Crwn's Lore

she/her, 3rd year Physics and Astronomy Bsc. constantly nerding out

[crwn-lore]

✧ The Beginning ✧

ABOUT ME Hi! I am crown. I am currently doing my undergrad in Physics and Astronomy with a minor in philosophy in Canada 🍁

ACADEMIC INTERESTS I love everything space-related, particularly cosmology and exoplanets. I also enjoy philosophy (hence the minor), ancient science, anthropology and I am also obsessed with the odyssey.

HOBBIES from time to time, I talk about my novel writing on my main account (@crwn-nrth). I also enjoy reading historical fiction novels, and sketching.

Here, I am going to be posting my academic journey, sharing the cool stuff I learn from time to time. I've been meaning to find a place to dump my academic brain-rot and with the new academic year approaching, I though this would be the perfect time to get that started

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Recap = a little summary of the course I've taken!

"Study Updates" = short updates on how the semester is progressing

9/8/24 9/18/24 10/20/24 11/23/24 12/9/24

My second brain: Obsidian = my study software (a little intro on where I store my notes)

6/2/25 6/15/25 7/9/25 7/20/25 8/12/25 11/19/25

1/5/26 1/16/26 1/27/26 2/8/26

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Updated occasionally

Classes I'm taking this semester (May - August 2026):

Intermediate Classical mechanics

Mathematical Physics 1

Electricity and Magnetism 2

Philosophy: Scientific Revolutions

Some tags I occassionally update:

crwn daily log

artemis ii watch

[charl0ttan]

electrons doing all sorts of stupid quantum bullshit right now. never forget

[ashmindpalace]

average first sentence of a math wikipedia page:

A snorkle basis is a particular sort of set that has some properties and is generally "nice" (in a rigorous sense) and can do many things and is very practical.

[caesxr]

‘beyond the scope of this paper’ is a dear friend to me. I Am Not Fucking Talking About That

[somestorythoughts]

"Look I can stay on track or this paper can be three times as long, your choice."

[hagiomoto]

Okay, if you are tired then you won't be able to read. There I say it. No one else want to say it. It is strange. If you are tired, if you cannot finish a book that's a given. That's why you need to read...at work. You need to steal your reading time from your employers.

[mirastudiesphysics]

As you progress in your education and perhaps begin doing research projects, there becomes this ideal of "independent research", the kind of thing that turns you into a professional rather than a student. And I'm beginning to think that this is a bit of a misnomer in how people interpret this phrase and the idea behind it.

In graduate school, you are training to become an independent researcher, that's basically the whole idea. The common ideal archetype is the "multiple first-author papers grad student who never needs help nor asks questions". And while being able to lead a project to the natural conclusion of a paper is an integral skill, it's rarely done alone or entirely independently. In truth, research is typically very collaborative and it's rare to work alone.

My more recent interpretation of becoming an "independent researcher" is more about learning how to be responsible for your own work. This means taking the initiative to see it complete and correct. This can look like asking for advice from other experts, teaching collaborators so they can get up to speed, or double checking that your work is consistent with other literature/logic.

Obviously this is not an overnight process, and it's something I've only recently could put into words. Learning how to do all of this is hard, and I'm in the middle of this frankly scary and painful transition.

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[Many college students experience introductory physics as psychologically threatening.]

Benson-Greenwald et al. (2026)

[crwn-lore]

I've been really enjoying organically growing my substack and finding the most interesting articles and people. I also feel slightly better doomscrolling on substack rather than reels

Anyways, I wrote another article . . .

What Even Is Science?

We've been doing science for centuries. We still can't define it.

[crwn-lore]

5/29/2026

Had to spin a wheel to decide what subject to start studying this weekend. I have to work on all of them at some point, but knowing where to start is usually the hardest part.

Classical Mechanics won, so I'll be working on Lagrangian Mechanics for the next couple of hours, and I don't really mind :)

[crwn-lore]

philosophy of science update: Kuhn is rearranging my brain chemistry again. Some of my thoughts are live on substack:

Kuhn's Ideas Are Harder to Swallow Than They First Appear

On Incommensurability and Truth

[scarletbirbs]

Everyone is going on and on about the Earth pics from Artemis II but actually of all the pictures, this is the one making me the most insane.

Like something about seeing the ship and the Moon backlit and the Earth nowhere in sight is making me feel insane cause it really hammers home how we're all just on rocks floating in space and we're all so tiny against the vastness of the universe and there are millions of rocks just like our moon all circling each other in this cosmic emptiness like idk I can't fully explain it guys please tell me you get it

Also the official name of this pic is fantastic:

[crwn-lore]

The high I get when I intentionally make a joke at work and people genuinely laugh, it's astonishing

[sanscest69]

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

[treesaplingtwig]

this is probably my best drawing in a while, please enjoy it as well :)

[violetsandshrikes]

to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

connectedpapers

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

[thefifthtetrahedron]

researchrabbit works similarly. you do need to create an account to use it, but it is completely free (as far as I know), meaning no limits to your collections/graphs.

[hot-potayto]

Getting back into a good study routine feels so good

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry