he/him/his | astronomy grad student @CornellAstro | Exoplanet boi | 🇱🇧

Ithaca, NY
Joined April 2021
I am so excited to announce I am pursuing my astronomy PhD at @CornellAstro ‼️ I’m returning home to NY after a decade away, and I couldn’t be happier for the reason (warning sentimental content below)
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Aiden Zelakiewicz \ Shockblack retweeted
Milestone alert 🚨 The Roman mission is moving towards the next stage of construction, bringing all the components together! Take a look at how we got there ⬇️
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factory resetting my pc is the most anxiety inducing thing ever oml…
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people in ithaca will step away from a table at a bar and leave their phone, wallet, keys, social security card, will, firstborn, and lucky stuffed animal for like an hour unattended
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this osu commencement speaker is something alright
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Aiden Zelakiewicz \ Shockblack retweeted
Did you know you can have photosynthesis in the dark?Our latest paper "𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds" has just been published in MNRAS. This paper is a tale of biodiversity in the cosmos 🧵academic.oup.com/mnras/artic…
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Aiden Zelakiewicz \ Shockblack retweeted
im like the opposite of machine learning. human forgetting
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NEVERMIND THEY SHUT IT OFF ON PURPOSE AND WONT GIVE ME HEAT!!! ITS GONNA HIT IN THE 30S TONIGHT I LOVE LANDLORDS
6th time heat doesn’t work slayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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6th time heat doesn’t work slayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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nsf grfp tldr: you didn’t finish the research you proposed yet and did not write a 5 page proposal 👍🏽
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the urge to respond to someone’s car modification post with “what changed”
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crocheting is high key fun. i’m making something while mindlessly watching jjk for the ??? time!!!!!
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do you ever see a website/data center so well designed and organized that you start to doubt its legitimacy? like surely this website is too easy and digestible to be designed by/for an astronomer
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started rewatching the 100 and man the acting is bad
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word of advice: never hate on matlab in a chat full of planetary scientists (they haven’t entered the 21st century yet)
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hair dresser butchered my hair so bad i be looking like vector from the incredibles. don’t talk to me till 2025 see yall next year
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i am insufferable and that is all right 😁👍🏽
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Aiden Zelakiewicz \ Shockblack retweeted
spotify wrapped now on arXiv
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