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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️

@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social

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Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · Nov 18

I'm Katie, a #marinegeologist that uses ROVs and submersibles to study deep-sea #hydrothermal circulation. I'm a huge advocate for #scientificoceandrilling. I also sew #costumes for fun. Welcome!

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh thx for the tip!

I think the last time my partner went for his he just needed OTC items instead of anything prescribed, but I know every Dr is different for these things. 😅

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

What's extra hilarious is that Bob Ballard (aka the GOAT of finding lost shit in the deep sea) had an expedition like 6 years ago looking for her plane. AFAIK they didn't find anything. Tfg probably saw the NatGeo documentary. 🙄🤦‍♀️

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Y'ALL. IT IS SO ON. This Geno frankenjacket is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

A light denim jacket overlays a black/yellow plaid shirt to give the impression that the jacket has plaid sleeves on a denim body

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

This was such a good episode....I read this as a teen and OH BOY was it perfect for someone (aka me) into both geology AND vocal performance.😅

(I heartily second listening to the Adrienne Barbeau audiobook...she also narrated the second crystal singer audiobook!)

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

It's also bc I couldn't watch the game 😂😂

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Huzzah! (I have to start them this year I think and am not excited about it)

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Yoooo, you're a pens fan too? 😍 VERY EXCELLENT!!! (I'm seeing them in SJ this month!)

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Deadline for comment on the draft FOCUS document is approaching! I need to get my comments together...the whole doc is *38* pages and took over a year to put out??

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 21d

Reasonably sure #IODP isn't here, but FINALLY the FOCUS report is out (like a year+ after we had all those meetings???)

usoceandiscovery.org/focus/

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine a lot of "geology doesn't work like that" statements. 🤦‍♀️

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Ah a slant needle!!! How neat.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

(Also idk how the 301 does buttonholes, but Greist made buttonholers for all different needle positions. I have a left-homing needle, so I can't use the usual center needle units that are really common.)

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

What's the year on that 301? Looks like roughly the same era as my Kenmore (straight/zigzag only, pre-cams). Wish my cabinet had the knee control converter!!

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Wanting an economically feasible deposit to just *poof* exist in the US bc they want it to... 😬💀

I hate this timeline.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

I immediately went to Christopher Walken lol

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

This is cute AF omg

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

(Tho I'm not sure we'll necessarily see lower NG enlistment overall....I imagine some awful ppl will sign up *bc* they get to terrorize others, similar to what we're seeing with ICE. 😵)

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

And the "resilient" angle is pretty rich considering the systematic dismantling of science jobs across disciplines in the last 5+ years.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

Ah okay. That makes more sense!

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

100% would prefer workshops for men that said "confident women are not bitches/misandrist/pushy.... they're probably right on whatever topic is being discussed and you should be quiet."

Tired of being treated like a shrinking violet by these webinars tbh.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in one image:

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

Agree, but wasn't this tried under Biden? I remember looking at their jobs board and it was a bit ridiculous.... literally 0 jobs tagged as geology-related. 😬

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 2d

Rather than webinars for women to teach us how to be "confident" and "resilient" how about webinars for men to learn to "listen" and "not be an asshole"?

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't read or listened much to Goodall over the years (for no particular reason), so I was utterly unprepared for the love, peace, caring, and jettison the despots into space on a one-way rocket trip.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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