Elizabeth
@kitabet.bsky.social
earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar at large. "you know istanbul is always the first stop."
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Claude the albino alligator is dead
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Claude, San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator, dies at 30
Claude, the California Academy of Sciences’ rare albino alligator and one of San Francisco’s most recognizable residents, has died at age 30.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Claude the albino alligator is dead
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social
Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?"
RIP to an SF icon
🐊 😢
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
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Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego erupting at sunset, shot from camp at 12,000 ft atop the neighboring Acatenango volcano. Incandescent lava is blasted 1,000 ft into the air before cascading down the slopes. The streak of light at the bottom right is from a group of hikers. #photography #ArtAdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego erupting at sunset, shot from camp at 12,000 ft atop the neighboring Acatenango volcano. Incandescent lava is blasted 1,000 ft into the air before cascading down the slopes. The streak of light at the bottom right is from a group of hikers. #photography #ArtAdventCalendar
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look what came in the mail!
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
look what came in the mail!
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Falkland Adaları TÜRK'tür
we need to get turkish and japanese twitter to use bluesky so we can create more beautiful crashouts
i just like poking nationalists into crashouts, ngl
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Falkland Adaları TÜRK'tür
I was hoping the grok fiasco earlier this year would do it but alas
we need to get turkish and japanese twitter to use bluesky so we can create more beautiful crashouts
i just like poking nationalists into crashouts, ngl
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I was hoping the grok fiasco earlier this year would do it but alas
if someone makes a "Tom Stoppard Saved These Titties" t-shirt to raise money for cancer research I promise to buy it
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
if someone makes a "Tom Stoppard Saved These Titties" t-shirt to raise money for cancer research I promise to buy it
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FEMA Puts Whistleblowers on Leave Shortly After Reinstating Them
Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who raised concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, federal officials have placed those whistleblowers bac...
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(perhaps it is not so surprising that many fellow mourners have ended up on this, the niche social media site for people who like words more than photos, and also want links to more words)
I’m really moved by how the Arcadia hive is coming out today.
RIP Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern and Leopoldstadt will get a lot of love in his obits, and rightfully so, but the best and most moving theater-going experience of my life - and I grew up in theater, work in theater, and attend live theater all the time - was Arcadia. My favorite play.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
(perhaps it is not so surprising that many fellow mourners have ended up on this, the niche social media site for people who like words more than photos, and also want links to more words)
more-or-less how my first encounter with Stoppard went, and I hope English teachers everywhere are still pulling this exact move
in eighth grade I had a teacher who gave us hamlet for a few weeks and then hit play on rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, and I will never ever forget the feeling of 14yo me just going, what the FUCK
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
more-or-less how my first encounter with Stoppard went, and I hope English teachers everywhere are still pulling this exact move
oh, this one stings. “The procession is very long and life is very short.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
oh, this one stings. “The procession is very long and life is very short.”
The Mountain Goats (many times)
Blue Scholars (also several times)
Vijay Iyer
Béla Fleck
Kardeş Türküler
Blue Scholars (also several times)
Vijay Iyer
Béla Fleck
Kardeş Türküler
5 concerts:
Pharoah Sanders
Kraftwerk
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Jeff Buckley
The Orb
Pharoah Sanders
Kraftwerk
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Jeff Buckley
The Orb
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Mountain Goats (many times)
Blue Scholars (also several times)
Vijay Iyer
Béla Fleck
Kardeş Türküler
Blue Scholars (also several times)
Vijay Iyer
Béla Fleck
Kardeş Türküler
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This is how you get that archaeologist you’ve been into to lick you
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is how you get that archaeologist you’ve been into to lick you
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Oaklanders, I'll be leading a free geology walk on December 6, a one-way ramble from Montclair to Rockridge/College Avenue where the Rockridge Holidaze fair goes from 4 to 6 pm. Details at link.
Free Geology Ramble, Montclair Park to the Rockridge Holidaze Festival
Combine geology and gift shopping in a 3.75-mile one-way downhill ramble as we visit the Hayward fault plus interesting rocks and terrain.
www.eventbrite.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Oaklanders, I'll be leading a free geology walk on December 6, a one-way ramble from Montclair to Rockridge/College Avenue where the Rockridge Holidaze fair goes from 4 to 6 pm. Details at link.
decided to adopt a new Thanksgiving tradition of listening to the Macy's parade ep of Well There's Your Problem despite the hazards of laughing this hard during kitchen tasks that require fine motor control www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbkN...
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 172: The 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
YouTube video by Well There's Your Problem Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
decided to adopt a new Thanksgiving tradition of listening to the Macy's parade ep of Well There's Your Problem despite the hazards of laughing this hard during kitchen tasks that require fine motor control www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbkN...
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USGS Shakemap projects moderate shaking at the epicenter following the M6.0 #Earthquake and light shaking in Anchorage, Eagle River, Kenai. ⚒️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
USGS Shakemap projects moderate shaking at the epicenter following the M6.0 #Earthquake and light shaking in Anchorage, Eagle River, Kenai. ⚒️🧪
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
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This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)
another former DDRIG recipient here, and this is especially grim coming on top of the FY2025 Fulbright-Hays cancellation
I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
another former DDRIG recipient here, and this is especially grim coming on top of the FY2025 Fulbright-Hays cancellation
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I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I did my PhD research thanks to a DDRIG through SBE. This is infuriating and while not quite a death blow, a giant obstacle to up and coming social scientists
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Vahid Abedini has now been released.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Vahid Abedini has now been released.
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Oh, FYI.
Kilauea's doing its thing right now if you've burnt yourself out of the 14 random college basketball tourneys happening right now.
Kilauea's doing its thing right now if you've burnt yourself out of the 14 random college basketball tourneys happening right now.
[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Oh, FYI.
Kilauea's doing its thing right now if you've burnt yourself out of the 14 random college basketball tourneys happening right now.
Kilauea's doing its thing right now if you've burnt yourself out of the 14 random college basketball tourneys happening right now.