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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️
@obialik.bsky.social
Sediment, climate change, and impostor syndrome | Science and SFF for the win | Writing for a living and fun | Opinions are my own (or the characters' in my head).
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We used different ones, depending on the medium. We ended up with two, one for shales (mining, I think, too late at night in this part of the world to get it straight) and one for carbonates, but I can't remember which was which.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I worked with the Niton Goldd and the Bruker TITAN, both were decent for cores and powders. As a rule, I try to avoid Thermo Fisher products now, so I'd recommend the Bruker.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The findings, BTW, are that the extent of savannas since the Late medieval times has more or less remained the same, at least in Maharashtra.
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Emily The Engineer at some point worked out what you need to modify to make a benchy float... and then added a motor and want sailing with it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIu...
I 3D Printed a Boat (World's Largest Benchy!)
YouTube video by Emily The Engineer
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hum... notice which model our new one is?
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I had an Ender 3 for years, and its entire lifetime, I didn't print a single benchy. It wasn't until I had to calibrate one for work that I got around to that.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Honestly, I just enjoy the Macross reference with the AC more than anything. Haven't actually had a game of BattleTech in years, keep saying I need to find someone to try the Quick-Start ruleset.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The big gun is cooler, but I still like this variant.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The paper argues that carbon isotope excursions (or at least the ones near sequence boundaries) are driven by transport, not global environmental change. Swart (www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...) already explined how this would work, and that deep sea records should not be affected.
Global synchronous changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonate sediments unrelated to changes in the global carbon cycle | PNAS
The carbon isotopic (δ13C) composition of bulk carbonate sediments deposited off the margins of four carbonate platforms/ramp systems (Bahamas, Mal...
www.pnas.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Paging @zoopel.bsky.social (I'd also love to hang out with some science historians/philosophers, but I don't really work on phylogenetic, no matter how broad the definition one uses)
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You should probably see a doctor if you have Greek Fire burning in your brain; that sounds like it could have adverse health effects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I was referring specifically to those burrles of oils @queengwenevere.bsky.social was talking about. For that time period, Naphtha would probably have been more appropriate than Greek Fire (also, it allowed me to make the comment on the Akkadian, which I think is really cool).
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM