Reposted by Mae SaslawBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#AlwaysBringCalcite #VoteCalcite #MinCup26 0217
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026best time to clean the kitchen walls is three days before revisions are due, so it has always been 050
Reposted by Mae SaslawBen Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I hope this guy shows up today 1040566
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 12/08/2026*norman rockwell figure of speech* the activity panel in google docs should tell you if anyone's in there before you open the file 030
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is my time travel fantasy Step 1: Go to the Miocene Climate Optimum to record daily precipitation someplace in the tropics for like 3 years Step 2: Get tenure in the 1970s 0102
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Celebrating one year as a doctor of philosophy with this workflow blog, which answers some of the questions past-me had about @obsidian.md. It's the post I needed starting out, maybe it's helpful for you? saslaw.github.io/posts/Obsidi... 040
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I got my first weird little guy tat last week and the first person to comment on it said "is that .... awawa?" #MammalMonday 050
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 10/07/2026For the first time in fifteen years, I have access to one of my favorite places 171
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Anyone out there using Quarto and reveal.js for slides? Do you like it? Are you having fun? I have a good relationship with PowerPoint but I'm also into markdown everything and having live citations but I also don't want to inconvenience myself or seminar organizers 000
Reposted by Mae Saslawjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026i think we should be understanding of people's fear surrounding the CLI but we shouldn't contribute to the idea that this fear is reasonable. big tech wants you to not know how anything on the computer works so that you're stuck delegating tasks to AI for everything. 628645
Reposted by Mae SaslawTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know 1322081
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Here's a deep cut for all you Messinian Salinity Crisis fans The First Eden ep 1 (1987)dai.lyDailymotion 121
Reposted by Mae SaslawChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/05/202675% of faculty are contingent employees making poverty wages so excuse me while I eye roll at the outdated framing of them as elites, though 641864
Reposted by Mae SaslawDr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I could definitely imagine being friends with a Cotylorhynchus 5448
Reposted by Mae SaslawIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/03/2026Making your conference talk slides? Make the font bigger. Do it again. I know the default font looks ok when you’re looking at it on your laptop but I promise no one can read that from the back If you can’t fit all the words you want on one slide, you have too many words. Make another slide! 2137649
Reposted by Mae SaslawJim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I have a limnology joke about large lakes but it’s too deep. Way over your head. 0389
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I have a soil science joke but it's not that deep 0161
Reposted by Mae SaslawEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026AI is good for coding and still can't write for shit. Makes you think about who the most highly skilled workers in the economy really were, doesn't it? 2021428
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 04/03/2026introduce yourself with 3 cars you’ve owned 1996 subaru outback 1995 subaru legacy 2017 subaru impreza 030
Reposted by Mae Saslawthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/02/2026like look at that blue whale I just reposted. Is the blue whale “relevant”? no it’s sublime. it’s transcendent. it’s a blessing from God. these and a trillion other qualities are more valuable than “relevance” ffs you should not even be able to say “relevant” without laughing 554843
Reposted by Mae SaslawColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026there are so many people who could fix this if they just wanted to 1345
Reposted by Mae SaslawGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams 7989192998
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 06/02/2026geoscientists, what are we calling this mass movement? goof answers only 460
Reposted by Mae SaslawChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026Academia is so incredibly fucked up and also a lot of the intellectual work that goes on in the academy is incredibly important Part of what makes life in the academy tough is holding and navigating both of these truths at the same time 626744
Reposted by Mae SaslawNick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · 10/01/2026But in the face of increasing state-pressure on scientists, we shouldn’t shirk our responsibility to contextualizing our work in crystal clear terms. And stating clearly what ethical red lines we refuse to cross. Failing to do so reads as naive at best, and complicit at worst. 1286
Reposted by Mae SaslawBen Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Small horse. Cat relative. Camel…sheep…deer…thing. Shoutout to those in-between creatures that are impossible to name properly. #FossilFriday 35314
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 07/01/2026all i need is like one good earth and climate science group chat and i could quit this webbed site 171
Reposted by Mae Saslawc.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I love maned wolves so much you don't understand 102789950
Reposted by Mae SaslawMeghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Merychippus everyone 🎄🐎 2750102185
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 17/12/2025What do folks do when your paper's supplement comes with ~15GB of pictures of rocks? Can we do better than zip files on Zenodo or is that pretty much the move? ⚒️ 310
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Bringing this back for today's woo discourse, because truths about nature and the universe will *always* be more interesting and profound than the fictions people come up with. It takes more work to understand and that's the whole point, to me 0144
Reposted by Mae SaslawBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Problem with "college should be the new high school" takes is that the majority of college students ain't 18-22 year olds. This is also why the "demographic cliff" takes are semi-nonsense. American higher ed is tied deeply to the ethos of fresh starts and self-reinvention.forbes.comNontraditional Students Are The New College Majority, Report FindsNontraditional students constitute what a new report calls the “new majority" of U.S. college learners. More than 40% are older than 22; 70% are working while in school. 1135
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Neutral reminder: While age may be an okay predictor of career stage, your form asking if I’m an ECR really does not need to tell me how old you think I’m supposed to be 🧪⚒️ 151
Reposted by Mae Saslawcuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to 195233139466
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 26/11/2025You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I think we’re good 0171
Reposted by Mae SaslawJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 21/11/2025my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person 231096230
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I’d bet a Nature open access fee that it’s more profitable than a lot of stuff on the other side of the law, too 081
Reposted by Mae SaslawChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/11/2025People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you 5290101
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Please join us this weekend on Zoom for the First International Symposium of Nonbinary Scientists! I'm excited to host a session for Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences ⚒️🧪Zoom link in alt text! 13913
Reposted by Mae Saslawerika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 23/10/2025this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread 170114062934
Mae Saslaw @oneorseveral.bsky.social · 21/10/2025feels like as good a day as any to share an excerpt from my dissertation acknowledgements 🧪⚒️ 0304
