SciCommic
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Science communication tramp.
I’ve been an informal science educator and vaccine advocate long enough to know that anti-science is not partisan.
People show us who they are by who they choose to represent them.
I’ve been an informal science educator and vaccine advocate long enough to know that anti-science is not partisan.
People show us who they are by who they choose to represent them.
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· Dec 7
The absurd rhetoric and the blatant hypocrisy we constantly see from Republicans and from Trump Cabinet members; their wide-eyed outbursts:
I saw all of this with #antivaxxers and #ClimateChange deniers.
It’s how people act when they know they’re trying to justify something utterly indefensible.
I saw all of this with #antivaxxers and #ClimateChange deniers.
It’s how people act when they know they’re trying to justify something utterly indefensible.
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The absurd rhetoric and the blatant hypocrisy we constantly see from Republicans and from Trump Cabinet members; their wide-eyed outbursts:
I saw all of this with #antivaxxers and #ClimateChange deniers.
It’s how people act when they know they’re trying to justify something utterly indefensible.
I saw all of this with #antivaxxers and #ClimateChange deniers.
It’s how people act when they know they’re trying to justify something utterly indefensible.
Germ farts, Uranus puns, quips about politicians being like sea stars and anemones: using humor in science communication has been my schtick in class presentations, at Pacific Science Center and continues at the Padilla Bay aquarium.
Looking forward to hearing about his take & techniques, tonight.
Looking forward to hearing about his take & techniques, tonight.
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Germ farts, Uranus puns, quips about politicians being like sea stars and anemones: using humor in science communication has been my schtick in class presentations, at Pacific Science Center and continues at the Padilla Bay aquarium.
Looking forward to hearing about his take & techniques, tonight.
Looking forward to hearing about his take & techniques, tonight.
Doing public engagement of #science in nonprofit venues, I tend to be a little more subtle.
The time for being subtle has long since passed.
I’ll be keeping the decal I just affixed to my water bottle conspicuously placed while at the aquarium today, as well as its original message for #vaccines.
The time for being subtle has long since passed.
I’ll be keeping the decal I just affixed to my water bottle conspicuously placed while at the aquarium today, as well as its original message for #vaccines.
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Millie is hoping we can make the most of these coming weeks, as daylight hours decrease while muddy trails with slick rocks become more frequent.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Millie is hoping we can make the most of these coming weeks, as daylight hours decrease while muddy trails with slick rocks become more frequent.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
Moon snails create their egg casings by swallowing sand, then extruding the eggs in a mixture bound by mucus.
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Moon snails create their egg casings by swallowing sand, then extruding the eggs in a mixture bound by mucus.
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
So, I’d wait until the kids at our faux tide pool had handled them for a few minutes before informing them that they were holding a lump of sand, eggs and butt snot.
#PNW
#marinelife
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November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Our local volcano, Mt Baker, behind the wooden hulk of the +100y/o Le Merced, that’s been used as a breakwater for so long, there are mature trees growing from its deck.
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Our local volcano, Mt Baker, behind the wooden hulk of the +100y/o Le Merced, that’s been used as a breakwater for so long, there are mature trees growing from its deck.
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
Guemes Channel Trail
Anacortes
Months of looking while walking our dog on the trails, weeks of hearing a fledgling Horned Owl calling out, and tonight, this Barred #owl is right above our mailboxes.
October 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Months of looking while walking our dog on the trails, weeks of hearing a fledgling Horned Owl calling out, and tonight, this Barred #owl is right above our mailboxes.
Lessons from Captain America:
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lessons from Captain America:
Damn. Just finished the 3rd book of NK Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy. Which I dove into right after finishing her Inheritance trilogy.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
September 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Damn. Just finished the 3rd book of NK Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy. Which I dove into right after finishing her Inheritance trilogy.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
The awards are justified.
Gonna feel odd reading someone else, as I’ve been reading her work almost exclusively since the 1st week of June.
A book that should actually be required in public schools.
September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A book that should actually be required in public schools.
Rock hounding with Millie.
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
September 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Rock hounding with Millie.
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
Took the back trail from the marina to Upper Cap Sante.
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#Anacortes
Science makes intellectually insecure people feel bad.
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Science makes intellectually insecure people feel bad.
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Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
a 4gifs.com animated image of a planet orbiting another planet
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media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
a 4gifs.com animated image of a planet orbiting another planet
ALT: a 4gifs.com animated image of a planet orbiting another planet
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Because other celestial objects are moving too, it’s easy to forget that as our planets and moons revolve around the sun, it’s moving around the core of a galaxy that’s moving “outward.”
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
This is the problem with stories in which they travel in *time only* : Earth wasn’t “here” 10 minutes ago.
Gee. Wonder what visitors to our little Padilla Bay aquarium are gonna wanna talk about today as they pet the #seastars ?
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Researchers recently identified a bacterium that causes sea star wasting disease, which has wiped out billions of sea stars since 2013.
Cause of sea star wasting disease finally discovered, raises new questions | Cascadia Daily News
WWU sea star researchers give their perspective on the breakthrough
www.cascadiadaily.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Gee. Wonder what visitors to our little Padilla Bay aquarium are gonna wanna talk about today as they pet the #seastars ?
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Coupling this with the study that showed sea stars in colder waters can stave off infection better, it’s still a vehicle to talk about #ClimateChange affecting #PNW #MarineLife.
Millie is more interested in looking for chipmunks and squirrels in the more wooded parts of Washington Park, than the view from Burrows Pass overlook.
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
August 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Millie is more interested in looking for chipmunks and squirrels in the more wooded parts of Washington Park, than the view from Burrows Pass overlook.
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
#PNW #Anacortes
#DogsOfBluesky
#GoldenRetriever
Another magnificent exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
August 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Another magnificent exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
The oils rendered by Drie Chapek have a subtext of flowing streams and little waterfalls, while the other pieces definitely appeal to my geonerd side.
Recommended to me by the aquarium manager.
It’s interesting, informative and just acerbic enough to be entertaining without being annoyingly flippant.
Everything that public engagement of science should be, and what I strive for in my own #scicomm style.
#science
#MarineLife
It’s interesting, informative and just acerbic enough to be entertaining without being annoyingly flippant.
Everything that public engagement of science should be, and what I strive for in my own #scicomm style.
#science
#MarineLife
August 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Recommended to me by the aquarium manager.
It’s interesting, informative and just acerbic enough to be entertaining without being annoyingly flippant.
Everything that public engagement of science should be, and what I strive for in my own #scicomm style.
#science
#MarineLife
It’s interesting, informative and just acerbic enough to be entertaining without being annoyingly flippant.
Everything that public engagement of science should be, and what I strive for in my own #scicomm style.
#science
#MarineLife
Damn I needed that!
Kinda slow at the aquarium, the 1st hour. Then it picked up for a good 2 1/2 hours.
Adults were as enthusiastic and engaging as the kids about #PNW #MarineLife.
As well, they were receptive to my comments about the political impact on #science.
Wore this as my “uniform”:
Kinda slow at the aquarium, the 1st hour. Then it picked up for a good 2 1/2 hours.
Adults were as enthusiastic and engaging as the kids about #PNW #MarineLife.
As well, they were receptive to my comments about the political impact on #science.
Wore this as my “uniform”:
August 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Damn I needed that!
Kinda slow at the aquarium, the 1st hour. Then it picked up for a good 2 1/2 hours.
Adults were as enthusiastic and engaging as the kids about #PNW #MarineLife.
As well, they were receptive to my comments about the political impact on #science.
Wore this as my “uniform”:
Kinda slow at the aquarium, the 1st hour. Then it picked up for a good 2 1/2 hours.
Adults were as enthusiastic and engaging as the kids about #PNW #MarineLife.
As well, they were receptive to my comments about the political impact on #science.
Wore this as my “uniform”:
Had to wait for a relatively cloudless day across the Pacific before using the “draw” feature to write this on our #Science on a *Sphere*.
#FlatEarth is the best example of how #antiscience is just intellectually insecure adults being childishly contrarian to experts.
#FlatEarth is the best example of how #antiscience is just intellectually insecure adults being childishly contrarian to experts.
July 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Had to wait for a relatively cloudless day across the Pacific before using the “draw” feature to write this on our #Science on a *Sphere*.
#FlatEarth is the best example of how #antiscience is just intellectually insecure adults being childishly contrarian to experts.
#FlatEarth is the best example of how #antiscience is just intellectually insecure adults being childishly contrarian to experts.
One of the best things about doing informal #science education on the West Coast, advocating #vaccines and defending the evidence for #ClimateChange, is how it’s a big ‘ol “fuck you” to West Coasters who would, otherwise, just see a +50 White male with a Southern drawl, and assume I’m a MAGAt.
July 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One of the best things about doing informal #science education on the West Coast, advocating #vaccines and defending the evidence for #ClimateChange, is how it’s a big ‘ol “fuck you” to West Coasters who would, otherwise, just see a +50 White male with a Southern drawl, and assume I’m a MAGAt.
I remember when we were headed in this direction.
Words are only as “offensive” as you allow them to be.
Problem is that now we have too many people looking for excuses to be “offended” so that they can pretend that they’re morally superior.
Words are only as “offensive” as you allow them to be.
Problem is that now we have too many people looking for excuses to be “offended” so that they can pretend that they’re morally superior.
July 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I remember when we were headed in this direction.
Words are only as “offensive” as you allow them to be.
Problem is that now we have too many people looking for excuses to be “offended” so that they can pretend that they’re morally superior.
Words are only as “offensive” as you allow them to be.
Problem is that now we have too many people looking for excuses to be “offended” so that they can pretend that they’re morally superior.