Dr. Katie I.
@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social
Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.
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Dr. Katie I.
@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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The USA is closed for science.
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The USA is closed for science.
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At a time when jobs are being lost across nearly all categories of employment, a professional society offering a "how to apply for jobs" workshop does not seem like an adequate response.
At a time when jobs are being lost across nearly all categories of employment, a professional society offering a "how to apply for jobs" workshop does not seem like an adequate response.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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At a time when jobs are being lost across nearly all categories of employment, a professional society offering a "how to apply for jobs" workshop does not seem like an adequate response.
At a time when jobs are being lost across nearly all categories of employment, a professional society offering a "how to apply for jobs" workshop does not seem like an adequate response.
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The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
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When the skies of November turn gloomy
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November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
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When the skies of November turn gloomy
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The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Why would you write a paper in which you generate some complex data/results....but DON'T DESCRIBE ANY OF THE RESULTS OR INTERPRET THEM???
WELP. Not my circus, not my monkeys on that front. I can only suggest what to do. #editinghell
WELP. Not my circus, not my monkeys on that front. I can only suggest what to do. #editinghell
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Why would you write a paper in which you generate some complex data/results....but DON'T DESCRIBE ANY OF THE RESULTS OR INTERPRET THEM???
WELP. Not my circus, not my monkeys on that front. I can only suggest what to do. #editinghell
WELP. Not my circus, not my monkeys on that front. I can only suggest what to do. #editinghell
When the fuck did my health ins switch from CVS caremark to FUCKING AMAZON PHARMACY.
The fucking LAST ppl I want having my health data ffs.
The fucking LAST ppl I want having my health data ffs.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
When the fuck did my health ins switch from CVS caremark to FUCKING AMAZON PHARMACY.
The fucking LAST ppl I want having my health data ffs.
The fucking LAST ppl I want having my health data ffs.
Terrified to look at my expected monthly ACA payment for 2026. It FINALLY went back to ~$65 after they removed plans no one could use in the county (dumbasses).
A fucking BRONZE PLAN should not cost $150+ per month. #fuckUChuck
A fucking BRONZE PLAN should not cost $150+ per month. #fuckUChuck
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Terrified to look at my expected monthly ACA payment for 2026. It FINALLY went back to ~$65 after they removed plans no one could use in the county (dumbasses).
A fucking BRONZE PLAN should not cost $150+ per month. #fuckUChuck
A fucking BRONZE PLAN should not cost $150+ per month. #fuckUChuck
@schumer.senate.gov Grow a spine, Chuck. You're screwing us over with this cave.
REPUBLICANS LIE. THEY ALWAYS LIE. THEY WILL CUT ACA SUPPORT NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY "PROMISE" THEY WON'T. THEY ARE FUNCTIONALLY HORRIBLE PEOPLE. 😠
REPUBLICANS LIE. THEY ALWAYS LIE. THEY WILL CUT ACA SUPPORT NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY "PROMISE" THEY WON'T. THEY ARE FUNCTIONALLY HORRIBLE PEOPLE. 😠
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
@schumer.senate.gov Grow a spine, Chuck. You're screwing us over with this cave.
REPUBLICANS LIE. THEY ALWAYS LIE. THEY WILL CUT ACA SUPPORT NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY "PROMISE" THEY WON'T. THEY ARE FUNCTIONALLY HORRIBLE PEOPLE. 😠
REPUBLICANS LIE. THEY ALWAYS LIE. THEY WILL CUT ACA SUPPORT NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY "PROMISE" THEY WON'T. THEY ARE FUNCTIONALLY HORRIBLE PEOPLE. 😠
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
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🚨 The NYT names Sens. Shaheen of New Hampshire, King of Maine & Kaine of Virginia. If any of these are your Senators, call them NOW & tell them you'll never vote for them again if they betray the party & the millions who depend on the ACA! This is unforgivable!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
🚨 The NYT names Sens. Shaheen of New Hampshire, King of Maine & Kaine of Virginia. If any of these are your Senators, call them NOW & tell them you'll never vote for them again if they betray the party & the millions who depend on the ACA! This is unforgivable!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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I hate thinking about my own problems when folks are being kidnapped off the street, but ACA subsidy cuts will make my life a lot harder. And that's true for almost every freelancer and creative you follow.
None of this is fucking necessary. It's all a choice, and I will never forgive it.
None of this is fucking necessary. It's all a choice, and I will never forgive it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I hate thinking about my own problems when folks are being kidnapped off the street, but ACA subsidy cuts will make my life a lot harder. And that's true for almost every freelancer and creative you follow.
None of this is fucking necessary. It's all a choice, and I will never forgive it.
None of this is fucking necessary. It's all a choice, and I will never forgive it.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is optical drives and dongle-less inputs in laptops.
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is garbage bags that aren't scented.
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is a home printer that simply works.
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is optical drives and dongle-less inputs in laptops.
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
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I remember when the FAA wasn't broken at all until Elon Musk DOGE'd it for the sake of crony capitalism dollars for StarLink
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I remember when the FAA wasn't broken at all until Elon Musk DOGE'd it for the sake of crony capitalism dollars for StarLink
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A weird thing about James Watson is that he auctioned off his Nobel Prize and then pivoted to extreme science denial and racial essentialism and became a darling of Gamergate and then we learned that one of the currently sanctioned Russian oligarchs bought it for millions and then gave it back.
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A weird thing about James Watson is that he auctioned off his Nobel Prize and then pivoted to extreme science denial and racial essentialism and became a darling of Gamergate and then we learned that one of the currently sanctioned Russian oligarchs bought it for millions and then gave it back.
Don't make it so your patient intake portal links expire in under 24 h JFC NOT EVERYONE HAS TIME TO FILL IT OUT WHEN THEY MAKE THE APPT AND MIGHT WANT YO DO IT LATER.
Now I have to go extra early bc I couldn't fill out their intake shit JFC this does not bode well.
Now I have to go extra early bc I couldn't fill out their intake shit JFC this does not bode well.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Don't make it so your patient intake portal links expire in under 24 h JFC NOT EVERYONE HAS TIME TO FILL IT OUT WHEN THEY MAKE THE APPT AND MIGHT WANT YO DO IT LATER.
Now I have to go extra early bc I couldn't fill out their intake shit JFC this does not bode well.
Now I have to go extra early bc I couldn't fill out their intake shit JFC this does not bode well.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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In 1979, a Mining Test Ravaged the Pacific Seafloor— 44 Years Later, New Evidence Reveals It’s Likely Forever
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/in-1...
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/in-1...
In 1979, a Mining Test Ravaged the Pacific Seafloor— 44 Years Later, New Evidence Reveals It’s Likely Forever
A 1979 deep-sea mining test left marks on the Pacific seafloor that remain nearly untouched over four decades later. New research uncovers what really happened in the ocean depths—and why it matters m...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In 1979, a Mining Test Ravaged the Pacific Seafloor— 44 Years Later, New Evidence Reveals It’s Likely Forever
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/in-1...
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/in-1...
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life