Lucy Strang

PhD student studying neutron stars and gravitational waves in Melbourne, Australia.

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A different physics colloquium today -- geothermal energy in Victoria!

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Getting the "plagiarism report" for my thesis was genuinely the funniest thing I've seen this year. Sorry everyone, turns out I committed academic dishonesty when I said "Abbott et al (2020)" in the same sentence as "gravitational wave" 😔

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Just waiting on one last piece of thesis feedback before submission 🤞In the meantime, anyone have any tips on fancy chapter/section headings?

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@punsnparticles So an infinitesimal section of (comparatively) infinite plane?

[PHAROS 2022 Conference @PHAROS2022]

Here we go with today’s second session! The first speaker today is Alicia Sintes from @UIBuniversitat who will tell us about the search for continuous gravitational waves.

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GRMHD talks always give me plot envy. sGRB stimulations never looked so good #PHAROS2022

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Now at #PHAROS2022 , magnetar driven core collapse supernova signals. I definitely should have sat closer for this one!

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Now at #PHAROS2022 : the spider revolution, a fascinating area with a terrifying name 🕷 Definitely something to read up on later.

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Great talk from Tolòs! I'm pretty sure the last 20 minutes doubled my understanding of neutron star equations of state #PHAROS2022

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Excited to see the start of #PHAROS2022

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I didn't realise how many superfluous words I used until I tried to construct a sentence in a different language

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@JadePowell12 This is the first time it's happened to me so that's terrifying to hear

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First trip post-lockdown and my suitcase breaks 😭

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I'm getting ready for my first research-related overseas trip. Any tips are more than welcome!

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@geodesicvoyager Surely if we're doing research right, we care about the history of how we reached our current understanding (if only so we know what not to repeat)

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@innesbigaran See also: swearing is okay, the word "thesis" is not.

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Challenge mode: guess at which point my monitor cuts out and I'm talking to a blank screen
https://t.co/LoSElfg5gt

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There's some very impressive speakers attending 😉

[LIGO @LIGO]

Our next @LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR webinar is on *Thu March 24* at 10AM US Eastern (1400 UTC). Join us on Zoom for "Towards understanding neutron stars with continuous gravitational waves". Register at https://t.co/aN0GvfHQ9j. All welcome!

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The worst part about 1 AM meetings is trying to decide if I should a) sleep and wake up later or b) just power on through

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@HeijningenJoris Don't tempt me 😂

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Thoughts and prayers 🙏 for the new guy in my krav class who heard me talking about black holes and decided to correct me with what he heard once in high school