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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 28m

From the standpoint of lobster behavior specifically, lobsters are mean old cusses that would *happily* eat a human if the size difference were reversed. 🤣

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21h

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 2h

That was the really funny thing about the lobster lab, too - lobsters weren’t *my* project, and the jellies I worked on aren’t usefully edible. But the people working on the lobsters didn’t eat seafood…

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 4h

Hair doodads are always interesting!

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 5h

Tiredness level: “the bun I put my hair in to sleep last night probably looks fine, I can just leave it”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 5h

You know, just once I’d like to start the week off NOT exhausted. *sounds of small dog throwing up*

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 11h

I used to work in a lobster lab. Those were the days….

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 14h

The Brave Little Toaster. IYKYK.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 15h

For me, it was that X-Files episode with the gorilla.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h

I remember these from when they showed up in a mail tray, and the covetousness in my heart did not go away. 🤣

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h

I love the look of this, the asymmetry and that incredible onyx. And I also know that it would annoy me while I was typing and I’d take it off and lose it. Alas. (🚫)

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18h

The “nuh-UH!” is strong this evening.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh, can I ask what podcast? I could use a good new podcast.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

Let me know if either of you want a closer look or an id of anything. 😉

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

I love my spinies! I got these other two recently that I’ve yet to find a good home for display.

Two spiny oysters (Spondylus spp.). One is a brownish-mauve with dark-red spines, and the other is a lighter pinkish purple with a white outer margin and pale pink spines

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

I would LOVE to see your collection.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

Ah, that’s another sea biscuit - that one’s from Hawaii. It was actually octopus-predated - see those round holes in the top?

Me holding the sea biscuit in question, freshly found, in a rental car in Maui. It’s about the size of a very large grapefruit and mottled with tan and greyish-purple patterns

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

I need some whole new kind of furniture just to hold her murexes and pagoda shells. They’re too beautiful and delicate to put in a box. I did add the exceptional rose-branch murex (Chicoreus palmarosae) right now, because I can’t stop looking at it.

A large, delicate murex shell, with light and dark brown stripes and elaborately frilled spines that tend toward light pink at the tips

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 21h

Inventory done, and the majority are still ones I collected - or at least someone I know did. Charlotte Noshpitz’s Pacific collection had *so* many stunning things in it, though. Even without putting them all out, I need to take some trips to catch up.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22h

The one in blue actually has a bigger sibling standing up behind it - the biggest intact one I’ve ever found (snagged snorkeling, and I *still* screamed).

A shelf of some sand dollars, the butt end of a helmet, and a large angel wing shell

The big sand dollar in my hand, with just my fingertips and the bottom edge of my palm visible

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22h

The one in the red circle, or the one in blue? The red circle is a fat sea biscuit (Clypeaster rosaceus) from the Florida Keys - as if you blew a sand dollar up like a balloon.

Zoomed version of the previous cabinet , with two shells circled

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 23h

Finally got some curation in after recent estate sales.

A large china cabinet very, very full of shells, coral, and rocks

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would just like to say that when I started reviewing silent movies, the events were past tense and I liked them that way. It's extraordinarily rude of everyone to make this stuff current events.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is nothing in all the world like the high from a pit.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOAN FUCKING BAEZ, now that’s more fucking like it!

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Normally I’d say it’s disrespectful to be posting at a live show, but this dude is so fucking stoned that I doubt he’d notice if I danced naked. Dude is so stoned I’m fifty feet away and shocked I’m not getting a contact high.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Drummers are also exempt from testing. I’m just tired of getting whacked in the head by someone going left a half beat off when everyone else is going right. 🤣

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also an excellent waiver. Accepted. Dancing not required.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a 100% acceptable waiver, yes. Want to be on the testing team? You can have sticks.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The transition from Public Enemy to an acoustic Dave Matthews is a whiplash and I don’t care for it.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Basic level: Tell people to clap their hands to a beat, and see how long they can keep to the beat. Alternately, tell them to watch someone waving their arms left and right, and match them. Advanced level: the beat is syncopated and/or changes. (The bar is LOW. Many people will still fail.)

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New rule: there should be a mandatory “do you have rhythm” test for anyone who wants to stand in the front row at a show

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Between journalists treating conspiracy theorists as experts and treating actual experts so dishonestly that they’re going to stop giving interviews, this week is going just *ducky* for journalism.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If it’s just about the numbers, this game is over and lost before we’ve even begun.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “point“ of a preprint has always been to engage your scientific community in conversation. It’s not just to drop results and run, or juice your H index, or whatever other thing people who are pumping it full of AI generated slop think they’re getting out of a preprint.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And that’s fine for a quick social media post, or even a blog - half the point of social media is things barely above noise – but if you want to make it part of the fundamentally human endeavor that is the scientific process? Then you owe your colleagues your humanity.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes,maybe it does mean that this piece wouldn’t have been published, but maybe that itself is an indicator. If you don’t care enough to put your human time into the writing, why do you care enough to say it at all?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More to the point wrt Prachee’s piece, I specifically don’t care to engage with the AI rephrasing of my colleagues’ thoughts. I would much prefer to read the unfiltered ranty prompts that she put into Claude than the Claude-groomed output that she’s posted instead.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also think most of the edge cases Prachee uses to criticize arxiv’s approach are disingenuous at best. Oh, you have a bunch of experimental results to show at once? Put them all in one paper, and learn to tell the story of your research and YOUR THOUGHTS that got you to run all those experiments.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At the same time, I *don’t* think AI automation and experimentation produce good science. It removes scientists from the data and data generation in a way I think is harmful to both high-quality data and high-quality thought. “Increasing productivity” is pointless if you’re just making more noise.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I personally prefer biorxiv’s methods, because I *want* bans for abuse - for me, it’s about both deterrent effect for others *and* “fuck off, spammer” for the violating submitter.

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