my website is getting a lot of hits, maybe from angry men but in any case: if you’re there please skip the CV & read this piece I wrote, parts of which are published in @bostonglobe.com & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social : aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir

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If you don't know him, I will recommend the very beautiful, haunting poetry by Wilfred Owen on this Veteran's Day. Glad to see others have an interest in him as well!!

Oh look, it is possible to massive offshore deployments of seismometers after all! Would *never* know it from how the US has been (not) instrumenting Alaska and Cascadia. It's kind of like green energy: the US has behaved lackadaisically for 20+ years while other countries actually improve.

Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō. A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.

Regions where >36% of precip derives from local terrestrial sources (i.e. evap from soils and vegetation)—like Midwestern US—are more prone to episodic agricultural drought. >40% of global maize & 60% of winter wheat is grown in such regions. timesofsandiego.com/business/202...

Space Bluesky, I'm looking for a dark energy expert who is currently awake that could comment on an upcoming paper for me. If that's you, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Here’s a list of restaurants around the Tampa Bay Area providing free meals with the loss of SNAP benefits www.wfla.com/news/local-n...

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

Monsoon-like climate over Europe during the warm and CO2 high Eocene inferred from a bit of modeling and a few years recoded in a shell of a giant sea snail. 🧪⚒️

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

"It is most energy-efficient for a spacecraft engine to burn its fuel when its orbital velocity is greatest."

I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life.

When continents became a thing, they might have changed the ocean in a fundamental way. All those minerals being eroded and turning into dissolved ions, which found their way into the ocean, where alkalinity and pH subsequently increase. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"It's a way that we can touch our community in a way we really have never done before."

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

I don’t know why we don’t see this framed this way more often but ICE are the outsiders kidnapping community members and doing who knows what with them, why are we as a community tolerating this

I really hope folks make more STEM postbac opportunities like the one I had. But specifically focusing on funding/supporting people from an arts background who want to go into STEM. And extending it to be for people from any age/career background. Would be cool to see this in my lifetime.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

If the #EpsteinFiles can take down a child rapist Prince then they can certainly take down a child rapist President. #NoKings

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

If you're close to Santa Monica: Come by The Crow Friday night, Oct 17 to see the amazingly talented Orchid Cameron's standup. She's all that! www.facebook.com/reel/8151631...

A new analysis found major US news rarely links animal farming to emissions. 💨 #climatechange #climatecrisis #greenhousegases #pollution #environment

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

In the UK? Interested in climate change? Head over to the Met office's climate report launch on 20 October. www.rmets.org/event/state-...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Let's start with the base fact that Neutron Tomography is a really cool thing. Fossils are also very cool (even if they're corals). Combining the two gives a very interesting way to look at diagenesis (or screen for it, if you're boring). 🧪⚒️ Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

To: Lorne Michaels Re: #SNL Host Please have Jimmy Kimmel host the first episode of the 51st season.

Damn, you can represent the inverse of an nxn matrix really compactly and beautifully using the Levi civita symbol in the expression. I’ve never thought about linear algebra operations the way I’m doing/representing them in this math physics class. It’s really, really cool.

I can’t help but think about the international incident we had w Koreans who all had visas to help set up a brand new car plant & how immigration man handled & deported them. Now President Business is charging 100k for a visa, how many hundreds of billions is he going to cost American car makers

I taught myself einstein notation and tensor calculus and solved the first problem set for my math physics class (which assumed the class knows Einstein notation and tensor calculus) This is one of the wildest feats I’ve ever accomplished.

Interesting arXiv paper on dislocations in quasicrystals. Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2504.11039

Counterpoint: The proposals are so preposterous and impossible that they show we must stop burning fossil fuels or everything's going to be terrible. There's no other way.

China is going to eclipse the US based off electricity alone. They have a modern grid and have been increasingly electrifying their economy. They have massive surpluses of electricity and a lot based in renewables. The US has an aging grid and is tied to a future of burning fossil fuel for energy.

Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

Monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A malnourished Gazan woman evacuated to Italy has died in hospital — starved by Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Relaxing rules of engagement Targeting children Killing reporters A hundred thousand dead Collective punishment of Palestinians Does not make Jews safer worldwide. Israel is no longer living up to Any foundational aim.

WTAF 🧪⚒️🛰️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

The attorney form only has US states listed, but it accepted my form without a state being selected. (My works published in both the US and Australia appeared in the LibDem database)