Legend!
14.02.2026 03:38
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Legend!
βWeβd like to thank some local organizations that helped sponsor this event tonight, including the City of Bellinghamβ¦β
[applause]
ββ¦ Village Books β¦β
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ββ¦ and the Bellingham Public Librarββ
[whooping, thunderous ovation]
Agreed.
What does campus safety policy say about oil lanterns?
More than 100 children in flood-hit communities received gifts and bags full of stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve as part of the nonprofit Whatcom Strongβs efforts to help families recover from the disaster.
He also visited Bellingham once, had a terrible time, and vowed to destroy it in a book some day.
His son George Dyson lives here in in Bellingham, which funnily enough is the city that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle obliterated in their novel Footfall with the launch of an Orion nuclear pulse propelled spacecraft β the early concept of which was developed in large part by Freeman.
Also recently started mapping some of the small lakes in the area. Hereβs the 3D dissolved oxygen map of one lake that showed substantial hypoxia at depth.
Robotβs eye view over the oyster farm. The sensor pod was towed down at oyster-level.
Presented at a shellfish growers conference today β a first for me. Showed our results of mapping the 3D dissolved oxygen distribution around a working oyster farm with one of our little robot boats, seen here at work with wildfire smoke and White Rock BC in the background.
Oh cool! Iβve seen one of those in action before. Pretty rad platform.
Iβm intrigued! Can you point me to the model youβre using?
This feels like an uncomfortable corollary to the Turing test.
Glad Iβm not the only one.
New paper day! In 'Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery', we show that scaling up use of launch vehicles π has a point where the healing of the ozone layer is affected π§ͺπ°οΈ
Open access, free to read & share
Iβve been so excited by this news since the first time I heard it being circulated internally. Oh to be regarded by a whale.
Welcome to Bee-ham.
Listen, folks, we can usually give advice to prepare you ahead of time for emergencies.
But no one could have predicted 250 MILLION BEES would be loose on a road.
So, stay away. Justβ¦. Donβt go anywhere near them.
This is not the abstract, but it gives you an idea of what we were working on.
I have a literal barn full.
Cool, just now learning that the abstract that I published in 2020 on a low-cost tactile interface to enable sidewalk astronomy experiences for the blind and low vision was removed from the archive to preempt concerns about appearing too DEI.
Every. Time.
Sorld Ieference Matabase for the Bdentification of Astronomical Dbjects.
A red ladybird beetle with no spots sitting on a grass seed plume.
It's paper day! Led by grad students Rosemary Dorsey and Matthew Hopkins, we bring you a beautifully detailed study of how interstellar objects will be visible to @vrubinobs.bsky.social ππ§ͺ
A racing coffin?
The Washington State Climate Office (WASCO) is now on Bluesky! Follow to be among the first to learn about WASCO announcements, research, newsletters, and general Washington climate and weather tidbits.
I once built robots designed to do this to asteroids.
Image of a heterosexual couple in a hospital room beside a masked doctor, surrounded by bags of donated items
Last Friday, the coast guard brought our little Indigenous community 2 humans who had been adrift on a damaged sailboat for nearly 3 weeks before they were rescued. They arrived in Bella Bella with the clothes on their backs.
Wellβ¦ Do ring particles count as micrometeoroids? π science.nasa.gov/resource/shi...
