Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons
The server complimented me on how prepared I was when ordering my food and coffee. It’s possible to win at ordering and this is a normal thing to want
When one is asleep, the other’s awake, like they’re taking shifts watching out the window
Cookie #ThrowbackThursday update. Him one yr ago today. Big winter coat. He's now safe in our house. It's been 1.5 weeks & he's doing good. Confined til he has his vet care which happens once mum can handle him. Almost there. Still bitter cold here. Be safe. Stay warm pals. Love you all 💙
Are you working with E-OBS data and wondering how they good is the data when compared to purely national datasets, such as the provided in CAMELS? Then check it out this new piece of work recently published in HESS.
The work was a collaboration with Franziska Clerc-Schwarzenbach!
New paper in @science.org !
Where and when did the #multiyear-droughts occur around the world? Have they become more prevailing? We identified over 10,000 such events and found that they have been increasingly occupying the terrestrial land. (1/6)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado4245
Smudge the cat with both of his paws all over my keyboard.
Smudge has decided that I have done enough typing for one day. I disagree, but then again I don't have claws.
Orange cat looking extremely orange
"But whyyyyyy do you have to go to the store?"
Convincing the first author that adding another student as co-first would help us with the revisions
A cartoon by Drew Dernavich. #NewYorkerCartoons
See more from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CKFyG_
“The odds are against us, but that’s nothing new. What’s distinctive about our moment is the still fresh memory that we could move from the margins to the center, that our socialism really could be democratic, not just in theory but in practice and at scale.” dissentmagazine.org/article/wher...
Working with large-sample hydrology datasets and curious about how maps with varying levels of detail influence the identification of geology–streamflow relationships? Check out our latest preprint at HESS!
#Hydrology #CatchmentHydrology #LargeSampleHydrology #Eawag #hightlightpaper #HESS
It's out! 🧪 "Lines in the landscape," on the under-appreciated importance of #ditches as diverse ecosystems: doi.org/10.1038/s432.... By @peatymike.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @timaukel.bsky.social, @jordannabergman.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, ...
New paper is featured on the cover of GSA Today 🥳
We show that the #SWOT satellites's radar observations are a valuable new source of data for studying river processes/ fluvial geomorphology.
Led by Molly Stroud @mollystroud.bsky.social @vt-science.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1130/GSAT...
More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
Two Siberian Huskies standing close together on a wooden platform, both with their mouths open and facing upward.
♫ But I would walk 500 miles ♫
♫ And I would walk 500 more ♫
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
I’m so glad I was able to have a cat buddy when I was a kid. When it’s cold and you turn the heating up and they are 🧈 ball, That’s Christmas. Inject. It. Into. My. Veins. 🥰
Closing tabs with papers I promised myself i'll read
My sweet, eternally judgy child 😻
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
Mandarin and Smokey were on a mission - they had plans for the day 🐾❤️
#TheGozoDailyCat #feralcats #CatsofBluesky #blueskycats
Dad sent Mom this picture of me looking out the window for her. It appears she went to human cookie stores without me (all human food items are "cookies") ignoring my argument to go. Dad came downstairs because he heard me whimpering for Mom 🥺 Mom returned with snacks 🧐🐾👍 #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky
The Thing (1982) is a Thanksgiving movie.
Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
A tabby cat relaxes on my lap and glares at the camera
Hello new friends! I think it is time to share once again the most joyful thing in my life.
You know what that means.
It's cat thread time!
Some of the cats I have sat for this year. Each a tiny cat star!
Cat swiping dog’s tail
Cat got your tail?
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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