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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️

@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social

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Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @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!

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 6h

Bunting is one of the many reasons why college baseball is way more fun than MLB games 😅

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 9h

a bald man in a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest .

ALT: a bald man in a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest .

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 9h

Omg that FACE 😍 He looks sassy!

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 9h

Or the brick of cream cheese

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 9h

Hashtag every Crock-Pot recipe ever 💀💀💀💀

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 9h

I did recently acquire "Umi ni Furu" about a woman training to be a Shinkai submersible pilot... hopefully this will contain some relevant words I can learn, lol.

Gonna watch w/ my partner, who's dived in Shinkai but knows 0 Nihongo, so that'll be fun too (I have subtitles) 😅

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 9h

When I was at my best Japanese ability (partly thx to watching J-dramas while taking classes), I could understand so much slang and school/business scenarios....but didn't learn any of the science words I'd actually need once on a research vessel 😭😭😭

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 12h

watching a modern cdrama to improve my language fluency and I'm about 10% better in business and social situations and 1000% better at devastating put downs towards my future daughter-in-law who is not the same social class and station as me

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 18h

The #1 threat to the sciences right now is a bunch of rich idiots who think that synthetic data can replace actual experimentally derived data, and further that that synthetic data can come from word machines.

Articles like this are a tool to make the public think these rich idiots are correct.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

*someone else

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Like, you're eventually not gonna be able to science anymore.... someone actually needs to know -how- to do stuff. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

I read the original tweet and was like... that's knowledge transfer a postdoc could have benefited from, OP. 😬💀

As someone who got very little knowledge transfer during my postdoc, I was extra furious.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

She wants THE SMOOCHES 🥰🥰🥰

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to our field fr.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Easiest supper ever: box of miso ginger broth and a bag of whichever gyoza u like from Trader Joe's. Add whatever veggies in the fridge need to be used up. Simmer until the gyoza are cooked through. Bam, dinner.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

That...... that's a real meal I make fairly regularly?!?! #ffs 💀💀💀💀

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

The petrology class they take later goes into pyx in much more detail so I also didn't have to cover it all in mineralogy.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

LOL (they're not hard but I was trying to get the kids to memorize the important bits so I tried to make it a little easier for them). For the pyx and amph formulas I just had them know which elements were the big ones (e.g., X, Y pyroxene/amphibole).

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Begging for the return of room-sized computers and punchcards

donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 7d

The personal computer was mistake. Computers should be huge and scary

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, exactly.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I know my mineralogy students used to HATE IT when they needed to have some formulas memorized for exams (easy ones, not like pyroxenes or anything) but universally they would thank me later in undergrad or grad school for making them do it.

FUNDAMENTALS ARE FUCKIN FUNDAMENTAL FOR A REASON.

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 2d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome but why isn't NSF in it????

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, this is exactly it... everyone yelling about AI doing something correctly **ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO DO THAT THING AND DO IT WELL** If you never learned how to do the thing, how the hell will you know if the AI output of a thing is in any way correct??? 🤦‍♀️💀

Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is, to be able to determine whether AI-generated code is “legit”, you need to know both statistics and coding yourself. If we no longer teach students to learn, think, and struggle—without the help of AI—the next generation will have no clue what is and isn’t legit.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

I made less than $10k last year....I can't afford Legos 💀