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I HAVE OFFICIALLY FINISHED WRITING MY THESIS!!!!!!!!

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I think a key moment that early career researchers need to learn is to shake off the fear of looking stupid when you're giving a presentation and actually explain the background

I am guilty of this myself so don't take this as me scoffing from a high horse because I'm very much not but I see a lot of our undergraduates, masters students, and even the new phd students who assume the audience knows the context

and I'm not even talking about the science context, I'm talking explain what you're doing!!

if you're talking about how you've coded scripts to do the complex mapping then explain all the parts and how to use it

or if you've done selection cuts on a dataset explain how you came to those cuts, whether it theory driven or empirical

explain your terminology on your slides, even if it's a note at the side because I bet even if this is just a talk to your own research group there's gonna be at least one person who's missed the definition and doesn't wanna speak up!

peace and love and do good science

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This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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it’s been two rough weeks - trying to submit a network analysis project in time - and now that’s done i have to learn to do about 20 algorithms by hand as well

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11.06.2025

Although I'm feeling overwhelmed with my current job, I am having a lot of experiences related to my studies in Cybersecurity.

The people there are... difficult, and it is extremely bureaucratic, but it's great to have contact with the Information Security and Cybersecurity teams.

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kicking a man while he's down 😭

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9 June 2025

Good morning from the last week of classes of this degree! That's crazy! What's going on!

Anyway. Some course mates and I had a conversation today and apparently I am not as hopelessly screwed as I thought in terms of the thesis. Looks like we're all behind where we'd rather be and that really lifted my spirits like hey, I'm not alone in this!

Chem tech lab final tomorrow and I struggle with studying for it so bad. This stuff is unbearably boring 🥲

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Solvatochromism

When a solution changes color depending on the solvent a given solute is dissolved in, the effect is known as solvatochromism. This effect is also said to be a "response to a change in polarity of the local environment", and thus solvatochromism can be used as an indicator of solvent polarity. Solvatochromic materials are typically dyes, and are used to differentiate organic solvents.

Sources/Further Reading: (Image—Wikipedia) (2015 article) (2008 article) (Ball State University) (2001 article)

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new job

i started my internship last week! my colleagues are all really nice and i feel like i'm starting to get the hang of things. although there's not that much i can do yet because i still need to complete some introductions. so my main task at the moment is developing a gui for analysing the raw data of our spectrometers. which is cool and challenging and not something i've done before, but it's desk work. and i struggle slightly when i spend a full day at the desk. but i think i'll get to do more lab work soon :)

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Remembering my love for Martha Jones.. 💕 Maybe as a treat to myself, after my assessments I’ll watch some season 3 of Doctor Who. You can check out one of my side blogs here @hopeisas0und

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01/06/25 || Sunday

I don't think I ever posted this here, but I am finally done with graduation and the convocation. Wow, never thought the undergrad era would end, but here we are. Now it's a flurry of visa apps, shopping and packing and hopefully I get enough of my home before I am shipped off to Europe for two years.

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[28/5/25] lowkey i have a bachelors degree.

it's been quite a while since i posted because it's been quite the tumultuous semester. a fitting climax to my undergraduate career! i can finally say "i have a degree in math and physics" and still not know tf i am doing.

anyway, things are gonna pick up again super intensely in the fall. im off to a uk masters program! it's not what i had in mind for the next few years, but its still a wonderful opportunity.

im looking forward to just chilling before i get to do that. resting, rebuilding. maybe ill become a human person! pick up some hobbies, exercise, do research, study qft. so many things i wanna do before i say goodbye to the states.

and even when i do say goodbye, i will still be doing physics.

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6 June 2025

Another summer, another allergy attack rip. Thesis is still in progress and my professor is unbelievably relaxed about it while I'm freaking out here 🫠 I'm not sure I believe him when he says we'll probably be done with it by the end of the next week, but it's true I got a lot of work done today and indeed, there isn't too much left to do.

One final down, three to go.

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Eastern Yellow-backed Laphria (Laphria thoracica)

May 23, 2025

Southeastern Pennsylvania

A robber fly that hunts bees (and other insects)

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“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now