Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ @RaoOfPhysics@scholar.social
- Location 📍
- Bristol, UK
- Field of study 🎓
- Science Communication
- Profession 🌱
- Growing Communities
- Website 🌐
- https://achintyarao.in
Community Manager: #AI for Science and Government, the Alan Turing Institute • PhD student: UWE Bristol • #SciComm • #OpenScience • #rstats • #cricket • Formerly #CERN and CMS Experiment • Immigrant • he/him
Joined Feb 2018
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Ooh, re-#Introductions!
I’m Achintya, a Community Manager at The Alan Turing Institute. I’m also going to defend my doctoral thesis in a little under 40 days.
I have a background in science communication (also broadly the domain of my doctoral research) and have a fondness for physics.
I am originally from India, but now live in the UK, after having spent just over a decade in Switzerland.
Slightly longer intro over at https://achintyarao.in/.
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Missed my #SummerSchool talk on the #LargeHadronCollider and the #HiggsBoson?
It’s not quite the same but here’s the episode of the podcast I was recently on, in which we spoke about #CERN, #ParticlePhysics, fundamental research, the costs associated with it, why and how do we do this sort of research, and much more!
Feedback welcome; this was a new experience for me.
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To everyone who is like 35 years old.
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I'm very happy to announce that {chronicler}, an #RStats 📦 I've been working on for 3+ months is now available on CRAN! The following blog post introduces it very quickly:
Minor revisions!!! 🎉
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Any of y'all have good examples of when a software team _isn't_ very diverse and it overlooks obvious features? (for examples a talk tomorrow morning!)
Bonus points if it's research software.
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#introduction post!
👋 Hello! This profile will share news and updates from 'The Turing Way' - an open source, open collaboration, and community-driven project which maintains and expands The Turing Way handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome #no-xp
Took a trip down the Avon on The Matthew of Bristol yesterday!
Movies, science
Finally watched #DontLookUp last night and I was so uneasy during most of it. Enjoyable movie, but my word…
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Happy birthday to us!
Today is the 5th anniversary of the launch of Scholar Social!
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Going home on holiday is never a break, is it? There’s always obligations to fulfill on a short trip: Things To Do and People To See™.
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In Argentina, rebel scientists went out universities in 5 cities to paste posters and raise awareness (Buenos Aires,Mar del Plata,Misiones,Córdoba,Rosario) and run a teach-in on the climate crisis, renewable energies & agroecology at Buenos Aires University. 18/
For a few years now, most of my long-form reading has been largely limited to academic stuff to the point where I have been struggling to read a Discworld novel for the last month or so.
Anyone else experience the same after submitting your thesis?
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Etymologies, being “technically correct”, video calls
Boss during a video meeting: “Why does no-one have their cameras on? Are you all in your pyjamas?”
Me, a scholar (but also an Indian): “AKSHULLY, that word comes from the Persian term for ‘leg garment’ and refers to formal leg-wear in the South-Asian subcontinent, so I will say that I _am_ wearing pyjamas, but I’ll leave it open to interpretation.”
It’s going to be 40 °C on my birthday…
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I love the term "citizen science" cause it implies that formal scientists are not citizens
Air travel
Schrödinger's flight: both delayed and on time at the same time.
Alcohol, travel
There’s something about having a pint at the airport at breakfast time.
Travel, home
Finally travelling home, for the first time since Christmas 2019. This is the longest I have ever been away from India. Will be so nice to see my family there after all these years.
Ooh, re-#Introductions!
I’m Achintya, a Community Manager at The Alan Turing Institute. I’m also going to defend my doctoral thesis in a little under 40 days.
I have a background in science communication (also broadly the domain of my doctoral research) and have a fondness for physics.
I am originally from India, but now live in the UK, after having spent just over a decade in Switzerland.
Slightly longer intro over at https://achintyarao.in/.
Collaborations Workshop 22, CW22, software sustainability
Attending my first Collaborations Workshop over the next four days.
- Location 📍
- Bristol, UK
- Field of study 🎓
- Science Communication
- Profession 🌱
- Growing Communities
- Website 🌐
- https://achintyarao.in
Community Manager: #AI for Science and Government, the Alan Turing Institute • PhD student: UWE Bristol • #SciComm • #OpenScience • #rstats • #cricket • Formerly #CERN and CMS Experiment • Immigrant • he/him
Joined Feb 2018
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