Jennifer Johnson

A picture of VInce Gill with a guitar

A picture of Vince Gill, again, with a guitar

He stole the Resolute Desk !

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better. "Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."

this @katelynburns.com piece about the death of lia smith deserves your full attention

www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

Y'all - now you know us photogs are NOT kidding when we say the Northern Pygmy owls are SO SO SMOL!

A > 45 minute wait for early voting in Franklin County, OH. A sarcastic “thank you” to the Ohio Secretary of State for limiting early voting hours and polling places to suppress turnout. Because Ohio GOP is afraid of the voters

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Black and white photo of a white man reclining comfortably in a chair, reading a magazine. In his lap is a very very cozy shorthaired tabby cat, seems to be orange, looking sleepy and happy sprawled on its back.

Leisure time. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:

Rare native Hawaiian land snails rediscovered after nearly a century Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, has announced the rediscovery of two native Hawaiian land snails not seen in nearly a century.

Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, has announced the rediscovery of two native Hawaiian land snails not seen in nearly a century.

#BishopMuseum #Kahuli #Snails

A waterfall with fall colors

Fall break

Simple: they’ve broken the law for four years:

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

woot woot!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Three people with three different ballcaps on

Being stylish at the Veleros de Columbus game

Process of the commission prize for K'Andra, winner of the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest!
#sciart

We found a Florida grad student who was able to start it, so we can confirm the NSF AAPF is OPEN!! I will post instructions since it is actually challenging to navigate (none of the OSU grads had been able to figure it out)!

Caprice Phillips is busy solving cosmic mysteries Ohio State prepared this two-time graduate to ask and answer big questions in a prestigious NASA fellowship.

Great story about @capricephillips.bsky.social by @tatyanazaria.bsky.social in the OSU alumni magazine! 🔭 alumnimagazine.osu.edu/story/capric...

I can

I can

Jeremejevite is not a character in The Broken Earth Trilogy 🙁 nor one of the first minerals to condense out of protoplanetary nebulae, so I may just have to go for silver and its neutron-capture origins....

My heart is broken 💔 that corundum doesn't get a chance this year #MinCup25

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:

"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

Looking down on four people wearing foam hot dogs on their heads. Two of them are garnished with mustard, one with ketchup and one with relish

Feel like you should all get a better shot of the hot dog heads in the front