Particle Postgrad

First year Particle Physics PhD student.

[alrobertsphotography]

The Plym North Wood Dartmoor

[maureen2musings]

Spring mornings in Switzerland

framedtakes

[dark-sappho]

"defend your thesis" why are you attacking my thesis

[kosmicpowers]

England isn't a real country, stupid. England is a lie to sell you more Doctor Who

[weedle-testaburger]

Wales is real though, where else would they film Doctor Who

[thesweetiepienovels]

Someone said “The slow burn of becoming yourself” and I think that might be one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. It’s such a good reminder of how much it takes, how much character development, how much change, and beauty and courage it takes to reach your soul and I hope no one ever gives up on becoming themselves because it’s a never ending journey that only gets better.

[vehder]

i miss u so much (pre ai internet)

[sztupy]

[nadoripeter]

Ez megoldódott.

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Wang and Lai (2014)

[gemstone-gynoid]

[moth-amphetamine]

*does five minutes of work* ok now i deserve a three week break. No consequences please 👍

[mynowherenothing]

[ashstfu]

the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you were a pleasure to have in class

[valancedbreakfast]

Reblog if prev is a pleasure to have on your dash

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

FUCKING THANK YOU.

[daughterofscotland]

I am also keeping "Show thumbnails instead of icons" because otherwise my brain hurts.

[catcrumb]

[jamsandsuch]

enough of thesis defense. time for thesis offense

[wildspringday]

"came back wrong" but it's from work

[geraniumnecromancer]

My friend just mentioned offhand that she wears a fake mustache to help her concentrate when studying physics. I needed to share this with the world.