Mike O'Brien

That feeling when you hit Quantico and start blasting past the NoVA traffic on 95 🤌🏻

Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.

cc @jesslee.bsky.social

RVA $11 million
Henrico $2.6 million
Chesterfield $3.8 million

Nearly *three-quarters* of American wine exports to Canada vanished by the end of the second full month of Trump 2.0. Hard to overstate how much damage he's inflicted on what had been a $420M+ annual market for US winemakers. Whether this business ever comes back is an open question.

It's one of our default shows we put on when we don't know what else to watch 😂

Have you seen the historic farm series? They talk about and make some of these weird things.

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Check out "Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem" by Dewey Dunnington 🌍📦
An exploration of how R’s spatial tools can be used for big(ger) data.

Video: youtu.be/tjNEoIYr_ag?...
Slides: dewey.dunnington.ca/slides/rspat...

#RStats #rspatial #GIS #SpatialData

YouTube video by Sean Sublette Sean Sublette - Meteorologist for Congress: Welcome to Virginia

This is an unprecedented time in our nation's history.

Conspiracies, lies, and gaslighting are running amok.

We need more scientists in Congress.

I was born and raised here, and I am running to represent all Virginians from Chesterfield County to the Chesapeake Bay.

My pigs dug one of these up just a few months ago!

bsky.app/profile/obri...

Using lightweight bird-borne cameras, scientists have captured unique footage of Indian Ocean seabirds speeding just above the waves to catch flying fish.

Dr Ruth Dunn (@ruthedunn.bsky.social) of @lec-reefs.bsky.social is lead author of the study.

📰: https://tinyurl.com/yezeyxu2

The bee issue strikes again...

We lost a few hives and now we're probably at -50,000 individuals 😔

😂

a muppet wearing a top hat is standing in front of a door and saying `` and tiny tim ... '' . Alt: a muppet wearing a top hat is standing in front of a door and saying `` and tiny tim ... Who did not die'' .

Who DID NOT DIE

I guess we never learned our lesson -- we also had a free-range class rabbit back there for a summer or so.

screenshot of an email subject line: "New Detections are Ready for Your ACT Projects"

HIOOO @actnetwork.bsky.social and @oceantracking.bsky.social about to come in hot with some fish tracking data

A note that DOMINION WILL NOT LET YOU DO THIS TO YOUR HOUSE.

(sell back excess energy production, as it reduces shareholder profits if they're not the only vendor)

@montroseva.bsky.social leaking into your IG?

"Power costs rose twice as fast as overall inflation in June and are consuming an increasing share of disposable personal income."

Again, Dominion Energy, the state energy monopoly, is asking the SCC to raise rates of the average household by $240/year.

Screenshot of an email subject line. Text: "ar units and balls"

I assure you that, when you're working in fish telemetry, your boss emailing about our units and balls is completely normal.

See "working papers" FOIA exemptions.

Which our County Manager also uses to skirt FOIA.

PBS accounts for nearly half of first graders’ most frequently watched educational TV and video programs PBS KIDS produces popular age-appropriate programs. It also has a website and multiple apps with games and activities.

Where first graders watch educational media, before the impact of eliminating federal funds:
* PBS - 45%
* Nickelodeon - 14%
* YouTube - 9%
(from a 2025 study by child development researchers)

buff.ly/DIgcjd5

Incredible irony

www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/t...

25% of Virginians are currently unable to afford energy: bsky.app/profile/card...

Dominion is asking for $240/year to make up its current costs from data centers (submit a comment today!). www.scc.virginia.gov/about-the-sc...

Now we're on the hook for $500mil more while they make $5bil in profit.

Graphical abstract for a manuscript titled "Too few, too many, or just right? Optimizing sample sizes for population-level inferences in animal tracking projects". The workflow presented in this manuscript evaluates sampling design by assessing sampling duration, sampling interval, and the number of sampled individuals needed to obtain reliable population-level estimates.

✨ New preprint! "Too few, too many, or just right?" 🌍🌎🌏 We explore how to evaluate study design in animal tracking studies by assessing sampling duration, interval, and, now, the number of individuals needed for reliable population-level estimates. #movementecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thomas Jefferson, you dog. Leave those wives alone.

Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0

Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)

A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000

Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

logging onto Bluesky