Dr. Catherine Neish

My office floor is made of concrete, as if it didn’t want us to lay face down, so I brought in a camping pad for this express purpose.

Yeah, that was definitely Gillian Anderson speaking. I heard the whole scene was ad libbed.

Best line of the episode: ”You were frozen. Then I hugged you until you weren’t frozen any more.”

I believe they are working on changing their name to “Guides of Canada,” so non-binary kids don’t feel excluded.

Yeah, Girl Guides has really evolved with the times in a positive way. I was a leader for the past six years, and we had a meeting on what it means to be LGBTQ+, where we invited a drag queen. We participated in several Pride parades and one of our kids was openly non-binary.

Still, Doggett’s Spanish is waaay better than Mulder‘s. “Nojo on the rojo!”

An excellent thread! It truly is a wild time to be an educator.

I laughed at the discussion about truth serum - my husband *also* knew what it was, and I had never heard of it! I thought perhaps it was because he is a nurse, but maybe the conspiracy runs deeper than that…

Yeah, I just came to chime in that this is one of my favorite Season 9 episodes. I thought Robert Patrick nailed the scene where he remembers that his son is dead. It is heartbreaking and very real.

It’s okay, we got Tasha Yar instead!

Synthetic Aperture Radar as a Tool for Tornado Classification in Forested Areas Canada’s tornado climatology has historically been challenging to accurately assess. Many Canadian tornadoes are currently rated on the Enhanced Fujita scale using treefall as a damage indicator, t...

Today, our paper was published, "Synthetic Aperture Radar as a Tool for Tornado Classification in Forested Areas". Congrats Sophia! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I had never studied severe weather before (or written a purely "terrestrial" paper), so I reached out to the Severe Storms Lab. They introduced me to Sophia Slabon, a bright undergraduate student in Geography, and Dr. Connell Miller.

A year and a half ago, I attended an Earth Observation workshop sponsored by @westernuspace.bsky.social. There was a talk about tornadoes that got me thinking - could we detect and characterize tornado tracks with synthetic aperture radar?

My 12 year old is unfortunately not interested in the X-Files. But for what it’s worth, I started watching it myself when I was 12, and I never found it that scary. I thought they were good at hiding all the really scary stuff in the shadows.

The Planetary Science Journal is looking for a new scientific editor! You would be working with my good friend Dr. Brian Jackson, the new editor-in-chief. aas.org/jobregister/...

‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive

An article from Science about the changes LPSC has made to its abstract submission process. As my colleague @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social states, "This is censorship". www.science.org/content/arti...

This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station in the harshness of space | CBC News Space is a harsh environment: it's a vacuum with freezing temperatures, super high ultraviolet radiation and, of course, almost no oxygen. But Japanese researchers have found a type of moss that doesn...

PLANTS! IN! SPACE! www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Nice episode! By the way, if you like the actor Robert Bailey Jr. (DHL Guy/Surgeon), he’s also fantastic in another Apple show, “For All Mankind”. Worth a watch.

That guy just really wanted Bush to watch The X-Files movie!

Just doubling down on their mistakes. Yikes. Glad I got a head start on boycotting LPSC two years ago.

It’s pretty good, I would give it a try if you haven’t already. But I’ve been enjoying Vince Gilligan’s shows for thirty years so I’m definitely the target audience!

Most famously, Grey’s Anatomy

Regarding the luggage in the front hall, I assumed that the pod people delivered it to their home when they realized Carol had abandoned it at the bar. They clearly knew where the key was, and seemed to anticipate her needs throughout the episode. That’s my best guess!

Anyway, I will continue listening now! I’m a huge fan of Contact, and loved the vibes at the beginning of the episode. It looks like they filmed it at the Very Large Array in New Mexico, as Contact did.

WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19 The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary experts, today published its report on the origins of SARS-CoV-...

A WHO advisory board concluded that “the weight of available evidence…suggests zoonotic spillover…either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.” www.who.int/news/item/27...

Happy to see this new pod posted so quickly! I’m only 15 minutes into the episode, but as a scientist, I felt compelled to correct something that Jenn said. The origin of COVID remains unclear, but it likely did not come from a lab.

It does in French! It’s pronounced “pen-a-lope”.

(I’m glad more people don’t know about this, because it is an awful situation to experience.)

To clarify further, there is specific maternity leave and parental leave. I believe it is 4 months of the former and 8 months of the latter. So, if you lose a child during birth, as I did, you can still take maternity leave to recover, but not parental leave.

I started a new job in Florida when my daughter was 2 months old. It nearly broke me. The year-long leave I had with my son six years later was one of the most joyous times of my life. The difference was stark.