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second year physics student mars, 19, he/they

[hubblestudies]

about me

mars

19

he/they

infj

4w3

queer

autistic

academic

second year undergrad

physics major with minors in mathematics and astronomy

i plan on getting my PhD when i finish undergrad

interests and hobbies

astronomy and cosmology

theoretical physics

black holes, quasars, neutron stars

music (playing and listening)

reading

astrophotography (i’m very new at it but getting into it!)

programming (currently teaching myself python)

video games

[galaxythreads1]

Orion, Earth, and the Moon via NASA https://ift.tt/hdDIkMB

[hubblestudies]

some last minute reading notes for modern physics

[alleycatboy]

being smart has never stopped me from being a complete fucking idiot

[cryptotheism]

One of the greatest causes of Acting like a Dumb Clown Disease is what I'm gonna call Engineer Brain. It's when you're really good and smart at one thing, so you start to think that you're really good and smart at everything. This little voice in your head is a liar, and it wants you to be cringe where people can see.

[hubblestudies]

trying to keep up with my calc class while I'm stuck at home with covid

[artbyblastweave]

It's the duty of each and every one of you to lie to your local astrology enthusiast about your birthday so that they'll start self-assuredly parsing your personality and behavior through whatever star sign you lied about. It's dishonest work and we've all got to do it.

[artbyblastweave]

The day will come when we embarrass this vile strain of psuedo-secular neo-calvinsim back into the abyss from which it first wrenched itself, and with any luck light pollution will prevent anyone with an internet connection from getting a good enough look at the night sky to redevelop it. We are so close. So so close

[visenyaism]

last two weeks of the semester in between thanksgiving and finals moodboard😜

[doyouseethisshitmyliege]

[hauntedgalaxynacho-deactivated2]

How other physics students prepare for finals: makes flashcards, does problem sets, reviews past homeworks, studies

How I prepare for finals: cry, buy an age 11-13 boys bedspread that has astronauts on it, cry, buys a book about the physics in star wars, watch movies from my childhood so I can regress back to a time when I wasn't a pure ball of unadulterated stress, watch voltron (for the 5th time)

[foeofcolor]

[tradescantialover]

I don’t study because I want good grades. I study so I can get into grad schools with pretty buildings <3

[montseandere]

Pleiades over Half Dome

[wildcat2030]

Why so many LGBT+ scientists leave physics - Futurity

"Nearly everybody I know who is LGBT+ in physics has left, to be honest," says Tim Atherton, coauthor of a study on exclusionary treatment in the field.

Women and trans people are most likely to experience harassment, according to the research, which comes as physics as a discipline attempts to grapple with equity and inclusion issues.

The study’s authors found that the two biggest factors that influence a person’s decision to leave physics are the overall climate of the organization they belong to and more specifically observing exclusionary behavior. “Nearly everybody I know who is LGBT+ in physics has left, to be honest,” says Tim Atherton, associate professor of physics at Tufts University and co-lead author of the study. “We’re talking dozens and dozens of students and faculty. I can empathize with the experiences of the study’s participants from some of my own experiences.” “People feel shunned, excluded, and they were continually having to readjust and twist themselves to fit into the physics community,” says Ramón Barthelemy, assistant professor of physics at the University of Utah and co-lead author of the study. “LGBT+ people are inherently a part of this field. If you want physics to be a place that anyone can participate, we have to talk about these issues.” According to the American Physical Society, 15% of early career scientists identify as LGBT+. and while a number of previous studies have explored challenges faced by physicists with regards to gender and race, this study sought to expand understanding of the impact of these barriers through a survey of the experiences of 324 people in physics across the LGBT+ spectrum. It will appear in the journal Physical Review of Physics Education Research. The coauthors themselves come from a wide range of institutions, backgrounds, identities, and career stages and sought to understand the lives of the larger LGBT+ physicist community from their own perspectives.

[stochastic-shieldmaiden]

[art-of-mathematics]

"If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things -first , study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same."

Arnold Sommerfeld

[taratnel456]

I’ve said this before but compared to physicists, biologists fit the mad scientist stereotype Way More from what I’ve seen

physics papers mostly just consist of people finding better ways to do math whereas I was literally just reading a bio paper that was essentially just “we starved yeast and then gave it a bunch of sugar and it fucking exploded from metabolizing too much. here’s how it went down”