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Fran Concha-Ramírez

@francisca.cr
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(she/her) computational astrophysicist turned data engineer @ climate tech, bookworm, cocktail enthusiast, very amateur chess player. 🇨🇱 in 🇬🇧

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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 03/11/2025
do not, I repeat, DO NOT let your cosmologist friends use hot wax around your face
A screenshot from reddit's r/SkinCareAddiction. The photo is of someone's eyebrows, unfortunately with some wax burns at the top :( The title of the post is "Made the mistake of letting my sister in cosmology school wax my brows"
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 20/09/2025
Yeah, no.
Screenshot from a lingerie website that says:

"How to measure your bra size.

Measure yourself with your smartphone camera, no measuring tape needed.

AI Body Scanner"
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 14/07/2025
Guess I rule Westeros now
Starbucks to-go cup with my name as "Bran" rather than Fran
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 30/06/2025
The perfect weather for rebasing my 18 file PR 🫠🫠🫠🫠
Weather app screenshot showing "31°C, feels like 34°C"
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 20/06/2025
campari tonic in the garden ☀️
A hand holding a glass with a campari tonic
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 11/06/2025
Hoy, a mis 37 años, me enteré que la cuncuna amarilla se escondió en una "gran higuera" y no en una "granillera" como chamuyé toda la vida 🙈
Foto de un libro con la canción "La cuncuna amarilla", la página dice: "Se puso camisa de seda, se escondió en una gran higuera".
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 02/06/2025
Ball toys: Cube
A screenshot from a toy shop's website page for "ball toys", going on with a lengthy description of how great ball toys and games are. First toy actually shown: something called "Nice cube".
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 23/05/2025
As a paperback-only kind of person, I'm very excited I finally get to read this one 📚👀
A hand holding Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo" in paperback edition
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 22/04/2025
New pen day! Mint Kaweco Sport 💚
A mint coloured Kaweco Sport pen on top of a blue notebook
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 08/04/2025
lol
Despite several users encouraging the CEO to activate the game's "Do Not Disturb" command or hide the chat, Musk allowed the bullying to continue. It remains unclear whether he knows how to use either of those functions.
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 07/04/2025
In case we needed a reminder that we're in the dumbest timeline
NYT app screenshot:

Live Updates: Trump Threatens China With More Tariffs Unless Beijing Retreats

The S&P 500 swung wildly after more losses in Asia and Europe. President Trump said he would not back off his trade war, reinforcing fears of a global economic downturn.

(Chart of S&P 500 going dooowwn)
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 26/03/2025
🤡
The Royal Society has decided not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk over his conduct, saying that to do so could cause damage to the academy and science itselfThe Royal Society has decided not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk over his conduct, saying that to do so could cause damage to the academy and science itself
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 22/03/2025
❣️ From Miranda July's "The first bad man" (a wild ride of a book)
Photo of a book page: "(...) We thrust our babies into the air again and again, showing them what it felt like to be a mother, to be terrifyingly in love without the option of getting off."
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 18/03/2025
My coffee cup matched my planner this morning and I felt very ~ * ~ a e s t h e t i c ~*
An open laptop on a table next to a coffee in a yellow coffee cup and a yellow planner
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 04/03/2025
Two kinds of people on pancake day
A dining table with pancakes. One person is having a glass of wine, the other a glass of milk
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 02/03/2025
This is extremely outrageous and infuriating. Children are already dying because of this. The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Even Scarier Than It Looks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o... by @zey.bsky.social
A screenshot from the shared column: "During Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings for health secretary, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, practically begged him to acknowledge, however grudgingly, that vaccines don’t cause autism. It was the easiest layup ever, but Kennedy just wouldn’t go there. Maybe not so surprising, given that he had previously told a podcaster that he considers it his duty to tell random strangers that they shouldn’t vaccinate their babies. Cassidy, a medical doctor by training, voted to confirm him anyway."
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 15/01/2025
Me when doing my makeup in my badly lit bathroom: more blush, more blush, more blush Me later seeing myself in any mirror outside my house:
Surprised Pikachu
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 29/12/2024
Always feel very nostalgic when visiting Leiden✨️
A picture of Nieuwe Beestenmarkt street in Leiden with shops and parked bicycles, and with the windmill of the Molenmusem De Valk in the distance
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 17/12/2024
I love bag charms as much as the next girlie but I draw the line at dental floss
Screenshot from a instagram video showing a handbag with lots of charms: a Van Gogh painting keychain, a lip gloss, a pack of dental floss, a mini vaseline, and a toy turtle
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 16/12/2024
Spending the evening doing one of my favourite things: wrapping gifts 🎁
A table with a wrapped gift and Christmas wrapping paper and bows
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 10/12/2024
Google: "Our computer is very fast! Probably because of the multiverse" 🙄 My word. Such an unserious statement in such a cool release. Makes be skeptical about everything else in the post. Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip: blog.google/technology/r...
Screenshot from Google's blog post: "Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch."
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 06/12/2024
THERE'S AN ASANA WRAPPED. Never closed a popup faster in my life.
A screenshot from a popup in the Asana app. It says "Your year in Asana is here. See what your team achieved in 2024"
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 04/12/2024
✨️10 years with hobonichi✨️
A 2025 hobonichi weeks in the "sushi" cover, next to a uni jetstream multipen and a zebra mildliner
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 19/11/2024
Jesus take the wheel
A screenshot from github showing approximately 10000 files with merge conflicts
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 08/11/2024
Se pensó y se hizo 🙏🏽
A glass of Martini with a twist
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 04/11/2024
And because there's always an exception to the rule: this one is excellent. Nut pieces in yoghurt = good, fruit pieces = bad
A hand holding a pot of M&S roasted hazelnut yoghurt
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 30/10/2024
I carved a pumpkin today. Tried to give it angry eyebrows but they ended up looking a bit fluffy
A classic style carved pumpkin with eyebrows that look like clouds
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 30/10/2024
Not really, just a silly dislike for a cartoon character. I also really don't like marmalade sandwiches so the fact that they're "his thing" doesn't help hah (the instagram post below is actually what triggered me to make this post)
"A free marmalade toastie truck is coming to London Bridge to celebrate 'Paddington in Peru'"
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 27/10/2024
Just got this as a wedding favor at a Brazilian's friend wedding and omg they're so good
A small box of "Cocadinha da Bahia", a toffee style coconut sweet from Brazil
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 25/10/2024
Mine is meds also! Because they're in this pouch
A small pouch in the shape of a japanese fish-shaped cake wrapper
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 19/10/2024
My husband says the way to do it is to book lessons and then book the test, but surely it must be the other way around? I imagine when I get a test slot it won't be for 3+ months and would rather get lessons closer to that. The backlog for lessons is also ridiculous though (this is from May 2022)
Reply from a driving instructor saying their waitlist is 9 months!
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 08/10/2024
❗️Kruidnoten in the office alert❗️
Chocolate-covered kruidnoten on a napkin
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 04/10/2024
He had an amazing showstopper last week, should've gotten star baker for it alone
Screenshot from the Great British Bake Off's instagram showing Andy's illusion cake shaped as a leather bag
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 26/09/2024
About to try this wish me luck
Coca Cola zero, Oreo limited edition
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 23/09/2024
Chile, a seismic country where one of our favourite drinks is the Terremoto (Earthquake): sweet white wine, granadine, and pineaple ice cream. If you have a second one, that's called a Réplica (Aftershock). Apologies for the terrible photo; this was clearly not my first Terremoto of the night.
Terremoto drink
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #287,869!
287,869
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 09/09/2024
Saw this one recommended somewhere here, I think. Fun read about what the weird and the eerie are (the weird is the presence of that which does not belong; the eerie is a failure of absence or failure of presence) + a series of essays about the two concepts in literature, cinema, and music 📚👀💙
Book "The weird and the eerie" by Mark Fisher
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 28/08/2024
Chocolate! We usually do a chocolate run on the last day to bring a stash home, but got this one early
Bar of Côte d'Or chocolate
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 28/08/2024
Belgium!
Liége wafflePot of steamed musselsFries
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 27/08/2024
But I mean, just look at how satisfying these packing cubes that fold into their own little pockets are
A filled packing cube and a couple of other packing cubes folded into their own pockets
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 27/08/2024
For some reason I get, like, concerningly excited every time I realise I'm near a HEMA. I swear I went in 4 times today and got something every time.
HEMA storefrontStationery section in HEMA
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 07/08/2024
Whoa Moleskine paper really is terrible for fountain pens
White paper for pens test.
Top line:
Uniball one - original refill

Bottom line:
Kaweco Sport fountain pen - Medium nibOpposite side of pen test page. The Kaweco fountain pen has strong ghosting on Moleskine paper!
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 11/05/2024
Some 4s exposures
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 11/05/2024
Never thought that my first time ever seeing aurorae would be from my garden in Surrey
Pink aurora on the skyPink aurora on the skyPink aurora on the sky
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 04/02/2024
Cute 🤩
Word cloud of my research papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6_H07wkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 04/02/2024
This week in "fun little things I never knew were pregnancy symptoms": carpal tunnel syndrome. In both hands 🙃
A hand in a wrist splint
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 24/01/2024
These also look bluer to me
Comment, Repost, Like buttons from the Bluesky app
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 10/01/2024
25 years ago some ducks landed in the Soprano family's swimming pool 🦆
Tony Soprano in the swimming pool with the ducks
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 09/01/2024
I will start using this when I get bored of a conversation
Screenshot of a Bing Chat reply: "Thanks for this conversation! I've reached my limit, will you hit 'New topic', please?"
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Fran Concha-Ramírez @francisca.cr · 08/01/2024
Just noticed this in my notes from last week 🫠
Notes with dates "4/1/23" and "5/1/23"
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