the meeting tools on teams have been center aligned and I don't like it. who asked for this
yesenia lightyear
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🌋 planetary volcanology/geology @ Stony Brook University 🪩 DJ - UK Garage, Disco, House views expressed are unhinged but my own! senarroyo.com
reading Ingersoll's paper about the runaway greenhouse and like... how do you come up with this? how am I supposed to come up with something like this?? I'm so nervous to meet with my committee
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
been reading an atmosphere paper the whole afternoon, stopping to Google every 3 words because wth is a tropopause brother??? dammit I'm a geologist
What a beautiful sunrise photo. FROM MARS. This pic is from the Mars Curiosity rover, and shows "what a viewer might really see at sunrise standing of Mars" Great article from @universetoday.com www.universetoday.com/articles/cur...
I love a big wide band of music but house music man! something about a 4-count repeating vocal sample over a 64-bar progression just really tickles my lizard brain. it might be looping the same thing for 6 mins but I get more lit by the second
went into a lava tube this week... can you tell I was not about it?
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
pray for me. these cinders about to whip my ass this week
a local ace hardware will never do you wrong, absolute heroes
prof just blew my mind a bit during office hours. now I imagine all of them are secretly waiting to drop too much experimental info on you so you walk out shell shocked. it's fun for them
in my little frivolous corner over here: T-shirt and jeans feels way too casual for grad school but that's what everyone is wearing. I default to blazers but am worried that I'll stick out too much
why tf am I having an epiphany about remote sensing at 12:05 am jesus
my advisor says that she feels rejuvenated when talking to me??? hello????? that's so nice! 🥹
Came across this photo of Marguerite Thomas Williams, the first African American woman to earn a PhD in geology (1947).
Eclipse from Ibiza. The most incredible thing to experience.
meanwhile, polling locations in Tarrant County, TX (DFW) about to be slashed in half: bsky.app/profile/phil... the astronaut office is in Houston, Texas
yesenia lightyear@vividreams.bsky.social · 3mo agooh we need to encourage people to vote. people vote! people voted! what are you doing to address the disenfranchisement that happens to non-white voters every election season? how are we keeping polling places from being closed in marginalized neighborhoods?
too much change in one month. I am having a Hard Time
ok I'm hot since my ac not working and agitated I read that astronaut voting movement whatever it is. they are not saying anything that we don't already know. and worst of all doing that same type of bland activism that gets everybody a participation trophy
the problem with the used market right now is that everybody wants $100 for everything I know you didn't pay $100 for that faux marble table samantha
the talk was selected as a tedx editors pick! it's just nice to get a reminder that I am pretty good at the comms thing.
yesenia lightyear@vividreams.bsky.social · 6mo agohelped another early career scientist with their tedx script, wrote one hell of a mic drop, and when I was reading the article about the event, was gobsmacked to read my own words!!!!!
Talk about a cosmic glow-up✨📸 This progression of images of galaxy group RSCG 55 shows the evolution of ground-based sky surveys spanning more than three decades🤯, ending with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view. 🔭🧪
