@drrocks1982
NSF Geosciences Earth Sciences Instrumentation / civil servant-took the oath and meant it / science advocate / sighsmologist / dad joker / lefty / victory gardener / cyclist / court jester / meadmaker / U South Carolina & U Arizona alum / views my own
US GEO folks: A few NSF POs are traveling again (!!) & several are hitting the regional GSAs. @drrocks1982.bsky.social + @llautz.bsky.social are headed to the Triple-Joint meeting in Memphis, I'll be in Hartford for the Northeastern. We are hype to see the community! Reach out if you'll be there!
Chernobyl Miniseries alternate working title, "The Geiger Sanction".
And???
Circumstances that likely require using a family human waste bucket that travels with and having the weekend be enjoyable for all seem fundamentally at odds.
I own this shirt: www.etsy.com/listing/2386...
It gets the occasional amazed reaction.
Tapestry is so good.
US GEO folx: we’ve got one more webinar on the books (for now)! Come say hi, ask your burning questions, hear the latest about NSF/Earth Sciences. Thursday, Sept 18, 2p Eastern: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
Ceramic tablet showing an ancient Mesopotamian student’s “unsuccessful calculation”.
This kid’s 4000 year old wrong answer has to rank highly in the humiliation hall of fame.
Just take it to Handy Bikes, where Pete and co. will treat you like a human being!
As the old saying goes….”all’s well that ends in a well” (free water)
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano joined Rep. Zoe Lofgren and AFGE National President Everett Kelley to highlight the damage being done to NSF by the Trump Administration and discuss a letter sent to Congresswomen Lofgren signed by 150 NSF employees
#SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundNSF
Oh nooooooo.
This is funny.
Has anyone done a fitness challenge this month and called it Joule-y?
One of your POs is here but I had the day off. Delighted to see this update.
National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...
Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...
What is dead may never die.
Someone consult Iben Browning’s notes to see if he called this.
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
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Independent assessment confirms: Also thin skinned.
/hums a little tune about things working in harmony
US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
Tremors is extremely well-made. It’s a movie about carnivorous underground worms, but it does the nuts and bolts of movie making (well-defined characters, set-up/pay-off plot points, and witty dialogue) better than most prestige cinema…AND…exquisite Eastern Sierra cinematography.
If you're a scientist on here, you can always doom post later.
People need to respect Stregavolcanoes.
