MZ Fuka
@mzphyz.bsky.social
Physicist-errant. Quite mad, mostly honest.
Vita brevis, vive magne.
Vita brevis, vive magne.
So, about that Border Patrol/ICE deployment in the French Quarter? Tips on staying safe for #AGU25 attendees? How about those from overseas? A travel checklist would be a nice idea.
Me, I'm out as of yesterday, fortunately had a cancellable reservation and was waiting on registration just in case.
Me, I'm out as of yesterday, fortunately had a cancellable reservation and was waiting on registration just in case.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So, about that Border Patrol/ICE deployment in the French Quarter? Tips on staying safe for #AGU25 attendees? How about those from overseas? A travel checklist would be a nice idea.
Me, I'm out as of yesterday, fortunately had a cancellable reservation and was waiting on registration just in case.
Me, I'm out as of yesterday, fortunately had a cancellable reservation and was waiting on registration just in case.
Around here, that could also mean the first robin of fall😆.
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Around here, that could also mean the first robin of fall😆.
Lines might be due to concerns about access after the vax committee meeting Thursday & Friday. Hammer's already down in Florida. No covid for anyone w/o a prescription. Flu shots unaffected so far.
September 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Lines might be due to concerns about access after the vax committee meeting Thursday & Friday. Hammer's already down in Florida. No covid for anyone w/o a prescription. Flu shots unaffected so far.
Giving me reservations about my reservations…🥺
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Giving me reservations about my reservations…🥺
Nice! All the depressingly grim reality in one convenient location...🤯🫣😵😱! Srsly (now that I've run out of emojis, well, I haven't but you get the drift): Thank you!
June 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nice! All the depressingly grim reality in one convenient location...🤯🫣😵😱! Srsly (now that I've run out of emojis, well, I haven't but you get the drift): Thank you!
No worries, I'm just always fascinated by culture collisions 😆. Recall graduate advisor commenting in all seriousness that a colloquium screaming matches (plural not a typo, really, multiple shout-downs) meant the material presented was truly interesting. One developed a very thick skin.
March 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
No worries, I'm just always fascinated by culture collisions 😆. Recall graduate advisor commenting in all seriousness that a colloquium screaming matches (plural not a typo, really, multiple shout-downs) meant the material presented was truly interesting. One developed a very thick skin.
Well, that just screams additional dish 😝. Me first: That time a physicist in a biomedical working meeting was taken aside & diplomatically given a heads-up about kindler, gentler communication norms in the life sciences.
March 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Well, that just screams additional dish 😝. Me first: That time a physicist in a biomedical working meeting was taken aside & diplomatically given a heads-up about kindler, gentler communication norms in the life sciences.
Have you dared ask for an essay in the style of diagrammonkey...?
March 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Have you dared ask for an essay in the style of diagrammonkey...?
Speaking of venues where you need to build a plan beforehand😱! Gotta get in shape for the NOLA CC 👟. Will be curious to hear how APS goes for you--have fun!
March 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Speaking of venues where you need to build a plan beforehand😱! Gotta get in shape for the NOLA CC 👟. Will be curious to hear how APS goes for you--have fun!
Sigh. Fighting to make this a place everyone can just come and look at the burrowing owls together. 😢
March 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sigh. Fighting to make this a place everyone can just come and look at the burrowing owls together. 😢
...leaving out words today, but you get the gist...😆
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
...leaving out words today, but you get the gist...😆
Maybe sessions on scicomm, plus plenary & a few sessions w/fun topics for zeitgeist. Animal behavior, climate & such for seeing physicists meshing w/the larger world. Above all, identify an escape spot first thing--coffee shop or corner--to get away when it's all too much. Not unlike AGU 😆.
March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Maybe sessions on scicomm, plus plenary & a few sessions w/fun topics for zeitgeist. Animal behavior, climate & such for seeing physicists meshing w/the larger world. Above all, identify an escape spot first thing--coffee shop or corner--to get away when it's all too much. Not unlike AGU 😆.
Ah-ha! Something like that, circulate on the exhibit floor, identify other outreach folk who can one in? For users themselves, you can sort the program pretty w/a topic/related keywords search, current users, coauthors & relevant organizations...
March 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Ah-ha! Something like that, circulate on the exhibit floor, identify other outreach folk who can one in? For users themselves, you can sort the program pretty w/a topic/related keywords search, current users, coauthors & relevant organizations...
As for APS, waaay less emphasis than AGU on speaking to a general audience of other physicists let alone non-physicists or the public. Upside is it’s easy to cross off huge swathes of the program as incomprehensible to anyone outside a narrow specialty & focus on areas of interest.
March 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As for APS, waaay less emphasis than AGU on speaking to a general audience of other physicists let alone non-physicists or the public. Upside is it’s easy to cross off huge swathes of the program as incomprehensible to anyone outside a narrow specialty & focus on areas of interest.
Fun! Business, personal, combination? Done lots of big scientific meetings across wide spectrum of disciplines for different reasons. I start w/a clear personal mission statement for the meeting. Next, I familiarize myself with the venue. Easier to tackle the program when I've got those in mind.
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Fun! Business, personal, combination? Done lots of big scientific meetings across wide spectrum of disciplines for different reasons. I start w/a clear personal mission statement for the meeting. Next, I familiarize myself with the venue. Easier to tackle the program when I've got those in mind.
Deleted because, damn, not sure & don't like the options. But Sept 30 CR seems like the smallest 💩 sandwich in this picnic basket from hell. Maybe 6 months will give the Dems enough time to change the menu. *Sigh*.
March 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Deleted because, damn, not sure & don't like the options. But Sept 30 CR seems like the smallest 💩 sandwich in this picnic basket from hell. Maybe 6 months will give the Dems enough time to change the menu. *Sigh*.
Perhaps I'm not giving us enough credit? 🤔 Maybe if safe, ordinary spaces are trying to kill us, it's a message we should live dangerously in extraordinary ones 😜.
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Perhaps I'm not giving us enough credit? 🤔 Maybe if safe, ordinary spaces are trying to kill us, it's a message we should live dangerously in extraordinary ones 😜.
Ouch & sympathies. $1200 ER visit two weeks ago tripping over one of my left feet, header into a door frame. Forehead goose egg, 6 stitches, two black eyes & general embarrassment still. We are obviously twins parented by klutzes, separated at birth.
March 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ouch & sympathies. $1200 ER visit two weeks ago tripping over one of my left feet, header into a door frame. Forehead goose egg, 6 stitches, two black eyes & general embarrassment still. We are obviously twins parented by klutzes, separated at birth.
Hear, hear. Well-meaning efforts, but, yeah gotta get concrete about damage & specific about remedies in as straightforward & politically neutral fashion possible. (Living in a tiny blue bubble in a great big red sea is a daily exercise in practicing that disciplined approach.)
March 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hear, hear. Well-meaning efforts, but, yeah gotta get concrete about damage & specific about remedies in as straightforward & politically neutral fashion possible. (Living in a tiny blue bubble in a great big red sea is a daily exercise in practicing that disciplined approach.)
There is a reason it's pointed away from us 🤦♀️ . Kinda ready for our moment with Klaatu & Gort.
February 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
There is a reason it's pointed away from us 🤦♀️ . Kinda ready for our moment with Klaatu & Gort.
Glad you got that done, good advice! Btw, hadn't realized you'd left the feds. Whew, big step & can only imagine the resonances right now. Wish you the very best!
February 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Glad you got that done, good advice! Btw, hadn't realized you'd left the feds. Whew, big step & can only imagine the resonances right now. Wish you the very best!
Just that gif gets my blood pumping! Number of times I've read Master & Commander (let alone the rest of the series) plus movie viewings, it's waaay more than 6. Galaxy Quest (every Star Trek, really) is the same story, isn't it 😜?
February 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just that gif gets my blood pumping! Number of times I've read Master & Commander (let alone the rest of the series) plus movie viewings, it's waaay more than 6. Galaxy Quest (every Star Trek, really) is the same story, isn't it 😜?
