Barry Goldman
@barrygoldman1.bsky.social
was studying origins of life, that got too narrow, now studying #Geology. ... maybe this time i'll regularly post original content, what should i write?
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/finally-i-can-post-my-science-salon.htm
#Astrobiology
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/finally-i-can-post-my-science-salon.htm
#Astrobiology
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Indeed. This is what I see now hauahaua
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Indeed. This is what I see now hauahaua
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An underappreciated benefit of the Zoom era is the female side chat in the meetings where the men won’t stop interrupting us
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
An underappreciated benefit of the Zoom era is the female side chat in the meetings where the men won’t stop interrupting us
if i needed a victim advocate, i dammned well want them to have a sense of poetry!
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
if i needed a victim advocate, i dammned well want them to have a sense of poetry!
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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It is time to bring an old tradition back from the dead. A thread of Benoit Blanc as different cephalopods. First up, Benoit Blanc as a Blue Ringed Octopus. CC:
@rianjohnson.bsky.social
@rianjohnson.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It is time to bring an old tradition back from the dead. A thread of Benoit Blanc as different cephalopods. First up, Benoit Blanc as a Blue Ringed Octopus. CC:
@rianjohnson.bsky.social
@rianjohnson.bsky.social
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Just decline the peer review invitation.
What are you people even doing?
What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just decline the peer review invitation.
What are you people even doing?
What are you people even doing?
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When I promoted the TV show "12 Monkeys" I wasn't saying it was a documentary.
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When I promoted the TV show "12 Monkeys" I wasn't saying it was a documentary.
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Surprisingly, that works possibly better to describe the change in the shape of wave-induced orbital as it approaches the seafloor. ⚒️🌊
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Surprisingly, that works possibly better to describe the change in the shape of wave-induced orbital as it approaches the seafloor. ⚒️🌊
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such a great news for science in europe 👏
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
such a great news for science in europe 👏
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Possible desiccation cracks (mudcracks) in rock found by the Mars Curiosity Rover this week.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Possible desiccation cracks (mudcracks) in rock found by the Mars Curiosity Rover this week.
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Not sure! Probably a wide range of things. I don't really poke around too much outside of solid Earth. Climate has been an increasingly big part of the meeting over the years, and so has informatics kinds of things.
December 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Not sure! Probably a wide range of things. I don't really poke around too much outside of solid Earth. Climate has been an increasingly big part of the meeting over the years, and so has informatics kinds of things.
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Kind of feels like solid Earth topics are dying off at AGU.
We get a smaller and smaller corner of the poster hall each year for seismology-geodesy-tectonophysics-deep interior-volcanology-rock/mineral physics....
We get a smaller and smaller corner of the poster hall each year for seismology-geodesy-tectonophysics-deep interior-volcanology-rock/mineral physics....
December 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Kind of feels like solid Earth topics are dying off at AGU.
We get a smaller and smaller corner of the poster hall each year for seismology-geodesy-tectonophysics-deep interior-volcanology-rock/mineral physics....
We get a smaller and smaller corner of the poster hall each year for seismology-geodesy-tectonophysics-deep interior-volcanology-rock/mineral physics....
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Does anyone know of an Android app that lets you record a discussion and translates it from speech to text WITHOUT the use of AI?
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Does anyone know of an Android app that lets you record a discussion and translates it from speech to text WITHOUT the use of AI?
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Telemetry analysis "suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars. Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN’s orbit trajectory may have changed." science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
NASA Continues MAVEN Spacecraft Recontact Efforts - NASA Science
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission team, in partnership with the agency’s Deep Space Network, continues recovery activities after
science.nasa.gov
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Telemetry analysis "suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars. Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN’s orbit trajectory may have changed." science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
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After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.
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#AGU25 badge acquired.
Come see me talk tomorrow on how Colombia's Cauca Cluster represents a location where hydrofracture is causing intermediate depth earthquakes!
We've thrown thermal models, earthquake relocation, Vp/Vs estimates, receiver functions, and stress drop estimates at this problem
Come see me talk tomorrow on how Colombia's Cauca Cluster represents a location where hydrofracture is causing intermediate depth earthquakes!
We've thrown thermal models, earthquake relocation, Vp/Vs estimates, receiver functions, and stress drop estimates at this problem
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
#AGU25 badge acquired.
Come see me talk tomorrow on how Colombia's Cauca Cluster represents a location where hydrofracture is causing intermediate depth earthquakes!
We've thrown thermal models, earthquake relocation, Vp/Vs estimates, receiver functions, and stress drop estimates at this problem
Come see me talk tomorrow on how Colombia's Cauca Cluster represents a location where hydrofracture is causing intermediate depth earthquakes!
We've thrown thermal models, earthquake relocation, Vp/Vs estimates, receiver functions, and stress drop estimates at this problem
cool topic. and zoom to join at end of thread
Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.
December 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
cool topic. and zoom to join at end of thread
interesting perspective
and an antisemite will say "well how come I hear about Jews so much in influential fields eh, eh?"
my friend, let me tell you about how *extremely motivating* it is to know that in living memory everyone like you was killed unless you could persuade another country that you were worth letting in
my friend, let me tell you about how *extremely motivating* it is to know that in living memory everyone like you was killed unless you could persuade another country that you were worth letting in
yeah. when asked, the most common view around the world is that about 1-2% of people in the world are Jewish ie 70-140 million people.
it's 0.19%
there are 12 million of us. world Jewish population has never returned to the pre-Holocaust number of 18m
ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/wp-content/u...
it's 0.19%
there are 12 million of us. world Jewish population has never returned to the pre-Holocaust number of 18m
ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/wp-content/u...
December 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
interesting perspective
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Day 14: #ArtAdventCalendar
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
December 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Day 14: #ArtAdventCalendar
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
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When I first started working with @plutokiller.com I asked him if I should use vi or emacs. I vividly remember him saying “that’s a decision every person has to make for themselves”
If you do a google search for “Vim” it asks if you meant “Emacs,” and vice versa. This is pure chaos agent stuff.
December 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
When I first started working with @plutokiller.com I asked him if I should use vi or emacs. I vividly remember him saying “that’s a decision every person has to make for themselves”
umm....
It's real - a plushie of Enypniastes eximia, the deep sea swimming sea cucumber also known as the "headless chicken monster"
#Invertebrate
#Invertebrate
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
umm....
fun thread on big animals and salt!
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.
Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
fun thread on big animals and salt!
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Our market got cancelled tomorrow (😭) so we have a bunch of these left now!
They're beautiful! You can learn about animals!
So many people in the last 2 weekends have said "Oh we should get this for your mom", and then they get one for the other person's mom. Just sayin'
SquidFacts.net
They're beautiful! You can learn about animals!
So many people in the last 2 weekends have said "Oh we should get this for your mom", and then they get one for the other person's mom. Just sayin'
SquidFacts.net
Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
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For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
December 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Our market got cancelled tomorrow (😭) so we have a bunch of these left now!
They're beautiful! You can learn about animals!
So many people in the last 2 weekends have said "Oh we should get this for your mom", and then they get one for the other person's mom. Just sayin'
SquidFacts.net
They're beautiful! You can learn about animals!
So many people in the last 2 weekends have said "Oh we should get this for your mom", and then they get one for the other person's mom. Just sayin'
SquidFacts.net
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Day 13 of #MAPSAdvent2025 🪨 Former MSc Geosciences student Natalie Cheng & Prof @bridgetwade.bsky.social (@es-ucl.bsky.social) studied sediments under the microscope to reveal a layer of microspherules (pictured) from the #Chesapeake impact which hit eastern North America about 36 million years ago.
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Day 13 of #MAPSAdvent2025 🪨 Former MSc Geosciences student Natalie Cheng & Prof @bridgetwade.bsky.social (@es-ucl.bsky.social) studied sediments under the microscope to reveal a layer of microspherules (pictured) from the #Chesapeake impact which hit eastern North America about 36 million years ago.