I bought the markers, the tissue boxes, the folders, and 24 sticks of glue
I need to label his water bottle
Put elastic shoelaces on his shoes he can’t tie yet

And figure out how to explain to my kindergartner that I’m sending him somewhere he will have to practice what to do under gunfire

4yo was digging through my closet and my partner says “Don’t dig in there! Those could be gifts from Mary for all we know.”
4yo: my name is "all we know".

Here's the current state of weather balloon launches across the contiguous United States as of Thursday.

During normal operations, weather balloons are launched twice per day.

Six sites are reducing launches to once per day.

Four sites have now nixed balloon launches altogether.

4yo: *frantically scribbling over a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson in his coloring book with a pencil*
Me: why are you crossing him out?
4yo: because he’s a president
Me: he was never president
4yo: Oh…*erases pencil scribbles*
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I got up for thirty seconds to grab something and when I came back she had stolen my spot and was giving me the most smug look imaginable.

For #PiDay my partner set up one of our Raspberry Pis to return any number of digits of Pi that our math-obsessed 4-year-old specified. He chose 10 million. @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Playing store with my 4yo and I hand him a play 5-dollar bill, and he says “Aww, Abraham Lincoln is the cutest”

Full paper is available open access here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Twin Cities DSA (Democratic Socialists) serves hot chili and banana bread in front of the giant loon at University and Snelling. People get off the light rail, get fed, get back on…DSA is now based in Minneapolis, not Spruce Tree Centre.

Imagine being this unbothered…

Three years of butterfly surveys across the KBS LTER show that agricultural plots where 5% of cropland was converted to prairie harbor unique species and have a greater abundance of butterflies than plots without prairie.

lter.kbs.msu.edu/2025/01/grad...

#prairiestrips

always RT weevils with 3-dimensional photonic crystals

I made a matrix of where watersheds in our dataset of ~90 sheds are contained within another watershed and unintentionally made a pattern that is not at all useful, but looks like a stingray! It reminded me of the Accidental aRt account. Anyone else remember that? Should we bring it back?

Question about #COVID vaccines: I managed to find #Novavax in late September. I’ve only had mRNA vaccines previously. Do I need a second dose? It will be 8 weeks this Friday. I looked up the guidance, but am not confident in my interpretation of the table enough to build my case with the pharmacist.

I’m shocked by how misinformed the men in my life are on abortion bans. Most of them support the right to choose - but they don’t understand that the bans put lives at risk. One said to me “I’m sure they don’t impact those who WANT to start a family”.

They do - and here’s why 🧵

4-year-old: yesterday was Vegetarian’s Day!
Me: Oh…*out of curiosity* What is a vegetarian?
4yo: They take care of pets!

I don’t think I will ever be as relaxed as these two