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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Good news! ✅ Comps: Unconditional pass! Science is and always has been collaborative. I’m super grateful to everyone who contributed to getting me here 💜💜💜

Photo of Emily being silly at a field site. They are laying on a stream ice surface with one arm reaching completely inside the ice hole and one arm extended into the air.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Juneau daytrip for glacier purposes. The symposium was also fun

Photo of Mendenhall Glacier. The surrounding rocks are mostly bare of snow and the lake is covered in a thin layer of ice

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Update on the other housebeast: she’s decided I am a sufficient substitute human! This is 2.5 years in the making (and she still hates Meeko but that’s okay)

Photo of Gia tentatively sniffing Emily’s outstretched hand. Gia has tortoiseshell patterned fur

Photo of Gia attempting to nuzzle the phone camera. She looks a bit scrungly.

Photo of Gia sitting on her favorite blanket, which only gets put out when her favorite human is away. This is important because usually she hides when Emily (human, not pictured) comes in to give her attention

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Lunar eclipse, as seen on Murphy Dome (my phone did its best lol)

Moon during total lunar eclipse after the clouds moved out of the way (it was a close call)

Moon during total lunar eclipse. Red tint is visible.

Moon during total lunar eclipse. Red tint is very visible, but photo is very grainy.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you see this, quote post with a beach picture from your gallery This is as beachy as it gets for me, who notoriously avoids sand

Sunset photo over open water taken from an elevated sidewalk in Lahaina, HI in May 2022. The image is zoomed in such that the sand along the shore is not visible.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation

There is a person crouched on top of a corrugated steel pipe that is mostly submerged in very brown river water facing away from the camera. It’s hard to tell what they are doing. Further away from the pipe, there is still an ice crust on the river surface.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌿

Cherry blossoms from the University of Washington Quad, 2016

Photo of yellow, purple, and red wildflowers in Joshua Tree National Park during the March 2019 superbloom

Vibrant red snaking flower from some type of palm tree in Maui, Hawaii, 2022.

Pink and orange orchid from the National Botanical Gardens in DC, 2024.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Image of Kronk from the Emperors New Groove dressed as a scout leader. He’s holding a clipboard in one hand and a quill in the other. The text reads: “That’s another one for Apocalypse Bingo!”

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The local wetland hosts a lake and stream network that my lab is studying carbon cycling in! It also happens to be my favorite place for northern lights viewing (I have very few photos here that aren’t pointed at the sky because of this)

Photo of green and red aurora from the frozen surface of frequently flooded trail system that leads to Big Trail Lake.

Photo of green aurora behind a row of black spruce trees lining the trails to the lake.

Daytime view from the ice surface of Big Trail Lake in Alaska. The sun is bright, the sky is clear, and the black spruce trees and shrubs in the background have shed their accumulation of hoarfrost. Water samples were taken for analysis of dissolved organic matter, and two snow angels were left behind. Regardless of which season it is, Big Trail Lake is one of the best places for peace and quiet.

Photo of Emily sampling a stream where the ice has rotted away near the onset of freshet at the end of winter. They are smiling. They are wearing a black jacket and pants and a pink and blue patterned backpack.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Best two from my time driving in LA rush hour traffic, both of which perfectly describe my feelings anytime I have to drive in LA.

Really grainy photo of the back of a white Honda Odyssey. The license plate reads “IKRUMBA”.

Photo of the back of a silver Dodge Durango. License plate reads “ROADREG”

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! (feat. very well timed geomagnetic storm)

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Tried to get a photo of Meeko in front of our tiny tree. He does not like taking portraits (and I have the scars to prove it). Here’s the photo I got when he was distracted by something outside, which ended up way cuter anyway

Photo of the back of a dogs head. The dogs ears are upright and its attention is focused somewhere outside. Next to the dog is a tiny, slightly lopsided, overly decorated fake Christmas tree sitting in a windowsill. The view from the window shows a line of trees covered in hoarfrost and the tops of the trees are tinged pink and orange with morning sun.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Every time I feel like I’m close to done with this paper I realize I have to do another thing. Ugh.

Black on white background, image drawn in mspaint by tumblr user catcrumb of a cat with its ears pinned back and its nose wrinkled. Text reads: I’M SCUNCHT ABOUT IT

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack in your head. Those aren’t mountains…

Image from the movie Interstellar (2014), after Cooper discovers that the mountains they saw in the distance were actually waves that were coming closer, fast.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Your last saved #meme is your moral philosophy. Hmmmmmm……

Photo of breaking waves on a shore with white text over the top. Text reads: hate your job? hate your family? have problems? need to leave? step into it and never leave! go there! go in the wet. the wet will love you. no problems in the wet. just water. it’s salty! the wet doesnt have capitalism. just go in the wet.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What's your favorite US city that isn't “your” city (not a hometown or current place of residence)?? Seattle, I miss you. Mt. Rainier viewshed, I miss you. Walkable city and public transit, I miss you. Paseo, I miss you. Seattle rent prices, I do not miss you at all :)

Photo of Mount Rainier behind Drumheller fountain. The fountain is off, but it’s windy enough that the water is giving a very blurry reflection. The sky is clear and there are people on the far side of the fountain also taking photos of the mountain.

Photo of a pedestrian bridge leading to the UW Botanical Gardens. It’s overcast, and there’s a lot of moss growing on the bridge.

Photo of a double rainbow over the UW campus during sunset. There is a lot of light being reflected off the buildings in the background.

A photo of the famous Public Market neon sign at Pike Market. There are people and cars around the sidewalk and Eliot Bay is visible in the background. As a side note, Emily (not pictured) recommends going to Market Spice, a tea and spice store on the market’s main level.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Timeline cleanse. I see your very zen Drumheller Mt. Rainier reflection and offer you a much less zen Mt. Rainier (no reflection) and Bagley Hall (nighttime Drumheller reflection) from like 6 years ago

Photo of Mt. Rainier with Drumheller Fountain in the foreground. Mild wind disturbs the surface of the water, making reflections poor. The sky is clear, and the view of the mountain is almost entirely unimpeded by clouds. There are a handful of people on the far side of the fountain also taking picture of the mountain.

Photo of the Univeristy of Washington Seattle’s Bagley Hall and Chemistry Building, which are connected despite their different names. It’s nighttime, and the lights from inside the building make a very sharp reflection off the still waters of Drumheller Fountain. This photo was probably taken when Emily had samples to run in More Hall inadvisably late at night.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline

Photo of Peyto Lake from the lookout trail. Peyto Lake is glacial fed, giving it an opaque aqua color. Surrounding the lake are spruce trees. The lake is in a valley between mountains. There are visible rock layers in the mountains above the tree line and some of the peaks have the remnants of snow. The sky above the lake is clear blue but there are clouds over the valley in the distance. Photo taken in July 2022.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I keep seeing people talk about their very cold weather this week so I thought I’d share mine

Photo of the thermometer on Emily’s porch. The thermometer is glass and cylindrical and is mounted with two metal brackets on the top and bottom. It has readings for Fahrenheit and Celsius. The temperature reads -30°F/-35°C.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

4 pics from your phone that have your energy but aren’t selfies

Cover of All Systems Red by Martha Wells depicting SecUnit. Text overlaid reads: my pronouns are: none. please do not refer to me. EVEN BETTER: DO NOT PERCEIVE ME. for practical purposes, I do not exist

Image of a possum in a tree with its mouth open wide. Meme text reads: unfortunately due to personal reasons: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Punching combo diagram meme. Text reads: What do you mean you don’t like Soup. There are different soup dishes scattered across the image.

Image of man bowing towards dark windows backlit by lightning. Text reads: I believe in thunderstorm at night SUPREMACY

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My favorite bog is formed from thawing permafrost in the Goldstream Valley. This bog hosts good snacks and interesting critters

Photo of the Big Trail Lake surface as captured from a dock. The hill in the background is covered in yellowing birch trees, and black spruce line the lake shore. There are two swans swimming on the far end of the lake and aquatic plants interrupting the reflection on the lake surface. Big Trail Lake is a young thermokarst lake well known for its methane ebullition and underlying permafrost.

Photo of autumn reddened moss, yellowed grasses and bushes, yellowed shrubs, and black spruce trees in the wetland area surrounding Big Trail Lake. This area hosts edible wild berries in the summer, which make a great snack after a day of field work, but also attract bears to the area

A suspiciously shaped tussock in the grasses around Big Trail Lake. The suspicious tussock is brown and spiky, and it almost went ignored as regular grass. To Emily’s surprise, it moved, revealing itself to be a particularly unbothered porcupine! The grasses are yellowing with the progression of autumn, but are still mostly green. The lake surface can be seen in the upper left corner.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This episode on Americans will use anything but the metric system: called my mom in CA to report we have our first Meeko’s-worth of snow

Photo of Meeko, an Australian cattle dog, on his morning walk. Meeko is mostly black and white with tan patches. He is wearing a harness with the leash clipped to the chest attachment point. His body is facing away from the camera, but his head is turned back. There’s a crust of ice around his muzzle because he likes to stick his face in the snow. Meeko is walking on a partially groomed sidewalk, and the snow on either side sits at his shoulder height.

Meeko is running full tilt towards the brown light pole in the left half of the image, where there is a partially visible abandoned bread crust he is hoping to snatch without Emily (behind the camera) noticing. The snow to his left exceeds his shoulder height.

Meeko walking calmly towards home, where he knows breakfast is waiting for him. The snow to his right is at shoulder height.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Post a beach pic snorkeling off of Maluaka Beach in Maui

Photo of Emily underwater in a snorkel mask. The sun is directly overhead and bubbles can be seen breaking the surface of the water in the background. Only the upper half of Emily’s face is visible in the photo.

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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sacrificed ✨✨The Big Screen✨✨ so Meeko could have a staring contest with this angry looking bird instead of with me (yes, he is taking up more than half my chair and partially standing on my desk. productivity has somehow improved regardless)