@upulie.bsky.social
Humble polite inconsequential scientist.
“Garlic and sapphires in the mud”
“Garlic and sapphires in the mud”
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December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Transiting through Auckland today, inshallah. Maybe should have just booked Qantas to fly direct but it seemed like a great idea at the time. That and booking this flight instead of the one due to depart in half an hour just in case we got delayed by snow
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Transiting through Auckland today, inshallah. Maybe should have just booked Qantas to fly direct but it seemed like a great idea at the time. That and booking this flight instead of the one due to depart in half an hour just in case we got delayed by snow
Someone tell Mackenzie Scott to donate to my not for profit lab!!!
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Someone tell Mackenzie Scott to donate to my not for profit lab!!!
One like = one picture of my cats
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
One like = one picture of my cats
People have their toddlers riding the ie carry ons and it’s so cute
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
People have their toddlers riding the ie carry ons and it’s so cute
Desperately trying not to fall asleep in the hours I have left at the gate
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Desperately trying not to fall asleep in the hours I have left at the gate
Half the people at LAX are wearing puffas and the half are appropriately dressed in summer clothes
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Half the people at LAX are wearing puffas and the half are appropriately dressed in summer clothes
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THERE’S A DOG ON THIS FLIGHT
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
THERE’S A DOG ON THIS FLIGHT
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees:
.. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Life to the lees:
.. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees:
.. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Life to the lees:
.. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Not *now*, appendix, I got places to be
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Not *now*, appendix, I got places to be
How does a girl get her own Soundwave transformer like Jordan’s
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
How does a girl get her own Soundwave transformer like Jordan’s
Snow ploughed season has arrived
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Snow ploughed season has arrived
Hackers: give us $10,000 or we leak the photos on your phone
The photos in my phone:
The photos in my phone:
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hackers: give us $10,000 or we leak the photos on your phone
The photos in my phone:
The photos in my phone:
I think I would like to have some highland cattle of my own
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I think I would like to have some highland cattle of my own
It’s been snowing all day, very lightly, tiny flakes that melted on hitting the ground. But now, it’s serious snow, threatening to stay
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It’s been snowing all day, very lightly, tiny flakes that melted on hitting the ground. But now, it’s serious snow, threatening to stay
4oC is quite warm. -3oC is not
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
4oC is quite warm. -3oC is not
HIS TRUTH GOES MARCHING ON
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
HIS TRUTH GOES MARCHING ON
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This is the largest known retrogressive thaw slump in the world (Yakutia)! 🧊🔥
It exposes a remarkable sequence of Ice Age permafrost that record interaction of colluvial/eolian/periglacial processes on a hillslope episodically forested during last 650 ka! 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
It exposes a remarkable sequence of Ice Age permafrost that record interaction of colluvial/eolian/periglacial processes on a hillslope episodically forested during last 650 ka! 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is the largest known retrogressive thaw slump in the world (Yakutia)! 🧊🔥
It exposes a remarkable sequence of Ice Age permafrost that record interaction of colluvial/eolian/periglacial processes on a hillslope episodically forested during last 650 ka! 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
It exposes a remarkable sequence of Ice Age permafrost that record interaction of colluvial/eolian/periglacial processes on a hillslope episodically forested during last 650 ka! 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Will science for food
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Will science for food
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Thought I’d finish out a month of Alaska Native-created books with my favorite Indigenous book illustrator - my dad.
These are two self-published projects I collaborated with him on and I love that I’m still able to share his work like this, months after he passed.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
These are two self-published projects I collaborated with him on and I love that I’m still able to share his work like this, months after he passed.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 30
It feels a bit weird to promote my own work, but I can’t let a series on Alaska Native-created books go by without talking about my favorite illustrator and collaborator – my dad. Don “Wakees…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Thought I’d finish out a month of Alaska Native-created books with my favorite Indigenous book illustrator - my dad.
These are two self-published projects I collaborated with him on and I love that I’m still able to share his work like this, months after he passed.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
These are two self-published projects I collaborated with him on and I love that I’m still able to share his work like this, months after he passed.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The cat got mad at me for petting him even though he had assumed the PET ME, BITCH, position so he went to sleep on the floor. Absolute weirdo
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The cat got mad at me for petting him even though he had assumed the PET ME, BITCH, position so he went to sleep on the floor. Absolute weirdo