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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 4h

Totally normal things happening in my class as usual

A very tiny forklift towing a sleeve of girl count cookies

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Having undergrads in the lab is the best

3d printed hot pink dragonfly with googly eyes hanging from
A shelf with a minion riding on it

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I…didn’t even bother to take a picture of the penguin before we turned it into a moose…

Large stuffed penguin sitting in a gray couch at social hour except it is dressed up as a moose

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Current status: growing the prettiest lettuce that ever lettuced I need a garden section in my CV.

Curly perfectly green and crispy lettuce on a counter top

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then today we noticed…. Yessssssssssssss

P100 mask with a pic of a human wearing it except now the human has googly eyes

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So I put googly eyes on our teeny tiny shop vac…and then we left the container of googly eyes next to the fun magnets and puzzle… And waited… And waited… And waited…

A shop vac. Very smol. With googly eyes. Kinda looks like an industrial elephant

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tonight I was behind a car that was the same make and model as my 2019 car and it had a Gore Lieberman 2000 bumper sticker and… I don’t even know but I thought I should share.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This one has been living next to our door for a few days.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In other lab news, you know things have gotten serious in the troubleshooting department when we’ve had to deploy a minion. (Lab people are not ok. We are never ok)

A minion in a ninja costume holding a BANANA in front of the mass spectrometer that is currently being a giant asshole

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The chamber to group member ratio in my lab is getting a little out of hand. It’s giving Oprah.

The cluttered counter in my lab. With like 7 chambers or something

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok unrelated to my car. A thing I’m *still* not used to about Maryland that feels like magic is multiple growing seasons. I mostly gardened in Montana which, well it snowed one 4th of July as a child so. I planted these a few weeks ago. Fall garden what

Four different kinds of lettuce in a raised bed

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What say you blue friends? Is this a piece of my car? And if so where does it go??? I’ve looked!

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We thought we finally sorted this out in June. But then it never showed up. So we sent an inquiry…

My apologies, apparently this order was never entered into our production queue.
It was never built, shipped, or billed.
If you like, we can rush the production and ship it next week.
Alternately, you may cancel the order without obligation.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Honestly this would be funny if it wasn’t my life for the last twelve years.

Screenshot of the temperature in my office from the awair app. It has gone up 8 degrees in the last hour.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Two Saturdays in a row 🤔 If I didn’t know better…

Temp in my office on Aug 29 going from 70 to 80 in a few hours and then back down. With the annotation that I emailed families at around 10/20 Aaam

Screenshot of temp going from..70 to 83 in a few hours with annotations of emails to facilities at 10 and 1:30

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apologies for being slow. Today was actually a terrible day minus my lovely class. Tada!

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“In the Mayan tradition, people appealed to the spirit Ahmakiq (pronounced “ah-mahk-eek”) to stop strong winds from damaging their crops. The name literally translates to the “one who locks up the wind”

Picture of Titan in false color with a zoom in on Selk crater. The area south and west of Selk js colored purple

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today I learned the collective noun for turkey vultures that are just hanging out is “committee” But now I’m wondering where the dead thing is.

Picture of our garden with a dance around it with wooden posts. There are six turkey vultures perched on fence posts

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We moved one of our Awair sensors into the largest classroom in our building over the summer to monitor humidity. It also has a CO2 sensor. Happy first day of classes to Covid and other respiratory diseases I guess.

Screenshot of the awair app showing CO2 starting the day at a respectable 436 with increases to almost 1400 at 10, noon, and 2 as classes occupy the room

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A colleague asked if I had read the comments on Hank’s video. I told her that is against my Rules of Existing on the Internet. But she insisted I go read them and many are quite lovely. Should’ve stopped before I hit this one…

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@rhetta9826 • 8h ago
Maybe you can get one more opinion than just this one woman scientist. Someone who's a little more seasoned with decades of experience. Thanks.
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@SarahHorst • Os ago
I've been studying Titan for 26 years.
How many more years would you like?
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Big Fruit has been holding out on us. I absolutely did not know cantaloupe comes in Personal Size. They are so good!

My hand holding a smol cantaloupe with a spoon in it.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nice day for some French fries.

Large McDonald’s French fries being held in my hand. My nails are very blue.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We grew everything on this plate (potatoes, carrots, pears, onion) except the pig

Pork chop with pears and onion with carrots and a baked potato

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also we appear to have successfully grown one (1) cantaloupe that didn’t get eaten by the fox We haven’t opened it yet so maybe I shouldn’t declare victory yet

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Purple peppers continue to be magic to me

A purple bell pepper on a wooden cutting board

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My husband said he thought the cucumbers were done. I think they heard him

A whole bunch of cucumbers sitting on our counter

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Goes out to the garden. Oh. Oh no.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bear tried to make a new friend

Bear on the sidewalk staring at a yellow and black butterfly on purple flowers

A yellow and black butterfly with a little bit of blue on some purple flowers

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bear has decided to take up knitting. If he can figure out how

Bear. With a ball of pink yarn on his head

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Suspect number 1 appeared mere hours after putting out the trail cam

A dark blurry image 8/12/2026 8:56 PM 72F is what appears to be a fox just beep booping through the garden by the cantaloupe.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Given how far they’ve been moved (and detached from their vines) in guessing trash pandas

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also my dept is getting another cucumber delivery tomorrow. We’re eating 1-3 per day and already made pickles so…

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you liked the green bean situation can I interest you in a tomato apocalypse.

Tomatoes big and small. Covering my counter

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Can’t say I ever remember this happening before

EMERGENCY JHU ALERT:
Tornado warning in effect for area including Homewood.
Seek refuge immediately indoors on lower floors. Keep away from windows until further notice.
If you did not expect this message from

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In other news I made chicken tortilla soup today using peppers from my garden

Chicken tortilla soup in a green blue bowl

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An important summer life hack is to have a local pizza joint that sells their dough

Two things of dough in my cup holder for the ride home

Pizza! With mostly stuff from our garden except olives and cheese

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In other news for those of you who keep telling us to make pickles…welp

A picture of our counter. With all the pickles. And also some tomato relish bc that is also happening

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Me: buys fancy gardening apron with huge pockets for harvesting Also me:

Pictures of a fuckton of cucumbers in my shirt

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS FROM OLIN HALL🚨🚨 After months of…well…nothing… TINY FOOD AND NEW TINY PLANTS ARE APPEARING

A tiny Oreo on the top of a set of stairs

A tiny milk on a window ledge with trees outside

A tiny…cake? Macaron? On top of the water fountain

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A friend sent me an image of the Saturnian moon Daphnis that was clearly AI and I’m so flipping angry because these are REAL pics of Daphnis YOU DON’T HAVE TO AI SPACE IT IS ALREADY FUCKING AMAZING AHHH

The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn's rings on Jan. 16, 2017. This is the closest view of the small moon obtained yet.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Saturn's moon Daphnis making waves in the Keeler Gap of its rings. Image taken by Cassini on 6 February 2017. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Sophia Nasr

Cassini probe image of Daphnis surrounded by Saturn's rings (2017)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute; editing by Matúš Motlo

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Today’s @xkcd.com currently making the rounds on the Dragonfly team 😂 xkcd.com/3275

THIS YEAR'S NOBEL PRIZE IN "CALIBRATING YOUR EQUIPMENT CAREFULLY AND NOT EMBARRASSING YOURSELF BY PUBLISHING SPURIOUS RESULTS" GOES TO DR. ADAMS AND DR. SMITH, WHO DID NOT ANNOUNCE THE DISCOVERY OF MICROBES ON TITAN.

Someone standing on a stage while two people walk up saying thank you

We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I regret to inform me that has already happened

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“I’m just going to go grab one pepper for dinner to whatever this is” pipeline

One pepper.

Three zucchinis.

11 cucumbers.

Some basil

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have no idea what is happening rn but I assume it involves sportsball (Nb I played soccer in HS and college but I would much rather play than watch)

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