Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️

Yep. Insert the "I'm tired, grandpa" meme here. 💀

Hydrothermal vents were first observed in 1977 and almost 50 years later we understand very little about them.

When you *maybe* get a few dives per year (generally less) it's really fuckin difficult to get a handle on an entire system.

Oceanography is slow as hell most of the time simply bc of access. The lack of a general understanding of JUST how long any individual study takes means that 'discoveries' seem instantaneous to most ppl.

I'd argue "the sciences" also are much, much slower than most people think.

Advancement is kind of related to news and SciComm taking incemental, often mutually exclusive studies as definitive answers instead of particular moments in an argument.

Who the hell put on the overly loud "AMURRICA" playlist in my primarily farmworker town this morning?? 😬

Only a couple more months for humans to invent the massive kaiju-fighting robots of Pacific Rim, which takes place in 2025. My optimism is waning.

Oh snap I need one

You can't. My UG dept tried it the year before I started college, realized it was a terrible idea, and immediately went back to separate mineralogy, ig/met pet, and geochem courses.

The SJ Sharks' new goal song was apparently generated by AI... :/

It was terrible and inane. I liked the old song much better.

I think my actual brand was being pleasant to do fieldwork with. When I'd been out of work for a bit, ppl kept asking when I'd be back out at sea again bc they missed working with me. 😭

Couple that with infrastructure loss and YUUUUP

What was weird about the whole thing was that I technically *had* one already I guess? I was working with multiple groups that were ancillarily involved with different components of my expertise. I wasn't just a geophysicist or geochemist...I was trying to understand the whole system.

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this: SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

Exactly.

The "greying" of marine geology occasionally comes up at some meetings, but usually then gets brushed aside bc there's like 1 youngish person there so obv everything's fine. 💀💀

Some schools really do seem to believe you can replace all of geoscience, geography, and meteorology with a GIS master's program.

The number of ppl who told me I needed a "brand" when I was finishing up my PhD and during my postdoc... 💀

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

WE GOT TACOS!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Bunting is one of the many reasons why college baseball is way more fun than MLB games 😅

Omg that FACE 😍 He looks sassy!

Or the brick of cream cheese

Hashtag every Crock-Pot recipe ever 💀💀💀💀

I did recently acquire "Umi ni Furu" about a woman training to be a Shinkai submersible pilot... hopefully this will contain some relevant words I can learn, lol.

Gonna watch w/ my partner, who's dived in Shinkai but knows 0 Nihongo, so that'll be fun too (I have subtitles) 😅

When I was at my best Japanese ability (partly thx to watching J-dramas while taking classes), I could understand so much slang and school/business scenarios....but didn't learn any of the science words I'd actually need once on a research vessel 😭😭😭

The #1 threat to the sciences right now is a bunch of rich idiots who think that synthetic data can replace actual experimentally derived data, and further that that synthetic data can come from word machines.

Articles like this are a tool to make the public think these rich idiots are correct.

*someone else

Like, you're eventually not gonna be able to science anymore.... someone actually needs to know -how- to do stuff. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I read the original tweet and was like... that's knowledge transfer a postdoc could have benefited from, OP. 😬💀

As someone who got very little knowledge transfer during my postdoc, I was extra furious.