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Jay Austin

@jaustinumd.bsky.social

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Lake physicist, working on scales from milliseconds to millennia.

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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 18d

Personally looking forward to the Frappeture

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Aug 30

Missed a minus sign

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tom Clancy’s Duluth MN phone book

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Aug 18

In retrospect I think the strip was the brilliant and underrated Arlo and Janis

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can’t remember the comic strip, but they mentioned “Mar-Teenys; the gin-like juice for kids” and I wish I could find that strip again.

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sort of like when “The the” got called “The the the”

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ghoulish

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Jul 20

Four words and it’s about a bird screwing us over

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Jun 16

No matter where you go… there you are.

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Jun 14

Not on the list but Duluth had ~3500

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Jun 13

If you want to keep your gear safe, DO NOT PUT IT IN THE LAKE. One of our buoys was just hit by a vessel (which will remain nameless here).

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Jun 11

Calling it “Frisco” will generate the same response

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 11

The ultimate “we met in art school” band

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 8

Villanova's Career Center better be making hay of this.

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 8

Sad that Judge Judy got passed over for rhis

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 7

I have done exactly this for exactly this reason

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 7

Will miss you by a day. Enjoy and I hope your daughter enjoys her first exposure to the Magnetic Fields.

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 7

John if you're there Friday night I would love to say hello.

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 7

the thing that stands out to me about the Magnetic Fields (at least from 69 Love Songs) is that they don't have a defining sound- each song is so, so different from the last. That said, Cuckoo, or A Pretty Girl. Looking forward to seeing them Friday night!

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 6

Found some 136 year old graffiti carved into a rock in the park near our house this evening

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 3

Tar Wars

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 1

We’ll be there!

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · May 1

Let me know when you’re there for Wits reunions. Thrilled to be there for at least two of the previous ones.

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Apr 30

I was NCA5 and am similarly distressed

Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · Apr 21

I brought two reporters from the local paper along on a buoy deployment cruise last week. Here's a piece from this weekend in our local paper about the impact of federal funding cuts on Great Lakes science and safety:
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/p...

Proposed NOAA cuts put Great Lakes research, safety at risk, experts say

A White House budget proposal would slash funding for Minnesota and Wisconsin Sea Grants, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve, Great Lakes Observing System and others.

www.duluthnewstribune.com