Tim Varga

Mine’s the day after and I like to say the world got a little brighter the day I was born

Look at these door jambs! Can you believe the fingerprints!? This will not stand, sorry to my 65 students needing their submitted grades…it’ll have to wait!

Songs/lyrics process thru different brain channels than language, and maybe predated language learning in human (or before??) evolution? Had an aunt w devastating stroke lost ability to speak but could still sing-song responses; the brain is wild

I've wondered occasionally whether this view would make it possible to measure amount of shadows from potholes/roughness of roads to aid cities in determining high-needs repaving (am guessing the resolution is too low)... Oakland needs help identifying high needs areas (and paying for repaving)

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a crowd of people . Alt: An Arrested Development scene where Tobias shouts "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

Are you a science communicator in British Columbia who wants to connect with other scicommers?? Shoot me a message, we're trying to start a group. 🧪🇨🇦
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Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.

I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.

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EarthScope is hiring a Full-Stack Web Designer/Developer (remote, US) to lead the end-to-end design and development of a website for the NSF-funded National Geophysical Facility, as well as the evolution of EarthScope’s existing web stack.

Learn more & apply: https://earthscope.org/careers/

Card with the words, “Hiring: Visual Designer”

I’m hiring for a visual designer! Come work with me for a very cool org doing very cool work: grnh.se/943kjeba6us

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Many hearty congratulations, Josh!!

So sad this keeps getting shared with the attribution cropped out.

It finally happened!!

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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Rain's already passed, you'll be fine! Welcome back to the Bay.

Hoover?

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.

Remove him from office.

Following California condors tagged with GPS transmitters, researchers have tracked their expanison in 2025 from the Central Coast to the East Bay and near Santa Barbara. Condor GPS activity in 2025 Sources: Ventana Wildlife Society, heat map provided by Evan McWreath/VWS PAI/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

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Agree, and extend this to the WH press office… constant lies and for some reason the press continues to treat these people like they have legitimate news making

It got taken down!

East Bay earthquake? I'm in Palo Alto rn and did not feel anything

SPREAD THE WORD!
Nominations for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) award are due February 1! nagt.org/nagt/awards/...

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Mid-October or December? Good ❄️ morning from the @YoseConservancy High Sierra camera looking toward Half Dome #CAwx #Yosemite 10/15/2025

This is partially why I find AI use in schools to be problematic. Seems like we are signing students up to do even more mental labor to assess a claim

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

Not now, plate tectonics.

Can confirm; was full.

Opinion | Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

Another laser-sharp column by the great Michelle Goldberg: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...