Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 20h

just taught the same lab 6 times in 2 days i need to delete physics from my brain now

2

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 23h

see the follow up graph....it's sad :/

1 1

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 1d

1 12

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 1d

And the follow up chart:

2 1 10

Reposted by lindsey ✨

Emily Hunt @emily.space · 1d

Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭

5 42 180

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 1d

how to win a nobel physics prize 🔭✨☄️

3 17 47

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 1d

week 5 of teaching lab: a student asked if gravity was 9.8 m/s2 and i had to google it to be sure

2

Reposted by lindsey ✨

Graham Doskoch @astrohde.bsky.social · 2d

@giantmolecular.cloud, Bill Smith and I wrote about why the new modification to the eligibility rules for the premier NSF graduate fellowship is actually A Really, Really Big Deal -- and not in a good way.

Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 2d

In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/10/04/n...

Big Changes to the NSF’s Graduate Fellowship Mean Big Problems

In this bite, the authors discuss recent changes to the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help.

astrobites.org

1 4 4

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 4d

and by "done" i mean "all but six little thingies i need to fix up but it's fine my advisor can edit what is in the overleaf"

3

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 4d

and for the fifth time this paper draft is done

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

media.tenor.com

1 3

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 7d

they have got to invent a log10 for negative numbers

2

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 8d

fall lab week 4: got called an astrologer and an astronomist today

2

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 9d

"how are postdoc apps going" i've played 12 hours of stardew valley this weekend.

4

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 9d

finding a job ad for basically my dream work -> it's due wednesday emotional crash pipeline

1

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 15d

PEMDAS claims another victim

1

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 18d

forgot that GRB is not a gravitational ray burst...very confusing conversation was had

2

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 28d

running some small scale simulations to do parameter tuning on my laptop
pros: saves time when i go launch big boy jobs on the cluster
cons: laptop attempting to achieve liftoff

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 28d

hey so like what does it mean if the last four fortune cookies you opened don't have a fortune inside

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · 28d

a good old fashioned existential crisis wednesday

2

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · Sep 5

[ a code release ]
A quick little package that lets you make movie files from yt loaded data.
Probably more interesting: I wrote up a full guide for how I put the python package together using cookiecutter, did docs using sphinx, and then hosted to readthedocs
yt-moviemaker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

yt_moviemaker documentation — yt_moviemaker 0.1.0 documentation

yt-moviemaker.readthedocs.io

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · Sep 1

it was AUTUMN in new mexico i was wearing JEANS AND SWEATER!!!!

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · Sep 1

back in minnesota and invented a new workout called "moving into a fourth floor walkup in the summer heat"

1 1

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · Aug 28

pros: we caught the bug
cons: year and a half of work and an about-to-be-submitted paper draft get fucked

2

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · Aug 26

just discovered the hard way that AAS is also the acronym for the spider organization!!!

lindsey ✨ @lcgordon.bsky.social · Aug 9

finished up my week at atpesc, I feel like someone dropped a supercomputer on my brain (and my body) but v v grateful for the experience