Start the rapture, I’ve seen enough.

Yeah, I have a series of photos but they’re rough at best.

I’m unsure, but the sky photographed differently than it normally does and so we might have gotten something. People were able to see aurora last year and so it’s possible.

Maybe just have them put on different body type suits and try to use their own equipment. I’d sponsor that as a networking event, they can stay.

I use it as an opportunity to complain at manufacturers if their equipment fits like shit for people who aren’t the same size as an average middle aged dudes.

I’m feeling more confident that we are getting some of it down here. No other reason here for the diversity in colours I’m picking up in quick succession on a crappy 3-second iPhone photo.

It’s possible that the glow is related to the Mana Road fire on island. The skies are very clear and we usually have an inversion layer in the area of the fire. It looks like the view shed for the aurora have extended well beyond the forecasted limits, and so who knows. Interesting either way.

We had a faculty discussion and someone (not in my department) stated they intended to teach the ethical use of GenAI. I bluntly asked how they intended to do that given it is an environmental disaster and is trained off of stolen intellectual property. I killed that conversation in record time.

I came across a post stating using AI “…feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you are felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.”

I frame my thoughts about AI use in a similar context. The main point is the prep + process, rarely the final product.

I think it also depends on the faculty skills. Both the new faculty member we hired and I use a lot of computational methods; because we can both teach those skills, we’re working on how to integrate them into multiple classes. This wasn’t an option when I was the only new hire since 2008.

I have a mug with this picture on it. We talk about her amazing contributions to science and how she was not allowed on the research cruises in my 100-level classes. They are blown away when they see that hand drawn map!

Everyone back then was a heavy smoker.

I wanted to get her best drawing of a volcano in lieu of a signature and ran into the same issue.

It’s been a hell of a year; I, too, would welcome flood basalt overlords.

Style is more appropriate, yes. Impact, not as much, as I do not want the volcano to lose structural stability and kill 57 people. I think something more like Novarupta 1912 would be best.

Generally speaking, volcanoes that produce fast flowing lava (like Kīlauea) do not also produce pyroclastic flows. It would be more accurate to say that blue magma is bubbling up to feed an explosive blue Plinian column, which will collapse to blanket the surrounding land in a blue pyroclastic flow.

Conversely, they often call races before I’ve even voted in Hawai‘i. I’m in the middle of my workday when I get outcomes of early return results…