Alisa

Me: Having a technical issue with an account that has to be escalated to support. Them: "Have you tried using Microsoft Edge?"

Timeline cleanse: a wide-eyed owl.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

residents are likely to see green dye in a creek during a stormwater inspection. you do not need to call us if you do. residents are unlikely to see Green Day in a creek during a stormwater inspection. you are strongly encouraged to call us if you do.

I tweeted about this guy last night and got all these replies from random people who said he'd saved their baby's life. Fuck being rich I would love to have been this guy, imagine how cool it would be to know you'd helped so many people. We need to name an airport after him or something

This whole thread is perfect.

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

Helpful tool for tracking what happens to IRA funding

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time. WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

"The smoke is a toxic soup. It’s not just the brush that’s burning, but homes are burning and homes contain plastics that are built from petrochemical compounds." - California Professional Firefighters president on CNN today.

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Seems like most intern and research opportunities for undergrads are for juniors/seniors. Does anyone have tips for a rising sophomore (class of 2028) to find summer 2025 opportunities in physics or math?

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I will never, ever get over this.

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Not going to lie, one of my favorite features of Bluesky is opening up and learning random science facts. It makes my nerd brain happy.

Things that have happened at least once that I know of: Someone getting a science job they saw advertised on Bluesky ✅ Someone getting a grad student position they saw advertised on Bluesky ✅ Someone citing a paper they learned about on Bluesky ✅

Bold of them to think that I can tell any influencers apart.

I thought I'd lost my ability to be shocked by a terrible press release. I was wrong.

Reuniting with old Twitter friends when they join Bluesky:

@annedougherty.bsky.social Anne! So nice to see you here.

I wrote a book! The timing is... weird, to say the least. But it's here, it's real, and it's available for purchase at your favorite online bookseller. Buy a copy. Buy several. I won't judge. Note: I was fully unprepared for how weird it was to hold my own book in my hands.

possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween

I have given myself so many little treats that now I have developed Treat Resistance and the treats have to get bigger and bigger just to have the same effect,

"Science isn't finished until it's communicated" On this weeks pod, acclaimed #scicomm leader, A/Prof Jen Martin shows us that communicating science in inclusive & non-elitist ways is not an ‘optional extra’, but a fundamental part of the research process #hps #philsci 🧪

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I saw a shooting star this morning. I'm going to take that as a good sign for this Monday. Do not tell me otherwise.

I did not know this.

Remove a letter, ruin a movie: To Cath a Thief (an uncomfortable medical drama) Guess Who's Coming to Diner (breakfast served all day) The Princess Brie (a cheesy adaptation)

Would totally go based just on this man's willingness to play along. (Also the final "slay" is impeccable.)

I like to remind everyone of this.