Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪

Look, I know that STEM faculty might not pay attention, b/c the bill focuses on non-STEM research. But this is just a foothold into crushing tenure and academic freedom. Anyone whose research doesn't pass muster w/ administration will be stopped, e.g. climate researchers, mRNA vaccine researchers...

Note that it was the @aaup.org and faculty standing up for themselves, not UCLA as an institution, that successfully went to court to arrest Trump’s overreach here.

PSA 📢: if you have a day off from work…but then work on that day off…you’ve maybe not had a day off…

Ouch!

So, if you're someone who follows the bureaucratic side of aviation safety, you probably already know about this, but if you aren't, you might not. This is something that I feel the need to raise awareness about. (1/10)

I’ve heard that self driving cars only need to be better than humans to take off. I used to repeat that line.

Today, I don’t think that’s the case. For self driving cars to take off, they can’t just be better than humans, they have to be perfect. Like, the error rate has to be close to zero.

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls - Kindle edition by Eltahawy, Mona. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.

Books by women challenge, 11/30:

The Seven Necessary Sins for Girls and Women, Mona Eltahawy

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Given how much I'm juggling this school year, I probably won't have the preprint ready until this summer, but I can't WAIT to show y'all this data.

Dept of Ecology map shows soil contamination. Our study was looking at airborne metals, and holy shit, you guys. That particulate metal (probably from soil) is still blowing around out there, 40 years after the smelter closed.

This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to—

We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

Here's a link to the Washington Dept of Ecology site talking about the Tacoma Smelter cleanup.

ecology.wa.gov/spills-clean...

Effects from old smelters are visible throughout the country. In my still-unpublished data set (which I hope to get written up sometime in the next year), you can see artifacts from the old Asarco copper smelter in Tacoma, WA...which closed in 1985.

I would hardly call my lame novel high art.

Emily snuffled loudly and wiped her eyes. Dave who was sitting on her other side, reached into his backpack. "I have something for you, Em. I figured we'd be going through a lot of tissues today, so I brought a whole box." The box of tissues he pulled out was encased in a 3-D printed cover that was...a volcano. A volcano that was erupting tissues out of its top.

I don't want to spoil the scene too much (also everything's way too first-drafty) but here's one of the early paragraphs...

In my book, Dave is the heroine's ex-brother-in-law. Probably autistic, he has very little sense of what is socially acceptable, as will become obvious in the scene.

Yikes. How are you holding up?

The Ultimate Pi Day Party (Baldwin Village Book 1) The Ultimate Pi Day Party (Baldwin Village Book 1) - Kindle edition by Lau, Jackie. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Books by women challenge, 10/30:

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by @jackielaubooks.bsky.social

Jackie Lau's books are must-reads for me. They're funny, they're nerdy (hi, fellow geoscientist), and they're sweet.

Also: she's priced the e-book at 3.14... *chef's kiss*

www.amazon.com/dp/B07N2ZFNJ7

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World - Kindle edition by Hayhoe, Katharine. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.

Books by women challenge, 9/30:

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

Before we solve climate issues, we have to be able to talk about them...so many valuable nuggets in this book.

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Destiny's Surrender (Destiny Trilogy, 2) Amazon.com: Destiny's Surrender (Destiny Trilogy, 2): 9780062231109: Jenkins, Beverly: Books

Books by women challenge, 8/30:

Destiny's Surrender by Beverly Jenkins. It was hard to pick only one book by @authormsbev.bsky.social...pretty much anything by her is un-put-downable (is that a word?) and also chock full of historical research.

www.amazon.com/Destinys-Sur...

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science - Kindle edition by Hernandez Ph.D., Jessica. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science.

I got a little bit behind! 7/30:

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

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years ago, before i knew about the water and pollution and finances, i tried chatgpt as an ADHD tool after seeing several ppl mention it helping. it was like trying to corral a toddler with even worse adhd that lived in my phone. been bewildered by other ADHDers advocating for it ever since

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100% agree with this. I have said for years that we need to either (a) make college free or (b) make it possible (from a financial aid view) to attend part time.

The number of students I have who are working multiple part-time jobs is astounding.

I unfollowed them after moving out of WA, but they used to make me laugh so hard.

I, personally, only have a Tahoma box in my office (which students love). I plan to get myself a Lawetlat'la box for my house at some point.

I may not ever quite finish my mystery featuring a geologist, primarily because I have so little free time.

But one primary motivation to finish is to help market Ryan's super cool volcano tissue boxes...a Lawetlat'la box appears in a crucial scene.

I want to give a shout out to the good folks at @opentopography.org for making it so EASY to search for and download publicly available digital elevation models and point cloud data sets. They are a spectacular resources that I use a lot in my classes! Data citations for boxes are at listings' end.

These boxes tend to sell out quickly, so get 'em while they're hot!
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I'm trying, Chet. Went home early yesterday and took a long nap before dinner.

But the grading deadline waits for no one. hahaha

I need to get this! Thanks for the suggestion.

(I did get the pneumococcal vaccine finally, hope that helps as well)