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Doctor Apatite

@doctorapatite.bsky.social

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A charmingly insubordinate, disabled, punk rock ukulele playing, mid-century glassware collecting, BVB/USMNT/USWNT/USYNT supporting, Belgian loving planetary scientist. Busy making hand-crafted mischief for the swap meet of science.

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · Sep 7

"letting safety be the enemy of progress"

Top view of the burned out Apollo capsule from the Apollo 1 disaster

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 8h

I took this job b/c money is good & the job seemed awesome. But now:
- There's more stress than fun
- I've been passed over for promotion so many times that I've stopped applying
- The salary could decrease drastically any/every year
- This area is getting more expensive, fast

So why would I stay?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 8h

🎶Thicker than
A deep dish pie
Joints are sore
Blood pressure high
Pudding, flan
And crème brûlée
None are safe
From the Green Beignets🎶

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 8h

I think there a lot of holes in that research I'll see myself out.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water. Susumu Kitagawa, of Kyoto University, Richard Robson, of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, of the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 8h

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 9h

A log, petrified with malachite + azurite. University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), 2012. ⚒️

A big log sitting on concrete with a rock wall behind it and a scale pencil on top of it. The log is blue and green!

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a suit and tie says " i 'm not saying it was the aliens but it was the aliens "

Alt: a man in a suit and tie says " I'm not saying it was the aliens but it was the aliens "

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn. Read the detaios & judge for yourself if this is how the people’s lawyer should do her job. joycevance.substack.com/p/oversight

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

joycevance.substack.com

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 9h

Meanwhile, back on *GOOD* Earth...

Newspaper with headline "BACK ON GOOD EARTH"

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 19h

This explains many acts, by many people, actually.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 19h

My daughter is *also* named Ghislane.

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J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been cautiously pessimistic that furlough back pay is a target for impoundment.
www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Christmas and Halloween

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Nope.

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out: mace-sized cans of spray paint in your pocket or purse.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas

--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Look, after this is all over, if I am still alive, you should definitely not put me in charge, because I cannot be trusted with power.

BUT IF YOU DID, you'd definitely get some new laws about "misleading the public".

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Would the witness *please* stop referring to us as "Santa".

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.

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

I am furloughed AND sick, yay.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Skip level meeting.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Discrete analysis only.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

Dinosaurs got bone cancer, which means we can study TUMOR FOSSILS.

I've since read about some other dinos species with evidence of tumors, but I still suspect there was something about hadrosaurs that made them prone to it.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Mar 15

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries.

Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone.

I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was:
"only in hadrosaurs."

It's a black and white paper header for a short communication, and I've copied the text below. Please stop reading if you don't want the literal copy to be read to you.
"Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500
DOI 10.1007/s00114-003-0473-9
SHORT COMMUNICATION
B. M. Rothschild · D. H. Tanke · M. Helbling ·
L. D. Martin
Epidemiologic study of tumors in dinosaurs
Received: 16 June 2003 / Accepted: 29 August 2003 / Published online: 14 October 2003 Springer-Verlag 2003"

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

You gotta love Queens

Map of Queens showing 60th Ave, 60th Ct, 60th Dr, 60th Ln, 60th Pl, 60th St

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I figured it out, you gotta spell it nucular.

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 1d

So, no nuclear power on the Moon?

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Banned words that you'd not expect:
autism
Cancer Moonshot
clean water
community
continuum
definition
diesel
elderly
evidence-based
fetus
geothermal
historically
institutional
key people
nuclear energy/power
peanut allergy
prefabricated housing
promote
rural water
science-based
stem cell
tax break

Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship

Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

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