Dr. Katie I.
Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.
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- Too much AI in your software? My guys, it's time to join us in using *slightly* older software. Stop updating if the new stuff is shit. 🙃
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.Every time you hear that such and such major is being eliminated because it isn't popular or it doesn't make money or it doesn't serve the streamlined mission of the institution, you should think about the WaPo cuts. What is a paper without books and sports? A college without history and languages.
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.The correct response to finding out that your grocery store coworker is an underemployed astrobiologist is not "Rock on! Do what ya gotta do", it's "Wow, that's terrible, we should run Russ Vought out of DC on a literal rail." Just fyi.
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.It’s not sustainable, and it’s actively degraded the quality of media over the past five years. “An editor” doesn’t mean a spellchecker. We are awash in first drafts, myopic takes, and people writing purely to drive engagement (the only thing that matters trying to make money as a one-man shop).
- The Great Dying. (end-Permian extinction)
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.I am genuinely struggling with the amount of fucking evil everywhere
- Once again hiring for EVERY flavor of contractor EXCEPT scientists. IDK man, but this tells me what the focus is/isn't on. 😬 I think the last science contractor hire was pre-pandemic. :/
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.This is another one of the reasons I’m so deeply troubled by the fabulous new plan to just pivot to private philanthropy. Billionaires will not save science
- From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money. As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
- I didn't know who like 40% of the artists were at the Grammys. I think that makes me officially old.
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.I don't want to change what I study, what I do for a living, because there's no funding to do what I do
- WTF NH. *screams into the void*
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- Extremely pleased with this HR base jacket!! And under $20 shipped! Cream sherpa ✅ Raglan sleeves ✅ Bound hems ✅ Pockets ✅ No weird seams/yoke ✅ (zipper on the chest pocket is horizontal instead of vertical, but that can be fixed if I decide I want to)
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- Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology Vocal Performance Reef Systems through Time Archaeology Field Methods
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.I need you to know that you can buy individual crabs from LEGO and they are 21¢ each www.lego.com/en-us/pick-a...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
- Oscillating between I AM ON FIRE KEEP CLEAR OF ME and MY ENGINES ARE GOING FULL SPEED ASTERN
- Jesus fucking christ 🤦♀️💀
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.When you're bargaining with them to follow the constitution you've already lost
- OMGGGGGGGG 🥰🥰🥰🥰
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
- It's security theatre anyways.
- Reposted by Dr. Katie I.Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
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- Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" on the radio and I'm reminded of my mineralogy student from 15 yrs ago who rewrote the song as "Silicate Sabotage" and played it on his guitar in class (optional extra credit project).
