Disney learned nothing from Andor.
Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.
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Disney learned nothing from Andor.
(they have shit hockey coverage anyway)
Today is a great day to remind sports fans that you don't need ESPN. You can sail the seas to stream all sorts of sportsball. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Fuck, I'd rather gripe about my shitty #editinghell freelance gig (yes it's still fucking awful, thx for asking).
LRT: like, I'd love to talk about how I'm enjoying "my lady Jane" enough that I got the book from the library. Or how I'm trying to find the components for my Geno jacket for the Pens game. But instead we have all these dumbasses doing dumb shit that I have to notify ppl about or correct.
I actually would very much like to post other content.
This was basically, what are the priorities now that we can't do anything withnew samples. Much if this felt so pointless. If we don't have a ship/crew that knows how to drill the way we need (ie NOT industry ppl) then I doubt we can accomplish much of what we all said was important.
Not by the US....a few countries (Japan, aus, nz) are pursuing IODP3 without the us.
NGL, the length of time between the final meeting (May, 2024) and now REALLY makes me wonder about a few things.
I haven't read the report yet, but the gist of basically EVERY ONE of these meetings was "dropping scientific ocean drilling is a terrible fuckin idea."
Reasonably sure #IODP isn't here, but FINALLY the FOCUS report is out (like a year+ after we had all those meetings???) usoceandiscovery.org/focus/
Here are the first vaccine recommendations issued by the West Coast Health Alliance, which includes California, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii:
*irl store near you
Otherwise, I really like Duluth Trading's stuff, but don't pay full price for it....it always goes on sale pretty quickly. 😅 Definitely try on first if there's an irl store, as some of their stuff like the overalls runs very large.
What the fresh fuck 😠😠😠😠
If you know your sizes and what brands you like, thredup is great for used stuff. Bundled shipping allows you to shop for a week and get it shipped all together. Like 95% of my clothes come from them now. Just know their measurements are usually wrong so knowing your sizes us a better way to shop.
Meanwhile, 'Food banks around the country are reporting an uptick in visits. Grocery store chains are reporting an uptick in profit.' Tariffs are being used as an excuse for price gouging across industries and you bet your ass those prices are not going back down, ever.
For real, that's the most upsetting part for me....when I KNOW that Canada is getting in bed with the grifter CDR ppl, so there's money but not for national fucking heritage sites apparently. 😬💀
Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.
NEVER sign your name onto this kind of list...just go! You can totally go without rsvp'ing!
LOL fair 😅
What a fuckin travesty for archaeology and history. And the country is sinking how much into grifty CDR schemes? Ugh. 😠
I seem to recall something that was density driven? Idek it was mental gymnastics just for the sake of being contrary IMO.
We had an anti plume guy (petrologist) in one of my depts. His explanation of how hotspots existed was wild and made absolutely no sense to me.
I am thinking again about how at any time; 26 members of the US Congress could choose to act differently, end so many of the current crises, and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Require that they do so, United States.
Any chance science contractor applications open this year?
The former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leaders that ran the now-shuttered Climate.gov have launched Climate.us to ensure reliable climate information—including timely data on sea level rise and other effects of climate change—continues to reach the masses. www.climate.us
The fix is in. Get your COVID vax THIS WEEK, friends. Do not wait if you can avoid it.
Good point! 😎
Booooring 😅
Especially EXPANDING LAYER clays!!! Nontronite is fuckin rad AF.
GO NONTRONITE GOOOOOO
Free speech in the Fascist States of America is for Fascists only.
OH NO *sobs in Crozier's desk*
Tbh I haven't ever seen any pharmacies out here with novavax.
A third of our GDP is devoted to developing an expensive toy that is not reliable for any important purpose and never will be.
You can see which CVS stores have which version of the vaccine by starting to make an appt online. I think you can even sort by brand.
In a blistering decision on Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration and the OPM acted illegally when it fired tens of thousands of probationary federal employees at NOAA, NSF, and other agencies “for cause” in February. buff.ly/adxZ0IE
Remember what I repeated over and over and over again for years like it was a goddamn assignment, the biggest lesson my life so far has taught me: borders also keep you in.
More likely bc everyone always forgets we exist. 🙄💀
My wallet sobbed after my last visit 😅
I so love that store.... can't believe I've been going there for like 40 years lol
Good ole sociology 101, where the instructor showed a violent gang rape film and all the women in class walked out in disgust (we weren't informed that's what we'd be watching) and then got mad at us for doing so. I'm all for humanities, but that course was a waste of credit hours.
For CA folks....CVS has it!
To the right of CK.
Probably. Basically alt right trash (of the F*entes variety) that tend to hang out in /pol/ on 4chan
Boosted. Take that, you crinkly disgusting hotdog.
LOL this is the one I have the BIG 2 volume version of...doesn't fit in any of my bookcases 💀
IT'S SO GOOD, RIGHT?
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Firefly Kindred: The Embraced (vampires!)
Oh no, I'm so sorry
Yup, we learned that in my carbonate-focused geology undergrad dept 25+ years ago. It was already reasonably established then. A neat application tho, in this case!!
Deeply embarrassed to realise that there's been a Big Stuck Ship in literally Franklin Strait for several days, and I've only just noticed. Still, any excuse to trot out my Beechey Island/Ever Given shitpost. nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
Earth science departments are being gutted across the country, which is utterly bizarre given their relevance to our understanding of climate, hazards and disasters, the soils that feed us, the industries that drive our economies, and the importance of ancient life to understanding biodiversity.
I have their (old) large costume set and it's BIG
I am torn between resenting that none of the cable news or big print news outlets are remotely equipped to explain what was wrong with the Kirk shooter's brain and how it got that way and being grateful that I won't have to explain like Chan culture and copypastas to my parents when we talk next.
Just wait till there's a military crisis and they fail spectacularly because they hollowed out the entire command structure because Hegseth thought all the top officers were woke. This entire government is a chain of disasters waiting to happen.
One of those typing and deleting a post six times kind of days.
Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.
The BLM is seeking to eradicate the Public Lands Rule, which allows the conservation to be included in land use planning. There are a lot of areas of critical environmental concern in BLM land. It's in the federal register and the public commenting period has started. Please comment!
I'm not in touch with him anymore, but I do know he did a NASA postdoc after he graduated (he's an InSAR guy).
Oof
There goes my grad school officemate (if he's still in the US).
Just saying, I appreciate the journalists pushing back as much as they did in the NASA press conference today. Lots of hammering on the "but how are you going to do science if you're slashing the budget right and left?" in the questions. Well done ✊
One of the big COVID facts that tend to make people go deer in headlights is the high percentage of asymptomatic infections. Unfortunately these infections can still cause you or others problems months or years later. This was known back in 2020 but shushed up afterwards.
one unfortunate outcome of this recent AI scam bubble is that it has absolutely killed my interest in AI's in fiction. the Alien tv show doing the whole "is AI a human" routine we've been doing for the last hundred years but now I'm like no, it's a shitty chatbot that destroys fresh water
hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵
it is embarrassing how few evil dorks it is taking to catastrophically collapse the future of our planet and every species on it
NGL this person has gotta be a young earther or something bc most of joe public is completely unaware of Rodinia in my experience.
;)
JFC, they got kongsberg in on this? There go all the good bathymetric maps. 🤦♀️💀
I learned to make my own thin sections in undergrad (cutting, polishing, mounting, etc) for my honors thesis and was really confused when I got to grad school bc everyone was sending out their samples to have sections made.
The Cultural Revolution comparisons are currently much less accurate and much more racist than comparisons to the All-American bullshit like the 1st and 2nd Red Scares would be.
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews Will only test for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Stopped tests: 6 additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia.
...shame there's not about two decades worth of cohorts that essentially got locked out academia or even research. The long shadow of "do more with less."
B-naturals was the name of one of my hs vocal groups lol
At first I was like, "ah yes, modern art." And then "wait, those are just leaning there....or are they?" 😂😂
people have always believed their vague anecdotal knowledge of various subjects should be considered just as valid as a person's higher education, but now I'm seeing that extend to topics such as "is this load bearing?" in the home improvement reddit, where fucking up will kill your whole family
Ugh
Oh no, what now?
Cascadia don't have time for this shit.
It's so good!!!
Has anyone been dealing with feelings of meaninglessness and hopelessness because it seems like any redemptive future for humanity is being actively and gleefully foreclosed by people who reject every positive value?
The epidemiologist sent an article and said we’re cooked The climatologist sent an article and said we’re cooked The academic sent an article and said we’re cooked The activist sent an article and said we aren’t cooked we’re being cooked, so we had better get out of this pot.
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! 💀💀
I (freelance) edit academic writing... we're also going through this rn. My pay for the same # of words was cut in half this year "because AI helped" (no it didn't...it impeded my work at every turn).
*waves* Hi, it's me. I'm the person fixing the spellcheck-on-steroids AI being used to "edit" academic writing. It fuckin blows and pays a shit wage.
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
Oh noooooo
Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
*sobs in fabric desert*
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?