Dr. Katie I.

I'm Katie, a #marinegeologist that uses ROVs and submersibles to study deep-sea #hydrothermal circulation. I'm a huge advocate for #scientificoceandrilling. I also sew #costumes for fun. Welcome!

Alas, did not get this, but it was a long shot. (If y'all are going to sea and need someone who kicks ass at doing oceanographic fieldwork, I'm your huckleberry)

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Just fucking read the paper

Billions of our hard earned tax dollars that were meant for science funding went unspent. The money will be spent on whatever Trump's priorities are, not basic research. Brought to you from party of waste, fraud of abuse. 🧪 cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Yesterday, a mooring in Monterey Bay measured an oceanic temperature anomaly of 4.57°C (8.2°F) at 60 meters (nearly 200 feet!) This is the warmest subsurface temperature anomaly measured at the station since the very strong El Niño of 1997.

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

Something I wish more people would realize.

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

It's annoying to be a reviewer, and suspect you are reading something an AI author has written, or to be an author and suspect you are reading what an AI reviewer has written. A system where humans volunteer time to engage with AI products is not going to last.

I point this out every year, and am often told that "surely this cannot be true!" But surveys consistently report similar numbers, and it illustrates why increasing public & private institutional visibility of individual *scientists* (not just "science in the abstract") is actually quite important.

*drags hands down face* *screams into a pillow*

When I was growing up in the 80s/90s, contracting HIV was a death sentence. Not anymore. #NoDayButToday

This is unfortunately a trend that I've noticed in LLM marketing in the last year where they *very directly* are marketing to people by going, "Hey, you're fucking lazy, right? Use our product."

“I believe that NSF has lost any semblance of independence.” Physicist Neal Lane, former director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), is among those who say that staff changes at the top of the agency are a sign of its de facto takeover by the administration of President Donald Trump.

The National Science Foundation, in its current form, cannot be trusted.

"During normal times at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pending retirement of its acting head after 18 months without a permanent director would suggest the $9 billion research agency is adrift and leaderless." The National Science foundation is leaderless.

THEY'RE HERE!!! Still no clue on the innards bc the ID stickers were ripped away at exactly the wrong spot. 💀💀 These are a winter project that I can't start until [redacted] is finished. 😎 The newer will get Batocera loaded for retro gaming, and the older will be a Linux box for audio streaming.

"The decrease in awarded grants can be seen across nearly all the agency’s directorates, Ross notes, despite Congress prohibiting the NSF from cutting any directorate’s budget by more than 5% compared with fiscal 2024 in the latest spending bill." The National Science Foundation is a lawless agency

"But according to the latest data compiled by Grant Witness, the NSF awarded 6,238 grants in fiscal 2026 and around 8,650 in fiscal 2025, compared with an average of 11,387 grants awarded annually between fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2024."

"The number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...and those populations haven’t come close to recovering, the study found."

We have been robbed.

Alone, the date of the funding opportunity slipping is probably not that big of a deal. But at a time when every solicitation is being reviewed by OSTP and held up for months (or, in some cases, more than a year), this is another sign of breakdown in NSF's basic ability to function.

Oh hey, my neighborhood beach. Nobody should be doing more than dipping their toes in the water there. Beach is steep AF, the waves and rip currents are always wild, and it's entirely unsafe for swimming (marked via signage). Beautiful, yes, but often has hazardous conditions.

Since this population is forever exhaustively overworked, on the job market, or being forced out of academia altogether, it’s nearly impossible to create sustained intellectual community with the majority of one’s colleagues.

Alongside the decades-long gutting of institutional funding, I believe part of what has happened is the system-wide pressures to de-skill and modularize core curriculum so that the foundational courses are taught by the cheapest, largest, and least-protected population of instructors.

Dawn over Kīlauea 🌋 volcano as its 55th episode is under way — www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZ...

I love getting the text that my ballot has been received and will be counted. 🥰🥰

Half of Morro Bay is under a THREE DAY LONG PSPS. It was dead calm yesterday. Breezy today, but not super windy. I've never seen a 3 day PSPS (and this was with little warning). It's balls hot here today (98F). And ofc you can't claim lost groceries on PSPS shutoffs. 🙄💀

If you've got a professional account on Instagram switch it to a personal account before the 30th, or Facebook is going to essentially have full licence rights to everything you put on there 🤷

Earth Girls are Easy for Tax Purposes 😂😂😂

Die Another Day for Tax Purposes The World is Not Enough for Tax Purposes Tomorrow Never Dies for Tax Purposes