Catherine Slaughter, M.Sc.

Pokémon FireRed should let me join Team Rocket

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The player sprites from Pokémon Firered/Leafgreen

Couple’s Halloween costume idea

Ah! I love dandelions!!

The Canadian Rockies! I can’t remember where exactly, I think near Lake Louise

That’s the guy

(Notably that is not the reason he got kicked from Scientology)

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Just heard the shamwow guy is running for Congress and (in trying to figure out why that was happening) learned that he tried to be a Scientologist and got kicked out

How batshit does one need to be to be kicked from SCIENTOLOGY?

The idea that private funding is less suseptible to "groupthink" is absolutely fucking laugable

(Your TRGB work is cited ALL over it lol)

Thanks, Abby!

Sometimes the person that helps you when you ask for help needed to help someone more than you needed the help from someone. This is about running. This is not about running.

walk him like a dog

yet another argument in my baseball-shouldn't-be-played-in-a-fucking-laboratory crusade

This is why we need to teach about instrument precision in non-major science classes because there's absolutely no fucking way.

Genuinely might pull this up for my Astronomy 1 lab on monday

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#paperday! RR Lyrae stars are a common, dependable Population II distance indicator, and provide an independent tracer of early star formation. We test the feasability of RR Lyrae research with archival JWST data using nearby dwarf galaxy WLM! 🔭

On the arXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2602.21205

Sniped the top spot on the astro-ph baybeeeeeee

#paperday! RR Lyrae stars are a common, dependable Population II distance indicator, and provide an independent tracer of early star formation. We test the feasability of RR Lyrae research with archival JWST data using nearby dwarf galaxy WLM! 🔭

On the arXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2602.21205

If you spent 2 weeks watching the Olympics and now you’re thinking about picking up a new hobby, I have a suggestion:

hating tuberculosis!

Godzilla Minus One might be my favorite movie with no modifier needed

I also LOVED No Other Choice and am still irate that it got snubbed so hard by the Oscars

I ask my students to imagine sending a robot that looks like them to gym class to do their pushups or laps or whatever. They understand practice in the context of physical work, and somehow the analogy to mental work makes it click.

(This also explains why it's not OK to resubmit old assignments!)

But yet an union in partition

“Why aren’t kids being kids anymore??????”

Evergreen New Yorker cartoon

I can't explain why but I gaurantee it boils down to a thinly-veiled white supremacist talking point

That's why they call it jeans instability, when the jeans are unstable you make a joort cloud (and some other stuff but that's less important)

the astrophysicists are going to love this one I'm so sorry to share

I don't necessarily disagree, but I'll add that writing tests requires knowlege of how to code in the first place, there's no workaround where it should be acceptable to simply skip learning how to write code (and GOOD code, for that matter)