While I personally feel like I'm working more hours (and I may very well be), as a society, we are working fewer hours (and more of us work part-time), both relative to a century ago but in many countries also to a decade ago (although that change is smaller). 🧪 Link: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League by @nicolascottart.bsky.social and @gregrucka.com is a book that caught me by surprise. Great cherechter work, showing everyone as competent, and made me want to spend time with these cherechteres, deep (but not obstrating) continuity, and a fun time. 💙📚

When we think of emission risks from glacier melting, we think methane emissions and such... not so much of all the athmospheric they've accumulated. But athmospheric deposition got a good amount of heavy metals there - and now they are coming out. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To follow up on that, was happy to be interviewed by @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social for his piece on this study. www.science.org/content/arti...

Was looking into energy consumption of buildings and ran into a study about optimizing energy use. The building they chose to model - a ground-attached, detached, single-family unit. It might be the urbanist in me, but I feel like these sorts of buildings won't optimize for resource efficiency.

Finally got around to reading the original Alcubierre paper on warp drive. It is surprisingly short, given it's pop-colture statues. There are some really cool things about it that people gloss over, such as no time dilation as the ship moves. 🧪 #SciFiScience iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Having to state my delight in finding out that this book exists. (and yes, this is hardcore theoretical physics, but with really cool concepts a Sci Fi #writer might want to make use of. First time I've learned of the Krasnikov Tube, for example) #SciFiScience link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#WeekendReading: Mitchell et al. on microbial synthesis and stability of CaCO3 at high pressure and the role of urea. These are very complicated experiments to pull off, and I often find their results a bit underwealming consider the effort involved. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking into the topic for character names, I found out that the Hebrew name of Thymelicus hyrax (Levantine Skipper) is נְחוּשָׁה נָאָה (nechusha na'a), which Google translates to "nice and determined" but would more accurately translate to "pretty determined" or, probably as intended, "pretty coppery".

🚨 New paper! The waves we see at the beach only go so deep, so what shapes reefs in deeper waters? Using the cutting-edge in seafloor imaging, trying to answer that, we found a complex suite of interactions between bottom currents and internal waves. 🧪⚒️🌊 Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A reminder of an upcoming deadline. Come join us in Vienna to talk about carbonate diagenesis. ⚒️

Jellyfish sleep, which is already bizarre given they have no brains. DNA damage accumulates in their neurons when jellyfish are awake, and it gets repaired when they sleep. This might be something fundamental, evolutionarily, to the role of sleep. 🧪🌊 Link: nature.com/articles/s41...

There are scientists out there, of whom I'm rather envious, who get to play around all day with ice cream and try to figure out how to make it melt more slowly. 🧪 And yes, if I'm reading this correctly, flavor is a factor) Link: ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Oh... oh... Google Translate... (The term זינוק בעליה is a driving maneuver for a up hill accelaration when beginning from a standstill. Suposedly it's only relevant if you're driving a stick, but the slopes in Haifa have other ideas)

I'm giving a talk next week as part of the @sedsonline.bsky.social Webinar series, going into the heart of carbonate sedimentology and core challenges of the field - it's as done and complete as you might think. 🧪⚒️

Climate change isn't just a story of the carbon cycle, other elemental budgets are also affected and interact. The nitrogen cycle is also affected by elevated CO2 concentrations, warming, and altered precipitation regimes. 🧪 Link: www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...

Retrograde amnesia is one of those things that is constantly misrepresented in media. One interesting bit of it is how the process of long-term memory storage (memory consolidation) ties into it and somewhat protects older memories. 🧪 Link: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Anyone who says scientists aren't creatives either has a very poor and archaic opinion of people in creative fields or has no sense of what a scientist's work actually entails.

Reefs change their environment in a multitude of ways, even the microbes around them. Microbial life responds to the benthic structure, forming daily patterns that repeat and influence how energy and nutrients move through the reefal ecosystem. 🧪🌊 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wishing you all a happy new year!! Reminder: There are just 10 more days to submit an abstract to #EGU26! If you work on #carbonates, both #modern / #ancient, consider submitting an abstract in SSP3.7, convened by @lokier.bsky.social, @arnaudgallois.bsky.social & Karolina Bienko #sedimentology

The Octopuses and the Diver (1814) is best known as the earliest example of the genre known as tentacle hentai. But there is context to it, like the contemporary sexualized depiction of female divers, or it's relatio to the story of Princess Tamatori. 🧪 Link: www.jstor.org/stable/42597...

Was trying to find an old figure I made (for my @sedsonline.bsky.social talk next week, more details soon) and ended up going through a bunch of analysis I did a long time ago. Some I need to revisit eventually, but some... I have no idea what I was trying to do.

Major heat wave in the North Atlantic had widespread and lasting impacts on marine life | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Catching up on the #SciFiScience behind the British Navy's quantum inertial navigation experiment (which is really crazy to say). It would be hard to do it on anything small, but it'll be a powerful upgrade for inertial positioning on ships. 🧪 Link: www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...

Are boredom and curiosity opposite poles of the same cognitive mechanism? This somewhat makes sense; both can push one to information-seeking. I never thought about that, but it does highlight the importance of downtime and being a bit bored sometimes. 🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Me (trying to write a short story): going to keep it simple and focused. Also me: Yes, I definitely need to have detailed notes on all of these twenty-seven characters. #WritingCommunity

This video by Economics Explained is worth a watch. It nicely breaks down the case on why there is an argument that reducing emissions could slow economic activity (in some sectors), and how the net economy might not actually need to shrink, with real-world examples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSo_...

Dear astro #scicomm folks, A good boss is hiring someone to help expand public engagement at Whipple Observatory’s Science Centre. On-site (no remote work) in Amado, Arizona. $50-66k/year, Smithsonian Trust-funded. Tues-Sat workweek #jobs trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

Graphics or 3D modeling, I can do with music in the background or even people talking around me. Writing - that requires everything and everyone to just shut up.

We know nautiloids survived the K-Pg extinction (they are still around), but until now, we were sure ammonites didn't make it. New findings from Denmark show they did, only to die out later for unknown reason. This finding really should be a bigger deal. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To follow up on my complaint about #writers going for loss of consciousness with every head trauma, I sought data. This study reports transient loss of consciousness for 14% and 39% of low-energy and high-energy head trauma cases, respectively. 🧪 Link: journals.viamedica.pl/cardiology_j...

Why do some people elect to be trolls? Part of it is attention seeking, but there is a dark undercurrent of traits sending them down that path, including narcissism, trait sadism, and even straight-up psychopathy, all found to be strong predictors for such behavior. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm writing an outline for a course I'm thinking of pitching to one of the schools here. I wanted to offer something about foundation of ocean chemistry for carbon management; they want something more BlueTech. The outline now goes from hardcore proper science and progresses into science fiction.

#WeekendReading: Liu et al., on why changing ocean temperature gradients (and high latitude cooling) are key to south Asian monsoon evolution through the Miocene. 🧪⚒️ Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I mean, loss of consciousness does happen with head trauma, but I do feel #writers lean on that a bit too much sometimes... esp. when you do have concussions, which offer confusion, difficulty thinking, dizziness, and memory issues — lots of story options other than an excuse for a cut.

Ammonium nitrate is a very common solid propellant in rockets 🚀... but what if we can make it burn faster? This is where catalysts come in. There are some nice results from recent experiments with iron-based catalysts. 🧪 Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So... about those three seashells...

My decision to try and write again in Hebrew (which is also practice I need to work) has been proving... challenging. I'm definitely rusty; the language comes out a bit stiff, the mix of tongues in my head makes the flow a bit stuttered, and I just don't have some terms. #WriterCommunity

I was wondering about my January painting project, then Heroes Infinite released their range for the month and... well... Thrylaxia, Weaver of Ecstasia, called to me. www.heroesinfinite.com/this-month-s...

For those of you marking the new year today, I wanted something about annual cycles. Specifically, that we're messing one up. Climate change is now increasingly altering the seasonal cycle amplitude of sea surface tempraute. 🧪🌊 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The walls of my anchamber, which isn't exactly a lab but sort of is, are bare. So, for now, I decided to bedeck them with something between an inspirational message and a mission statement.

And again, a massive "F@# You!" to everyone who has their data tables as figures in a paper and don't include the raw data in the supplements (esp. when arguing it's there in the data availability statement). #AcademicSky

In periods of collective anxiety, such as a war going on around, people are going to be seeking solitary solace. That is going to include pornography consumption as a coping or self-regulation strategy. The correlations are as grim as it gets. 🧪 Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I admit, one of the reasons I like living in a warm country is so I don't have to deal (as much) with finding shirts with long enough sleeves.

We call the very upper-atmospheric lightnings elves and sprites (which is itself great), and these events don't appear everywhere. The analysis in this study argues that elves are mostly occur along the tectonic plates' boundaries, which is slightly crazy. 🧪⚒️ Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Test print mostly successful (remember to clean the resin tray if you haven't used the printer in a while)... and adjustments are needed. Gave it a quick layer of paint, and it has already found a new home after a friend saw it. #Miniatures

Kink bands sound like something you shouldn't search from a work computer, but it's actually a structural feature forming at layer discontinuities. Been in a lot of studies recently, since it can increase the strength of alloys by keeping layers in place. 🧪 e.g. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I really hate websites that don't scale and adjust when you increase the font.

To have the most novel research, one needs a team that is not only diverse, those other voices must be heard. You need inclusion. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From time to time, I see someone in the military websphere talks about moving to missile battle tanks with the implication that this would be like with warships that went from guns to missiles and engage at range. I just feel like people sometimes forget that tanks are a close-in weapon. 1/3 🧵