I love my children dearly, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for them, but if all I did with my entire life was care for them I would lose my goddamn mind.

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

yea ICE is very transparently the praetorian guard of MAGA and if the republic is to survive it must be smashed to a million pieces

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

It's canon

The kids are finally in bed and my Christmas present to myself is a hot bubble bath, a glass of coquito, and a folk horror audiobook

Ian Fleming was a great writer because he wrote two riveting chapters on a game of golf. J. R. R. Tolkien was the greater writer because wrote a riveting chapter on a committee meeting.

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

If you’re watching A Christmas Story today I just want to let you know that director Bob Clark’s first film ever was my favorite zombie movie, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things. You know in case you felt like mixing things up a little this holiday.

In the Dark Arctic Deep, Scientists Find a Hidden Oasis of Strange Life

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Merry Christmas to all! youtu.be/2ZyJCV_dyug?...

It’s shaping up to be a very “no cheeses for us meeses” Christmas

who up forging they chains

A mfer gone need me before I need you

Courtney Love is a lot of things but Live Through This is a perfect album

My new nephew is trying to convince me to have another baby, how R U D E

I need this to exist

Ellie (6) got a microscope for Christmas and Jo (2) immediately started trying to figure out how to use it. My brother’s daughter June (12) just showed me the chain mail she’s making from soda can tabs. The apples don’t fall far from the tree in the Seyler clan.

“It is less ordinary to see, with Mary’s perfect clarity and uncanny certainty, the life and man you want, and to choose it in the teeth of discouragement with all its disadvantages apparent, to persist single-mindedly in the face of hardship.”

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

"It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both." -Thomas Paine, Dec 23, 1776

“I made you this” is my love language

Gods rest ye merry pagan folk Let none of you dismay. Remember that the Sun returns Upon this Solstice Day The growing dark is ended now And spring is on its way Oh tidings of comfort and Joy Comfort and Joy Oh tidings of comfort and Joy

Just out here serving in Jackson Square

I do have a litmus test for my candidates now and it's that I want them to be genuinely pissed off, not pretend pissed off

Friendly shop cat appreciation post

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

lol

It’s been a blast #AGU2025

Last day of the conference means last conference #ootd, so let’s go out with a bang #AGU2025

My advice is to say yes to new experiences, to go for the things you want, and to fall in love whenever possible

This seems concerning at best. Thanks @surtlab.bsky.social for attending and summarizing.

Now attending session OS42B: Methane cold seep processes, dynamics, and impacts #AGU2025

I have become addicted to “the twirl” as a method for showing off my conference #ootd #AGU2025

Currently in session P41B: Io, Europa, and Ganymede in the Eyes of Juno #AGU2025

my GF is at least two of these

Tonight’s dress for dinner and drinks with the gang from @bluemarblespace.bsky.social deserves a little twirl to show it off. When I entered the restaurant, the host said I “walked in like a mermaid” and what better compliment could there be than that? #AGU2025

It’s well-known that I’m a brilliant researcher but did you also know I am very cute and stylish? It’s a rock fact! #AGU2025

Just when you thought you had heard the worst of Fukuyama’s bad takes

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Are you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious? Either way, we have good news. We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July. Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK. Please repost!

Attention introverts: If you really want to be left alone, maybe try living 2.5 miles deep in the ocean and posing as a sea sponge? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s... 🧪

Now attending Rachel Carson talk given by @julesdeep.bsky.social So proud to be able to say she was my postdoctoral advisor. #AGU2025