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Rita Parai

@ritaparai.bsky.social

Associate Professor at WashU | interests include rocks, tiny bolts, and monks who were mad at each other

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Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since I apparently cannot be stopped, now I'm learning how cryptic crosswords work. There must be at least one noble gas geochemist on this site who would be pleased to find that their field lends itself to such a clue.

Screencap from minutecryptic.com clue reading "Oceanographer's 9 to 5 is noble? (5)" with answer of "argon" filled in.
Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz.bsky.social · 3w ago

What else is actually easier than expected??? Should I get into Rubik's cubes? Attempt woodworking? Buy a unicycle? Try some light white-collar crime? Maybe even cryptic crosswords? The possibilities seem endless now.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

TK (Takashi DY) Kozai@bioniclab.bsky.social · last mo.

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

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Paul Voosen@voosen.me · 2mo ago

Figure 6 here shows "Vogt's Half-Cracked Sewer Pipe," flowing laterally along the Atlantic's spreading center. This is of course the cartoon version of the pulsing plume hypothesis covered in my story this week.

A cartoon showing demons working on a sewer pipe, representing a mantle plume, rising to Iceland, with "Vogt's Half-Cracked Sewer Pipe" extending down along the Atlantic's spreading center.A cartoon of big demons chugging drinks with different minerals beneath the Earth, and spitting them up in hot spots.A cartoon showing beleagured grad students and lab assistants producing geochemical research that emerges through a horn to the Azores hotspot above, with a supervising researcher yelling "Publish! Publish!" on the side.This defies ALT text. I'm sorry.