Weston Hall

How I managed to live 22 years without eating a plantain astounds me

Playing Cloak and Dagger in a huge video game like marvel rivals makes me miss the tv show just a little less

What’s on and popping truth social?!?!

aliens

hi. another astrophysicist here. still not aliens

Hi!

I am a PhD grad student at Iowa State University, studying planet formation and planetesimal populations in our solar system. I use hydrodynamic simulations on high-performance computing clusters.

I also talk comic books, video games, politics, and cat ownership!!

scipy root solving algorithms are starting to Tetris effect themselves into my dreams… last night I dreamt I meant mister brentq himself

Some machines I can only ssh into from university wifi. I slept on a bench outside a locked library at 2am one night to make sure my code kept running

The fact that being a Beatles fan or a Beatles hater keeps cyclically going in and out of fashion even 55 years after their breakup is evidence that their influence can never be understated

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!