Alessandra Quigley
@alessandraquig.bsky.social
PhD student in oceanography and climate science with Columbia University and NASA GISS
She smiles and says “I will always love you”
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
She smiles and says “I will always love you”
No guns, no fentanyl, and the Victoria line runs every 100 seconds? This London really sounds like a hellscape
June 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
No guns, no fentanyl, and the Victoria line runs every 100 seconds? This London really sounds like a hellscape
My fellow New Yorkers, go vote! I mailed my ballot from Paris - no excuses.
June 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My fellow New Yorkers, go vote! I mailed my ballot from Paris - no excuses.
Reposted by Alessandra Quigley
Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Armstrong Hall at Columbia University is not anymore housing the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 160 or so of us gathered outside for the last picture. But we are still standing as a group, strong and determined, doing the same work and more great things into the future. Keep your eyes on us!
🧪 It's been a privilege to work at the historic NASA GISS for even the first few months of my PhD. I (and many colleagues) gave quotes in this article about getting evicted; hopefully it changes at least one heart/mind.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
Trump Administration Shutters New York City–Based NASA Institute
Since 1966 NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in upper Manhattan. Now a Trump administration directive is ejecting it...
www.scientificamerican.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🧪 It's been a privilege to work at the historic NASA GISS for even the first few months of my PhD. I (and many colleagues) gave quotes in this article about getting evicted; hopefully it changes at least one heart/mind.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
I started work at LOCEAN at Sorbonne today, and Notre Dame is on my walk to work! PhD life has its perks.
May 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I started work at LOCEAN at Sorbonne today, and Notre Dame is on my walk to work! PhD life has its perks.
🧪 My amazing and brilliant partner @jaredjeya.bsky.social wrote this paper! Any quantum physicists: please explain this to me. I'd love to understand what he does!
Our featured article for April 2025
Quantum electrodynamics on a 1D lattice can lead to localization of charges, in contrast to the thermalizing dynamics. This study identifies the origin of such non-thermal signatures and attribute it to the fracturing of the underlying Hilbert space.
rdcu.be/el8h7
Quantum electrodynamics on a 1D lattice can lead to localization of charges, in contrast to the thermalizing dynamics. This study identifies the origin of such non-thermal signatures and attribute it to the fracturing of the underlying Hilbert space.
rdcu.be/el8h7
Hilbert space fragmentation at the origin of disorder-free localization in the lattice Schwinger model
Communications Physics - Quantum electrodynamics on a one-dimensional lattice can lead to the localization of charges, in contrast to the thermalizing dynamics ubiquitous in nature. In this work...
rdcu.be
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🧪 My amazing and brilliant partner @jaredjeya.bsky.social wrote this paper! Any quantum physicists: please explain this to me. I'd love to understand what he does!
My partner and I played an election day game where we competed to come up with the worst possible policy ideas. This is EXACTLY my winning pitch on immigration. Truly beyond satire.
A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It.
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My partner and I played an election day game where we competed to come up with the worst possible policy ideas. This is EXACTLY my winning pitch on immigration. Truly beyond satire.
DOGE claims NASA GISS is being evicted to save money, but it actually costs taxpayers more to remove us. GSA is on the hook for our lease until 2031, regardless of whether we occupy the building, and we all have to be "in person" by September. Any other place has a higher marginal cost than $0.
In response to NASA’s decision to force IFPTE-represented employees at NASA’s Goddard to move out of their offices in New York City, IFPTE altered Members of Congress that this action is not only disruptive, but wastes federal resources and harms the critical work of these scientists.
IFPTE Urges Lawmakers to Stop NASA from Moving Goddard Institute for Space Studies Out of Their Offices — IFPTE
In response to NASA’s decision to force IFPTE-represented employees at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) to move out of their offices in New York City, IFPTE altered Members of Congres...
www.ifpte.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
DOGE claims NASA GISS is being evicted to save money, but it actually costs taxpayers more to remove us. GSA is on the hook for our lease until 2031, regardless of whether we occupy the building, and we all have to be "in person" by September. Any other place has a higher marginal cost than $0.
CTD watchstanders each get to write a blog post about their time onboard: here's mine! www.go-bgc.org/expedition/i...
Fun and Games | GO-BGC
www.go-bgc.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
CTD watchstanders each get to write a blog post about their time onboard: here's mine! www.go-bgc.org/expedition/i...
"This cooperative agreement suggests that the Earth will have a significant fluctuation in its water availability as a result of global warming. Using federal funds to perpetuate these narratives does not align with the priorities of this Administration" so ignorance is strength now, apparently?
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"This cooperative agreement suggests that the Earth will have a significant fluctuation in its water availability as a result of global warming. Using federal funds to perpetuate these narratives does not align with the priorities of this Administration" so ignorance is strength now, apparently?
One cute GO-SHIP tradition is that when we get to our deepest station (6280m!), we decorate styrofoam cups and let the pressure shrink them into fun souvenirs. I'm thinking of making mine into a Christmas ornament
April 3, 2025 at 5:14 AM
One cute GO-SHIP tradition is that when we get to our deepest station (6280m!), we decorate styrofoam cups and let the pressure shrink them into fun souvenirs. I'm thinking of making mine into a Christmas ornament
I'm a bit over a week into my research cruise with GO-SHIP and finally over my cyclone-induced round two of seasickness! This is what my CTD work station looks like - I'm in charge of telling the winch operator the depths we want to look at and then remotely closing bottles to collect water samples.
April 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm a bit over a week into my research cruise with GO-SHIP and finally over my cyclone-induced round two of seasickness! This is what my CTD work station looks like - I'm in charge of telling the winch operator the depths we want to look at and then remotely closing bottles to collect water samples.
For the next 38 days, I'll be aboard the Thomas G. Thompson as a CTD watchstander. This is my first research cruise, so I'll give updates on life at sea! 🌊🧪
March 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
For the next 38 days, I'll be aboard the Thomas G. Thompson as a CTD watchstander. This is my first research cruise, so I'll give updates on life at sea! 🌊🧪
Happy birthday (yesterday) to @jaredjeya.bsky.social, my lovely and brilliant partner who's such a physicist that he regularly gets distracted by magnifying lenses (even when there are cool manganese nodes and coral samples around!)
January 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Happy birthday (yesterday) to @jaredjeya.bsky.social, my lovely and brilliant partner who's such a physicist that he regularly gets distracted by magnifying lenses (even when there are cool manganese nodes and coral samples around!)
Interesting and horrifying article about how California fire insurance regulations effectively incentivize people to move into fire-prone regions. Specifically, California doesn't allow insurers to use catastrophe models, so they can't account for climate impacts. 🧪
www.vox.com/climate/3941...
www.vox.com/climate/3941...
California overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire.
Several fires in California could cause billions in damage, further straining the state’s fragile insurance market.
www.vox.com
January 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Interesting and horrifying article about how California fire insurance regulations effectively incentivize people to move into fire-prone regions. Specifically, California doesn't allow insurers to use catastrophe models, so they can't account for climate impacts. 🧪
www.vox.com/climate/3941...
www.vox.com/climate/3941...
Can't imagine why "debating" climate change would hurt anyone? It's not as if it's settled science or anything 🙄
www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
January 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Can't imagine why "debating" climate change would hurt anyone? It's not as if it's settled science or anything 🙄
www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
🧪🌊 I'm going on my first research cruise! I'll be joining the GO-SHIP I09N mission from Australia to Thailand as a CTD watcher. The real question: how many Tim Tams should I buy in Perth to sustain me for 41 days at sea?
December 22, 2024 at 9:23 PM
🧪🌊 I'm going on my first research cruise! I'll be joining the GO-SHIP I09N mission from Australia to Thailand as a CTD watcher. The real question: how many Tim Tams should I buy in Perth to sustain me for 41 days at sea?
As a new PhD student, I'm wondering how people find conferences/workshops. Are there any good websites for oceanography and climate conferences, or is it mostly word of mouth?
December 12, 2024 at 2:34 AM
As a new PhD student, I'm wondering how people find conferences/workshops. Are there any good websites for oceanography and climate conferences, or is it mostly word of mouth?
🧪 Hi, I'm Alessandra! I'm a PhD student at Columbia and NASA GISS looking at the drivers and impacts of marine extremes.
I'm also into diving and rock climbing!
I'm also into diving and rock climbing!
December 9, 2024 at 5:26 PM
🧪 Hi, I'm Alessandra! I'm a PhD student at Columbia and NASA GISS looking at the drivers and impacts of marine extremes.
I'm also into diving and rock climbing!
I'm also into diving and rock climbing!