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Mr Miller

@millerlp.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist, physiologist, gadget-maker. Associate professor at San Diego State University. Still using a headshot from 15 years ago, but hairline is mostly accurate.

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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Research scientist sickos staring through the window.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
They’ll make a big enough tent to include this moron, but heaven forbid progressives be allowed to find a foothold in the party apparatus. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
politico.com
Dems eye a villain-to-ally arc for Musk
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A view from the Surfliner train. The floaty thing on the right in the water is our mussel mooring in Los Penasquitos Lagoon.
A view of an estuary channel with various floats in it.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New mussel data loggers are back out in the Tijuana River estuary and broadcasting to monitormywatershed.org/sites/TJSURF...
Mussels and water quality sensors attached to a float. Data logger boxes attached to the top of a mooring float.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
An intertidal sampling trip at Cabrillo National Monument ahead of the impending rainstorm.
Two graduate students standing in the rocky intertidal staring at stuff. One graduate student taking notes while the other is rolled on her head counting critters under a rock.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I go by this sign a few times a week, and so far the only funny thing I’ve seen is a tractor drop a bunch of pipes in the road. I expected more comedy.
Construction sign that reads University City Improv
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Servicing the oyster/mussel mooring via kayak.
The author and assistant servicing a mooring via kayak.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A sea star at sunset and a giant owl limpet hanging out in Pacific Beach.
Sea star clinging to a rock in a tide poolGiant owl limpet sitting on a rock in Pacific Beach, CA.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
reflectionsonpaperspast.com Saving this for later.
reflectionsonpaperspast.com
Reflections on Papers Past | Revisiting old papers in ecology and evolution through interviews with their authors
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Checking on our oyster/mussel mooring at Los Peñasquitos Lagoon via kayak. It’s almost as idyllic as it appears in pictures.
The author staring at the camera with the faint silhouette of a mooring float behind him in an estuary. Paddling kayaks in an estuary towards a railroad bridge.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Our field assistant this afternoon. Probably unrelated, but there was a suspicious number of cracked-open limpets nearby.
Blue heron perched on an intertidal rock on San Diego Bay
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
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INVENTOR OF THE FOAM CEILING TILE: the great thing abt my foam ceiling tiles is that if one of them gets water damage and starts looking gross, you can easily replace it with a new one
OWNERS OF FOAM CEILING TILES: no thank you
10:47 AM • 2022-11-21
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Up until now I’ve never pulled apart one of these big bead filter things on a seawater system, but now I have. This is what I do now while the CSU has a staff hiring freeze.
The inside of a seawater filter thing, cleaned of all its beads. That window seal wasn’t really sealing any more.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Putting oyster and mussel sensors out in Los Peñasquitos Lagoon. These are live at monitormywatershed.org/sites/LPLSur... as of October 2024.
Oysters and mussels on a mooring line.Data logger boxes with solar panels , attached to our high tech buoy.Maybe the saddest little boat in the SIO fleet, but it gets the job done (and it’s electric!)
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Seeing a NOFX show in a the LA Harbor (San Pedro) was memorable, even if they do suck live.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
An observation: the gear on the left was in Los Penasquitos Lagoon and the gear on the right was in the Tijuana River estuary. The LPL stuff was covered in fouling organisms (since scraped off). The TJ stuff was basically pristine save for a layer of bacterial scuzz.
Two boogie boards and anchor lines used in estuary research. The gear from Tijuana River estuary had far less stuff growing on it compared to the gear from Los Penasquitos Lagoon.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
There’s a dwindling number of VW bugs out on the road for playing Slug-a-Bug. Our family plays Whamazon instead now. If you see an Amazon delivery van/semi on the road, call out “Whamazon” first and you get to punch the other player. (Yes, this is also a sad commentary on modern life)
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
You want to wade in the Tijuana River these days, you probably ought to be wearing a dry suit. So here we are, gluing new wrist and neck seals on an old OS Systems suit.
A dry suit inflated with air to check for leaks.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
The perils of field work in a harbor.
Decent sized male sea lion hauled out on a dock.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Here’s a few months of fouling organisms settling on one of our oyster/mussel racks in San Diego Bay - after some cleaning. The live data of the shells opening and closing is here: monitormywatershed.org/sites/FLUPSY... The mussel plots at the bottom of the page show the best data.
A bunch of algae, bryozoans, mussels and tunicates growing on some oceanographic instruments deployed in San Diego Bay.
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Boiler Bay Oregon from this summer.
Boiler Bay Oregon shoreline viewed from the parking area
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Some intertidal zonation at Cape Disappointment, Washington this summer.
A rocky seashore showing different zones of organisms as you move up or down the rock
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Nice to see some healthy seastars making a living on the mussels on the pilings at Crystal Pier.
Seastars and mussels on a pier piling at Crystal Pier in San Diego, 2023-10-26
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Congratulations to Lauren Strope for successfully defending her master's thesis on oyster performance in a living shorelines restoration project this morning. This was the guiding cross-stitch she produced along the way.
Cross-stitch reading "I can do all things through evidence-based best practice which strengthens me Peer Review 24:7"
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Mr Miller @millerlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Here's 100 years of sea surface temperatures collected in Pacific Grove, California. This was primarily the work of two generations of the Balesteri family who worked at Hopkins Marine Station, and then a bunch of graduate students who mostly missed the 8AM collection time each day (including me).
2-axis color plot of monthly averaged sea surface temperature from 1920 to 2020 at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California.
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