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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 51m

This friend, scolopendra subspinipes, packs a spicy bite. This one was about 5in (12.7cm) long and hanging around the outside of my lab today.

A big fuck off centipede that is black bodied with red legs.

The same fuck off centipede with a stick for scale.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 10h

Is this any different than early stage? If so, it appears I am on the accelerated path…

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t suspect this is the mechanism of formation for this particular unit, based on having watched a lot of lava flows emplace.

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Ethan Baxter @ethanrockstory.bsky.social · 3d

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So much fun filming episode 83 of Every Rock Has A Story with amazing Kama Poepoe at Kīlauea yesterday!!! Hear what makes this volcano so special and how Kama is studying its innermost secrets!

youtube.com/shorts/FLRpN...

Find out how magma moves inside and outside a volcano!

YouTube video by Ethan Baxter's "Every Rock Has A Story"

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 3d

After I asked him a few times and he pretended not to hear me, I gave him the option of moving one last time or getting poked with a size 2 (I knit when I fly). Turns out his hearing was miraculously restored at that moment.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 3d

I must have sat next to one of his relatives on a different flight…

A man’s leg aggressively encroaching upon my space

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday I was reminded of the existence of Jai Alai! If you aren’t familiar, it’s a Basque game (I learned this today) that was popular in the 70’s and 80’s in Florida, Baja California, and New England. My dad used to play and was a menace on the fronton.

connecticuthistory.org/the-basque-g...

“The Basque Game in Town”: The Heyday of Jai Alai in Connecticut - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

Organized jai alai came to Connecticut in the 1970s, but charges of corruption soon brought the sport to an end in the Nutmeg State.

connecticuthistory.org

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 4d

This is actually true for plantains. If you’ve never had maduros you should rectify that.

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Ethan Baxter @ethanrockstory.bsky.social · 4d

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Filming new episodes of Every Rock Has A Story on Hawaii! This place is amazing… so many stories to tell!!

youtube.com/shorts/RfpDP...

This Mauna Loa lava flow took out the road!

YouTube video by Ethan Baxter's "Every Rock Has A Story"

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 4d

I will say that I am a co-author on a lot of other things, but again, my issue is with the manufactured urgency of the pace of publication. Not everyone has a schedule that can accommodate a fast pace for every step of the process.

lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 5d

I’m at a small PUI and I’m lucky if I have a 1 first author pub a year. I’ve edited 9 papers this year, reviewed an additional 6, and also do a bunch of internal reviewing as a USGS volunteer. My job doesn’t require this level, I do it because it’s important. I’m not the problem in this equation.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 5d

My beef is with the top down demand that things move quickly for journal metrics on speed. FWIW, I have edited and reviewed A LOT more than I have published. As an editor, I’d always rather have a good review than a fast review. If the lead author is an ECR, I try to move it more quickly if I can.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 6d

Does anyone have a recommendation for a textbook that could be used for both mineralogy and ig/met petrology courses? I’m trying to reduce the number of books my students need to purchase and have found that hard copies work better for them than online-only options.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible indeed! It’s an easy place to teach geology, that’s for sure. hilo.hawaii.edu/chancellor/s...

Volcano Watch: The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory highlights partnership between HVO and UH Hilo - UH Hilo Stories

Faculty and students in the UH Hilo geology and anthropology departments contribute to both volcano monitoring and research in Hawai‘i.

hilo.hawaii.edu

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve had lots of trial and error with the same subject.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 6d

Is that with a cell phone? A small tripod when shooting in the dark really covers a lot of sins when it comes to equipment.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 6d

If journals want me to give a shit about their time to publication metric, they can pay my ass to edit/review and offer an incentive to publish with them. People who get my effort for free don’t get to make demands on timeliness.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 6d

Right? Anything more than a weird cough involves a specialist visit to Oahu.

lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 7d

Within normal parameters. This is the 34th episode of an ongoing eruption at the summit of Kīlauea.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 7d

I much prefer lava over rotten eggs or a blown head gasket, and so you make the positive association and that goes a long way.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 7d

Depends, but sometimes a deep, sulfur like rotten eggs, other times like the acrid sweetness of a blown head gasket on a car, often a combination of the two.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 7d

Depends on the wind direction. Today I couldn’t, but I often can at my house if the winds are blowing differently.

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 7d

Episode 34 of the ongoing eruption of #Kīlauea

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lis gallant @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 7d

Woke up and looked out my window, insomnia has its perks. Episode 34 is here after several days of overflow cycles. #Kīlauea

A glowing evening sky in orange against a silhouette of trees.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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