Astronomy PhD student @Cornell researching Cosmology & Galaxies

Joined May 2021
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Chad Popik retweeted
8 Jan 2024
Supernova xkcd.com/2878
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Chad Popik retweeted
I keep seeing cosplayers from the fan expo and thinking that I deeply misunderstood the vibe of #AAS243 and came severely underdressed
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I'm at #AAS243, come around this afternoon to hear me (briefly) talk about how we can learn about galaxy feedback using CMB observations!
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Chad Popik retweeted
HEY CHECK IT OUT!!! what gorgeous art from my DPS talk yesterday!!!!!
Madeline Pettine—@NASAJuno’s polar orbit gives unique views of Io that enable global mapping of infrared volcanic emission. They find that the heat flow doesn’t match tidal heating models particularly well. #TeamIo #DPSEPSC2023
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Chad Popik retweeted
Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1938
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21 Aug 2023
First day of the fall semester which means I have to relearn how to be a normal human
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Chad Popik retweeted
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension JWST finally weighs in on the expanding Universe, and confirms previous results from Hubble about Cepheids, with the smallest errors yet. The puzzle over the expanding Universe deepens. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b…
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11 Aug 2023
WOOOOOO
this is gonna sound wild but I actually AM a real scientist some of the time, and I just put my very first first-author paper up on the arxiv!! please go read it and tell me how good it is (it is NOT peer-reviewed yet though so grain of salt etc etc) arxiv.org/pdf/2308.05717.pdf
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The code is taking much longer to run after some changes, which sucks, but also when it was running fast it was very wrong so maybe it's onto something now
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Yeah I do data science and by that I mean I spend several hours determining the best way to name and organize my files
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I'm at the part of the research project where every code takes forever to run which is awful for my productivity but fantastic for my buzzfeed quiz repertoire
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17 Jul 2023
Oh god just realized I've gotten used to scrolling on a touchpad the opposite way that I scroll on a mouse
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14 Jun 2023
Professors have an advantage (from the power dynamic) that any weird/funny thing they say has more impact than if you had said it so you have to equalize the relationship by saying much weirder/funnier things
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Happy pride everyone! Remember, space is gay! And the moon is a lesbian (in a long distance relationship with the ocean)
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Chad Popik retweeted
26 May 2023
POV you’re a rascal vs. POV you’re a rascal vs. POV you’re a rascal
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24 May 2023
I'm not a religious person but have you ever gotten a package to work after spending days struggling with dependencies and nesting issue
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18 May 2023
My hot take about window offices is that if you almost never come into the building you probably don't need one
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16 May 2023
PI said I did good work, taking the rest of the month off
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