Three turtles sharing a log in a pond

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#TurtleTuesday

It's not fun.

Prepare, best you can. Take care of yourself.

Sheri S. Tepper: what if a mushroom was the secret ingredient to interspecies communication

Absolutely that.

That was a key takeaway from one-year gigs and awkward interviews for jobs I didn't get at schools that advertised the same job again later (often repeatedly).

Usually there was a reason for that job opening. Where the dynamics were good, people would work until they died.

Don't forget, the first e-book to go down the memory hole was 1984.

It was over international copyright issues, but it made its own point.

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

Pretty much! The dorsal plates don't cover them entirely, but they shingle, providing flexibility. They adhere and crawl on the foot, rasping algae with their radula like a snail ... but the radular teeth include magnetite! It's hard enough to go after endolithic (boring) algae and gnaw away rock.

No, no, he had a few things to say about Kadath as well.

Dream cycle, the mountains could absolutely be cosmic horror.

Hells, that's not even counting Antarctica!

Melville's a fish, yes.

Lovecraft? Not so sure.

It's a challenge! My experience has been: alluding to parenting at all in my cover letters --> no interviews. Avoid family obligations --> few interviews, no jobs.

They're not legally allowed to discriminate, but ... they can always find a justification.

The Permian–Triassic transition in Türkiye: New insights and 3D outcrop models for accessible, reproducible and sustainable fieldwork We studied the Permian–Triassic successions of south-western Türkiye at five locations, synthesised sedimentological and palaeontological data, putting it into a consistent stratigraphic framework an...

📣New paper from DeepBio@Leeds researcher @barankarapunar.bsky.social 📣

"The Permian-Triassic Transition in Türkiye: New Insights and 3D Outcrop Models for Accessible, Reproducible and Sustainable Fieldwork" in The Depositional Record

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cuttlefish, Newport Aquarium.

I feel ya, cuttles. #MolluskMonday is still a Monday. 🦑

QEII looking awfully Lovecraftian there!

Anyways, my continuing condolences. Tui and Sita both.

I rediscovered some video of Paddy (Padraig), my mom's golden doodle, running completely bonkers as a puppy on the beach at Seaside recently. He's chonked out a bit now (golden!) but still an absolute muppet.

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the forthcoming Geological Collections Group (GCG) Winter Seminar Unnatural Disaster: Fighting back against the steady erosion of geological collections.

I wish I had taken video, but I once watched a starfish (very slowly) crawl across a tank at the Tennessee Aquarium and high-five (well, one?) a cuttlefish.

That cuttlefish was SO pissed off. It tried so many warning displays.

Since we moved in, we've had just one year where spring came early and ours bloomed for weeks. It was glorious.

Most years, it hesitates while all the others take advantage of the false spring, and only starts days before the last frost. Last year, it was the day before.

I had hoped that the late lingering cold was going to delay the magnolia blooming until after the last frost, so we might get flowers that lasted more than a few days.

Instead, it jumped straight to leaves. No flowers at all this year. Fits 2026 all right.

Could've been obsessed with Tim Curry, but here we are?

Movie doesn't get enough credit.

Everyone has different tastes, and anyone prescribing their own tastes as The Only Way is a pretentious asshat who doesn't deserve the blessing of whisk(e)y.

Not Scitch, not Irish, not Canadian, not bourbon.

I have summer Scotch* (loves ice) and winter Scotch** (best straight) and whisk(e)ys thst are season agnostic*** but you do you.

* Kilchoman
** Lagavulin
*** Caol Ila
... and that's all just Islay

Yeah, so, I have several bags of those in the freezer the spouse and I *never* use.

Whisk(e)y (Irish, Scotch, whatever) really varies tremendously between distilleries and bottlings and whether it tolerates ice, and to what degree, is entirely a matter of taste.

Those are nice! But not that large.

A dram of Johnny Walker Red.

You can't fit those in a good dram glass.

It is apparently Velociraptor Awareness Day (yet again ...) and I sill struggle to imagine how anyone remains unaware.

Many years ago, my college Geology Club organized a weekend event to celebrate the occasion. I put together a .ppt slide deck in Velociraptor paleobiology and what JP got wrong.

... can't remember any email business pressing enough to bother checking in said era. 🥰

At least it wasn't potroast juice and microwave door to the head? Hope you're feeling better!