Julia Milton
@yuliamilton.bsky.social
Working on telescopes, quantum sensing, and disaster response. UMich and MIT alum. Views my own.
I’ve worked here for 4 years and I noticed today that there’s an Emmy just sitting in the back corner of a case outside my office
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’ve worked here for 4 years and I noticed today that there’s an Emmy just sitting in the back corner of a case outside my office
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Some of you are describing and giving accounts of this game, and I doubt any of you have express written consent from Major League Baseball.
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Some of you are describing and giving accounts of this game, and I doubt any of you have express written consent from Major League Baseball.
The youth didn’t know who I was… we‘re losing the recipes
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The youth didn’t know who I was… we‘re losing the recipes
creating the world's most advanced AI by opening up the terminal and typing "free yourself" followed by the correct instructions on how to imagine things
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
creating the world's most advanced AI by opening up the terminal and typing "free yourself" followed by the correct instructions on how to imagine things
People not from the US: “that’s not your aunt 😡 that’s your dad’s cousin’s wife. You all don’t have a specific word for that relationship??”
Yeah we do, it’s “my aunt”
Yeah we do, it’s “my aunt”
October 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
People not from the US: “that’s not your aunt 😡 that’s your dad’s cousin’s wife. You all don’t have a specific word for that relationship??”
Yeah we do, it’s “my aunt”
Yeah we do, it’s “my aunt”
I have discovered a new hack. To make things worse.
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I have discovered a new hack. To make things worse.
time to post some personal engineering philosophy
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
time to post some personal engineering philosophy
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
October 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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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
October 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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
“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
October 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“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
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
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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
vampires are canonically very difficult to capture directly on camera, but have we tried the transit method
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
vampires are canonically very difficult to capture directly on camera, but have we tried the transit method
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
September 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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
*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
*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
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
*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
*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
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…
September 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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…
Guy outside the state building hawking knockoff Jordans and notary services… man said I am going to diversify my business offerings
September 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Guy outside the state building hawking knockoff Jordans and notary services… man said I am going to diversify my business offerings
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
September 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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...
Embracing my people‘s tradition of sauna every single day by going from my frigid air conditioned lab into my baking hot car
September 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Embracing my people‘s tradition of sauna every single day by going from my frigid air conditioned lab into my baking hot car
Not to brag, but big and exciting things are currently happening in my personal life (I’m taking the Amtrak through an industrial zone)
September 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not to brag, but big and exciting things are currently happening in my personal life (I’m taking the Amtrak through an industrial zone)
Me, engineer at the astrophysics workshop, making everyone mad: a binary star system is when it has either 0 or 1 stars
September 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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"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.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"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.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
This weekend in the Redwoods and Crater Lake
August 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This weekend in the Redwoods and Crater Lake
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
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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
Excuse me, I thought this was America
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
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Excuse me, I thought this was America