. . . So has my grandmother. Wow.

The only America 250 thing I will accept is my local ice creamery making a red, white, and blue swirl ice cream with only natural dyes and it turning out like this

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Sharing some JR updates from the other site: x.com/i/status/206...

$14 million is anywhere from 7 to ~100 National Science Foundation grants in geosciences. At $2 million, a grant would support deployment of geophysical instruments + ~2 grad students + postdoc to work on it for 2-3 years. At $250,000 a grant would support a grad student or postdoc for 2-3 years.

This is the whole thing. Basic, wonky, weird, non-applied, whatever you want to call it, science is usually the eventual foundation of everything you know as "technology" or "medicine". It's not even a case of "if they succeed" - the investment is in the voluminous incremental advancements

“A single Tomahawk cruise missile runs about $3.6 million, roughly what it takes to fund one scientist’s multiyear grant. The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Hydrogen peroxide bubbles when reacting with organics. I spent all afternoon doing exactly this to a set of geochem samples today, so I can speak on this with some authority. . . . nanobubbler technology. My brain hurts. I can't stop laughing either. These people are destroying my livelihood.

New one today: Some ass tried to mansplain bike lanes to me while he was driving past me. I don't like to ride in that particular bike lane because drivers routinely fail to check whether the lane is occupied before crossing it to turn into parking lots. Too many near misses.

Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/

Kilauea is fountaining again, and if you scrub back on V3 cam around 10-15 minutes from the timestamp on this post, you can watch her form a volcanic dust devil. Extremely cool. www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

I need this as a wholeass concept album. Inject it directly into my veins.

Noticeable departure from the current message being delivered by NASEM leadership.

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

I really don't even know what to say at this point

A bit late to the party today but for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #LivingLandscapes , here's a lone mynah staring into a magnificent sky... #birds 📷🌿🦉

I've worked on a lot of metal isotope systems, and tungsten is by far the most difficult I've worked with for all of the reasons. (There are others that are at least as difficult in their own ways that I haven't personally worked on.) It's been SUCH a relief to get the processing working reliably.

the only character creation sliders that matter #InvertebrateShitposting

Earlier this year, The Metals Company suggested that they had a deal with Japan's PAMCO for commercial nodule processing from deep sea mining. This week, PAMCO clarified that no such contract exists and their only agreement was an MOU for a feasibility study. parc-jp.org/en/news-reso...

“Frog,” said Toad, “if I dust my chairs and scrub my windows and water my plants right now, then I will not have to do it tomorrow, will I?” “No,” said Frog. “You will not have to do any of it.”

reattach saucer section youtube

Fearless French volcanologist Katia Krafft chased active volcanic eruptions for >20 yrs & pioneered close-range volcano cinematography. Her work (w/her husband) laid the foundation for modern volcanic risk communication & evacuation protocols. They died #OTD in 1991 on Mt. Unzen. #WomenInSTEM

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

Score one for NCAR/UCAR.

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

Happy Pride Month!

Well, that's a deep fear confirmed about the state of rot in this country, and why we've let it get to such an advanced stage.

FUND NASA AND LET IT DO WHAT IT DO

Hafnium hafnium hafnium hafnium Is my life now

Dye experiment to show how sponges work. They're the filters of the sea; crucial to ocean health. Fantastic animals! @greenpeace.org dive 10 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Can't find a good igneous intrusion to map? Sill issue.

A world that doesn't suck is possible

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake 13 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

"While this hippo-centric challenge is unique to our university, we have long prided ourselves on being trailblazers in academia, and I hope you will join me in applauding our incredible institution and its recent stewardship of the world’s third-largest land mammal."

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

if I am sent to hell to be tortured in a like of fire for all eternity, but I get a clear view of the Gipper getting roasted, it won't be hell for me

A little "magic" trick I can do with the leftovers from some geochemical processing I was doing today:

This is so cool! I wish I could @swilua.bsky.social's class.

This is bad. Earth Sciences invoice basic research on the only known planet capable of supporting life. And understanding where to find new stores of the resources that help that life thrive and build.

Last year, I posted about an incredible event in 2023: a megatsunami in Greenland triggering an initially baffling 9-day seismic pulse across the whole planet & a terrific piece of collaborative international scientific detective-work. Now there's a sequel. And holy hell, it's even BIGGER. 1/

canvas: the everything app

wait

13 former NSF directors on the recent ouster of the entire National Science Board: "We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce? For 75 years winning that race has been the foundation of American prosperity"

rescuing a moose then wrapping him up in blankets in your front yard so he can recover must be one of the most canadian things possible www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...