Congrats to @nicolegasparini.bsky.social 🎉

Work with DTS, DAS, or DSS? The abstracts deadline for the 2026 SEG Workshop on Fiber Optics Sensing is fast approaching: 🗓️ April 15, 2026 Get more details about the September workshop at seg.org/calendar_eve... #geophysics ⚒️🧪

The Sisters do amazing community fundraising. However, the rabbit in that photo is donnie darko level of creepy bunny. 🐰😆

Shocking finding, says no one even vaguely familiar with sexism, misogyny, and biological essentialism. "... hostile sexism emerged as the strongest predictor of whether a man liked the tradwife movement. "

Like so many wildlife "discoveries", if *you* haven't seen it, maybe you're just not looking in the right places. 🦄😄

Hollyfeld Gambit for science research funding 😆🤣

ask the BLM how that went in 2020 when Trump 1.0 moved HQ to Grand Junction, CO spoiler: 87% of HQ staff chose to leave the agency rather than move

Welp, guess I'm going to have to cancel my plans for that local, artisanal vertical insect farm.

really trying to make every day of my life Trans Day of Having a Snack

Conversion therapy is abuse that often causes long-term harm. The data have long proven it doesn't work, it's just quackery and snake oil. Conversion therapy for minors is child abuse.

This is so exciting! We're going to get another park in the neighborhood! I'll be curious what restoration they do, there are at least a few wetlands on the property. And some great outcrops. A lot of sunset photos I post from Berkeley are from the SF Bay Trail segment alongside this lot.

Timeline cleanse.

Too hot. Still too hot. ... No, too cold!

Happy Monday, everyone!

This story was much worse than I expected. If these things can't be trained to stop and wait for school buses, they shouldn't be in operation in places school buses are used.

Spent today enjoying the sights of Point Reyes.

Some more from Donner Pass today:

Still setting some local high temp records 😕

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I was just blessed by the queer captcha. Pass this on to 10 friends for good luck.

I like the idea of Farmworkers Day, recognizing a community. But, honestly, I had no idea the state legislature was capable of getting something done that quickly. It just feels like so many levels of California governments have been able to move unusually fast on this.

I am really bad at keeping plants alive, but right now I am trying to grow a few small potted herbs indoors. They are next to a window, and I keep rotating them each morning so I can see how the stems re-orient toward the brightest light 😆 Is this plant abuse? 😂 🌱

🌊 #Tsunami are a series of powerful waves often caused by underwater earthquakes or landslides. As tsunami waves approach the shore, they build in size, their currents intensify, and they become a threat to life & property. Go to tsunami.ca.gov for more information.

wait am i the ceo of bluesky?

West Berkeley air quality report: extremely hoppy 🍻

can i report misusing powerpoint as a safety hazard @cpsc.gov i want to be sure i’m filling out this form correctly. www.saferproducts.gov

Military targets, like a girls school? Although I guess this admin does view educated women as a threat, so ...

I really don't understand the attraction of lousy genAI images, when lack of photoshop skills is the gift that just keeps giving. I mean, look at this masterpiece.

154 years ago the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake struck eastern California devastating the small community of Lone Pine, CA. The cemetery with the earthquake victims is within sight of the scarp formed by this earthquake.

I'm guessing someone was pretty pleased with themself for coming up with with this name. It's funny & I appreciate humor, but I also think it's an inappropriate* joke for a federal government website. *Don't bother clicking, there's nothing there yet

"Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on women’s sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games."

This project would open up most of Berkeley and Oakland to a less than 60 min ebike ride to downtown SF. I cant imagine how many folks would do this commute via ebike.

The typos, including in the phrase "spell check", are just the chef's kiss 🤌

This feels written like a children's picture book ... but I read the whole thing 😆 I do think the PJ the dog story arc didn't quite get resolved. Hopefully we'll find out in the sequel 🐶

How is this still a question in 2026? People act like it's a mystery, but it's always structural & systemic biases. The fact that people keep acting like it's some kind of inherent "women's issue" is just part of that bias. Orgs are happy to just collect data; they don't want to make real change.

After a break in the record-setting heat, it's now just warm. Which made for a lovely sunset walk along the SF Bay shoreline.

It's a little-known fact to non-geologists that the correct pronunciation of "tafoni" is to sing it to the tune of the main chorus line of Jam On It 🎶🎵

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How can @kqednews.kqed.org seriously when they publish this whole article without a single mention of "climate change"?! Censorship (self, or otherwise) does not help anyone, especially not the businesses and communities impacted in Tahoe who need to plan how to move forward.

Just call it the Berkeley Kite Park. That's how most locals know it anyway, as the kite park.

Stanford offers tips to try to prevent this, most of which can be used by any meeting organizer: uit.stanford.edu/news/protect...

Cleaning up my saved posts & suddenly realizing, in horror, that in the last month they've gotten almost as bad as my old browser tab hoarding. Making them practically useless.

Two short neutral refs: DOI Foundation’s “What is a DOI?” (doi.org/the-identifier/what-is-a-doi/) and DPC’s persistent identifiers page. Both make clear DOIs are PIDs for digital, physical, or abstract objects — not just journal articles.

Yeah, I'm sure the international community immediately looks to FLOTUS and this whitehouse for expertise when thinking about keeping kids safe. Totally.

Me, when I've been woken up too early by neighbors 😒

Wow, impressive. Yosemite is quite a long cycling route if you're starting from the UK!

This photo reminded me of the time when I was woken up ~3AM by an awful, ear-splitting noise. I went outside, straight into a cascade of sparks from the floor above, where some guy was using an angle grinder on the wrought iron railing, trying to steal my neighbor's bike. Not too bright 🤦‍♂️

🧪⚒️ Can anyone recommend a good short explainer on PIDs, especially DOIs? Some folks I am talking with have significant misunderstandings, e.g., that DOIs can only be used for peer-reviewed journal articles. I can explain, but it would be helpful to also point them to a 3rd-party reference.

Nothing like giving up our reliance on oil by quitting on wind and relying on oil

wtf just flew over #berkeley? The entire building was vibrating.