going to #AGU25 next week? come watch me realize in real time that I've been studying Snowball Earth for four years and still can't reliably pronounce "glaciation" out loud

What does it take to turn Earth into a Snowball? Formation of a volcanic plateau about the size of India at the equator, according to our new study led by Charlotte Minsky:

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

🔭 🧪

me fantasizing about getting a tattoo when I was a teenager: it has to have 14 layers of meaning and represent core aspects of my personality and values that will never change

me shopping around for artists as an adult with a frontal lobe: what if I got an armadillo on my arm. arm-adillo.

Never clicked on a ‘continue this thread’ faster.

spotted an extremely Cambridge, MA box of free books (not pictured: stacks of 70s Star Trek novels)

happy lesbian visibility week I work with geologists and here are some things people have said during meetings where I have to keep a straight face

- "giant radiating dyke swarms"
- "these dykes haven't been dated but we know their orientation"
- "I didn't realize this dyke penetrated so deeply"

slowly finding more ways to sneak aperiodic monotiles into my apartment

just learned that last weekend MBTA: The Musical had to stop halfway through because the theater flooded. god I love Boston

Earlier this year, I got to write a big feature for @sciencenews.bsky.social about wastewater surveillance -- covering how this field has exploded during the pandemic, and how scientists are now looking to monitor other health threats. The story is now up online:

happy going-on-a-bike-ride-with-water-in-one-bottle-cage-and-mulled-cider-in-the-other season to all who celebrate

officially passed the first year of my PhD ✅

got complimented on my dinosaur pants by adorable children coming out of the natural history museum next to my department ✅