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Jay Austin

@jaustinumd.bsky.social
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Lake physicist, working on scales from milliseconds to millennia.

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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Do this for the next Wits reunion please
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
(Asking for a friend)
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Shouldn’t be too hard to find since whenever he goes out the people always shout
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Should be “drug-infested sex, dens”
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A real dog bites man story
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Someone should tell him about roads
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Learning to make sourdough
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Also Murder Cat.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Or a pig-based Shakespeare sketch.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
They should have dogs in all of the events
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A very quotable movie
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Their house was dusty as hell
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Had friends in grad school in Falmouth, MA in the 90’s whose rental was coal-fired
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Or Tyroil Smoochie-Wallace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZ...
youtube.com
Key & Peele - East/West College Bowl
YouTube video by Comedy Central
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Alas, cloudy in Duluth
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Great band name
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I am the unofficial bell-toller at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Duluth, MN. Tonight at 7:10 PM I tolled our largest bell 29 times to honor the 29 souls lost in the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I just finished tolling a bell 29 times at St Paul’s Episcopal in Duluth
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Personally looking forward to the Frappeture
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Missed a minus sign
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tom Clancy’s Duluth MN phone book
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
In retrospect I think the strip was the brilliant and underrated Arlo and Janis
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I can’t remember the comic strip, but they mentioned “Mar-Teenys; the gin-like juice for kids” and I wish I could find that strip again.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Sort of like when “The the” got called “The the the”
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Ghoulish
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Four words and it’s about a bird screwing us over
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
No matter where you go… there you are.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Not on the list but Duluth had ~3500
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If you want to keep your gear safe, DO NOT PUT IT IN THE LAKE. One of our buoys was just hit by a vessel (which will remain nameless here).
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Calling it “Frisco” will generate the same response
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The ultimate “we met in art school” band
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Villanova's Career Center better be making hay of this.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Sad that Judge Judy got passed over for rhis
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I have done exactly this for exactly this reason
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Will miss you by a day. Enjoy and I hope your daughter enjoys her first exposure to the Magnetic Fields.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
John if you're there Friday night I would love to say hello.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
the thing that stands out to me about the Magnetic Fields (at least from 69 Love Songs) is that they don't have a defining sound- each song is so, so different from the last. That said, Cuckoo, or A Pretty Girl. Looking forward to seeing them Friday night!
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Found some 136 year old graffiti carved into a rock in the park near our house this evening
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Tar Wars
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We’ll be there!
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Let me know when you’re there for Wits reunions. Thrilled to be there for at least two of the previous ones.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I was NCA5 and am similarly distressed
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I brought two reporters from the local paper along on a buoy deployment cruise last week. Here's a piece from this weekend in our local paper about the impact of federal funding cuts on Great Lakes science and safety: www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/p...
duluthnewstribune.com
Proposed NOAA cuts put Great Lakes research, safety at risk, experts say
A White House budget proposal would slash funding for Minnesota and Wisconsin Sea Grants, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve, Great Lakes Observing System and others.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is especially galling because the vast majority of work that goes into this is done by volunteer scientists who do the actual writing. The small budget goes to the small (but hard working!) staff that coordinates all of the logistics. Not clear what saving is achieved here.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I'm proud to say that I was a co-author on the last National Climate Assessment (NCA5). I'm sad to say it looks like I was a co-author on the LAST National Climate Assessment. www.npr.org/2025/04/20/n....
npr.org
Trump administration cancels the National Climate Assessment
The Trump administration has halted work on the National Climate Assessment. It's the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S.
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Grover the friendly monster truck
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Linda Duran Ting Lindas Duran Tings
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
Trump on the Great Lakes: "I assume the lakes are all interconnected."
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Jay Austin @jaustinumd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
text from my son, majoring in investigative journalism: "Cross my fingers that I get added to the right group chat"
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