Christine L. 🐋

🇲🇾 Full-time PhD Candidate analysing Gravitational Wave data @UniMelb @ARC_OzGrav @LIGO || 👩🏻‍🏫 Part-time educator || 🖤 Unhealthy orca & pink obsession

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

2nd first-author paper with my supervisors Meg Millhouse (@millhorse) and Andrew Melatos has been accepted and is now on arXiv! 🥳 https://t.co/qx4wsk0VLV

[stephanie bernard @astro_stephi]

@balusrdhr @AstroOrca day three already! we’ve spent the last two days learning how to take spectra, how we take images of electricity moving around brain cells, and they’re nearly done with their research projects too! and they got to attend some @AstroSocAus talks today!

[Swinburne University of Technology @Swinburne]

2023 @ShawPrize in Astronomy winner and Director of @ARC_OzGRav Prof. @matthewbailes just unveiled a new app, OzGrav’s Virtual Universe (OzVU), which allows you to quickly visualise and fly around a virtual universe. More 👉 https://t.co/6OxA0Q5AM6 @arc_gov_au #SwinburneUIIN

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

@innesbigaran What an incredible idea!

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

Announcement of GW230529 at the @APSMeetings!

Check out the science paper here - https://t.co/sNzPzDRyWI

[LIGO Hanford @LIGOWA]

Announcement: FIRST Exceptional #GravitationalWaves Event from #ObservingRun4 (#O4) w/:
GW230529!!
🥳
Find Out More on #GW230529 event page: https://t.co/AaX9VEFWS5
@LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR #LIGOVirgoKAGRA

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

Attending the @APSphysics April meeting in person for the first time! Also gave a talk this morning alongside many other interesting glitch subtraction/detector characterization talks, most of which involved BayesWave!

[Dr. James Beattie @astro_magnetism]

New @matplotlib markers just dropped — what a fantastic April fool’s paper.

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

The trio is back!

[LIGO @LIGO]

We're now half-way through our 2 week engineering run. On 3 April, we should start the second part of our fourth observing run (O4b)

We have enjoyed a few stretches with @LIGOWA @LIGOLA and @ego_virgo observing together! Here's a plot of performance on Saturday

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

@RobertdeGille Thank you!

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

2nd first-author paper with my supervisors Meg Millhouse (@millhorse) and Andrew Melatos has been accepted and is now on arXiv! 🥳 https://t.co/qx4wsk0VLV

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

A cat co-authored a scientific paper in 1975, when his owner, a physicist named Jack H. Hetherington, decided to add him as a second author to avoid changing the plural pronouns in his manuscript. The cat’s name was Chester, and he was given the pen name F.D.C. Willard, which stood for Felix Domesticus, Chester. Willard was also the name of Chester’s father. The paper was about atomic behavior at different temperatures, and it was published in Physical Review Letters, a prestigious physics journal.

Chester’s co-authorship was revealed when Hetherington sent some signed copies of the paper to his friends and colleagues, and included the cat’s paw prints as his signature. The story became widely known and amused many people in the scientific community. Chester even published another paper as the sole author in 1980, in a French popular science magazine. He died in 1982, but he is still remembered as the first and only cat to have authored a published scientific paper.

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

Day 2 of LVK meeting - Committed 20 minutes of truancy to see @MikeTheTiger, the mascot of @LSU 🐯 He’s looks so soft and floofy…and comfy! 😻

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

Day 1 of the March 2024 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA meeting 🔭

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

VISITED @LIGO LIVINGSTON TODAY!! So honored to have the opportunity to visit a historic physics site, recognized by @APSphysics 🫡

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

@innesbigaran Bummer! But let’s catch up the next time you’re back in melb :) hope you’re doing well x

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

Off to the USA today! Looking forward to this 4-week academic adventure ✈️

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

@RVolkas Thank u! 😄

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

@innesbigaran Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Pasadena and Sacramento :) you’re in Chicago right?

[Christine L. 🐋 @AstroOrca]

How do people keep up with >2 social platforms? I literally only have insta and twitter and I barely remember the latter exists (I guess Facebook too but I never use it, which reinstates my point) 🥹