Dr. Katie I.
@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social
Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.
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Dr. Katie I.
@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I'm Katie, a #marinegeologist that uses ROVs and submersibles to study deep-sea #hydrothermal circulation. I'm a huge advocate for #scientificoceandrilling. I also sew #costumes for fun. Welcome!
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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This is bait ... for your geologist aunt and uncle to get out their handlenses.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is bait ... for your geologist aunt and uncle to get out their handlenses.
No matter the name, turn it tf OFF.
And lower the LED brightness!!! (my parents had theirs on auto and it was all over the place...googled ideal color settings for their tv and fixed it)
And lower the LED brightness!!! (my parents had theirs on auto and it was all over the place...googled ideal color settings for their tv and fixed it)
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
No matter the name, turn it tf OFF.
And lower the LED brightness!!! (my parents had theirs on auto and it was all over the place...googled ideal color settings for their tv and fixed it)
And lower the LED brightness!!! (my parents had theirs on auto and it was all over the place...googled ideal color settings for their tv and fixed it)
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What’s happening at NSF is bananas and not getting enough press IMO.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
What’s happening at NSF is bananas and not getting enough press IMO.
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Now that the federal government is working again, it's going back to dissolving itself. 🙃
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Now that the federal government is working again, it's going back to dissolving itself. 🙃
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Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
NGL I want fuckin Altavista back :/
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
NGL I want fuckin Altavista back :/
Reminder that the only thing AI has been good* at so far was plagiarizing A/B/O tropes from fanfiction.
*It wasn't actually good, it just plagiarized fanfiction.
If you don't know what A/B/O is please don't google it. If you do, I cannot help you unread what you will see. 👀
*It wasn't actually good, it just plagiarized fanfiction.
If you don't know what A/B/O is please don't google it. If you do, I cannot help you unread what you will see. 👀
New EO dropped. They want to do all scientific innovation with AI for:
1) advanced manufacturing
2) biotech
3) critical minerals
4) nuclear fission and fusion energy
5) quantum information science and
6) semiconductors and microelectronics
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
1) advanced manufacturing
2) biotech
3) critical minerals
4) nuclear fission and fusion energy
5) quantum information science and
6) semiconductors and microelectronics
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Reminder that the only thing AI has been good* at so far was plagiarizing A/B/O tropes from fanfiction.
*It wasn't actually good, it just plagiarized fanfiction.
If you don't know what A/B/O is please don't google it. If you do, I cannot help you unread what you will see. 👀
*It wasn't actually good, it just plagiarized fanfiction.
If you don't know what A/B/O is please don't google it. If you do, I cannot help you unread what you will see. 👀
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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I know zero real scientists who say this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I know zero real scientists who say this.
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Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
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me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done!
my brain cells:
my brain cells:
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done!
my brain cells:
my brain cells:
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So round. So flat.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So round. So flat.
What if, Charlie Brown, you were unable....to speak?
Cast it into the fire. Destroy it, Charlie Brown!
Many Who Die Deserve Life. Can You Give It to Them, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What if, Charlie Brown, you were unable....to speak?
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Fun fact:
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fun fact:
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.
Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.
But you could. You could show them how it’s done.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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I am SO FUCKING TIRED of having to ask this question constantly every single time a see an image.
SO FUCKING TIRED
SO FUCKING TIRED
Is this real or not real
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I am SO FUCKING TIRED of having to ask this question constantly every single time a see an image.
SO FUCKING TIRED
SO FUCKING TIRED
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This (youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...) is an older @acollierastro.bsky.social video I must have missed, but it is brilliant in explaining the intensity of the bullshit of the adjunct system, for students and instructors.
the adjunct problem
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This (youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...) is an older @acollierastro.bsky.social video I must have missed, but it is brilliant in explaining the intensity of the bullshit of the adjunct system, for students and instructors.
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Dearly beloved…
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called
“Life”
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called
“Life”
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Dearly beloved…
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called
“Life”
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called
“Life”
Turned 11 y.o. me's hyperfixation into a career path. (Still haven't seen a vent irl *with my own eyeballs* if we're keeping score here)
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Turned 11 y.o. me's hyperfixation into a career path. (Still haven't seen a vent irl *with my own eyeballs* if we're keeping score here)
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The longer any of the Trump things goes on, the harder it will be to revert or fix them.
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The longer any of the Trump things goes on, the harder it will be to revert or fix them.
Reminder that these assfaces are still kicking around in the govt breaking shit and fucking up everything.
DOGE is down to about 45 employees, but others have burrowed their way into government agencies as full time employees. Some are helping Vought's efforts to downsize the government. Others are implementing private AI across government.
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reminder that these assfaces are still kicking around in the govt breaking shit and fucking up everything.
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I just remembered that Rep MTG led the subcommittee that grilled the presidents of NPR and PBS in the spring, calling them "Un-American."
www.youtube.com/live/mf7BvBI...
www.youtube.com/live/mf7BvBI...
PBS and NPR leaders testify at House DOGE subcommittee hearing | full vidoe
YouTube video by CBS News
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I just remembered that Rep MTG led the subcommittee that grilled the presidents of NPR and PBS in the spring, calling them "Un-American."
www.youtube.com/live/mf7BvBI...
www.youtube.com/live/mf7BvBI...