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Kim Baublys
@kimbaublys.bsky.social
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#MassSpec person. #StableIsotopes #Geochemistry. No serious stuff here, only light isotopes, some methane & maybe some #groundwater. PhD She/her. Turrbal Country, Meanjin, Australia
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What's this 'baseball' I keep hearing about? Do they whack the ball 129 meters? 😊

Cricket's the thing. Below is article + vid link

www.news.com.au/sport/cricke...

www.news.com.au/sport/cricke...
Pic of cricket player in helmet and of the 129m hit out ofnthe oval.
November 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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There are many but
Science, which is quite broad (info in pic on how to join),
SciArt
EarthScience
Geoscience

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social
#BookSky
Science feeds info. How to be added Bossett.io/science-feedScience feeds info. How to be added Bossett.io/science-feed
October 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I'm rereading Jingo by #TerryPratchett
I dunno, he moaned, ive only been a woman ten minutes and already I hate you male bastards
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Lunch was #Goodlunch of toasted Turkish bread with smoked salmon, capers, red onion, cottage cheese & avocado but the Saturday snacks after were also nostalgic gold... #cheezles 😋
Wooden table, glass of water and salmon open sandwich 2 white bowls full of orange cheezles on a wooden table
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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For the very small % of people that have ever struggled with removing a smeared gold gasket from a #MassSpec flange

I spent hours trying to remove the gasket. The tool & die maker went away, turned down a lathe parting tool to 0.35mm & had that sucker out in 5 mins 🧪⚒️

I am both happy+annoyed
Same inlet block with gold gasket removed Gold gasket welded to a small stainless inlet valve block
September 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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See those 2 thieves?
They are eating MY breakfast!
1 stole my toast as I was about to take a bite.

At least they are sharing, I suppose
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Melbourne, what did I ever do to deserve this?
Melbourne Victoria weather forecast for the week. Cold and scrappy with a side of rain. Most min temps avg 10 degrees and tax temps as low as 16
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#IAH52

International Assoc of Hydrogeologists

It has begun 😊🤓🧪⚒️

Melbourne convention centre

I know Ive not attended a large conf in many years but are all conf apps as good as this one?
Pic of large auditorium inside Melbourne convention centre with IAH projected onto the side walls Front page of ICMSA events app
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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#ClimateChange

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Success of Australia's emissions target will be an absence of scorn
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Significant decrease in runoff & rainfall amount in SW Australia

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Plot showing decrease in rainfall since 1950 in Perth WA Rainfall runoff decrease plot from 420GL to 70 GL p/y
September 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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I'm looking forward to next weeks' #IAHCongress and catching up with colleagues with whom I've only ever exchanged emails
I don't get out of the lab much so intend to make the most of it

#Melbourne I'm from Qld, can I request no rain and some warm days please plus directions to the shops? 😊

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Photo of main screen of IAH congress app
September 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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#Goodlunch but it was a #BetterDinner

#Takashiya

I was too busy enjoying to take many photos but the crocodile #chawanmushi was heavenly
Lotus chips, lobster tempura, fresh lobster a wege of lime and a small dipping bowl of mayo with a lobster tail garnish Sake poached oysters, waygu with miso garnish, umeshu flavored pear on a skewer, and salmon with a flavored garnish... I forgot what, I was too busy enjoying the flavours
August 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Does anyone know where & what this is a map of?

It came out of the old #Geology
Library
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Old framed map in faded green or Grey showing natural featuressuch as woods & lakes. Text Boloniac Bars. Maybe B is an W? Full picture of same map.
August 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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They are so cute
Close up of a water dragon with head up and red underbelly.
August 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I'm cleaning the top of my bookshelves...

Found this novel from 1976. Blurb says its about a conspiracy to steal the USA Bill of Rights & replace democracy with a police state...

There's no need to read it again
Cover of old novel by Irving Wallace. The R Document... published 1976. Cover has a pic of Presidential seal with a gold eagle flying away with the letter R Back cover of book. Book is about a conspiracy to steal the USA Bill of Rights and to replace democracy with a police state... wow...
August 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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2 days later, I have 1 screw left over,😨 but it's all back together..

I hope to never ever ever have to service the Valco 6 port valve motor again
😱

#MassSpectromtry
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Pic of the insides of a modern mass spec. Small chassis containing lots of glass capillary mass flow controllers injector valve and so capillary... it was hell to remove the valve motors for servicing.
August 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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July 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Just an appreciation post given all the bad news.

The #USGS and particularly for me, the people in the Reston labs, provide an absolutely invaluable service to the scientific community worldwide. These standards make my life so much easier.
3 glass ampoules water standards for stable isotope analysis. Sitting on a stainless bench with a part of a mass spec visible in the background
July 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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As if we don't have enough problems in the world to worry about

😱
A full sized Dr Who Darlek. Made from copper and brass. It's a mailbox and sits in front of a stand of golden palm trees.
June 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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'Mind-boggling stupidity'. Another great article by @squigglyrick.bsky.social

It explains so much of what I'm seeing across the sector.
Tertiary Ed in Australia appears to have lost its way.

Free link below

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20936/...
Global consulting firm Nous Group appears to have infiltrated into ANU
June 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I know I post one of these most years, but we've finally hit my favourite time of winter in #Brisbane

No humidity +Exam time=
Tranquility for me.
Emptu Sandstone cloisters at a university with sunlight streaming in from the side arches
June 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I've not seen a moorhen waltzing nonchalantly wondering casuallyon top of a 1m hedge before 😊
Moorhen on a flat green hedge in the middle of a university sandstone great court.
May 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I now pronounce 'Carbonate season' officially open.
#Brisbane humidity has dropped to a low icicle producing level of 40% 😊

Bring me your forams & carbonates
#Geochemistry
#Masspectrometry
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View of a dual inlet mass spectrometry liquid nitrogen cooling system. Showing only minor ice build up on blue plastic tubing and metal venturi inlet system
May 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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A sodding possum ate all of my baby tomato plants. All they left me are the naked stalks
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Bare ground with denuded stalks if a few tomato plants about 25cm high
May 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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😝 to my husband, who says I can't math

It's the end of a 30-hour analytical run & there are only 5 slots left in the EA file before it's full & I have 5 samples left to run, plus only 1 hour until 4pm Friday end of work week

I wasn't 💯 of my sums 😁

Time to wine+relax
#StableIsotope
#Science
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Screen pic showing mass spec stable isotope EA file and IRMS task list. Both have 5 things left to do.
May 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM