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Erika

@elevatedmn

Groundwater, hydrogeology, public utilities for the public. Probably too much manganese. Just Give People All The Things! Also love books, Judaica, and cats. she/her. #QueerInSTEM

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Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

11.03.2026 21:56 👍 6778 🔁 2276 💬 57 📌 50

Mhhhhh

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

11.03.2026 22:12 👍 358 🔁 103 💬 14 📌 11

extremely relatable.

11.03.2026 02:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahhhhhh I love this!!! Thee best.

11.03.2026 02:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is how I feel about planes. Aviation: awesome. Aerial warfare: worst thing ever, an abomination.

10.03.2026 23:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No time for intellectual artifice. Yes, I love this stuff; yes, I want to talk to you about it; yes, I want you to care about it too in your own way; and yes, I want you to see that knowing new real things is fun and interesting and important and will satisfy you in a way nothing faux ever will.

10.03.2026 22:24 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I've always been earnest on sharing my love of earth science but in this time of utter fakeness, I'm all-in now. I gave an invited lecture this past weekend and put a heck of a lot of work into preparing for it, and then when I gave it, I really poured my heart into my words. And people responded.

10.03.2026 22:20 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Gasoline. No contest.

10.03.2026 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I only listen to non-fiction in audio, I really liked Destiny disrupted: A history of the world through Islamic eyes by Tamim Ansary. Read by thr author.

10.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Read it last year and haven’t been the same since!! Incredible book.

08.03.2026 18:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THANK YOU. I have been saying this for yearrrs about how the same issues applies to outdoor workers. Daylight is so much hotter! It can still be hot but the sun starting to dip behind the trees makes that last hour or two a lot more bearable.

08.03.2026 04:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
his name is Benson Hedges and he sounds like he smokes 5 packs of them a day

his name is Benson Hedges and he sounds like he smokes 5 packs of them a day

50 awful drawings of my wretched cat

06.03.2026 21:47 👍 1033 🔁 244 💬 9 📌 6

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

06.03.2026 12:22 👍 341 🔁 160 💬 4 📌 13

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

01.03.2026 04:26 👍 1401 🔁 350 💬 26 📌 13

This is making my day haha

05.03.2026 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poop on the move!

05.03.2026 16:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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a cartoon of spongebob flexing his muscles and smiling Alt: a cartoon of spongebob making a crank turning motion until he pops his thumb up into a giant thumbs-up. He’s also grinning manically.

Life footage from your meeting 😅

05.03.2026 16:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You are Dr. Colbourne now!!

05.03.2026 14:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

OMG CONGRATS!!!!!!

05.03.2026 14:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

OMG Carrizo is so awesome, can't believe you'd never been there!! AH!

05.03.2026 03:33 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not going to reply to that "what did your grandpas do" meme as it seems like data fishing, but I'll say that both my grandfathers had a moral compass pointing towards hell, were two examples of what was considered "manly" in their time, and I am proud that my adulthood would make them both angry.

05.03.2026 01:55 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Forbidden Viennetta

27.02.2026 14:37 👍 81 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0

OMG frame it. That’s like an Oscar for teaching ❤️❤️❤️

05.03.2026 01:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s so great!!! I bet it was a good experience for them too.

05.03.2026 00:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Having a body is so weird. Yesterday I waxed my lip and chin like I usually do. Today I had a sandwich with a ton of hot sauce and all the places I’d waxed were tingling like crazy but the rest of my face wasn’t. 🧐

04.03.2026 21:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The data I've just obtained shows that the Massachusetts prison system has sent more than 2,000 people directly into ICE custody since 2009. It's facilitated between 78 and 172 prison-ICE transfers every year. Governor Maura Healey and leading Democratic lawmakers say they support this program.

04.03.2026 16:01 👍 241 🔁 82 💬 2 📌 3

Going harder for coffee than you do for your trans/ non citizen constituents. really cool and funny.

04.03.2026 18:01 👍 161 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

02.03.2026 08:50 👍 2216 🔁 865 💬 2 📌 0
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A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

03.03.2026 18:38 👍 3895 🔁 1229 💬 73 📌 158

Been working on a geology talk I'm giving this coming weekend, and the process of grinding through the intellectual work of researching, planning, writing has me doubled-down against gen AI. I cannot imagine being proud of work I didn't do. Telling a story I didn't write?! Absolutely humiliating.

03.03.2026 23:10 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0