Celeste Labedz

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environmental seismologist - doctor of glacier vibes - geoscience educator - she/her - opinions only my own - puns only my worst - www.crlabedz.net

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Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· 24d

Getting hyped for the World Cup final by studying the important texts of the sport.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· 26d

The Canadian climate scientists are keeping track for all of us! Data from cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/en/fire-hist...

Graph titled "Number of Fires and Area Burned in Canada by Year" from the Canadian National Fire database with data from 1970 to 2025. Shows lines for number of fires and bars for burned area. Number of fires squiggles through time without an extremely clear trend. Burned area is at first mostly low with higher years occasionally, then around 2000 most years are moderate with low or high infrequent, then 2023, 2024, and 2025 are all high.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jul 11

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A rainbow in a pinkish gold sky above some trees

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jul 9

Jeopardy keeping standards higher than most universities

Screen cap of listing from Sony Pictures Careers, reading:

"key responsibilities:
- Write an average of 8 categories per week
- Source material to show standards (no Wikipedia, no AI)
- Contribute to writers' meetings with constructive feedback on game material
- Work hand-in-glove with the research staff and rewrite clues as needed based on feedback from researchers
- Write test material when needed
- Assist on tape days with last minute replacement clues
- Provide rapid-response research on tape days to help with on-stage judging during game play"

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jun 19

Liquid center? It should have a crunchy outer shell, taffy layer, liquid layer, and then a hard center.

Packed of gummy planets by Herbert's Best candy, with a cartoon Earth on it with eyes, smile, and sneakers. It says "fruity liquid center!" with a picture of red goo.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jun 17

why is doctor eggman selling me smores

Side of a box of Hershey's chocolate on a store shelf. There's a picture of a s'more at the place where the punch-in carrying holes are. The holes look like eyes and the partially melted chocolate looks like a moustache

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jun 17

I had a flight yesterday that went over DC. If you look in the bottom right corner of the picture, you can see how green the reflecting pool is.

Aerial view of Washington DC from an airplane window. In the bottom corner, you can see that the reflecting pool is the same color green as areas of grass and trees

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jun 9

Hey quick question for people who have been in New England longer than I have: w h a t

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jun 9

It's fun to write a post to a weird reply guy knowing he'll block you for it, and then watch things play out exactly as predicted.

Screencap of first post in original thread (text at end) with a reply from goethean.bsky.social reading "Paper dictionaries do exist" and then a reply to that from celestelabedz.bsky.social reading "They sure do! Paper stationary also exists for you to write odd replies on, but here we are."

Original post from celestelabedz@bsky.social reads "A weird little benefit of Google's ongoing enshittification is that I'm visiting more websites again??? When I need a definition/synonyms, instead of googling, I'm now typing a dictionary/thesaurus URL and searching there. When I need a fact, instead of googling, I'm typing the Wikipedia URL first."

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jun 5

You don't even have to go back as far as the walkman. The satisfying flipability of the Samsung Alias 2 was load-bearing for my emotional regulation from 2010-2016.

Product pictures of the Samsung Alias 2, showing it in its three different modes: closed, open vertically like a standard flip phone for calling, and open horizontally like a laptop for texting

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· May 25

This is going to take a while.

Screencap of a Wikipedia article title: "List of individual rocks"

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· May 13

It took some digging, but so did that day of urban node deployment!

A little orange flag in the dirt near where a string sticks out, next to a hedge on the side of a parking lot at an In-N-Out burger

A white cylinder with a string on top in a small hole in the dirt

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Apr 7

Cool tidbit from NASA's Artemis II tracker site: the Moon now appears to be passing through the path that the spacecraft took not that long ago! It continues to emphasize that you don't simply "go to the Moon;" it's more like you rendezvous with the Moon at a future location.

Screencap of NASA's Artemis II tracker website, which shows the path of the spacecraft as well as the Earth and Moon. The Moon now intersects where the path previously crossed the Lunar orbit.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Apr 6

As Artemis II enters their loss of signal, I keep thinking about the closest I've ever come to loss of signal. In 2017 I spent almost a month on a glacier near Juneau, AK for field work. While retrieving seismometers, we realized we were missing a GPS point, so we fanned out to find the sensor.

Photo almost entirely of a flat blue-gray color, with a slight snowy texture on the bottom and the tiny dark gray silhouette of a person on skis in the distance in the center

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Apr 6

From the Artemis livestream: "everyone's in this picture"

The Orion capsule, the Moon, and the Earth, as captured in one picture by a camera on Orion's solar arm.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Apr 5

Noooooooo! I tried to show my partner and the coin fell off!

Ice in a small Tupperware that smoothly spikes up into a sharp point. A dime sits in the container, but not on the point, just on the side.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Apr 3

I did the "coin on ice to check if your freezer went out" trick while I was travelling over the holidays, but left it since then. Somehow the ice ablated away into a weird little peak holding up the coin???

A tiny plastic container of ice. The ice's surface goes up into a peak, with a dime stuck on top of the peak. From some angles, it might look like the dime is floating.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Apr 1

Whenever I think about the Moon a bunch, this Tumblr post from one of my undergrad friends pops back into my brain:

Screencap of a Tumblr post by account "damespock" reading "i'm so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i'd have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom"

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Mar 16

Sound on for an authentic Nebraska experience! The spring sandhill crane migration on the Platte River is truly unparalleled.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Mar 11

Cosmo Prof? You mean like @astrokatie.com?

A makeup store called "Cosmo Prof" in a strip mall

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Mar 4

This jigsaw puzzle is evil in a way that I deeply respect.

The completed "Summer Day On The River" jigsaw puzzle from Yetch. The puzzle is nearly all edge pieces, depicting a narrow winding cartoon river with frogs, fish, lily pads, rocks, butterflies, and mice throughout.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Mar 2

No special equipment needed to see a lunar eclipse, even with light pollution. Just look! If you want a better view, try binoculars. You can even get okay photos with phones. Try a long exposure setting (night mode) and brace your phone against something. 2022 & 2023 eclipses from my phone:

The Los Angeles skyline at night with the moon above it in red.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Mar 2

In case you missed it among all of the everything lately, there's a total lunar eclipse tomorrow morning! If you're in a red part of the map, you may be able to see the moon turn red! Details in thread below, or catch more info from Time & Date, who made the map: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

World map with red covering North and South America, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific ocean

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Mar 2

New corny joke just dropped thanks to my partner's layover:

Screencap of text chat with messages reading "hello from DC" and "Do you know all flights into DC are one way? You have to fly into AC for round-trips"

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Feb 27

I keep getting this makeup ad but my brain was wrecked by The Simpsons

Makeup ad for Le Skin serum foundation by m.ph at Sephora with the tagline "feels like you're wearing nothing at all" above a model's face

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Feb 25

I went cross-country skiing on a beach today!

Woman wearing skis, sunglasses, and a small backpack, skiing on snow that fades into sand, then boulders, then water.

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Feb 15

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wine in two tumbler glasses, one printed with organic molecules and one printed with the rock cycle

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Feb 14

The absolute power of Muppets. I saw this post, said quietly but excitedly out loud to the empty room "Slimey's there!!!" and then literally thought "I hope he's having fun."

Instagram post by the official Sesame Street account showing Slimey the worm in a hat and scarf next to some skates, skis, a snowboard, and a curling stone. Caption "Slimey has arrived in Italy, and he is shredding the slopes! Bravissimo, Slimey!"

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jan 29

Yes, in the Dune remake I'm working on:

Cups of chocolate pudding with crushed oreos and rainbow gummy worms on top

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz· Jan 19

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness