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Nikki Miller

@nikkimiller.space

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Postdoc at Uppsala University studying M-dwarfs and eclipsing binary stars. Also: astronomy camps, music, languages, photography & board games. From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - lives in 🇸🇪 - often found in 🇩🇪 nikkimiller.space | iayc.org | she/they

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Nikki Miller @nikkimiller.space · 11/02/2025

Detached eclipsing binary #stars really do make for satisfying plots. I combined radial velocities from two different 🔭datasets (one about 10x less precise than the other) and fitted them with a simple ellc model and it just ✨ works ✨

Radial velocity scientific plot. Top panel shows two sets of data points (red and blue) following a sinusoid-esque curve mirrored around 0km/s. The data points fit the model well and the residuals in the bottom panel are mostly around 0km/s, with a few outliers up to 1km/s.

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Nikki Miller @nikkimiller.space · 26/01/2025

#NewProfilePic Throwback to a warm summer day playing guitar with some silly folks at IAYC 2024 @iayc.bsky.social

A happy guitarist sitting on a picnic bench in the summer sunshine. They are in their late 20s, white, with short brown hair and are smiling with their eyes closed. They’re playing an orange classical guitar and wearing a black t-shirt that shows a Star Wars parody of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, where the Beatles are droids

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Nikki Miller @nikkimiller.space · 02/10/2023

The accommodation I’m staying at during my current research visit has a CRT television. Somewhat fittingly, the clock on the wall has stopped ticking.

An old CRT television on a wooden television unit, switched on but not tuned to any channel so there is a fuzzy screen of white noise.

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Nikki Miller @nikkimiller.space · 04/09/2023

I’ve spent all day so far waiting to “correct the formal deficiencies” in my temporary residence permit application. There’s nowhere to work here, and you can’t really leave, so I’ve been tracking the ticket number called with time to predict roughly when I should be called… I’m #116, so maybe soon…

scatter graph of ticket number against time. general linear trend upwards approaching the number i have (116)

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Nikki Miller @nikkimiller.space · 26/08/2023

He will only drink from the tap

a white cat with brown markings, drinking inelegantly from a running tap in a kitchen, and making a silly face

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