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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she)
@nicolegasparini.bsky.social
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Wandering and sometimes lost.
Earth scientist, professor, mom, living with disability, animal lover, amateur gardener, advocate for fixing lack of D.E.I. in science and academia. Only my thoughts
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Morning coffee in my new mug that I got after giving a seminar at UIUC last week 😊
White mug with mountains in a sketch-like style in black. Below the mountains are the words “Earth Science & Environmental Change” and below that in smaller font “university of Illinois Urbana-Champaign”
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I have two new headshots. Something nice that my uni does for us for free. It is really hard for me to like pictures of myself, especially as I age. Stupid society.
Picture of me, wearing a black, long sleeve top. I have long, wavy hair, and I wear glasses. I have a tiny smile Picture of me, wearing a black, long sleeve top. I have long, wavy hair, and I wear glasses. I have a big teethy smile
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This is inside security at Chicago airport. If you were motivated enough to try and bring your pot through security and made it to the other side, why would you then voluntarily give up the goods? 🤔
Green tall metal box, like a bear proof trash can. Written on box is “cannabis amnesty box”
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Tiny geomorphic agents doing their job. (That’s a sidewalk seam)
A vertical line of 10 little ant mounds in a sidewalk seam. The mounds are nearly perfectly cylindrical and they all have a put on the center
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is my 2 kids’ Halloween pulls. I have a big job ahead of me.
A large colander over-filled with Halloween candy, a large metal bowl the same size as a large colander over-filled with candy, plus a Mac and cheese box and a ramen package
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Update on rotten pumpkin and our Halloween decorations
Rotted pumpkin that has collapsed into itself with a skeleton standing and bending over with its head in the rotted pumpkin like it is eating it
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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This is what happens to a pumpkin 5 days after carving in Louisiana. Truly scary
Pumping that has fallen into itself from rot. Mold on the inside is growing out
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Dogs of leisure
A tri-color beagle lying on a sofa with his head to the right, snuggled into a blanket and a brown pit bull lying with her head to the left, propped on a pillow
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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3 days after carving a pumpkin in Nola
Carved pumpkin with tiny round eyes and a huge carved mouth with no teeth but a tongue sticking out. Through the mouth you can see mold all throughout the inside of the pumpkin Looking into the top opening of a carved pumpkin and there is fuzzy mold all through the inside Front of a carved pumpkin with “x” for eyes and a flat, thin mouth
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Finally cold here and I randomly grabbed one of kid’s hat and hoodie for dog walk. Turns out I’m a hockey fan from the northeast
Selfie of me wearing a buffalo sabres baseball cap and a Boston bruins hoodie
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#besties
Two dogs laying in the same direction on a blue sofa. The dog on the left is snuggled up to the dog on the right. The dog on the left is a tri-color beagle with a white mouth and top of his head is brown, and his ears are part brown, part black. Dog on right is a small pit-bull-like dog. She has pointy ears, is mostly brown, but her snout is white, she has a white patch on her neck, and some black brindle
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Sooo my governor wants LSU to put up a statue of someone who created an organization with the *specific goal* of targeting and harassing professors.
Image of an x post by Governor Jeff Landry (Louisiana) that says “I’m calling on LSU to honor the legacy of Charlie Kirk by putting up a statue of him on campus. There is no better warrior for free speech than Charlie Kirk, and we must continue his legacy on every campus in America”
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Fall colors, Louisiana style. There is even a bee in there!
Zoom in of wild flowers. On left, purple pompom-like flowers, about 1 cm diameter. On right yellow goldenrod, which has smaller flowers. There is a bee in the middle of the golden rod
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Hubs still wears his CSDMS socks- maybe 10 years on??? He is also wearing a CU Boulder shirt I brought him back (maybe 12 years ago!), but he wouldn’t let me photo the whole ensemble 🤣🤣🤣
Picture of two feet in grey socks with blue toes. On the side of the socks it says “exploring earth’s surface”. The socks come up about 2” above the ankle and there is an abstract logo with white, green, and blue squares and the letters “CSDMS” above the logo. White dog paw in the background
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Louisiana state government is open, but this is what I get when I try to log in to the DMV… WHY????? Even paying money is difficult
Image of a web page that states “server error in ‘/omvservices’ application with a bunch of html code below
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Hubs contribution to Halloween decorations
Large decorative skeleton sitting on brick stoop with his hand on a large bottle of Jim Beam
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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There is a bee in there! I’m not the only one who enjoys my garden
Close up photo of 9 or so swamp sunflowers with a bee in the center of one of the flowers
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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My swamp sunflowers!
Dense green stems leaning to the left with lots of yellow swamp sunflowers (smaller than regular sunflowers)
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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This is why I hate embedding figures into submitted manuscripts. D&mn w0rd is maddening with inline figures
Photo of computer screen with word document open. Top page is empty with no text. Next page has one line of text with a figure below it
October 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My wild flowers are finally starting to pop after a long, flowerless summer
Three “swamp sunflowers” golden yellow-orange leaves like traditional sunflowers, but longer and less dense leaves relative to traditional sunflowers. Center is greenish yellow and relatively smaller in comparison with traditional sunflowers
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Tried to wash my kid’s moldy lunch box with bleach, only to learn that could create a super mold. So if my family is found dead, please report the Keith Haring lunchbox
White lunch box with colorful dancers in the style of artist Keith Haring
October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Joys of kid’s seemingly nightly practices … full moon over City Park #SoccerMomButNotAnnoying
Picture of a full moon over a stadium with empty bleachers and a bunch of kids playing soccer on the field
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Last 9 months in a pin
Picture of a round pin with a grey background. At top in white letters it says “I’m sorry I called you an asshole” below in black letters it says “I thought you knew”
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Just visited my kid’s 7th grade computer science class and I couldn’t connect my laptop to present. 😭 was very rough and I was so proud of my gif filled ppt, and especially this slide of basic code (my first language) and a gif of a dot matrix printer.
Image of a PowerPoint slide with basic code in all brown text on the upper left and a dot matrix printer in the lower right
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I’ve been thinking of my NSF friends constantly. Cute dog photo that will maybe make you smile
Brown pit bull with white nose and paws laying on a sofa with her butt touching a multi-colored beagle facing the opposite direction on the sofa. Both dogs looking at camera with sunlight streaming over them from the window behind
October 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM