Sonic Connexions

Topic: “Too Many Voices” — acoustic challenges in monitoring large animal groups 🐦

🗓️ April 7
🕒 2 PM Boston | 3 PM São Paulo | 7 PM London
🎙️ Dr. Laura Kloepper
💬 Talk + small breakout discussions
📍 Zoom whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Td2bKuF...

#bioacoustics

I feel like a lot of my students don’t know that, either. 🤷‍♂️ (not that they should! But I wish the trust-building could go faster…)

I saw that and was seriously shocked that the Rogers’ estate would allow it.

How did I miss Waffle Day????

a glass sphere is sitting on top of a wooden platform Alt: Animated GIF. Rocky, the alien engineer in the film PROJECT HAIL MARY, is inside a multifaceted transparent enclosure approximately shaped like a sphere. It is about 1.5 meters in diameter. He is a light brown crab-like creature, about 1 meter high, with five limbs. His carapace and limbs have a rock-like texture. He is raising one limb in greeting. Copyright 2026 by MGM.

As for me, I've realized that when I allow myself to be entertained by thrilling spy chases, battling superheroes, and touching romantic comedies, I am only marking time.

I am waiting, often years, for an intelligent science fiction movie to come along.

Praying for a film like PROJECT HAIL MARY.

This. Please more of these movies!!!

Wow! Now do Jodi Huisentruit…

Maybe we deserve to be forgotten… 😕

It reminds me of how I hadn’t heard of the Collatz Conjecture until I was in my 40s, yet my kid did it in second grade math class. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz...

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Not sure I’ll be able to go to the Machine Shed again until the stink has been thoroughly bleached away.

40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster Christa McAuliffe’s flight as the “teacher in space” lasted 73 seconds. A reporter who witnessed the tragedy returned to the story and found an engineer still trying to spread its lessons.

I was in the same grade as Christa McAuliffe's son in 1986. I try to help enginnering students understand the role they have in building a safer future. Not all engineers will be rocket designers. But, all engineers can impact safety in their work.

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A student in my class asked to share information in class about a fundraiser she has started. She's raising funds to support the The Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund. MIBF is a revolving fund to help free people from ICE detention. secure.givelively.org/donate/midwe...

I'd love to see her goal met!

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

@rhettallain.bsky.social
@wbrianlane.bsky.social

From trinket:

You will have access to trinket.io as long as it is up and running, until early August.

I just released a way to download all of your trinkets at once. Go to My Settings then Data or use the link below.

trinket.io/account/data

Acoustics Lay Language Paper

Women in the island nation of Vanuatu create music in a unique way. Standing waist deep in a pool, they strike the water with their hands creating a unique variety of tones.

acoustics.org/the-sounds-of-the-water-...

And YouTube. And TikTok. And all the places.

Always true!!

(Always seemed more of a protect-the-brand sort of thing…)

Weirdly, I just had a conversation with my wife (Caterpillar employee) this week about how for the last 20+ years Cat has always referred to those machines as “track-type tractors” but in the past year or so has softened a bit on that stance. I actually doubt most at Cat are aware of the etymology.

I know there is a lot happening, but this is also very very bad. BWCA is special and needs to be preserved.

More importantly, it is PROTECTED land. If they can strip this, there will be nothing stopping them from digging up Yellowstone, chopping down Sequoia, and building mansions in Acadia.

This isn’t official, but the unofficial word is that the source code for trinket will be made open source with documentation for running it on a server essentially the same as the current trinket. No word on an export tool, but it has been requested.

Day 1 of #AAPTWM26 is off to a great start with workshops (PICUP, Physics with Phones, Search for Dark Matter Masterclass, and the Modern Eddington Experiment). #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #Workshops #ITeachPhysics

Great meeting! (Apparently holding a microphone doesn’t stop my gesticulating habit.) #AAPTWM26

Best wishes for everyone on the process!!

What potential major for your son?

How are labs handled in this class? (Sorry for not watching the video if it’s addressed there.)

😆😆 Exactly!!

I forgot this worked, but isn’t my main bsky account. 🤷‍♂️

I picked _today_ to log back on to social media?? I had no idea...