Ali Crisp
@crispyplanets.bsky.social
Postdoc at The™️ Ohio State • “Retired” Astrobites writer • Exoplaneteer • Foilist 🤺 • she/they
Has anyone figured out why back-to-back Zoom calls turn your brain to soup, while back-to-back in-person meetings may be tedious but don’t liquify the brain?
April 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Has anyone figured out why back-to-back Zoom calls turn your brain to soup, while back-to-back in-person meetings may be tedious but don’t liquify the brain?
I didn’t realize how spoiled I was with LSU’s lack of IT oversight until I got here and now I can’t do ANYTHING without summoning our tech to enter his password or finding some hacky workaround.
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I didn’t realize how spoiled I was with LSU’s lack of IT oversight until I got here and now I can’t do ANYTHING without summoning our tech to enter his password or finding some hacky workaround.
I hate having to do all this multi-factor authentication on my phone because, you see, every time I must open my phone to do that, I am tempted by The Other Notifications™️
March 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I hate having to do all this multi-factor authentication on my phone because, you see, every time I must open my phone to do that, I am tempted by The Other Notifications™️
I’ve really gotta stop accidentally leaving late on Fridays cause I keep ending up on the bus with a group of argumentative philosophy students and I really just can’t listen to that on top of *gestures at the general state of the world*
February 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I’ve really gotta stop accidentally leaving late on Fridays cause I keep ending up on the bus with a group of argumentative philosophy students and I really just can’t listen to that on top of *gestures at the general state of the world*
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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
I don’t even know if it’s possible to catch up with everything I’ve missed in the past two weeks I’ve been out of the country without needing therapy afterwards.
February 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I don’t even know if it’s possible to catch up with everything I’ve missed in the past two weeks I’ve been out of the country without needing therapy afterwards.
Wild being a lifelong southerner in Ohio today. You expect me to “work” with all this snow? I am meant to hoard bread/milk and frolic.
January 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wild being a lifelong southerner in Ohio today. You expect me to “work” with all this snow? I am meant to hoard bread/milk and frolic.
It’s quite the rollercoaster getting a positive referee report for your first first-author paper and your mother’s cancer diagnosis on the same day… Universe couldn’t have me getting big-headed or something.
January 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
It’s quite the rollercoaster getting a positive referee report for your first first-author paper and your mother’s cancer diagnosis on the same day… Universe couldn’t have me getting big-headed or something.
You know what’s wrong with the world? We haven’t had a new Guitar Hero since 2015 or a new Rock Band since 2017. People don’t get to settle their differences over a video game guitar battle anymore. We used to be a society!
December 31, 2024 at 7:56 PM
You know what’s wrong with the world? We haven’t had a new Guitar Hero since 2015 or a new Rock Band since 2017. People don’t get to settle their differences over a video game guitar battle anymore. We used to be a society!
6 years of living in Louisiana did NOT prepare me for single-digit wind chills. Anybody wanna share their favorite soup/soup-adjacent recipes? 🥺
December 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
6 years of living in Louisiana did NOT prepare me for single-digit wind chills. Anybody wanna share their favorite soup/soup-adjacent recipes? 🥺
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New paper from me + collaborators on arxiv recently!! It's the SynthPop software paper, a code that began as my undergrad project 8 years ago:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.18821
arxiv.org/abs/2411.18821
SynthPop: A New Framework for Synthetic Milky Way Population Generation
We present SynthPop, a new open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. Motivated by a lack fl...
arxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 11:42 PM
New paper from me + collaborators on arxiv recently!! It's the SynthPop software paper, a code that began as my undergrad project 8 years ago:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.18821
arxiv.org/abs/2411.18821
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new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663
Late-time HST and JWST Observations of GRB 221009A: Evidence for a Break in the Light Curve at 50 Days
GRB 221009A is one of the brightest transients ever observed with the highest peak gamma-ray flux for a gamma-ray burst (GRB). A type Ic-BL supernova (SN), SN 2022xiw, was definitively detected in lat...
arxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:03 PM
new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663
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Decided to create a starter pack to highlight some of the awesome women of BlueSky that are connected to space in some way! ✨ If you don't want to be on this list (for any reason), please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you. If I missed someone, suggestions are welcome!
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
December 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Decided to create a starter pack to highlight some of the awesome women of BlueSky that are connected to space in some way! ✨ If you don't want to be on this list (for any reason), please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you. If I missed someone, suggestions are welcome!
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
My AAS journal submission is ready to go. My arXiv submission is ready to go. I can’t believe after over a year of this paper being “almost done,” something as small as getting the funding information is holding things up an additional week and a half (and counting)…
December 4, 2024 at 3:41 AM
My AAS journal submission is ready to go. My arXiv submission is ready to go. I can’t believe after over a year of this paper being “almost done,” something as small as getting the funding information is holding things up an additional week and a half (and counting)…
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can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no
November 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no
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Beyond just astrochemistry, I am passionate about using our understanding of other planets to better understand our own (and advocate for) Earth. A few years ago, I published an article in @astrobites.bsky.social on astrophysics and eco-anxiety (astrobites.org/2021/06/04/a...).
The “Pale Blue Dot” Blues
This Beyond Astrobites post discusses reconciling a career in astrophysics with eco-anxiety. When surrounded by our Earthly problems, specifically climate change, how can we find fulfillment in our…
astrobites.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Beyond just astrochemistry, I am passionate about using our understanding of other planets to better understand our own (and advocate for) Earth. A few years ago, I published an article in @astrobites.bsky.social on astrophysics and eco-anxiety (astrobites.org/2021/06/04/a...).
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oh yeah I got to take a photo with ann druyan and hear some sick science a few weeks ago astrobites.org/2024/11/28/g...
Giving thanks to Carl Sagan for 90 years of science inspiration
Read about Carl Sagan and his legacy during your turkey break!
astrobites.org
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 AM
oh yeah I got to take a photo with ann druyan and hear some sick science a few weeks ago astrobites.org/2024/11/28/g...
Maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed, finally submitting my first first-author paper today, and I remembered this tweet I had saved from 2020. Maybe when I post the arXiv link + summary, I’ll share the playlist too…
November 21, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed, finally submitting my first first-author paper today, and I remembered this tweet I had saved from 2020. Maybe when I post the arXiv link + summary, I’ll share the playlist too…
Going to have to unionize against the universe so I can actually get a break…
November 15, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Going to have to unionize against the universe so I can actually get a break…
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Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
November 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
I’ve done my part, but the existential dread persists.
November 5, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I’ve done my part, but the existential dread persists.
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Know your rights Ohio!
November 5, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Know your rights Ohio!
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Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪
The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists
Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science
www.scientificamerican.com
October 18, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪
The whisperings of hat hair season seem to be upon us… Or maybe it’s just the 6 years of grad school in a place with no real winter.
October 16, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The whisperings of hat hair season seem to be upon us… Or maybe it’s just the 6 years of grad school in a place with no real winter.