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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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 15h

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 · 16h

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

Dr. Katie I. is SPOOPY AF 🎃🕸️ @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 17h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Exactly.

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

The "greying" of marine geology occasionally comes up at some meetings, but usually then gets brushed aside bc there's like 1 youngish person there so obv everything's fine. 💀💀

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Some schools really do seem to believe you can replace all of geoscience, geography, and meteorology with a GIS master's program.

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

The number of ppl who told me I needed a "brand" when I was finishing up my PhD and during my postdoc... 💀

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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