"Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled." No? Not necessarily? And not without attaching massive audits and institutional reforms?
Brandon Bishop
@brandontbishop.bsky.social
Seismologist, investigates the Andes and subduction zones, currently complexly affiliated with St. Louis University and looking for new projects. Replies to my geoscience posts that include LLM content get your account blocked.
“and when you felt compelled to post ‘the existence of prosecco implies the existence of amateur secco,’ what would you say you got out of it?”
Actually, this leads to a very interesting question. Who's supposed to be reading those documents and who actually does?
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 49m agoAll the projections I've ever worked with predicted an acceleration in the rate of global warming if we continued to increase our emissions. The fact that so many people are shocked about this honestly surprises me. I guess no one ever reads things like the IPCC or National Climate Assessment 🤷♀️
All the projections I've ever worked with predicted an acceleration in the rate of global warming if we continued to increase our emissions. The fact that so many people are shocked about this honestly surprises me. I guess no one ever reads things like the IPCC or National Climate Assessment 🤷♀️
DAVID HULL PLANS HOPSCOTCH TOURNAMENT PLAYED BY DEMONIC IMPS IN NARNIA
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
One of my favorite things at museums is finding the pineal eye in the skulls of fossils. Once you start looking for them, they are everywhere.
Kelsey Jenkins, PhD@reptiliferous.bsky.social · 3h agoNew research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
Check out the paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... And a huge shoutout to my co-authors Caleb Gordon, Lisa Janzen, Chris Griffin, and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar!
The evolution of the ‘third eye’ illuminates shifting amniote ecologies through the Late Paleozoic and Triassic
Abstract. The pineal gland has strong ties to organismal physiology and behaviour, and in several ectothermic clades of tetrapods, it is associated with an
royalsocietypublishing.org
The cool thing is that this eye leaves behind skeletal evidence. Turns out, if we measure this feature in a large selection of fossils, we might be able to learn a few things about the evolution of thermoregulation...and maybe a few other interesting aspects of animal biology.
New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
Images like this make me sad. No incorporation of the mantle whatsoever. Volatile flux into the mantle is *huge* and there's no guarantee all of it gets returned via volcanism over the lifetime of a subduction zone. We're pretty sure whether the upper mantle is reduced or oxidized matters, too.
The Order of Things Lauren Fensterstock Permanent collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks 
![Text accompanying the artwork (abbreviated).
The Order of Things
2015-16
Shells, wood, paints, spray foam, and rubber
Lauren Fensterstock is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, Maine. With a background in jewelry smithing, the artist has always been drawn to the intricate and complex forms embedded in the decorative arts as well as forms found in the natural world. The Order of Things was part of a body of work titled "grottoes" inspired by the artificial caves found in palatial gardens throughout Europe.
The artist described being "obsessed" with them because the natural and the artificial co-mingled. "It's in a natural space, but it's really an augmented natural space. Sometimes they would take, in the 18th century, a cave and reform it, cover the entire surface with shells or another kind of ornament, and create a space that really merged nature and culture."
The shells ... were sourced... in coastal Maine and supplemented by scouring estate sales, eBay, and donations... Despite the incredible complexity and variety of shell specimens, they are covered in a monochromatic black that momentarily arrests the composition. And yet, the festooned forms seem to spill out of the grid-like niches in this oversized curio cabinet as if the organic energy cannot be contained by the absolutist forms of geometry. The [work] takes its title from an influential book by... Michel Foucault whose writings systematically dismantled the foundations of rationalist Enlightenment thinking. Fensterstock explains that [the work] pokes holes in Western fantasies of mastery. Whether mastery over nature, mastery over ourselves, or mastery over the techniques of aesthetic, consumption; the Post-
Enlightenment has been a period obsessed with imposed order and autonomy. These delusions are at best impossible and at worst the cause of devastating harm. The Order of Things suggests a force beyond human control and the potential for an integrated way forward."
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Seahorsification. I skimmed the paper, this is the real deal, the species most closely related to Australyichthys are indeed elongate ropelike pipefishes! 🧪🦑
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 18h agoLooks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...
More stuff on the early Earth's atmosphere and efforts to piece together what happened from seemingly contradictory bits of evidence.
Howard Lee@hlee.bsky.social · 2h agoSnowball Earth (Huronian Glaciation) could have given the GOE its shaky start ⚒️ www.science.org/content/arti...
Snowball Earth (Huronian Glaciation) could have given the GOE its shaky start ⚒️ www.science.org/content/arti...
What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?
New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago
science.org
Ah, good, the candidates get the idea of forming a united front.
Please roll back the word processors, spreadsheet, and graphic tools to their pre-monthly subscription fee versions.
Mike the Mad Biologist and PM of the "Islamic Republic of Japan"@mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 4h ago…just have to return to doing work the way they did it in 2022 (not all jobs etc.). Though I wouldn't mind it if most word processors, spreadsheet, and graphics tools rolled back to their 2022 versions either…
Somewhere someone is preparing a "boots" theory and LLM slop take so hot it will burn the site for days. I can feel it.
Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta
Worth emphasizing: *every* good geochemical or geochronologic estimator has a controversial history. That is a big part of what makes it *good*. The arguments are the traces of us figuring out the chemistry & physics of the estimator, & usually mean we can do more with it than originally thought.
The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
people love a "Chinese versus American" story so much. Zhong Shu has had all her education since high school in the US and is doing a PhD in political philosophy (specialisation in classics) in an American university.
Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.
Times Colonist@timescolonist.bsky.social · 11h ago