpayers more to remove us. GSA is on the hook for our lease until 2031, regardless of whether we occupy the building, and we all have to be "in person" by September. Any other place has a higher marginal cost than $0.

IFPTE @ifpte.bsky.social · May 17

In response to NASA’s decision to force IFPTE-represented employees at NASA’s Goddard to move out of their offices in New York City, IFPTE altered Members of Congress that this action is not only disruptive, but wastes federal resources and harms the critical work of these scientists.

IFPTE Urges Lawmakers to Stop NASA from Moving Goddard Institute for Space Studies Out of Their Offices — IFPTE

In response to NASA’s decision to force IFPTE-represented employees at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) to move out of their offices in New York City, IFPTE altered Members of Congres...

www.ifpte.org

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Apr 27

They're smoking the flaming wreckage of Twitter. Very easy to believe the orange buffoon has plans beyond mere mortal compression when that's your news source.

Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Apr 18

CTD watchstanders each get to write a blog post about their time onboard: here's mine! www.go-bgc.org/expedition/i...

Fun and Games | GO-BGC

www.go-bgc.org

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Apr 9

"This cooperative agreement suggests that the Earth will have a significant fluctuation in its water availability as a result of global warming. Using federal funds to perpetuate these narratives does not align with the priorities of this Administration" so ignorance is strength now, apparently?

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

www.commerce.gov

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Apr 3

One cute GO-SHIP tradition is that when we get to our deepest station (6280m!), we decorate styrofoam cups and let the pressure shrink them into fun souvenirs. I'm thinking of making mine into a Christmas ornament

A mini styrofoam cup decorated with a ship and a CTD

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm a bit over a week into my research cruise with GO-SHIP and finally over my cyclone-induced round two of seasickness! This is what my CTD work station looks like - I'm in charge of telling the winch operator the depths we want to look at and then remotely closing bottles to collect water samples.

Computer station with readouts from a CTD

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Mar 22

Day 2: I think I've mostly adjusted to the constant rocking. Today, we swapped out all the O rings on the CTD and learned how to set it up. Excited for our test station tomorrow!

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Mar 22

Day 1: I was too seasick to write an update. Bananas taste the same in both directions.

Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Mar 20

For the next 38 days, I'll be aboard the Thomas G. Thompson as a CTD watchstander. This is my first research cruise, so I'll give updates on life at sea! 🌊🧪

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Alessandra Quigley @alessandraquig.bsky.social · Mar 13

One of the most *interesting* parts of dating as a woman was having my own field explained to me by men who thought that their philosophy hobby qualified them to overturn climate science

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