Andrew D Thaler

The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest Welcome to the Warren. Within this tiny Domain of Delight, Rabb

For teachers, environmental educators, and D&D dorks!

In December, I published The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e adventure in environmental science and ecologic succession.

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Small drops make mighty oceans: 10 years as a scientist on Patreon Ten years ago, freshly married and freshly relocated to Vallejo, California, I found myself in the midst of reinvention. The cycle of post-doctoral fellowships and short-term contracts necessary fo…

if you're wondering what kinds of work we fund through Patreon, check out the retrospective I wrote on 10 years of funding science through small donor subscriptions: www.southernfriedscience.com/small-drops-...

Three stickers featuring a Humboldt Squid with an orange hat.

The Halloween Humboldt Squid has arrived! The only way to get these stickers is to join my Patreon. Help support open science and get some jaunty ocean stickers.

These stickers will go out Monday, October 20th, so sign up before then!

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Ok, this looks like fun.

casper octopus sighting from @nautiluslive.org this morning

for those unfamiliar, casper is an undescribed species of deep sea octopus threatened by deep sea mining:

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Octopus @ 3982m. Casper lives this far down I think? Idk if that's what this one is. @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

ESRI just sent out a critical security update announcement that affects ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3, 11.4, and 11.5 deployments and needs to be patched now.

Seems like it's not great that the government is shut down. Some poor exempt at NOAA is about to have a long weekend.

I really want someone to dig into where these numbers come from. I mean, we know the answer, but surely someone can grill them on how they arrived specifically at 650%?

There are many reasons that I will not become mayor of NCY, and my bagel order is not the most pressing.

Maryland Never Doesn't Maryland.

Everything bagel, toasted, plain cream cheese, lox, capers, light dusting of Old Bay.

[New Paper] names Chaetoderma naga, a gigantic (>13 cm) new worm-mollusc from a cold seep! Like its sister-species C. shenloong, it probably relies on endosymbiotic bacteria for energy. We named it after Nāga, a snake-god from Asian mythologies!

Out now in Moll. Res., LINK: doi.org/10.1080/1323...

Sourcing out boards for the next run of OpenCTD kits. USA board makers are still 10x more expensive than my Chinese supplier, so all the tariffs mean is that my boards cost more and nothing is onshored. Literally no benefit to American consumers or manufacturers.

Is this antifa?

I know it's the most minor of minor points, but reclaiming the iconography of Frog from Pepe Edgelords warms my heart.

A well loved smart buoy with its sensor package exposed.

Spent most of the day working on getting my buoy back in action.

Hopefully it'll be back out in the gut this weekend.

We can no longer rule out the possibility that Congresswoman Greene and Senator Fetterman are currently experiencing a Freaky Friday.

Ocean: From the Shore to the Abyss I am extremely pleased to announce that a book I contributed to is just about to come out. Ocean: From Shore to Abyss, led by the legendary Dr. Asha de Vos, is a visual journey through the oceans, …

Our book is out (in the UK)!

Ocean: From Shore to Abyss.

Available for pre-order in the US, too.

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I am your audience and I surely would hate this.

Strategic Minerals and the False Promise of Seabed Mining

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Currently available for only $4.99!

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Are you a Civil Servant staring down a furlough with no end in sight? Why not spin up a new environmental-themed D&D campaign?

Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, now only $2.99 for government workers dealing with a shutdown (and anyone else):

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I hear he also refused to rise and pay proper respect to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.

Small drops make mighty oceans: 10 years as a scientist on Patreon Ten years ago, freshly married and freshly relocated to Vallejo, California, I found myself in the midst of reinvention. The cycle of post-doctoral fellowships and short-term contracts necessary fo…

if you're wondering what kinds of work we fund through Patreon, check out the retrospective I wrote on 10 years of funding science through small donor subscriptions: www.southernfriedscience.com/small-drops-...

Three stickers featuring a Humboldt Squid with an orange hat.

The Halloween Humboldt Squid has arrived! The only way to get these stickers is to join my Patreon. Help support open science and get some jaunty ocean stickers.

These stickers will go out Monday, October 20th, so sign up before then!

patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler

This op Ed was held up for two months in editing. But better late than never!!! In short - seabed mining is snake oil, more drawbacks than benefits, any US firm trying to say they’ll pull it off is a grift, etcetera，etcetera.

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The Missing Piece: Minerals Processing and Deep Sea Mining The world's oceans have long been a source of riches that help sustain human civilization. In the future, the oceans may again play a role in supporting resource security by providing a potential alte...

"There is little indication that seabed mining will solve the primary chokepoint in the mineral value chain: China's dominance in midstream processing." https://bit.ly/3IRP9Yu

That is a wild example that is also really specific in a way that raises questions to which no one wants answers.

I have started teaching my mentees logic rather than coding. You can be programming language agnostic, but you have to understand the fundamental concepts.

I also make them mess with transitors. A little analog coding is good for the soul.

It's not a metaphor if you caught a Secret Service file from leaving bags of dogshit in Donald Rumsfeld's mailbox.