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Emily Lakdawalla@elakdawalla.bsky.social |
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Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com
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Je Hyeon Sim 심제현 grampy radish
@naptime.theolive.garden
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learning to recognize what my default reaction is versus how I feel when I examine something, and power always seems to play in in ways that sure help the powerful maintain control
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Ada Palmer
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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...
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Sarah J. Jackson
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I will bring this one back every year
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Does “paleontologist” count as a type of biologist for this calculation? Or does the focus on dead things go with “aroace” and not “bi”?
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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Cats of Yore
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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...
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Emily Lakdawalla
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I can only speak from personal experience, but for me it’s that I’m just plain burned out. COVID wrecked my joy. I had to refocus my entire life around helping my children survive the trauma of the isolation and disruption to their lives, and I still haven’t made it out of that tunnel.
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Meg Schwamb
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"The final components of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), including its foundation, silver geodesic dome, and on-site buildings, have been removed from a valley atop Maunakea in Hawai‘i, and the land at the site has been restored."
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸
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PhD students who will be enrolled in UK programs as of autumn 2024: come to planet school this summer. It’s free, it’s virtual, it’ll be fun.
Register by August 2: tiny.cc/PlanetSchool2024 🧪
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Emily Hunt
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The status of the Gaia mission at #EAS2024 from Timo Prusti 🔭
Gaia will run out of fuel 6.5 months from now, on January 15th 😭 and it will be switched off ~3 months later.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you literally laugh out loud.
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Tim Baxter
@timinclimate.bsky.social
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Welp. It looks like I have a new t-shirt coming in the mail. 🏳️⚧️
(You can buy it here: steviesafespaces.com/you-will-hav...)
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Greg Pak
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Any crybaby pundit COULD be using their valuable NYT editorial page space to post the stuff I've posted below. But they're losers so they're posting loser fantasy baseball crap. Don't be a loser. Be a winner who actually makes a difference by DOING things.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Er…how old do you think I am? Because I’m damn sure I’m way older than the average person on this site
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Andy McGlashen
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Welp, looks like you’re not getting any work done this morning 🪶 www.audubon.org/magazine/202...
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Write first, edit later. Let the misspellings and bad grammar happen, just keep going. If you realize a whole para you just wrote is prolly trash, write UGH FIX THAT LATER, shake it off, and keep going. Editing will make it better, but editing can only happen when there is text to edit.
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Citizen.Coping
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Graduate Student Fellow Chika Okafor’s research merges economics with ed. psych. to understand how communicate methods influence public action. E.g. climate disaster stories employ “deficit-based approach” to communication, which might be ineffective for mobilizing support to fight climate change.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Huh. How often has that happened?
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Rob Cruickshank
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They did a story on this on As it Happens last night, but the picture is even better than I had imagined it!
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Emily Lakdawalla
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The only person more capable than a parent of taking you out at the knees like that in emotionally unguarded moments is a child.
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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Emily Lakdawalla
@elakdawalla.bsky.social
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Girls will say "I know a spot," and then take you here
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Emily Lakdawalla
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You know what, I like this club, so nyaah nyaah
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Dr Emil Seidel, MD
@zbk.bsky.social
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Are snarky footnotes also acceptable?
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Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social
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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice
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Emily Lakdawalla
@elakdawalla.bsky.social
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I sleep better when I’ve had at least three drinks the night before, and I’m reeeeeeeally trying not to take that lesson to heart but….
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Emily Lakdawalla
@elakdawalla.bsky.social
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The engineers’ version of this creed is “Better is the enemy of good enough.”
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Need to shop around for a different deity
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Sad fist bump 👊🏻
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CanberraDSN 📡
@canberradsn.bsky.social
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Hoping for a #selfie but we were just off camera when #GOESU deployed from the #FalconHeavy second stage rocket.
Comparison image from the #Himarwari8 satellite and the NASA broadcast.
Great job by our team today, providing comms for this phase of the mission. #DSS36
🌏📡〰️〰️🛰️
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Emily Lakdawalla
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I want to meet your wife at L.A. museums and critique them, that sounds hella fun. Let’s start at the Hammer Museum, which has the most hilarious disclaimer of an exhibit intro I have ever seen in any museum ever. “These works represent the taste of an industrialist[derogatory]…”
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Emily Lakdawalla
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…and knowing is half the battle.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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This is fascinating, and feels true. It’s related to how very wealthy people can have a ton of capital but still be cash poor because of the way money can be stuck in places while it’s making more money. It’s like discontinuities in the flow of money. Something something calculus derivatives.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Cheers to her
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Emily Lakdawalla
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A new study follows two lines of research to suggest that that Great Red Spot we see today has not, in fact, been going for as long as we thought. New article by me for Sky & Tel: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Yo también
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Emily Lakdawalla
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*I GUESS* DOT JPEG
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Neil Renic
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Junior scholars: "I feel awkward citing myself" Senior scholars: "as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007)..."
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Holy shit. This has happened so fast. AIDS was so harrowing. Drug Still needs to be delivered to vulnerable people. But like. Most people have no idea how horribly fast this awful disease spread. How deadly it was, in the slowest, most agonizing ways, accompanied by social shunning. Now preventable.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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And the ones who weren’t abandoned to COVID were still expected to pretend that an entire year and a half of the most formative time of their childhood spent alone and online instead of with peers were perfectly ordinary, no you CANNOT pause the march of grades and tests for a silly pandemic
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Emily Lakdawalla
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I fear that we’ve both voided our warranties
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Robert Maguire
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Collect them all!! www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-...
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Orcspiration
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YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Well, shit.
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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the cybertruck could never
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Emily Lakdawalla
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I seem to be developing a new serious hardware problem, something to do with lumbar nerves and hip/leg muscle spasm, and I really would like to upgrade to a newer model please. I don’t need lots of fancy features, I just need it to work
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An Evan
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Spencer Ackerman
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“They know exactly what their target market is - people who have been given power of other people's money because they've learned how to smile at everything, and know that you can print money by hitching yourself to the next speculative bandwagon.” 😮💨😮💨😮💨
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Also, some conversations in my mentions are indicative of a cultural difference between space science and some other fields. In my experience, planetary & astro folks are really excited to share their work. And because they work in big teams they’ll often happily send collaborators’ papers too.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Since it’s a FAQ: what if corresponding author has changed email? That’s what ORCID is for. What if they have left academia? Most articles have multiple authors. If 2nd or last author email isn’t easy to find with search, try finding a different paper where they are corresponding author, get email.
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