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VMHarris
@bryhtsky.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate/Power Nerd in Geography @ UIowa. Travel, Dendrochronology 💚🌲💍, Paleoclimate, History, GeoScience, 💙 Nevada.💧🌧️⛈️🌤️ 😷

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Nice! Think you would appreciate this (and yes, I took some 🙂):
Photograph of a building named Iowa Geological Survey on it. Nearby is a box that says “Free Rocks!”
June 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Happy Gotcha Day to my two wonderful ladies!

16 years and going strong 🥰
Enjoy your special canned tuna, Pesca and Platina!
(Even little Ariel got to enjoy the festivities 😊)
Photograph of my cat Platina, a tortoiseshell tabby, with her face planted in a bowl of canned tuna. Photograph of my cat Pesca, a cream-colored longhair, with her face planted in a bowl of canned tuna. Photograph of my cat Ariel, a Bengal, with her face planted in a bowl of canned tuna.
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Ariel is too darn adorable 🥰
#CatsOfSTEM
Photograph of my cat Ariel. She is curled up into a tiny circle on top of my couch. She is completely passed out asleep. She looks very cute and small.
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Someone just leveled up 😁🎉
Screenshot of my BlueSky profile. The words “PhD Candidate” are highlighted. For context, it previously said “student” and is an indication that I passed my oral and written exams. There is also the party hat celebration emoji pasted on it.
May 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Finished TA grading for the semester 🤘🏻. Finally graded climate labs 🙂. Scheduled my oral comprehensive exams (May 12th!!). Feel generally good about things.

This week’s reward: 2 hours of pool & pot-stickers

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😊
Photograph of a pool table in a bar. There are many balls on the table. Photograph of a frying pan with a lot of dumplings frying on a stove. They look crispy and enticing (and did taste delicious).
May 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m not exhausted. It’s been a great week. AAG was fun. It was great to see everyone and hear about cool new tree-ring research. Loved the Dendro Social. TAing went well.

This week’s reward: dinner date downtown

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 🙂
Photograph of the Detroit skyline at dawn
March 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Done contributing
Photograph of a cat very asleep
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Sending happy cat vibes
Photograph of my cat Platina in a heated cat bed Photograph of my cat Ariel in a heated cat bed
January 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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There is something extremely satisfying about using junk mail for kindling
Photograph of a burning fireplace. There are some envelopes that clearly look like junk mail on fire
January 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Finally finished classes and TAing for the semester. Finished extra paper analysis (great results). More paper writing.

Revisiting another classic, this week’s movie reward: The Running Man

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a TV showing the open credit for The Running Man.
December 14, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Lots of student stuff this week. Did a bunch of writing and R coding. Finalizing a paper draft.

Revisiting a classic, this week’s movie reward: The Sixth Sense
(Pesca approves)

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a tv with the opening credits for The Sixth Sense on it. There is a large cream-colored cat sitting in front of the tv with a very grumpy expression glaring at me.
December 7, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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Getting back to R coding for the first EW/LW paper. Current mood:
Meme of Boromir from The Lord of the Rings looking at the one ring. Instead of the ring is a “]” bracket. It says “It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing”.
December 5, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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It’s Friday night. For once I’m not exhausted. Did nothing; accomplished nothing this week. Was mostly asleep.

No movie reward this week, but enjoy a pic of Pesca sunbeaming.

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of my cat Pesca. She is a fluffy cream-colored cat sleeping in the sunlight on the top post of a scratching post.
November 30, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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My Wednesday night visitor: a beautiful Virginia Opossum
Photograph of a opossum eating bird seed on my deck at night
November 23, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Graded midterms all week. Taught about air quality. Saw a opossum.

Keeping with my sci-fi theme, this week’s movie reward: Predator

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a TV with the DVD menu for the film Predator. It shows Arnold Schwarzenegger looking buff in the 1980s.
November 23, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Grading midterms again. Submitted my AAG abstract. Covered Ecosystem Ecology (which rocked). Shared how cool tree rings are.

Since I’ve been on a 1990s Crichton film kick lately, this week’s movie reward: Sphere

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a TV with the opening credits of Sphere. You can see my polar bear slippers and feet on a nearby couch.
November 16, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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The savage pumpkin attack continues:
Photograph of the same pumpkin from this morning. It has been ripped apart even more and looks tortured.
November 2, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Missed last night’s post because it was Friday, & I was so exhausted I passed out at 7:30. Lots of TA stuff & proposal writing. Halloween was awesome.

No movie reward last night, but enjoy my pumpkin the squirrels are destroying. So spooky.

Happy post-Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a large pumpkin on a porch. There are various claw and bite marks all over it from the squirrels. Kinda looks like a spooky face now.
November 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Happy Halloween!!! 🐈‍⬛🎃🖤🧡
Photograph of my house. It has brightly colored red, blue, and green lights with various Halloween decorations.
November 1, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Finally finished grading the midterms & had 0 emails asking about grades 😮. Got honorable mention on my 3MT. Awesome storm last night.

No movie reward tonight, but did enjoy walking along the river this afternoon.

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a large river with an older style iron bridge across it. It’s afternoon, and there are beautiful clouds in the sky.
October 26, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Rocked on my 3MT today 🤘🏻. Spent all week continuing to grade midterms. Dealt with family health issues.

Going to reward myself by hanging out with Ariel and watching another childhood classic: Stargate

Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of my den. There is a television with the screen showing the opening credits of Stargate. My cat Ariel is sitting next to the tv in her giant cat wheel.
October 18, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Whoa! I also have a teddy bear named Snuffles, and he too is Covid aware 🙂
Hi other Snuffles!
Photograph of a stuffed teddy bear sitting on a blanket. He is light tan with white markings and has a big smile.
October 18, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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It’s Friday night. I’m exhausted. Spent all week grading midterms. Drafted a 3MT. Going to reward myself with my brand new slipper socks, and a classic from my childhood: Tremors
Happy Friday, y’all; you kicked ass another week 😘
Photograph of a large tv. My feet are visible and wearing some awesome bright pink slipper socks with black cats embroidered on them. The tv shows a screenshot from the trailer for Tremors.
October 12, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Aurora borealis in Iowa City 😍
Photograph of the night sky with the aurora borealis. A large part of it is bright pink with some green. A few stars are visible.
October 11, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Comps: I f-ing love R 😎

(By the way, major props to my committee for setting a literal practicum for 1 of my comps questions. Let’s see what kind of reconstruction 12 hours will create)
Screenshot of an R Markdown file with the first note saying: “Good luck, bitch; you totally got this”
May 5, 2024 at 1:25 AM