"Capt" Trevor Sloughter, PhD 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@thelogicman
Ocean, climate, and ecological modeller, Exeter Uni. Fake captain, actual PhD. I give public talks and blog about science and sci-fi. Mostly post about nerd stuff. He/him. Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind.
😭 No really I am happy for Eala, she is incredible, but damn I'm sad to see Świątek lose 😭 That's the problem with my favourite sport being tennis, it's too personal. I have favourites (Świątek, Alcaraz, Raducanu, Auger-Aliassime, etc) but I don't like seeing anyone else lose either.
I'll vote for anyone who brings this energy (in actions, not just words) to fossil fuel companies.
I'm usually a Marvel fanboy but I swear DC has a lot more queer stuff going on I may be starting to switch sides... (Plus I enjoyed Dreamer on CW's Supergirl) Now finally after a wee delay I've got Dream Girls 1 and 2 by @planetx.bsky.social and @nicoleamaines.bsky.social, let's gooooo
Lucasfilm making the Mandalorian take off his helmet:
Eeeeee. I don't often get hardbacks anymore, but I was very eager to read this after loving @chanda.blacksky.app's previous book The Disordered Cosmos, and now I've got it, weee
(small caveat being that most experts did expect pretty much any and all disease outbreaks were and still are on the table under RFK Jr)
Weee, very excited to finally get Justice League Intergalactic Special by @planetx.bsky.social and @nicoleamaines.bsky.social. My computer broke (sad) so I can't really work right now (neutral) but this just arrived (hooray!)
Orbán and his infrastructure were important to the international far-right, and he turned Hungary into a competitive authoritarian state. It took a lot of time and effort, but he still lost. There's plenty to be concerned about regarding his replacement, but his loss matters, and it should inspire
I am Frank Grimes and Daredevil: Born Again is my Homer
This is great! Already a fan of all three and want to recommend this bundle to others.
A tie? There should be more of those. More ties, please.
Breadroll also likes to take selfies. #OSM26
Breadroll the seal and Clyde the Highland Coo are enjoying #OSM26 in Glasgow. It's Breadroll's seconds Ocean Sciences Meeting, after 2018, and Clyde's first.
This is such an innocuous (and very funny and rather poignant) post that follows such a clear structure with obviously signposted irony... and apparently people are still misinterpreting it in all the worst ways in the replies?
I keep thinking I'm done with this meme but somehow George Osborne keeps reminding me he exists.
A desk shortage means that— while I have no qualms with people using my space while I'm away— I should make clear the space is (on paper) mine and I'll be back. So I put some origami sea animals around. The copepod and bowhead whale designs comes from @neilbanas.bsky.social See: origamiplankton.org
I dunno if the new Hamlet (dir: Aneil Karia, starring Riz Ahmed) is all that good judged solely on its own merits, but I do recommend it to my fellow other Hamlet nerds (nerdlets? Hamnerds?) for its very interesting choices of adaptation. I will not be explaining this Heathcliff reference.
Slowly and steadily, @ryannorth.ca is taking over my bookshelves.
Don't ask me to explain it, I just feel like this is one of the greatest single panels in comics
What shall be my first bird sighting of 2026? And what shall be the first new bird I add to my life list in 2026?
This passage is good. Really describes how Tesla functions, and why it never seems to be focused on finishing or delivering the glitzy products it promises are the future.
I mean come on, some of these shots are just so great to look at. One of Marvel's biggest flaws (at least as cinematography and VFX go) is that all to often it doesn't linger on its best looking moments long enough.
The MCU deserves a LOT of the shit-talk it gets for its management-minded assembly-line process, and the horrid crunch put on VFX teams, but some amazing shots have been made by really talented people trying their best and I just wanna shout out just a tiny sample of some of my faves.