Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

she/they. A prickly little horse, and burnt out physics grad student.
Theoretical physics is beautiful, but the human spirit is divine. No innovation without labourers, no beauty without witness. Defy STEM chauvinism. Life needs art.
This skirt is barbed.

Posts Replies Media Videos

Pinned

Peggy @pegapine.bsky.social · Dec 7

"snap."

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

The bees are back, but it's ok. I got a... uhhhh... hmm. Beekeeper suit. Yeah, let's go with that metaphor.

Peggy @pegapine.bsky.social · Nov 16

I've got things to say here, I promise. I've just got bees in my head right now.

May 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM

Reposted by Peggy

Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

Here’s my last messages with Shimaa- so glad Bluesky decided that she just had to be removed right now.

10:36
く
• l
shimaafamily98.bsky.social
@shimaafamily98.bsky.social
...
I think you probably have $400 in your
GM now friend from today- do you have a way to access it?
Yes dear thank you very much I will wait until tomorrow and ask my friend if he can help me send them as soon as possible
Okay keep me updated okay?
Well dear if I never call you back I will have gone to heaven where there is no injustice
I need you to call me back because one day I plan on having tea with you and holding that sweet baby in Gaza okay?
Thope so very much, my dear. I hope peace spreads throughout the world
Me too love- very much

March 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM

Reposted by Peggy

Adriana Guatame-García

@adrianaguatame.bsky.social

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

I could say a lot about my disillusionment with physics, but it comes down to an attitude that human issues either don't apply to us, or are beneath us, whether it be labour issues on campus, or our involvement in imperialism. This video by Dr. Fatima has come to mean a lot to me over the past year.

astronomy has a colonialism problem

YouTube video by Dr. Fatima

youtu.be

March 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

Been picking up the guitar lately. For a long while, I've been wanting to make music like soldat / howndstooth. She has a way of making such expressive, minimalistic songs with ambient textures to back her acoustic guitar playing that I can only describe as rays of gold.

March 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Reposted by Peggy

💀🧡 Dynamo 🧡💀

@dynamosaysrelax.bsky.social

How does she even do some of those?!

#RainbowDash #Mlp #Mlpfim #Pony

Rainbow stands on her hind legs in the rain professing a list of things she does fast, some of which doesn't even make sense

January 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Reposted by Peggy

MOVED!!! @keketyne

@keketoll.bsky.social

for @alienvuppy.bsky.social

February 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM

Reposted by Peggy

SoTshu

@handle.invalid

woaw the form any% lvl2 song ‼️
newgrounds▶️ www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...
soundcloud▶️ on.soundcloud.com/euHdEtFzAF8t...

palilalia (form any% lvl2)

my submission for form's any% lvl2 event

www.newgrounds.com

February 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

Vital is cool. Thank you @vital.audio .

February 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM

Reposted by Peggy

SoTshu

@handle.invalid

I FORGOT IT'S TODAY!!!
My song "Falling" is now on streaming platforms!!!
GO LISTEN NOW!!!!!
▶️Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/4MQPMn...
▶️Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/fal...

Falling

SoTshu · Falling · Song · 2025

open.spotify.com

January 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

So, I finally got a DAW and some cheap plugins a few weeks back, and am starting to learn the ropes so that I can finally make the music that's been on my mind for years. I blame all of you who post videos of your WIPs on here for making this look fun (it is). Thanks.

February 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM

Reposted by Peggy

SoTshu

@handle.invalid

wow this part of the song is kinda boring. i wish there was a way to make it sound more interesting.
the fucking bullshit ass automation clip:

January 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Reposted by Peggy

Hika/Tām | HK★TMK

@hikatamika.com

No joke, menstruating moots, women or otherwise.
Move that stuff to a paper planner. I'm telling you.

Legion @shintonephilim.bsky.social · Jan 12

January 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM

Reposted by Peggy

SoTshu

@handle.invalid

hey look its that phonk song that ive talked about yesterday. check it out on @newgrounds.com
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...

WRONG NUMBER

i am sorry for making phonk please forgive me

www.newgrounds.com

January 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM

Reposted by Peggy

SoTshu

@handle.invalid

anyway, hai guys!👋👋👋
i'm sotshu (read as it's written), i make the musics and sometimes better musics and sometimes they end up on spotify if i think they're like really good
check out the other places that i'm in
🔽🔽🔽
linktr.ee/sotshu
also check out this cool video with various songs i've made
🔽🔽🔽

January 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM

Reposted by Peggy

nogohst.bsky.social

@nogohst.bsky.social

Had a weird dream I wanted to interpret with my horse OC

December 9, 2024 at 2:43 AM

Reposted by Peggy

ravarcheon

@ravarcheon.com

hey guess what?
!? out everywhere
ravarcheon.bandcamp.com/album/-
soundcloud.com/ravarcheon/s...

January 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM

Reposted by Peggy

gwen

@vyletpony.com

the crunk lord tiberius

January 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM

Reposted by Peggy

gwen

@vyletpony.com

the ascension

January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM

Peggy

@pegapine.bsky.social

If I reskeet enough of these "make bad art" posts, I might successfully guilt myself into actually doing it. It's a genius plan, really, completely flawless.

January 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM