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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️

@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social

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Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · Nov 18

I'm Katie, a #marinegeologist that uses ROVs and submersibles to study deep-sea #hydrothermal circulation. I'm a huge advocate for #scientificoceandrilling. I also sew #costumes for fun. Welcome!

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 49m

Uh, I would TOTALLY take one of these jobs...I've applied for them! The times I wasn't completely ghosted, was literally told I was overeducated. 🤷‍♀️

Imagine thinking someone who works at sea "can't handle the pressure"...I don't know you, but don't make ridiculous assumptions.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 58m

Idk tbh.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears - ABC News

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who…

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1h

My pay was similar ($52k) for a fellowship PD in 2012-14 in the Monterey Bay area.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 17h

What's extra funny is that we'd probably get turned down for being overeducated for the position. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 18h

Yoooo it's not even better than like a 3rd grader's writing. Generally it's fuckin nonsense.

I work with AI-edited text every day. It can't write anything *remotely* close to "well" IME.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 21h

Idk I've seen a lot fewer just -standard- geo TT jobs posted in the last decade. Everything is too specific and weird.

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 21h

Or that your cv "has too much fieldwork on it" when a full year of your grad school life was at sea and your goal was to learn all the skills to be a successful chief scientist. 💀💀

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 21h

With all these weirdo position focuses, I want to know how they're teaching basic shit like mineralogy and structural geo. 🤦‍♀️

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 23h

Would also be nice if geo departments remembered they are geo departments and not computer science departments.

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. Insert the "I'm tired, grandpa" meme here. 💀

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Hydrothermal vents were first observed in 1977 and almost 50 years later we understand very little about them.

When you *maybe* get a few dives per year (generally less) it's really fuckin difficult to get a handle on an entire system.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Oceanography is slow as hell most of the time simply bc of access. The lack of a general understanding of JUST how long any individual study takes means that 'discoveries' seem instantaneous to most ppl.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

I'd argue "the sciences" also are much, much slower than most people think.

Advancement is kind of related to news and SciComm taking incemental, often mutually exclusive studies as definitive answers instead of particular moments in an argument.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'

We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Who the hell put on the overly loud "AMURRICA" playlist in my primarily farmworker town this morning?? 😬

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Only a couple more months for humans to invent the massive kaiju-fighting robots of Pacific Rim, which takes place in 2025. My optimism is waning.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Oh snap I need one

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

You can't. My UG dept tried it the year before I started college, realized it was a terrible idea, and immediately went back to separate mineralogy, ig/met pet, and geochem courses.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

The SJ Sharks' new goal song was apparently generated by AI... :/

It was terrible and inane. I liked the old song much better.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

I think my actual brand was being pleasant to do fieldwork with. When I'd been out of work for a bit, ppl kept asking when I'd be back out at sea again bc they missed working with me. 😭

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

Couple that with infrastructure loss and YUUUUP

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 1d

What was weird about the whole thing was that I technically *had* one already I guess? I was working with multiple groups that were ancillarily involved with different components of my expertise. I wasn't just a geophysicist or geochemist...I was trying to understand the whole system.

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 2d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly.