Cara Waters

doodle of a cat inside an olive

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I was just putting Orin to bed and he said, “I don’t know how to use my life,” so now there’s three of us in the house like this.

A photo of a person giving blood at a blood donation centre with the needle in their arm

TW: needle. You literally sit here for a few minutes, they take amazing care of you, and you can book it all easily on an app.

Blood donor appeal There are spaces to donate blood at some of our city centre venues.

The NHS are very short of blood right now - especially if you are O, A or B negative, please consider donating! I promise it isn’t that bad, and you get lots of free snacks at the end. If you’re scared of needles, so was I - donating blood has helped with it a lot! www.blood.co.uk/news-and-cam...

What a way to end a season #CFCW

The relentless sun: how do we live with severe space weather? Please join us for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jonathan Eastwood.

☀️ You can’t stop the Sun, but you can prepare for its storms

📅 21 May, 17.30-18.30

Join Prof Jonathan Eastwood (@imperialphysics.bsky.social) for his lecture on the science of space weather, why it matters, and how we can get ready for the next big solar flare
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19087...

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sad astronaut

Two more talks ✅

huh...

Altadena Wildfires My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly.

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.”

Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

YouTube video by WeRateDogs The Dogs of 2024

The Dogs of 2024
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A photo of a brown Syrian hamster standing up on his hind legs looking very cute with his front paws up t-Rex style.

On a lighter note, happy new year and here is Melvin to convey that message!

It is now Year of the Starting Thesis Writing 😳

Definitely just set my all time record for speed answering a mastermind question when the answer was Charli xcx about brat

A photo of me giving a talk in a session at AGU24 annual meeting about magnetic reconnection and neural networks

#AGU24 ✅

Reminder that I have a talk on reconnection and machine learning in SM51A bright and early tomorrow morning! #AGU24

Classifying Magnetic Reconnection Regions Using k‐Means Clustering: Applications to Energy Partition k-means clustering identifies statistically different regions of a symmetric reconnection site in a 2.5-D PIC simulation We confirm that outgoing particle energy fluxes decrease due to increased ...

Of which half of the work is already published here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

I should probably also say that this year I will be at #AGU24 and giving a talk on reconnection and machine learning!

Spotify wrapped top 5 songs, listing 360 Charli xcx, Von Dutch Charli xcx, Apple Charli xcx, Girl, so confusing Charli xcx, and Club classics Charli xcx.

Yeah I definitely had a year

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

I’m a PhD student in space physics looking at the Earth-Sun interaction and space weather

Yes

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Life lately

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Sonia Bompastor 👑

Up the Chels 💙

#CFCWSocial | #CFCW

What a result 💙💙💙 #CFCW

Night vision camera of a hamster running on his wheel

Deciding to use a security camera for my hamster is easily the best decision I’ve ever made because how else would I get incredible views like him running at 2am? #Hamsters

Since the October 10 storm, I've received >500 DMs about the aurora, and I'm finally catching up. After going through all the messages, a number of questions got asked repeatedly, so let's explore them in a series of threads.
First: What are auroras, and why do they occur?

Can you tell I’ve got a conference coming up and I’m trying to actually understand what I’ve done #AcademicSky #PhDSky

I know we’re in this era of massively complex AI but simple machine learning techniques are just???? So cool??? Like someone sat down and really said what if I did statistics but made it work for even more things and have obvious applications??