Reposted by Laurie Padman Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hi everyone, In my yearlong program Life Skills For Young Scientists, we learn essential skills for a happy and productive career that grad school doesn't cover, starting with mindfulness and self-compassion. Registration for the fourth iteration is now open, details at lisys.ing. Please share! 0118
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The same comment applies if we were discussing male fox-newsers like Hegseth. No judgment of people using makeup. But if they do it to blend with a 'type' and so become less individual, that's sad. 000
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I don't even know if one or both the original images are AI. If real, they are so different they could be different women. It seems that Stamper would like to be seduced by makeup woman but not wake up next to no-makeup woman. Some of us prefer to see people as they really are 100
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026With make-up, looks like working towards Mar-a-Lago face 4850
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The US currently has more citizens in blue states that love Canada more than they love the US as it is now. But you're still right to stay out until things change on a national level 170
Reposted by Laurie Padman Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"The foolish shortsightedness of it all is that even though there is, ... a sense that glaciers and floods and famines are happening all the way over there, their knock-on effects and food supply challenges, and political and refugee crises, will affect us all." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Nepal floods seem a world away – but make no mistake, climate breakdown will affect us all | Nesrine MalikRicher countries might have more resources to deal with catastrophe, but this problem grips the entire planet, however much leaders may want to deny it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 23420
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I've been looking into OsmAnd, but yeah, otherwise, MapQuest 110
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Google Maps shows Lake America for Lake Ontario. Recommended non-google app for Android navigation? 020
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I suspect, sadly, that Wikipedia and other original-source sites will lose to AI, but feel that support and use should be encouraged anyway, no matter how quixotic 020
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Started a monthly donation to @wikipedia.org, IMO a much more reliable starting point than AI. I also changed from Chrome to Duck Duck Go, where a search always shows you the prime source for their answer, which is often Wikipedia. 150
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Suggest people read some Dolly Parton eulogies today. Doesn't matter if you don't like her music or acting. In these difficult times, her life is inspirational, a generous, accepting, loving person. Check out Imagination Library. 030
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you use Antarctic Glaciers.org, please help out Bethanglaciers.org 031
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Often, tripods come with one leg that detaches, but don't get a tripod that's too lightweight 000
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Also agree with bird watching clubs, and Merlin app 110
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Hints depend on the camera gear. Agree with earlier post that monopod more useful than tripod. Exception is when you know where the bird will be, e.g., at hummingbird feeder or on a snag out in a marsh or pond. Then ... patience! 100
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026But they shut their screens asap because they are "taking a break from UA-900 for a few minutes" 160
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Leaving the regular AF-1 passengers like the press corps exposed on a threatened aircraft? 1151
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Look on YT for 'goofy sfx Motor Mania'. 1950(!) cartoon about Jekyll and Hyde transformation 051
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If you want to use SWOT for ice shelves, this is a great place to start 020
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is a great take on current wildfires in Canada 010
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Mitch McConnell mystery is solved. But it doesn’t look good for America | Moira DoneganThe senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one’s job in the US Senate 020
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The ESA has been fairly successful for 5 decades. While money for the Admin's "friends" is part of this rollback, it mainly feels like another stick-it-to-the-libs thing 010
Reposted by Laurie Padman The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What a picture from cheney orr of @reuters.com — a Black woman on a train surrounded by masked white supremacists, emboldened in Trump’s America. One for the history books. 42247911722
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026500%, 600%, 700%, 900%. You've never seen anything like it 000
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026It's a weight thing. Can't have real books if you're overloaded with faux gold 000
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Do they hold back the money then, next year, say "You didn't even use what we gave you last year" ? 110
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Did *you* get a perfect physical after being seen by 22 doctors? 0190
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026They let Scots in, only if they've never posted on social media in favor of offshore windmills near golf courses 0100
Reposted by Laurie Padman David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/06/2026"There's no democracy without journalism." Scott Pelley is the best of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... 11368127
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I like tides. Here's a thread by others about tidal variations on a little-known 18.6 year "lunar node tide" cycle, that has surprisingly large impacts ranging from coastal flooding risks to Arctic coastal air temperatures to Antarctic dense water formation. 030
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Nice to see other people interested in the lunar node tide. Appears to play a role in Antarctic Dense Water outflow (Bowen et al, 2023) among many other impacts on decadal scale climate system variability. 010
Reposted by Laurie Padman David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊nature.comCritical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate ChangeInternational collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ... 8324184
Reposted by Laurie Padman David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/06/2026Or, anybody got a non-horrendously-depressing take on the rapid dismantling of what was once a world-leading climate scientific apparatus? Anyone?nytimes.comTrump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System 1112535
Reposted by Laurie Padman Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2026What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ 13479281
Reposted by Laurie Padman elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...elizabethginexi.substack.comWhat We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice 8216217
Reposted by Laurie Padman Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n 2719231090
Reposted by Laurie Padman Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread) 7448501196
Reposted by Laurie Padman Science Magazine @science.org · 25/04/2026U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/4cxQWhlscim.agTrump fires NSF's oversight boardDismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence 611000806
Reposted by Laurie Padman Ed Doddridge @edoddridge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Emperor penguins officially listed as endangered 💔🐧 “further changes in sea-ice will continue to affect their breeding, feeding and moulting habitat.” www.newscientist.com/article/2522...newscientist.comEmperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid declineThe International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica’s most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change 132
Laurie Padman @lpadman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Always weird to me that a "Christian" nation measures success in GDP. 140
