charlotte minsky

@minsky

researching ancient climate change at Harvard lapsed historian of science @bostondykemarch.com volunteer wrangler opinions my microbiome’s

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charlotte minsky@minsky· Jul 10

extremely delighted with my new @nickseaver.website merch, courtesy of @peteyskies.bsky.social

Bumper sticker that says "Keep Honking! I'm reading Donna Haraway's germinal 1988 essay, 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective'".

charlotte minsky@minsky· Apr 27

suggested playlist to have on in the background while you read the paper

Screenshot of Spotify playlist called "Limit cycle paper" that just alternates repeatedly between "Snow (Hey Oh)" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and "Open Water" by Fust

charlotte minsky@minsky· Apr 27

My latest paper is out in @pnas.org! We argue that the Sturtian Snowball may have actually alternated between ice-covered and ice-free states, offering a self-consistent solution to questions in the geologic record about the Sturtian climate & survival of aerobic life 👀 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two line plots. Left is a time series showing temperature oscillating between ice-covered and ice-free over 50+ Myr. Right is a plot of temperature vs. pCO2 showing the Snowball hysteresis loop, with volcanic CO2 accumulation in the ice-covered regime leading to rapid melting and enhanced silicate weathering in the ice-free regime leading to rapid freezing.

charlotte minsky@minsky· Mar 14

this week's sewing/microelectronics project is a skirt for contra dance that glows when I spin

charlotte minsky@minsky· Mar 2

please don't phase out the old red line trains yet @mbta.com, I only just finished sewing my camouflage jacket

Me standing inside an MBTA subway car wearing a black and grey jacket with a multicolor squiggle pattern that resembles the train seat fabric and a red zipper. I'm leaning against a pole and looking at the camera with a black KF94 mask on and a neutral expression.

Jacket laid out on train seats. The grey fabric is lighter than the train seat upholstery and the multicolored squiggles are smaller and more densely packed, but it looks similar enough to blend in. The jacket also has black panels and cuffs and red zippers and piping.

charlotte minsky@minsky· Dec 12

going to #AGU25 next week? come watch me realize in real time that I've been studying Snowball Earth for four years and still can't reliably pronounce "glaciation" out loud

Screenshot of conference program with text: PP13C-0896 Repeated Snowball-hothouse cycles within the Neoproterozoic Sturtian Glaciation. Monday, 15 December 2025. 14:15-17:45. Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)

Rolled-up poster with words "hothouse" and "Glaciation" visible in the title. Most of the poster isn't visible but a couple edges of line plots are exposed and a few words ("Temperature (K)", "rapid freezing", "cycle imbalance forces", and "hot, ice-free climates").

charlotte minsky@minsky· Oct 20

Good shit

Rainbow over houses and trees in dark cloudy sky at golden hour, with power lines in the foreground

charlotte minsky@minsky· Jan 29

YEAH

Picture of radish container that's says "spicy radish kimchi(s)" and then "ingredients: korean radish, sprite (carbonated water, corn syrup, citric acid), sugar, scallions, vinegar, red pepper powder, salt"

charlotte minsky@minsky· Nov 22

spotted an extremely Cambridge, MA box of free books (not pictured: stacks of 70s Star Trek novels)

Picture of three books stacked on top of a cardboard box labeled "free." Books are Machine Translation by Thierry Poibeau, Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger by Hartmut Lange, and Types and Programming Languages

charlotte minsky@minsky· Jan 18

slowly finding more ways to sneak aperiodic monotiles into my apartment

Window with DIY fake stained glass in the pattern of the "kite"-shaped aperiodic monotile filled in with a rainbow of different
colors

charlotte minsky@minsky· Sep 14

officially passed the first year of my PhD ✅ got complimented on my dinosaur pants by adorable children coming out of the natural history museum next to my department ✅