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Chris W 64.9N

@borealchrys.bsky.social

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Arctic and polar science. Geospatial data science. Remote sensing. Wildfire, ice, and hazards in the high northern latitudes. All posts & opinions are mine. Not speaking for anyone. 🏳️‍🌈 🧶 🪈🎻 📚 🎓 📡 ❄️🔥 🌎 Views are mine.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 7h

A windrose would work maybe (polar histogram).

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 21h

Congrats! I've more than once been cutting it very close, but it's always worked out. Great options are services like PosterSmith that deliver to your hotel, or taking a thumb drive to a local print shop who often print it more cheaply and while you wait (tho rarely on fabric).

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Me, too. I know of 5 more UAF colleagues who naturalized since April. (Most are German like myself, and Germany made dual citizenship easier last year, so that's a cause too.)

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 1d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting from Two Rivers, AK - first time voting since getting naturalized (borough assembly and school board seats).

A round sticker in dark red, white, dark blue with the text VOTE LOCAL, I VOTED! and OUR TOWN YOUR VOTE and the Alaska flag with a golden star marking the location of the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

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Princess Daazhraii Johnson @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social · 1d

As this administration guts climate science & mitigation efforts in the midst of a climate emergency & opens #Alaska to more extraction - we are all left to suffer the consequences. @rick any data on amount of rainfall lately & potential impacts?

Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 2d

Huslia today.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

I still don't get what the basis is for your conclusion that the OP is ignorant of other (non-US) healthcare systems.

(For the record , I've lived, been insured in, and received heath care in 4 countries, the US and three in W Europe. I'm broadly familiar with a few more.)

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

You said " It is beyond confusing that you didn't know about the excellent types of public health systems around the world". I wonder where you get that from.

Also Bernie never struck me as particularly knowledgeable in the nitty-gritty of the vast spectrum of systems FWIW.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Huh? Where do you get that from?

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

You are generating ideas to help the Trump administration now? Is that very smart?

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Scroll down for New! Robes! ... as well as some info on the German constitutional court.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Two senates of 8 each. 12 year term limits. Mandatory retirement at 68.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

it might be global warming

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Don @wormeguy.bsky.social · 2d

Losing Essential Air Service means losing flights for people, mail, and goods.

Losing WIC on top of Essential Air Service means children will suffer.

Diapers, formula, and baby clothes will become more expensive and harder to acquire in rural Alaska.

Alaska's News Source @alaskasnewssource.com · 2d

Government shutdown could stop Essential Air Service funding in Alaska within days. MORE 👉 https://tinyl.co/3nKW

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 2d

A colleague of mine said “reality has a way of asserting itself”. This doesn’t address the time frame or the amount of harm done, but ultimately people aren’t stupid. They can be deluded, or misguided, or manipulated by appeals to their lowest instincts, but in the end they have to deal with life.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Excellent piece by Ian Dunt pinpointing the slow gradual realisation (oh it really took some time for some politicians) even in Labour and Starmer team that #brexit is a disaster: "Who on earth could claim that #brexit has been a success? Who would name a single benefit it has provided"?

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7d

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah that’s nonsense. Reasonable people can have very different opinions about these events, but whoever thinks the outcome hinged on them either way needs to go and do some real life political work.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 2d

I offer Naomi Oreskes on the + side.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, dear. There’s also Naomi Oreskes laterally in the mix.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite Omelas spin-offs.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3d

Time to repost a classic.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

People say all sorts of things. Voting for Harris was clearly the correct choice at that moment in time. Elections simply give you an opportunity to select who you’d rather fight against the next four years.

(Isabel Kim’s story is a special favorite of mine. )

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

I would not do the shingles shot at the same time - it’s notorious for strong side effects / reactions.

It’s not quite 24 h later now and I’m fine. Yesterday both arms hurt a bit, now it’s just some residual pain in the arm the got the Tdap + pneumococcal.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

Also I can sleep in tomorrow.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

Sigh, ok, let’s make some antibodies … “. Doesn’t feel that much different from a COVID shot tho except both arms are hurting.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted to see what it’s like, and while I’m not on board with unsupervised self-experimentation the pharmacist had no concerns. My body is a little bit like, “srsly? did you just get exposed to tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, several strains of flu and COVID AND pneumococcus all at once?

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