Alessandra Quigley

She smiles and says “I will always love you”

No kings protest NYC

I like America the way I like my Americanos: no ICE #nokings

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

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?

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

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.

I stand corrected

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

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

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

RFK's brain worm ate and left no crumbs

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!

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...

🧪 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...

Thank you!

Notre Dame cathedral in Paris

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

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.

🧪 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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

"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?

A mini styrofoam cup decorated with a ship and a CTD

Same cup, different angle

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

Computer station with readouts from a CTD

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.

CTD device

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!

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

Research vessel Thomas G. Thompson

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! 🌊🧪

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

I'm sure everyone has heard "contact your representatives" a million times since January, but CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. Congress still has the power to set the budget, and this is not an area where we can afford to compromise. Find your reps here: www.congress.gov/members/find...

Best of luck to her! What does she research?

Still a long way away, so I'm not sure yet, but somewhere in western Europe for sure!