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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 3h

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 2h

*sets alarm* I need this, I need this very much, please and thank you! 🤣

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 4h

Today in “I am completely owned by a dog”: I ordered bacon on my sandwich, even though I don’t like bacon on this sandwich, with the explicit intent to give it to her.

A grey Labrador dog is laying on a pile of toys and looking intently at the bacon in my other hand

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 5h

Someone said this year is like being awake during surgery and… yep

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 6h

What the heck even is this? Clearly they’re trying to sell you… what? A website?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 8h

80 to 50 like it saw a statie….

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty sure “Peabody” is pronounced without any vowels but the y. 🤣

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 19h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19h

Oh no, we’re back to “all these plants looked great and got huge out on the deck, now where can I put them inside to overwinter” season again, and I *still* haven’t come up with an answer.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 21h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

I would pay $$$ for a Quebecois voice giving me directions, but only if it started to swear when I missed a turn.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

There are literally thousands of jokes about Worcester.

And you’re all still saying it wrong.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

Google only having American or British pronunciations of poutine feels like A Mistake.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 22h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

I really thought the danger of dying due to data center fire ended the day I stopped working in range of the halon. *sigh*

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22h

Ish.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Toxic fluoride gas emissions from lithium-ion battery fires

Lithium-ion battery fires generate intense heat and considerable amounts of gas and smoke. Although the emission of toxic gases can be a larger threat than the heat, the knowledge of such emissions is...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22h

…I live not too far down the road from Data Center Hell, and now I’m going to have nightmares about being downwind of battery fires.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22h

Physics is sometimes negotiable, if you have enough imagination and budget.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

But in this framing, we’re paying for benefits to a society in which we live, not a punitive extra tax because we don’t have kids.

Want to tax high-earning couples? Fine, do it, and give high-earning kid-havers the same tax credit poor kid-havers get.

I bet we’d see a better credit for kids, too.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually my gripe about his framing - and I don’t think it’s “hiding” it. Childless people are already paying for services we don’t use, from schools and playgrounds to WIC. Mostly, we don’t mind, and some of us even are pro this (I *like* having well-educated younger people, thanks!)

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT

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AfterTheHavoc @afterthehavoc.blackskycomra.de · 1d

Been listening to @rude1.blacksky.team talking about moderation and community organizing, and this is a good listen. Bonus points for pointing out the tyranny of structurelessness, which is a great article on why groups with no formal structure make worse, unofficial ones.

pca.st/episode/9da4...

Nodestar: Building Blacksky w/ Rudy Fraser

pca.st

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

“What do you do?”

TIRED: I’m a biologist/geneticist/neuroscientist/bioinformatician…

WIRED: *explains latest cool research problem*

INSPIRED: I’m a biology knight errant.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

Please enjoy this fascinating set of threads and sources on ferrets as an animal model. (I’ve been using some ferret model data for flu research; they’re such weird and useful little creatures.)

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, the “vomiting ferret” model is absolutely a real thing - I’ve encountered it in my own drug discovery career.

They’re one of the smallest animals that show this response- weirdly, rodents can’t do it at all.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

that's my day gone then

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E = mily² @emily.news · 1d

just took damage on realizing that the generation of people who will not understand this joke from Star Trek IV are already alive

three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says " hello computer "

Alt: three men are standing in front of a computer and one of them says "hello computer" (it's that scene from Star Trek IV where Scotty does this. it's funny because he's an engineer and he doesn't know how to use a computer because you're not supposed to talk to computers but he doesn't know that.)

media.tenor.com

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