A relaxed Friday evening with “Escape from New York”.

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Happy Friday everybody! youtu.be/gmOmAuhAQbE?...

🚨Attention prospective grad students🚨 Info for you is up on my website: karabrugman.com#students

Still getting the hang of Thursdays. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Bf...

"Imagine being a single father who supports a series of younger and younger ex-wives on just a CEO’s salary, and having to tell your semi-estranged children that the caviar on their plate tomorrow night might be Osetra instead of Beluga."

Come for the volcanoes, stay for the discourse into modern governance.

If you want something to say to people who badmouth socialism, try these: 1. It isn't communism. It works in a democracy. 2. It's the radical idea that individual wealth isn't the primary goal of society. 3. It doesn't take your money. It makes sure everyone has what they need as a baseline.

Have a lot of trouble taking anyone seriously who thinks socialism is a dirty word but fascism, authoritarianism, racism are all just fine.

I wasn't a PPFP postdoc, but I was a UC postdoc and it was an amazing experience. This is definitely a "shot-yourself-in-the-foot" move.

Yes! A bowed psaltery! We found the bow hiding in the case. It is super cool.

Hey musician instrument folks! My wife got this at an estate auction -- we thought it was a fancy zither but when we got it home, it had strings *on both sides*. The only "brand" is "Waynie". Any clue what instrument this might be?

I have to admit, when I saw the link title before the text, I assumed this was a new Stephin Merritt album.

I was that lone kid living in the woods of northern Worcester County Massachusetts who loved Adam Ant.

The most fascinating thing about candy corn is it is neither candy nor corn.

6 days until the November Basho in Fukuoka and 44 days until the men’s BBL starts.

I know it is a failing of mine, but I have trouble getting excited about teams like the Dodgers winning and winning repeatedly. I am hardwired for underdogs.

All I can picture as the kids argue about how one likes orange chicken and the other likes General Tso's chicken from the local Chinese place.

I guarantee this decision was made either someone who just cut anything they could without looking or someone who thought "monitoring earthquakes in Alaska? Nobody lives there" and then patted themselves on the back for finding "waste".

NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska

The latest Eruptions newsletter is let loose upon the world. Check out updates on Taal, Atka and Whakaari, a deep dive on cryptotephra and how we can ID the source of mysterious massive eruptions. Oh yeah, and no, there are no M33 earthquakes: eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

The latest Eruptions newsletter is let loose upon the world. Check out updates on Taal, Atka and Whakaari, a deep dive on cryptotephra and how we can ID the source of mysterious massive eruptions. Oh yeah, and no, there are no M33 earthquakes: eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

Do not, I repeat, do not, use AI "art" in your talks unless you'd be ok with someone stealing your work and giving you no credit for it.

I'd be the first to admit that getting me to like a power trio is like shooting fish in a barrel, but the Boojums new album slaps as hard if not harder than I ever imagined. theboojums.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...

Intense Halloween decorations here in Granville, right @thespaceshipper.com?

Matt Smith speeches during his run as the Doctor -- especially about hope -- were absolute perfection. The writing and acting meshed perfectly.

Fake Hurricane Videos of AI-Generated Sharks Are Flooding Social Media: How to Spot Them | Your default assumption should just be “any shark in a flooded city street is fake”

I see this as another symptom that almost all things in the US has become monetized and that is the really death of a country. Money can’t be the central core value of any nation.

All this "what did he learn as an [X] major at Bowdoin" really drives the point home that (a) so many people do not understand how small liberal arts colleges operate and (b) small liberal arts colleges are all about preparing you for the unexpected.

I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks. So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪

The eye of Hurricane Melissa. Image taken today by Sentinel-2.

Nobody wanted this kind of sky. At least no one who, you know, likes the world.

Ok, so, what's deal with the "Geologist" nickname? Related, the MC for the Blue Scholars goes my "Geologic".

#Melissa latest satellite view and rain radar. Winds 180 mph. Pressure 896 mb. 25 miles from landfall over Jamaica 🇯🇲🙏

4 days of seismic records from a seismic station in Jamaica shows Hurricane Melissa roaring towards the island. Hurricanes increase the amplitude of ocean waves which beat on the coast and sea floor. These produce Rayleigh waves that can be seen as increasingly thick “wiggles” in seismic records 🧪

Happy holy-crap-a-new-Aesop-Rock-album-and-its-free-to-download Day for all who celebrate. aesoprock.com/pages/i-hear...

Grokipedia basically copying Wikipedia articles, but with fewer sources and figures.

New case study on Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) in my (free, online) Historical Geology textbook: opengeology.org/historicalge... ⚒️

Caught Comet Lemmon with my Seestar S30 this evening just before it vanished behind some trees.

Imagine having an ego as fragile as our current president.

If you know in your heart of hearts you're going down in history as the worst of something, there is some insidious logic to going all in.

This will have major implications along the entire graduate school ecosystem, especially if many other universities will have limited funds as well. At that point, it hits undergraduate institutions because if students don't see further degrees as attainable, pressure for "job-ready" degrees grows.

Oh Mariners, you truly do fill that pre-2004 Red Sox niche in my life.

Cal ...

I know he isn't exclusively a sinker pitcher, but Kirby sometimes feels a lot like watching Derek Lowe. He's got a feel for it or he doesn't.

WHAT DID I SAY?

I mean, these are words in the English language, but ... do they really go together like this? "Jorge Polanco grounds into an unassisted double play, third baseman Ernie Clement. Josh Naylor out at 2nd. Jorge Polanco out at 1st."