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@kvelez 5 сағат бұрын
You should do an update but using VSCode.
@tomorrowkiddo Күн бұрын
ooh the colours are moving this time... so cool!
@gianlucamolinari3490 5 күн бұрын
Very interesting video as always. I was wondering if you are ever planning to make a video talking about how you believe AI will change the way we do scientific research and what the impact will be on the job market. Would love to hear your thoughts about this
@ThomasRintoul 5 күн бұрын
Stay tuned, I've got something in the works at the minute. Not exactly that topic but along those lines
@gianlucamolinari3490 5 күн бұрын
@@ThomasRintoul looking forward to it
@meaganhough535 6 күн бұрын
As a fellow PhD student I'm really looking forward to your video on how to make a good visualisations!
@ThomasRintoul 5 күн бұрын
Honestly the more I read papers, the more I'm convinced that most scientists have never stopped to think about their visualisations
@faisalarisandipratama6730 6 күн бұрын
Would you like to mention which languages you are using for astrophysics calculation? C, C++, Julia, Rust?
@ThomasRintoul 6 күн бұрын
Watch the full video I mentioned. I go into much more detail on how I use code and what languages I use
@smiththewright 6 күн бұрын
Very cool! What laptop do you recommend for an upcoming STEM student? I’m eyeing the Framework laptop at the moment. 🧑💻
@ThomasRintoul 6 күн бұрын
I don't have specific recommendations, all I would say is make sure you've got a strong CPU and preferably 16GB of RAM. I do like the look of the Framework laptop because I like being able to fix things when they go wrong. Personally I use a Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro 360 - it had all the features I wanted at a price I was happy with.
@mrgrumpy888 7 күн бұрын
Looking forward to more coding videos!
@ThomasRintoul 6 күн бұрын
Good to hear it - I'm hoping to do some more about how code is used in science. It really is a vital part of the field
@leonardneamtu_ 7 күн бұрын
After years of reading climate science books, and learning more about climate change issues, while changing various jobs in IT I've recently thought of combining the two, and I've started learning Python. Think it will be much easier to transition into anything science related, as long as I'd be able to code well. Your video is just what I needed!
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
So glad to hear it! Yes python is such a great tool for getting into anything scientific right now. For many it's a gateway language where you can learn how to structure a program and learn the general language features of programming, without the strict requirements of languages like C or Fortran. And if you're interested in climate science, then Python is perfect! There's so much data involved in climate science, and the UK Met Office does a lot of their work using Python now too!
@doughilton 7 күн бұрын
My original/current background is in software development (Java), teaching myself Python. I'm studying Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, and want to pursue this for my career 2.0. What resources do you recommend for learning the astronomy pieces of Python?
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
Hmmm... I'm not sure honestly. Most of what I do with python in astronomy is just data science - any course on data analysis with python would cover the sorts of things I use it for. As for anything more astro specific - there's the astropy package which I don't use personally but has some resources on its website for learning astropy. But most of what I do just makes use of the common data analysis and visualisation packages such as NumPy, Pandas, MatPlotLib, etc. Best of luck with career 2.0! Feel free to reach out with any other questions either through comments, email or instagram dm (I'm probably most responsive there at the moment)
@hedge11 7 күн бұрын
Very interesting video. I am just finishing my GCSEs, looking forward to physics and hopefully later astro. What did you do to make your nice animations? Was it something like Manim for the one with the file size comoparisons at the start?
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
No it wasn't - I wish I'd known about that because it probably would have made my life a lot easier - I did it in Adobe After Effects and it took way too long!
@prtygrl5077 7 күн бұрын
Any reason that you don't use Lyx software? may be you're promoting that online tool? just curious
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
To be honest I've never heard of LyX. I was using Atom at the time because it was a free editor that I liked the flexibility of using. Now Atom has been discontinued sadly. I now use the JetBrains IDEs - programs like PyCharm for python programming and IntelliJ Idea for everything else. I'll also sometimes use Overleaf for LaTeX now as well, as long as I don't need to write anything on the go because it depends on internet access. Ultimately, it doesn't matter what editor you use - so use whatever works for you!
@prtygrl5077 7 күн бұрын
@@ThomasRintoul aha, now I know, you're promoting online tools 😅 ok ok, let's assume you don't know about lyx. Hope the online tools you promote pay you well for the unwavering support you provide for them.
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
I'm not promoting them for money. They do not pay me. It's just the tools I use - mostly with university licences Additionally, the JetBrains IDEs are offline tools
@prtygrl5077 7 күн бұрын
As a ms word user (and it's good), the equations are worst with MS Word. TBH it's sh!!t
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
Oh I totally agree. It's better than it used to be, but if you have to do anything with a lot of equations, figures or references, LaTeX is by far superior - particularly for long documents
@tylersmyler2043 8 күн бұрын
I'm about to accept an offer for the exact course you are on at St Andrews. Any tips?
@cheeseballs8u 16 күн бұрын
I’ve got an offer for astrophysics and since I have got a college that I didn’t even select for at Durham I’m now trying to pick between those two and bath. How do you find the astrophysics course?
@ThomasRintoul 7 күн бұрын
I loved my time at St Andrews - it's certainly a very academic uni, rather than a more vocational one, but given your other options are Durham and Bath, that is probably not a problem. The course was really well structured and covered a lot (though not everything, there wasn't that much on galaxies and a lot more on star formation). There was a good amount of coding which has worked really well for me. The staff are great and they really do respond to student feedback. Highly recommend, but I also can't compare it to the other unis since I didn't go there.
@cheeseballs8u 7 күн бұрын
@@ThomasRintoul thanks 🙏
@user-kt2zp7mq3k 19 күн бұрын
Really good video, well done!
@meaganhough535 21 күн бұрын
Loved the visualisations and editing on this one!
@doughilton 21 күн бұрын
Sorry you missed them! I was visiting my family in Pennsylvania, where it was raining the whole time :(, Had I been home in New Hampshire, I would have been able to see them. I saw people just outside of Boston posting videos of them!
@tomorrowkiddo 21 күн бұрын
The images from Tasmania's Aurora australis were amazing.
@danielstandley-Physicist 22 күн бұрын
I live in Victoria Australia and there were reports of Aurora australis as far north as QLD but i missed not happy about that
@CuteCreeperYT 23 күн бұрын
I know its a really awkward question... But do the toilets in the dorms or private rooms have jet sprays attached? Or do they prefer wipes?
@ThomasRintoul 23 күн бұрын
As far as I know they all use toilet paper like just about every toilet in the UK
@meaganhough535 26 күн бұрын
I use Zotero which I picked up in my masters - I switched to Mendeley for a few months at the beginning of my PhD but it kept crashing and needing me to log in multiple times a day which was super annoying, so I switched back. I love the PDF annotation tools in Zotero, as well as the browser extension 😍and the integration with Word and Overleaf! I would recommend "Better BibTeX" if you've not got it already :) The only thing I wish that was included was a button you can press to see papers that are read/unread natively instead of having to track that separately.
@elijae3124 27 күн бұрын
This was a very useful video! I use mendeley and the great thing about that is that not only can you export your references as a .bib file for use in LaTeX, it also has a MS Word extension (not that I use word of course 😂)
@mrgrumpy888 28 күн бұрын
Oh man, that's taking me back a few years. I remember using Zotero when I was writing my master's thesis back in 2018. I wonder if I kept my reference library somewhere or if I ejected it into the ether once I was done with it 😅
@xcarter_carsx2848 Ай бұрын
I know this video is for undergrad but I’m looking into doing a year for post grad and I’m between here and London and I’m stuck.
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
I know the feeling about being stuck between 2 places. I was stuck between Glasgow and St Andrews for a while. What did it for me was to make sure I visited both places. The vibes you get from a place are something that can't be faked. I did the same for postgrad - I made sure to visit places I was applying to or considering applying to and it made all the difference.
@einname9986 Ай бұрын
Some (hard) Feedback: I am a computer science student from Vienna, but interested in most STEM areas, so I am here for the science videos. There are certainly *some* People interested in astrophysics PHD vlogs, but I assume their number to be quite limited. If I see a PHD vlog video my brain is like BORING! and I scroll on, especially since your PHD VLOG titles and thumbnails are not exactly interesting. Example: "Back in the office... where were we?! - PhD Vlog 7" - This is really hard to read, I had to read it like 3 times until I figured out what the salad of w's and e's means. (I am also currently not planning on doing a PHD in any field). What I would be interested in watching are videos that summarize certain aspects of the process of getting a PHD: What exactly is a PHD? Are there lectures+research? Just research? DO ECTS still exist in PHD-land? You mentioned funding? I thought uni costs money, except if you work there? How does the process of doing research actually work? Track your time for a year + then tell us, on what you spent most time - Do you mostly read research papers? Mostly write? Mostly analyze/collect/...data? How did you get to the topic you are currently researching? What are the steps between start + finish? Did you have to apply to use some expensive science thing (i.e. Hubble/James Webb/...)? If so, how was the process of applying to do the research? Why did you decide to get a PHD? Further Ideas/recommendations: Maybe create a Patreon where people can vote on video ideas -> Free de-selection of boring topics + might make you a few bucks. Alternatively create a Telegram group, some subreddit, ... where you throw in video ideas so people can give feedback on whether they would watch, maybe give them title and thumbnail (or even let them pre-watch the private vid before publishing it) and ask for feedback on better title + Thumbnail, video ideas in general and so on. Watch Simon Clarc's video "I don't think I can keep doing this." and maybe talk to him. He did a similar vid a while ago and changed the kind of content he makes. In the 8 vids afterwards he made on average 197k views, in the 8 vids before that there were only 45k views on average. It has improved A LOT, in my opinion.
@einname9986 Ай бұрын
Addition: I don't know if this is the case with all vlogs, but with this one there lacked structure - I was not really sure what the big things were, it felt like jumping around lots of random topics. Remember: we were not there, we might not have watched the previous vids and I have no clue what is going on
@gotagreatidea Ай бұрын
I've never seen you before, but you've just come up on the top 10 videos. Keep chipping away.
@tomorrowkiddo Ай бұрын
What they said
@meaganhough535 Ай бұрын
I've enjoyed the vlogs, but I think your new approach will better draw people in. Looking forward to still seeing vlogs on your conferences etc though!
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
Thanks so much! I do want to share the personal experience of PhD life now and then when it's the best way to talk about something. It'll allow me to be much more targeted and have things more planned out. Might do something more like the existing vlogs as a patreon exclusive someday... would have to have patreon though
@kendrajohnson6535 Ай бұрын
I have really enjoyed your vlogs but completely understand your decision. Looking forward to your future videos!
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
Thank you so much!
@esnevip Ай бұрын
Vlogs isn't why I subbed, I'm sure it's the same for many others.
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
I'm glad, would be awful if everyone left!
@oakdeepvastforest2924 Ай бұрын
I think this is excellent advice; especially (but not only) the part about vibes. I got negatives vibes from the University of Edinburgh too. Vibes are extremely hard - if not impossible - to fake.
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
They really are. It's why I'm always amazed when I hear of international students moving to places without visiting first. I'm not that brave!
@oakdeepvastforest2924 28 күн бұрын
@@ThomasRintoul It is because they don't suspect this could be an issue. At least, this was my case (I know, foolish). I didn't know or suspected that there would be such a big difference between what universities say online and what the real atmosphere at the respective university is.
@susanne5803 Ай бұрын
I really liked this. Not too many books, personal opinion, but in a friendly way. Thank you very much!
@leonardneamtu_ Ай бұрын
If you like a more optimistic take on climate change, I recommend Hannah Ritchie - Not the end of the world. Great look at data - and I found it much much better than its inspiration, which is Factfuness by Hans Rosling. The future we choose and the Earthshot prize book are also quite good. Also, for The Hobbit and LOTR I highly highly recommend the audiobooks alongside the real books. Bluefax and Phil Dragash did an amazing job!
@susanne5803 Ай бұрын
Thank you very much for your additional recommendations!
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
Hannah Ritchie's book is definitely on my To Buy list!
@Enhancedlies Ай бұрын
I need to read my huge book collection, but I have so many books I want to reads so there's a pile to the fucking ceiling on my desk...
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
I'm amazed it hasn't fallen over yet! I'm in a similar position though. Most of the books on my shelves these days are TBRs - I just stopped buying books between stopping reading after school and about now. Most of the books I had were books from when I was a kid - not stuff I'd read now
@tomorrowkiddo Ай бұрын
Nice. I’m motivated to read my book collection 😝 I like how your choices are diverse.
@ThomasRintoul 28 күн бұрын
Thank you! I'm trying to read a more diverse selection, not just the same stuff, though I am looking at some very long fantasy series so they might get slightly less diverse for a bit haha!
@darrell765-ui2kt Ай бұрын
I’m in my second year of high school and I really like st.andrews. but the only problem is I don’t know how easy it is to get a job being an undergraduate of st.andrews in economics. considering it’s a small town, maybe there’s few job opportunities. can anyone tell me more about this?
@ogeokoronkwo Ай бұрын
Omg I should’ve sent you the videos I took of you ice skating!! You did so much better than you gave yourself credit for 😆 Such a fun vlog
@gianlucamolinari3490 Ай бұрын
I missed your vlogs so much
@guilhermepinheiro5342 Ай бұрын
So cool, man!
@gwen_hirsch 2 ай бұрын
You said you're using matplotlib to create the poster, but what you show is some program with a user interface and drag-and-drop elements - what program is this or still matplotlib?
@ThomasRintoul 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the question. I'm using matplotlib to make the figures for the poster. The poster itself I was making in Photoshop though you could use any number of other programs (e.g. Canva, PowerPoint, Google Slides, Publisher, LaTeX). Sorry if that wasn't clear
@markstevens7147 2 ай бұрын
Excellent thought-provoking video. Good work.
@johnkelly7757 2 ай бұрын
Excellent video
@ThomasRintoul 2 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it
@nicolasaravena9204 2 ай бұрын
amazing video :D
@ThomasRintoul 2 ай бұрын
Thanks! 😀
@josephbrennan5950 2 ай бұрын
Not to mention for the transit method the requirement that the planet orbits in the same plane as that containing our Line-Of-Sight!
@ThomasRintoul 2 ай бұрын
Oh yeah undoubtedly, with the likelihood of the transit being along the line of sight being lower for wider orbits
@Walter.Kolczynski 2 ай бұрын
Try moving stuff from .bashrc (.csh) to .bash_profile (.login). bashrc is executed for all shells, but bash_profile is only executed for interactive shells. (Theoretically)
@meaganhough535 2 ай бұрын
Excited to see the next vlog of your first conference!
@kendrajohnson6535 2 ай бұрын
Poster cliffhanger!
@tomorrowkiddo 2 ай бұрын
Cool to hear what you were saying while you're mute on twitch lol
@KemalAtaker-wo3jg 2 ай бұрын
Tebrikler. Güzel video
@Guylovesleep6802 2 ай бұрын
Can you tell me where i can read psychology and biology papers?