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Kris Kuhlman

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Recovering earth scientist

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Dr. Adam Stein @astein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Check out our new article!
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Ken Fang -- Very Asian @fangsbites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seriously? When a Toyota Hilux starts up after falling from the top of a demolished building, there's no other answer.
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Killing a Toyota Part 3 | Top Gear | BBC
YouTube video by Top Gear
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Grew up near the Platte River in eastern Nebraska. Inch deep and half mile wide. Lots of man-made lakes in old gravel pits. So many mosquitos…
Section of Google Maps showing platte river
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Went to Trampas Lakes for 3 nights of camping with the scouts. Lakes are at 11,500 ft elevation. Had a great time.
One of two Trampas lakes. View of ridge above and trees surrounding lake.Hiking the ridge above Trampas lakes. View of Sheepshead peak on right.View of Trampas lakes from the ridge. Wheeler peak is in far distanceView of trampas lake and ridge
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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years. The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Got this year’s bushel of roasted green chiles from Sichler Farms. Yay, New Mexico!
Green chiles in a roasterRoasting green chiles. The roaster is a cool contraption Green Chiles waiting to be peeledPeeled green Chiles in a metal bowl
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hiked Embudo with the kids, a nice trail starting on the edge of town. Got up into the piñons and junipers pretty quick
Hiking in the cottonwoods Looking towards south Sandia peak from embudo trailOur route, distance (3.8 miles) and elevation gain (758 feet)
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
not to be confused with quesadilla
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Quesadilla.
Ķ (k-cedilla) is the 17th letter of the Latvian alphabet.
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Why is the phrase “meteoric rise” when everyone knows meteors fall?
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Went hiking in the dark near Fruita last night with blacklights and found dozens of small scorpions. Kids loved it
Scorpion under black lightA scorpion under white light on the ground, same color as ground
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hiked Embudito canyon loop with the kids. A wonderful 5-mile loop hike through desert (cactus/yuccas), high desert (pinyon/junipers) and forest (ponderosas). It was humid and damp from the rain last night. Amazing it’s in our backyard
View of Albuquerque from the first 1/3 of the trail. Two kids sitting and having a break in foreground Trees and granite boulders in embudito canyonAssassin bug on a cholla cactus
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ursula le Guin • Science •
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Don Quixote chasing windmills? The original *fan* fic
Drawing of Don Quixote charging at a giant fan (a windmill)
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
AI has made it easy to construct the form of an academic paper without any true insight, and that’s not going away. We might have to move from peer review to peer recommendation. All papers get uploaded to a server, w/ an overlay where experts point to the good ones. The rest can just be ignored.
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hiked tree springs trail with the kids. Was beautiful weather and a nice view of ABQ from the top.
Looking towards Albuquerque from the crest of the Sandias.View of ABQ from crest of Sandia showing houses and city far below
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Released 44 years ago today Black Flag - TV Party #punk #punks #punkrock #blackflag #tvparty #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Spent a week with son’s Boy Scout troop at camp Geronimo near Payson, AZ. Had a great week.
About 500 scouts sitting at evening campfire,  watching awards being passed out on stagePonderosa pines and red dirt at our campgroundA tarantula that we found (and then relocated) at our campDusk silhouette of pine trees against sky
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12/06/2026
Whoever made this was pretty nifty:
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Went out with fam in the front yard and our little telescope to see Venus, Jupiter and its 4 moons. Very cool! (Couldn’t get a pic, though)
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Gonna have the dryer of Theseus here soon. Replaced lots of parts over the years. Finally replaced the heater. Previously did the drum wheels, belt, thermostat, and tension pulley. Glad parts can be purchased to fix it
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Hiked Tree Springs trail on back side of Sandias with the kids. Went looking for fossils, found a horny toad
Two kids hiking in the trees in Sandia mountains near the crestHorned lizard on Pennsylvanian limestone (Madeira formation)
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I just learned that the word “dude” likely has origins as short for “doodle” in Yankee Doodle. And dude therefore also meant someone who dressed fancy, like getting “all duded up.” wild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
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Dude - Wikipedia
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hiked Embudito trail with the scouts all the way up to the crest. Amazing these trails are just in our backyard
Hikers in a wooded area in the Sandia mountains A view to the north of Sandia crest from the ridge near South Sandia PeakView of South Sandia Peak from the ridge where Embudito and Three Gun Springs trails meet
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Seed Song
A chipping sparrow is humming to itself while hopping around a forest floor in early spring. New plants are sprouting through fallen years from the year before. Zoom in on the bird in the second panel as it sings "I never had a seed that I didn't like / dry ones hard ones sharp ones even taste alright / if you don't eat them fast, they turn into a grass! / if you let them be, they become a tree!" It stops to munch on some morsels of sparrow food, whatever that is, at the base of a plant that towers over its head. It looks up and up. The final frame is zoomed out to see the top of the plant, which is a trillium. The sparrow cheerily says "Good morning!". And that's how you make a comic!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Math: you can choose any letter to serve as your variable Me: I choose “e” Math: No. Not that letter.
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What happens when you push this button?
A sun-bleached red stop button that says “EMO” on it
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Odometer reads “63”
Dash of nissan leaf odometer reads 11,111 miles
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Neighbors have a couple dogs that run up to the fence and pop up sporadically as you walk by. It sort of looks like toast popping out of the toaster (caught 2 dogs in one pic)
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Co-authored a paper on simulations of gas transport in volcanic tuff from a chemical explosion 🧪🪨⚒️. Great work by @johnportiz14.bsky.social and the rest of the multilab team. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Predicting multiphase flow and tracer transport for an underground chemical explosive test - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Predicting multiphase flow and tracer transport for an underground chemical explosive test
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Took two trampoline frames worth of metal to iron recycling (169 lbs). $3.24 paid for an ice cream treat
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Bird _hates_ scrabble
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory.

The female scientist says 
“Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?”

The male scientist replies
“That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!”

They step out onto a balcony. She says:
“Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” 

This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds
“It's got a fax machine!”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/02/2026
Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises.
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Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape
Micro-cracks travel along the peeling tape at supersonic speeds, producing shock waves and sound pulses.
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Dan Schroeder @dvschroeder.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
EIA has posted electricity generation data for 2025, so I've updated these charts. Solar and coal are up from 2024, gas is down, other sources are pretty flat. The upward trend in total demand is now unmistakable. 🔌💡
Stacked area chart of US annual electricity generation from 1950 through 2025. Total generation rose dramatically and pretty steadily through around 2007, then flattened until around 2021, and is now rising again. Coal generation accounted for about half the total until 2007 but has fallen dramatically since then, though it ticked upward in 2025. Gas, wind, and solar have grown dramatically in the last two decades, although wind has grown only slightly since 2022.Log-scale line chart of US electricity generation by source from 1950 through 2025. Generation from coal, hydro, gas, and petroleum all grew dramatically during the earlier decades.  Nuclear grew even more dramatically from 1960 through the mid-1970s, then more slowly through about 2000.  Geothermal grew dramatically until around 1990 but then plateaued, remaining a minor contributor.  Gas resumed its growth from 1990 until nearly the present. Wind and solar grew dramatically in recent decades, although wind has grown only slightly in the last few years. Percentage contributions in 2025 were gas 40.2%, nuclear 17.4%, coal 16.3%, wind 10.3%, solar 8.6%, hydro 5.5%, biomass 1.0%, petroleum 0.4%, and geothermal 0.3%.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hold On Tight
Pencil drawing of two crows in a tree with heavy snow fall. One crow is pulling a PRIVATE PROPERTY sign off of the tree. The crows are now on the snowy ground. One says "Hold on tight!" the other replies "To what?" looking down at the sign it is standing on. The first crow pushed the second and it slides down a hill screaming AAAAAHHHH. Perspective from between the legs of the crow going down the hill. Snow streams by as it continues to scream AAAAAAHHHHHHHH. The first crow watches from the top of the hill as the second screams "I'll never forgive youuuuuuu". The second crow's scream continues "uuuuu–oh I've stopped. That was thrilling!" It is covered in snow, face is plastered with the stuff. In the distance at the top of the hill, the first crow is crying "my turn! my turn!"
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist: 1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected, 2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction, 3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 25/05/2024
I will never apologize for a post
a dog in a work shirt and hard hat captioned 

i specialize in roofing
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Went snowshoeing on Sandia peak with the scouts. Just barely enough snow, but had a good time
Teenagers snowshoeing in a ponderosa forest on the east side of Sandia Peak outside Albuquerque
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This balance of having the confidence to tackle hard things while keeping open and honest about one’s limitations and ignorance is only now settling with me as I get older. I was intolerable for decades.
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Finished an interesting book on 5 Hungarian scientists, “Martians of Science” by Hargittai. Had read about most of them already, but an interesting take on what was different about them and their situation
Book cover. Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century, by István Hargittai (2006)
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
NOW it’s officially the Christmas season.
Screenshot of the iTunes app playing the Patrick Stewart recording of Dickens’ Christmas Carol
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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.
A transparent bag of broccoli, labeled “Sweet Baby Broccoli”
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The physical size of the Convention Center makes bouncing around between talks difficult. #AGU25
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
seeing aurora in Albuquerque
Red aurora behind the Sandias, taken in a neighborhood with a 3-second exposure
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Kris Kuhlman @kkuhlman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Last camping trip of the season at Water Canyon near Socorro. Great campsite and a fun hike on the mesa.
Group campsite has an awesome shelter View down in water can you from the mesaA campfire with a Dutch oven cooking cobblerHiking up on the mesa, in among the trees
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