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"Cool bloke" -anonymous student | Physics PhD candidate at NEU working in computational biophysics. Prev. SUNY Albany + BU | he/ him

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Hello! My name is Nate. I'm a physics PhD student at Northeastern University studying, roughly, ribosome folding via computational methods.

I'm mostly here to enjoy others' posts (hello, Leafs/ hockey twitter) but I sometimes write silly tweets, and rarely, thoughtful threads.

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@JAtanackov I live in Boston and only have a bike. Best I can usually do is get on a bridge and face toward Harvard Square. But Oct '24 and Nov '25, that worked just fine!

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@gorgongoods @NeversleepsI @thintechgodhead I don't remember how nutritionists work in terms of needing to be being in the same state as them, but if you DM me I'm happy to send you his website with contact info! He works with neurodivergent people a lot

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@NeversleepsI @thintechgodhead I considered it progress when I started to feel hungry all the time, because that meant I was eating enough my body was no longer in starvation mode!

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@NeversleepsI @thintechgodhead A nutritionist once taught me when you don't eat enough, your body shuts down non-essential functions such as running the digestive system. In that state, you'll become full very quickly. He suggested eating a larger number of small meals, throughout the day

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@TheWapplehouse You can use the built-in Shortcuts app to play a certain song on your phone at the same time every day. Pick a song that starts aggressively and you have an alarm

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@pockylix @ummrys The disallowed goal occurred 30 secs after the real goal, in a timeline that doesn't exist anymore

Idk if this example's happened before. But any disallowed goal happens in a timeline that doesn't exist anymore. The example I gave would be appropriately petty for Ilya though :)

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@pockylix @ummrys - your team enters the zone offside, but it isn't called
- you're in the zone for a minute and then score
- the other team challenges it and the goal is overturned
- the time resets to when you entered the zone offside and the puck is dropped again
- you score 30 seconds later

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@Vincent_Ledvina Is the aurora near-constant in the auroral ovals on the day side, or only the night? I've been wondering about auroral visibility during a properly-placed total solar eclipse

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@MyRadarWX There's also a much rarer but related phenomenon called a "triple-split" or "multi-split" rainbow.

Photo: Liu Hai-Cheng; discussion at https://t.co/ZBmpYTW233

(Rather recent!) research paper on triple-split rainbow formation: https://t.co/0BsehFoute

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@MyRadarWX I'd like to add that "twinned rainbow" refers to a whole other beautiful phenomenon! Look closely at the top of the primary rainbow to see the splitting into two arcs

Photo: Jan Curtis; discussion at https://t.co/hzvfNQ7MC6

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@SeshSad @Vincent_Ledvina Yep! Hexagonal cylinders with random orientations. (A bunch of other halos require specific ice crystal orientations.)

https://t.co/Rrfv9oeLNa

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@hunterhurleywx Since light pillars are formed by ice crystals of the same shape + orientation as sun dogs, circumzenithal arcs, the parhelic circle, etc, would this sort of map also predict those other types of ice crystal halos? (Though during the day, or a full moon, for them!)

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@SNHWx Thank you!

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@torchaser @spann @ValleyNewsLive @NWSGrandForks Your second photo may even have a faint upper Lowitz arc.

More on Lowitz arcs, including simulations and other photos (webpage in German!): https://t.co/UNByQ4PJ7m

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@torchaser @spann @ValleyNewsLive @NWSGrandForks Sun dogs, 22° halo, and a parhelic circle cutting horizontally through it! A parhelic circle can extend around the entire sky

Those may also be lower and middle Lowitz arcs extending vertically from the sun dogs, but it's hard to be sure — they're faint and VERY rare!

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@DaleCloudman @Anthony_Bonato Nobody else had posed the question because nobody else had thought it was interesting. Also: the question was answered, and there's nothing more worth doing with those results

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@xvabse @rotting_beef @i_zzzzzz If you have a raspberry pi board, you can set up an adblocker called a pi-hole on your entire home network. I use one to prevent my tv from reporting back to the mothership thousands of times a day (not kidding)

https://t.co/tqCYh4CZOW

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@Vincent_Ledvina Would negative observations at similar times be helpful, too?