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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yep. About to go play "dodge the weather at sea" in a few hours!

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Unsettles" is an interesting word choice to see, as one of the full soft money researchers who will likely be out of work within the next year as a direct result of these changes.

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lynda williams @lyndalovon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On September 4, New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard issued an executive order that bans the leasing of state lands for new uranium mining and associated activities. #NoNukes #NukeSky www.ans.org/news/article...

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Uranium mining ban enacted for New Mexico lands

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Heartbreaking and infuriating. We are facing a future of cascading system failures. It will be bad, but it will be even worse if we do nothing.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got a text from CVS yesterday that the updated COVID vaccine is available soon in my area. Booked an appointment to get that and a flu shot this Friday. All the cool kids are doing it!

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Got caffeine, electrolytes, snacks, my lined sweatshirt and ski socks, and some dives to put on while I work. Let's see how many samples I can collect isotope data on today and tomorrow.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.

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Ocean Exploration Trust @nautiluslive.org · 18/08/2026

Applications are officially OPEN to join the 2027 Nautilus Exploration Program and sail aboard #EVNautilus next year as a #ScienceCommunicationFellow or for the #ScienceandEngineeringInternshipProgram. Learn more and apply by October 15: nautiluslive.org/education

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton covers Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I cannot express how mad I am that they are actively trying to dismantle and get rid of the USGS (and the rest of the Department of the Interior)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My friends at the The Natural History Society of Maryland have planned an amazing trip to Florida, including a shark research expedition with me, snorkeling, and visiting some cutting-edge marine biology labs. They’re opening the opportunity to to anyone! 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦈

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Natural History Society of Maryland - Shark Tagging Marine Science Expedition

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GeophotoMarli @marlimiller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Preparing an Earth Sci or Geog course for fall? Please check out geologypics.com. There, find >5500 searchable captioned photos for free download to promote good instruction. Just uploaded 60 new photos I shot from this year-- coastal to desert, rocks to landforms. Please share! #teaching #geology

six colorful Earth Science photos: melange, cross-bedding, differential erosion, soft-sediment deformation, desert varnish, Oregon Coast

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Okay, B2 flyovers are cool, but I kinda want that taxpayer money going into repairing the roads around the DC area instead. There's still some pretty significant damage from the ice storm in January and we're forced to either weave around giant potholes or risk destroying our cars.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

NSF proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 is a little over $4.8 billion. That's a VERY steep cut that the scientific community is not able to absorb so abruptly.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don’t think anyone is ready for the storm of neurodivergent rage that is brewing. We have a whole class of people we’ve trained to analyze systems and use that knowledge to make things happen, and you’re going to take away their pipettes and mass specs? They’re 100% intrinsically motivated.

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@AGU.org releases (announces?) its very readable and frank "State of Science after Yr One" report in @Eos.org today. Although we've all suffered thru the yr in question, this authoritative summation from an important source and well worth a read. eos.org/state-of-the... eos.org/wp-content/u...

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The State of the Science 1 Year On - Eos

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
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Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it.

Gary P Jackson (RAT) @gary4205
@AstroKatie Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
@gary4205 | dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.

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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“It may feel like we’re having an unusually large number of earthquakes, but statistically, this has been a fairly normal year,” said Wendy Bohon, a geologist who studies earthquakes. Here's why it seems like we're having more earthquakes lately, and what we can do to prepare for The Big One.

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Why Are There So Many Earthquakes Happening? We Asked Geologists.

The recent string of earthquakes are a reminder that we need to be prepared for “The Big One.”

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trump's DOJ claims 3 of NSF's efforts to broaden participation in STEM are unconstitutional. They are not. Goodbye to: -Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions -Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate -Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

insidehighered.com

DOJ Declares 3 Race-Based STEM Programs Unconstitutional

The programs received about $104 million in federal funds this past year.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

gosh life is so beautiful its really overwhelming sometimes how beautiful it is

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm a blocked/possibly infected gallbladder.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The one-day planned outage of the DI water line supplying the wing of my work building has ballooned into an 8-day (for now) outage. Things in the isotope lab may be about to get interesting, seeing as we rely heavily on ultrapure water systems that need that DI line and our reserve is getting low.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE'S A TINY SHINY BIRD IN PANTALOONS

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EvanButScarier @324b21.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you saw the earthquake in Colombia and thought “how can I help?” Donate to WCK. They have boots on the ground now.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🎨Yuval Robichek

Illustration featuring a cartoon drawing of a person riding a bike and a person driving a car. The handlebars make the person riding a bike appear to be smiling, while the steering wheel makes the person driving the car appear to be frowning.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't care to go into details, but one routine appointment went totally unhinged when I disclosed to the PA that I'm ND and have sensitivity issues with the exam and a lot of questions. It turned into a humiliating, gaslit, extremely painful disaster. I will not do that checkup ever again.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The thing about burrito discourse is that broadly people under 40 have decided the economy does not provide the living standard they want, on everything from housing to gas to the price of going out. Whether or not this is an irrational belief is irrelevant, somebody has to successfully address it.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/08/2026

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in July 2026 10 years ago July averaged about 405 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through July 2026. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 429 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 30/07/2026

If there are Seven Wonders of the Cycling World, Beijing's Shangdi–Huilongguan Highway deserves a place on the list. The 5.4 km elevated expressway is designed so riders can cycle its entire length without stopping; cutting their commute to 30 minutes—halving the rush hour travel time by car/metro.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today was a bad day to bike commute, apparently. Some sort of stinging insect flew right under my helmet strap and stung my neck while I was riding in this morning. Got harassed by a speeding driver for (legally) riding in the road and not the bike lane (which I have reasons not to) on my way home.

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I love how the AGU website just doesn't work once signed into it. Every damn time. I'm not even submitting an abstract this year, just need to update my affiliation department name.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Our flight from Seattle to Sacramento was delayed by a few hours last night, but we were rewarded with an epic sunset on Tahoma (Rainier) as it poked through the low stratus layer. The pastel peach backdrop was made possible by the horrific wildfire smoke from all the PNW fires.

Stratovolcanonpops out of clouds and is bathed in sunset warm peach glow.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

Google has also decided to effectively kill the desktop version of Google Earth Pro - which has been a genuinely useful mapping tool for many years. They’ve apparently decided those resources are better spent allowing users to burn AI credits on creating satellite imagery disinformation.

theverge.com

Get Google Earth Pro while you still can.

In an update on Tuesday, Google says it will block users from downloading its Google Earth Pro desktop app starting June 25th, 2027. People can continue to use the app after that date, which offers ac...

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

starting a collection of quotes like this

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Dr Val Finlayson @justsomeisotope.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was a late day at the lab, but it's never too late in the evening to pull together a Thai-style curry for dinner. Fed, now bed.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 28/07/2026

I was explaining the entire Emily Wilson and the Nolan Film brouhaha to my very-not-online wife and her only response after my 15 minute rambling diatribe was “you academics are terrible humans” and, well