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Aviation Shenanigans
@hmcnevin.bsky.social
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Flys all the things, retired air traffic controller, addicted to caffeine and Star Trek, eats pineapple on pizza, PhD student, dog mom
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hmcnevin.bsky.social
I just looked at the #OSH25 app and, as usual, I need to be Hermoine with a time turner to attend all the seminars I want to go to.
July 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
hmcnevin.bsky.social
I've decided the most unrealistic part of Thor Ragnarok is that Banner has 7 PhDs.
In related news, I've just finished my PhD comprehensive exams.
April 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
hmcnevin.bsky.social
3 am...
Brain: I have a great idea for a figure to go in your dissertation.

Me: But it's 3 am

Brain: Can't wait. Promise I'll forget this soon.

Me: I have a love hate relationship with you.
March 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
hmcnevin.bsky.social
Im going to get a concussion from the sheer number of face palms I've done in the last 6 weeks.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Mar 7
Oh my. Each graf worse than the one before

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
Just moments before the blowup with Mr. Rubio, Mr. Musk and the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, went back and forth about the state of the Federal Aviation Administration's equipment for tracking airplanes and what kind of fix is needed. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, jumped in to support Mr. Musk. Mr. Duffy said the young staff of DOGE was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers? Mr. Musk told Mr. Duffy that his assertion was a "lie." Mr. Duffy insisted it was not; he had heard it from them directly. Mr. Musk, asking who had been fired, said: Give me their names. Tell me their names. Mr. Duffy said there were not any names, because he had stopped them from being fired. At another point, Mr. Musk insisted that people hired under diversity, equity and inclusion programs were working in control towers. Mr. Duffy pushed back and Mr. Musk did not add details, but said during the longer back and forth that Mr. Duffy had his phone number and should call him if he had any issues to raise. The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be "geniuses," he said.
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM