Kaila Nathaniel

DOGE’s federal property sell-off has accidentally revealed a CIA black site in Northern Virginia, according to Bloomberg.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers The agency changed course just days after firing employees who oversee the safety of food and life-sustaining medical devices. Dozens of workers said they and others were back at work Monday.

“The workers had been fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts, led by Elon Musk, to significantly downsize the federal government and cut costs. But the salaries of many of the fired F.D.A. staff members had been funded by fees companies pay the F.D.A., not taxpayer money.”

Rally 2/23/2025 Martin Luther king park downtown Rochester.

This is devastating for our future. I would absolutely not be where I am now if it were not for my REU experiences. I gained friends and mentors who I am still close with 20+ years later. It colored my choices for grad school and my thesis project. I chose my career and field based on an REU. 🧪

Not the BAD DOGE Act lmaoooooo

We took the Rochester Police Dept to court over their failure to disclose police officer misconduct records - and won.

In a landmark ruling from the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in NY, Rochester must now disclose ALL records related to police discipline and misconduct allegations.

University of Rochester graduate workers announce intent to strike Posted in r/Rochester by u/TheGazorpazorpfield • 18 points and 1 comment

University of Rochester graduate workers announce intent to strike

#RochesterNY

Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.

“57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns in protest The head of criminal prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday after refusing to comply with an order from the deputy attorney general’s office.

The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Apparently the gutting of the National Science Foundation is underway at the moment. "More to come."

One can debate whether cuts are warranted, but the mindless, know-nothing fashion in which they are being carried out is inexcusable. This will damage US science for generations.

Spindown of massive main sequence stars in the Milky Way Context. We need to understand the spin evolution of massive stars to compute their internal rotationally induced mixing processes, isolate effects of close binary evolution, and predict the rotation ...

It's paper day! This work made up half of my MSc thesis and was looong in the making, but it's finally out in the world for everyone to see!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.12107

Whoever did the colour and brightness tweaking for this JWST image deserves a prize for art. It's so beautiful it looks fake.... 🔭

Screenshot of a post on X by Libs of TikTok, captioned "Spotted in Rochester, NY @NewYorkFBI". The photo shows a highway overpass with "WHO WILL KILL ELON" painted on the side.

sometimes I really do love Rochester :) <3

Good. I'm not sure how this might affect any outcome, but it's good at least to see the Dems fighting back.

Turns out I can't read and once I fixed all my mistakes force A is 10^-11 times smaller than force B. hurrah!

Thank you!

result I was hoping for: force A is < 1% of force B, meaning we can ignore annoying complicated physics

result I got: force A is 10^11 times GREATER than force B

office so cold fingers might fall off

two more postdoc apps and I am done done done

I'm in love with your color scheme!!

Late-time HST and JWST Observations of GRB 221009A: Evidence for a Break in the Light Curve at 50 Days GRB 221009A is one of the brightest transients ever observed with the highest peak gamma-ray flux for a gamma-ray burst (GRB). A type Ic-BL supernova (SN), SN 2022xiw, was definitively detected in lat...

new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭

arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663

writing tex locally is 10x better than overleaf in every way, except for when you get to the co-author edits stage. fight me.

Hello new followers!

I'm Kaila and I use population synthesis (simulating populations of 100s to 100s of 1000s of objects) to figure out why stars and black holes are misbehaving and what it means! I do a lot of coding, coffee drinking, and love to travel. Welcome!

IF YOU ARE GOING TO AAS

the inauguration is on the 20th, AAS ends the 16th. DC is going to be overrun with Trump voters and news media starting the 18th/19th.

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Do you remember that time there was a tape released that had Jeffrey Epstein saying Donald Trump was his best friend for ten years and that Trump liked to have sex with his friends' wives and then it didn't really have any impact? Yeah, that was yesterday.