Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks.
The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.
Before #WomensHistoryMonth concludes at the end of March, I shall share my favorite #WomenInSTEM joke:
Q: What did Watson & Crick discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin's notes.
If you don't get why that joke is both smart and hilarious, learn about Rosalind Franklin this weekend. 🔬🧪⚗️🩻
A small brown and white cat is making a mean kind of face by pulling up his upper lip. It’s sort of like the Elvis sneer if Elvis was really pissed that his tuna shrimp and rice wet food was late.
my cat makes this face when he’s frustrated with me and why. why do i deserve this, i was just two minutes late on dinner
😂 The introverts tale
JK Rowling hates trans ppl so much that she made a new Harry Potter series because she hates the old trio. They stood up for trans ppl and she can't stand it, & the only way to get their faces off toys & theme park rides & book covers is to do this.
Anyway I ain't watchin that shit
Does anyone know where I can source some free crowd noise? Like people talking in a small venue before a band starts playing? Maybe some cheering and booing too? #Audio #Recording
Yellow tan and dark gray banded sedimentary rock with fingers for scale. All kinds of smaller scale textures (burrows, etc.) cut and augment the 1-15 mm thick layers.
Beautiful bedded/laminated and bioturbated limestone (gray) + dolostone (yellow) in the Great Valley near Inwood, West Virginia. ⚒️
Am I sitting in a car, riding 2 hours (each way), to see Project Hail Mary for a third time? Yes! Look, I *need* to see it on 70mm IMAX.
The 12yo says it’s Pygmy Right Whale Awareness Day!
The smallest, and least studied of the baleen whales, it was believed to be extinct until 2012. Despite its name it is closer to rorquals than right whales and is considered a living fossil. Found in temperate waters of the southern hemisphere.
@mineralcup.bsky.social adjacent! The blue is so pretty, but all those rocks!
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#MinCup
#FossilFriday In 1787, Fray Manuel de Torres found near the banks of the Lujan River, the skeletal remains of a gigantic mammal. Cuvier gave it the name Megatherium americanum in 1796.
#histsci 🧪⚒️
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Photo of a small piece of dark grey mudstone covered with tiny flattened ammonite fossils preserved in dark brown pyrite.
#FossilFriday these Tiltoniceras (?) #Ammonites from Runswick Bay North Yorkshire, UK. There are layers of these several ammos deep, and many m2 in area in the black shales. My personal take is that they represent the maximum flooding surface and formed via condensation. #geology #paleontology
A blue pick axe next to a brown slab of rock with long ripples
A small footprint and handprint of a little reptile preserved in rock
The Chinle Formation - come for the climbing ripples, stay for the reptile footprints. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
New paper! Janina Gillies leads this study into a new formation mechanism for Pele's hair (lauoho o Pele). We show that mats or clumps of glass hair threads are inevitable when bubbly magma is stretched to extreme amounts!
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Photomicrograph of olivine dolerite. Isolated, euhedral to subhedral olivine phenocrysts (showing second and third order interference colours) are surrounded by a groundmass made up of opaque iron oxides and an ophitic intergrowth of small, euhedral plagioclase laths surrounded by large clinopyroxene crystals.
Spectacular olivine dolerite from Fair Head, County Antrim in XPL for #ThinSectionThursday. Olivine shows particularly vibrant interference colours while the ophitic intergrowth of twinned plagioclase and clinopyroxene is a textbook quality example. 🧪⚒️🌋
Great. Wonderful. Because Michigan weather hasn't been weird enough.
There's also a TON of 'roadside geology of' books, and that's a fun way to explore an area. There's usually photos explaining what you can see in different roadcuts (geologists love a good free cliff on the side of the road conveniently left by engineers building the road).
Specimen of labradorite that shows patches of bright blue, yellow green, and brown on the front surface. The sides are grey. It sits on a grey plinth on a grey background. A small frosted plastic label says Anorthite Anorthite on the lower left. At the Royal Ontario Museum.
Gorgeous technicolour labradorite!! This labradorescence shows a range of colours across the labradorite, a variety of feldspar that is primarily the mineral anorthite. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪
A tree with smooth silver bark has a mark where a branch used to be that looks like an eye
The trees are watching.
The galactic center of the milky way galaxy above dark mountains
“A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise … a morning filled with 400 billion suns — the rising of the Milky Way.”
Hello, my very oldest friend. It’s good to see you again.
An endemic and endagered Hawaiian coot adult (complete with red head shield and beak tip!) cruising along the water with droplets on his back. Beautiful red eyes.
This 'alae ke'oke'o wants in on the #BirdOfTheDay theme #WaterDroplets ( Fulica alai, Kealia Pond NWR) 🦉📷 #birds
hey so the rape apologists just won the olympics in ice dance, boo hiss boo hiss
It was a matador and bull paso doble. Neither should be happy. 😉
The world will be a better place when we stop elevating abusers and their enablers. This post is about both the US government and Olympic Ice Dancing
A rape apologist and a known abuser with gold who also can’t twizzle right …. I fucking hate ice dance
Ultramylonite
Swim freely, my little quartz fishes
Ultramylonite
Grighini Mts, Sardinia
Grey scale scanning electron microscope image of a mass of fossil filaments with a weird opening in the middle of the mass.
Me: I'm giving up science forever.
Me, a month later: Behold, the tiny eldritch abomination.
A very large pale blue cut gem in the shape of a rounded rectangle on display on a white plinth on a white background. At the Natural History Museum in London.
Guess the Gem!! What mineral do you think this gem is? Hint: at 2,982 carats, it’s the largest cut gem in this museum’s collection! #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
Today the 12yo has decided it’s Tardigrade Awareness Day!
These extraordinary animals are virtually indestructible and can survive extremes of hot, cold, high pressure, low pressure, lack of air, radiation, dehydration and radiation!
If you are new to the water bears/moss piglets, check out the…
