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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats, Professor!

Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 2d

reading "the nemesis affair" by the first author of this paper david raup at a key stage in graduate school was really impactful on the way that I think about how science works -- plus it's just a great book

Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 2d

giving my students a fun lecture on what did in the dinosaurs tomorrow which means it's time to refresh myself on all the fun ideas which were super super wrong

"periodicity of extinctions in the geologic past", raup and sepkoski, 1984 in pnas

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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 2d

IMINT #52971 from GPS III-SV05 (ACCM)

1. Ziggurat of Silent Infrasound
2. American Abacuses
3. Prophecy Trench

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters:

1. Ziggurat of Silent Infrasound
2. American Abacuses
3. Prophecy Trench

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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 3d

really want to hear the PA GOP explain how this problem could be fixed with additional efficiency measures, futzing around with management, and austerity

NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 3d

SEPTA is warning riders of possible delays and cancellations on Regional Rail Monday night as they begin to inspect their Silverliner IV railcars following an NTSB report on train fires and an emergency order from the FRA: on.nbc10.com/O1qiSkA

SEPTA warns of Regional Rail delays amid inspections after NTSB train fire report

Regional Rail passengers should expect possible delays and cancellations Monday night as SEPTA inspects their Silverliner IV railcars.

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 5d

got to see DEVO & the B-52s a couple nights ago as a belated birthday present from my fiancée -- really, really great.

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 8d

do you think the secretary of defense has to go to the liquor store at 11:48 AM himself during shutdowns? or is that particular aid deemed critical?

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 13d

I am indeed picking our extra credit movies this semester to span a range of answers to the two classic film criticism questions: "is this movie secretly about Gender?" and "how often is there a claymation gory jumpscare?"

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 13d

kind of shocking how this movie looks good both as a 4K restoration at a theater and also as seen on literal old tape

Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 13d

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The Thing 1982 VHS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

VHS

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 13d

I'm giving out an extra credit assignment this week for my gen-ed "Life in the Universe" class to watch "The Thing". the exciting thing about the thing is that the thing is available (the whole thing) on the internet archive as a scanned-in VHS, scan-lines and screwy audio and all -- it's amazing.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16d

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16d

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 17d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 19d

the photo shows a (delicious) cappuccino next to the David Roberts book "Escalante's Dream"

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 21d

getting back into just a little bit of research after a month of teaching: what a treat. there's a kind of strange and pleasant dissonance from telling your students "this is what the solar system is like and how it works" and getting back to your office and thinking "yeah but was any of that true?"

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duck @snakeroot.bsky.social · 21d

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Eos @eos.org · 21d

Hayabusa2’s final target is really, really small. And really, really fast. That presents both a challenge for a touchdown attempt and an opportunity for asteroid researchers.

eos.org/articles/hay...

Hayabusa2’s Final Target is 3 Times Smaller Than We Thought - Eos

It also spins twice as fast as previous estimates suggested. A spacecraft touchdown will be challenging, but not impossible.

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 22d

happy to have helped some with "Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence" by Auriane Egal et al., out today in Nature Astronomy (and here on ArXiV: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12362)

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 23d

robert redford and john denver looking at little too happy coming out of a movie theater with coors cans in hand

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 27d

and here I've been putting my ziggurat proposals through the earth studies programs instead of CDAP

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Eos @eos.org · 29d

“If you're studying interstellar objects, you're sitting cleanly at the division between planetary science and traditional astrophysics.”— @teddykareta.bsky.social. 3I/ATLAS’s longevity will enable broad, transdisciplinary participation from scientists of all backgrounds.

How an Interstellar Interloper Spurred Astronomers into Action - Eos

Valuable lessons from previous interstellar objects allowed scientists to develop a more rapid response when the third one arrived in July.

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Eos @eos.org · Sep 9

When the third interstellar object was discovered in July, years of careful preparation helped astronomers quickly jump into action to observe our new cometary visitor from the get-go. eos.org/features/how...

How an Interstellar Interloper Spurred Astronomers into Action - Eos

Valuable lessons from previous interstellar objects allowed scientists to develop a more rapid response when the third one arrived in July.

eos.org

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · Sep 6

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · Sep 5

a picture from my office which shows my new woodblock print from the artist louis bicycle of a turtle on a racetrack with the text I KNOW I'M A SLOW LEARNER BUT I THINK THIS IS A TORTOISE AND THE HARE TYPE OF THING above and below it. other wall decorations also shown.

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Ben Sharkey @bsharkey.bsky.social · Sep 2

science has been way more about listening to my peers than it was about solving a diff eq fast

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