Is that … wayward_boat?

hallooo

Gazebo being towed in from stage left

Legend!

“We’d like to thank some local organizations that helped sponsor this event tonight, including the City of Bellingham…”
[applause]
“… Village Books …”
[applause]
“… and the Bellingham Public Librar—“
[whooping, thunderous ovation]

Agreed.

What does campus safety policy say about oil lanterns?

Generosity flows through Sumas on Christmas Eve | Cascadia Daily News Toy giveaway, community dinner organized at local church

More than 100 children in flood-hit communities received gifts and bags full of stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve as part of the nonprofit Whatcom Strong’s efforts to help families recover from the disaster.

He also visited Bellingham once, had a terrible time, and vowed to destroy it in a book some day.

His son George Dyson lives here in in Bellingham, which funnily enough is the city that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle obliterated in their novel Footfall with the launch of an Orion nuclear pulse propelled spacecraft — the early concept of which was developed in large part by Freeman.

Also recently started mapping some of the small lakes in the area. Here’s the 3D dissolved oxygen map of one lake that showed substantial hypoxia at depth.

Robot’s eye view over the oyster farm. The sensor pod was towed down at oyster-level.

Presented at a shellfish growers conference today — a first for me. Showed our results of mapping the 3D dissolved oxygen distribution around a working oyster farm with one of our little robot boats, seen here at work with wildfire smoke and White Rock BC in the background.

Oh cool! I’ve seen one of those in action before. Pretty rad platform.

I’m intrigued! Can you point me to the model you’re using?

This feels like an uncomfortable corollary to the Turing test.

Glad I’m not the only one.

Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery

New paper day! In 'Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery', we show that scaling up use of launch vehicles 🚀 has a point where the healing of the ozone layer is affected 🧪🛰️
Open access, free to read & share

I’ve been so excited by this news since the first time I heard it being circulated internally. Oh to be regarded by a whale.

Welcome to Bee-ham.

Listen, folks, we can usually give advice to prepare you ahead of time for emergencies.

But no one could have predicted 250 MILLION BEES would be loose on a road.

So, stay away. Just…. Don’t go anywhere near them.

This is not the abstract, but it gives you an idea of what we were working on.

I have a literal barn full.

Cool, just now learning that the abstract that I published in 2020 on a low-cost tactile interface to enable sidewalk astronomy experiences for the blind and low vision was removed from the archive to preempt concerns about appearing too DEI.

Every. Time.

Sorld Ieference Matabase for the Bdentification of Astronomical Dbjects.

A red ladybird beetle with no spots sitting on a grass seed plume.

The visibility of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population model in LSST With a new probabilistic technique for sampling interstellar object (ISO) orbits with high efficiency, we assess the observability of ISOs under a realistic cadence for the upcoming Vera Rubin Observa...

It's paper day! Led by grad students Rosemary Dorsey and Matthew Hopkins, we bring you a beautifully detailed study of how interstellar objects will be visible to @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭🧪

A racing coffin?

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