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Andrew D Thaler

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social

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Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · Sep 9

For teachers, environmental educators, and D&D dorks!

In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession.

www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...

The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest Welcome to the Warren. Within this tiny Domain of Delight, Rabb

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

Spent most of the day working on getting my buoy back in action.

Hopefully it'll be back out in the gut this weekend.

A well loved smart buoy with its sensor package exposed.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

We can no longer rule out the possibility that Congresswoman Greene and Senator Fetterman are currently experiencing a Freaky Friday.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

Our book is out (in the UK)!

Ocean: From Shore to Abyss.

Available for pre-order in the US, too.

www.southernfriedscience.com/ocean-from-t...

Ocean: From the Shore to the Abyss

I am extremely pleased to announce that a book I contributed to is just about to come out. Ocean: From Shore to Abyss, led by the legendary Dr. Asha de Vos, is a visual journey through the oceans, …

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

I am your audience and I surely would hate this.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

Strategic Minerals and the False Promise of Seabed Mining

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Strategic Minerals and the False Promise of Seabed Mining | Center for International Maritime Security

By Drake Long On April 29, a small seabed mining enterprise known as The Metals Company (TMC) formally submitted an application to NOAA to commence commercial-scale mining in an area of the ocean know...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

Currently available for only $4.99!

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest Welcome to the Warren. Within this tiny Domain of Delight, Rabb

www.dmsguild.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 8d

Are you a Civil Servant staring down a furlough with no end in sight? Why not spin up a new environmental-themed D&D campaign?

Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, now only $2.99 for government workers dealing with a shutdown (and anyone else):

tools.dmsguild.com/browse.php?d...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

I hear he also refused to rise and pay proper respect to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sure that he stays seated for many songs. I bet he knows that sappy song isn’t our anthem.

Bad Bunny Remains Seated During 'God Bless America' at Yankees Game

Bad Bunny raised eyebrows at the New York Yankees game Tuesday night ... choosing not to stand during the singing of "God Bless America."

www.tmz.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

if you're wondering what kinds of work we fund through Patreon, check out the retrospective I wrote on 10 years of funding science through small donor subscriptions: www.southernfriedscience.com/small-drops-...

Small drops make mighty oceans: 10 years as a scientist on Patreon

Ten years ago, freshly married and freshly relocated to Vallejo, California, I found myself in the midst of reinvention. The cycle of post-doctoral fellowships and short-term contracts necessary fo…

www.southernfriedscience.com

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

The Halloween Humboldt Squid has arrived! The only way to get these stickers is to join my Patreon. Help support open science and get some jaunty ocean stickers.

These stickers will go out Monday, October 20th, so sign up before then!

patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler

Three stickers featuring a Humboldt Squid with an orange hat.

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Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social · 9h

This op Ed was held up for two months in editing. But better late than never!!! In short - seabed mining is snake oil, more drawbacks than benefits, any US firm trying to say they’ll pull it off is a grift, etcetera，etcetera.

cimsec.org/strategic-mi...

Strategic Minerals and the False Promise of Seabed Mining | Center for International Maritime Security

cimsec.org

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RAND @rand.org · 21h

"There is little indication that seabed mining will solve the primary chokepoint in the mineral value chain: China's dominance in midstream processing." https://bit.ly/3IRP9Yu

The Missing Piece: Minerals Processing and Deep Sea Mining

The world's oceans have long been a source of riches that help sustain human civilization. In the future, the oceans may again play a role in supporting resource security by providing a potential alte...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 8h

That is a wild example that is also really specific in a way that raises questions to which no one wants answers.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 8h

I have started teaching my mentees logic rather than coding. You can be programming language agnostic, but you have to understand the fundamental concepts.

I also make them mess with transitors. A little analog coding is good for the soul.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 9h

It's not a metaphor if you caught a Secret Service file from leaving bags of dogshit in Donald Rumsfeld's mailbox.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 9h

Mt. Misery was a farm estate owned by Edward Covey, the slaver prominently featured in the Diary of Frederick Douglass (though Douglass was never at Mt. Misery).

Donald Rumsfeld famously bought Mr. Misery and then had an illegal pool installed which poisoned the Bay whenever it rained.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 9h

I'm willing to bet that SCOTUS does overturn the tariffs, but it'll be for some monumentally corrupt reason, like Brett Kavanaugh is trying to renovate Mt. Misery Farm into his vacation home and lumber is too expensive.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 10h

Another "storm of the century" is hitting Kotzebue, for the second year in a row. Last year's storm almost took out my dad's house. Woke up to videos of the flooding and it's already bad. They are expected to get another storm after this one passes.

www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...

Kotzebue has issued a mandatory evacuation order as flooding from coastal storm begins

Water could rise as much as 10 feet above the high tide line, according the National Weather Service

www.kotz.org

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Absolutely.

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 21h

It was a really good film that still holds up.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

I still think this is a great moment to make Fingers Six, a heist film about a team of polydactyl art thieves who liberate stolen art from private collections. And no one believes the thefts happen because all the security footage is of people with six fingers on each hand.

Netflix, call me.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

I cannot imagine anything worse than death by amatoxin poisoning. This mushroom will kill you and the pain will be excruciating as your body digests itself. It will take days.

By the time you know something is wrong, you're liver has failed and your organs are shutting down.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

Look at this absolute unit of a Forbidden Mushroom.

A Destroying Angel mushroom. But very fat.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

The truth of the last two decades is that authoritarians saw the absolute good that social media could do during the Arab Spring and committed their vast resources to destroying it.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

There's a reason we recommitted to The Blog. Southern Fried Science is always us and always authentic.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22h

There's a whole fairy ring of Destroying Angels in my whimsical maritime forest. And yes, I am an incredibly serious scientist with an analytical view of the natural world based on decades of scholarship.

Nice try, but I am 100% certain that that is a trap set by fey.

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