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gweninthechair.bsky.social
Science communicator. Writer. Occasional podcaster. Haver of weird Ms. Frizzle vibes. www.thegirlinthechair.com
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The Paper Towns movie is exactly as fun and entertaining now as it was 10 years ago with all my friends in the theater. It was exactly what I needed today. #DFTBA

Woke up at the oddest possible time, saw this video. Really enjoyed it. Good morning @hankgreen.bsky.social it is really early Friday. I’m going back to sleep now. #DFTBA youtu.be/d2CYihu6bjM?...

P4A was exactly what was needed right now. So much more hope for the future than before this weekend began. I couldn't imagine life without Nerdfighteria. I love you all so much and am so thankful for every single one of you! DFTBA ❤️ #p4a2025

I'm so exhausted from the @projectforawesome.bsky.social but also so grateful for it--and especially grateful to the thousands of people who come together to make it happen every year. From chat mods to chat itself, from producers to perk designers ... SO MANY PEOPLE make the p4a awesome. Thank you.

This is what Late Nite P4A is all about #p4a2025

Oh I just laughed much too loud for midnight in an apartment building... #p4a2025

Mid-dance break snacking by @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social is an absolute mood #P4A2025

Banana Loca double event! Again! I need a Pacific Rim meme! #P4A2025

Explaining Roll for Banana Loca to someone over text. It is going somehow better and worse than expected. #P4A2025

This interview is fantastic! It makes doing paperwork bearable and confirms that I want Chloe Badner to design every inch of my living space forever.

Reminder that you don’t have to be a physicist to enjoy the work of @astrokatie.com! Everyone can have fun learning about metastability, vacuum decay, and the heat death of the universe! 🌠

Late night book list, anybody? thegirlinthechair.com/2025/02/05/t...

Excited to bring back my old habit of going to interesting science talks via Zoom! Thrilled that my Friday night was open, just so I could fill it with ultimate cosmic destruction! Have another exclamation point!

I am so so excited for the new Fantastic Four movie and it is all my best friend Josh’s fault! 😁💙

This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...

nobody wants ai

JOURNALIST: I've noticed you exude a kind of joy when you're talking about ultimate cosmic destruction via vacuum decay... why is that? ME: I just think it's neat :)

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

Immediately went and bought a ticket. I, for one, am so incredibly excited! Looking forward to seeing you again, John.

As we start the new year, I would like to remind everyone that it is now almost 120 years since the US decided consumer protection - by which I mean regulation - mattered. Given the upcoming presidential inauguration, let's talk about how that happened - and why it's so important. (A thread)

“The effect may be considerable in a few centuries” is a really remarkable sentence here…

Shiny new website, shiny new blog post! Read the new post here: thegirlinthechair.com/2024/12/30/s...

This thread, all of this, what Ann said:

Just thought of @scottniswander.bsky.social when the theme for What’s New Scooby Doo came up on my daily rock mix. It has no reason to be there, but it made me laugh. Very Scott-from-NerdSync occurrence in a playlist.

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Hey @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social is there a book tour for Everything is Tuberculosis? Inquiring minds want to know, specifically me and all my really cool nerdfighter friends 🫶🏻

This is a fantastic video. In addition to addressing the valuable work done in schools and libraries, John does something that I’ve not seen a lot of people do, which is give teenagers their credit as complex, capable, interesting people who can read critically and understand the themes of novels.

You can tell I’m cool and fun because I’ve spent the evening underlining interesting passages in a book about black holes (conveniently titled Black Hole, by @cosmosgal.bsky.social) in pink pen, instead of something sensible, like a highlighter.

Just finished The Story of More by @realhopejahren.bsky.social. Learned a lot. Feeling hopeful. Blog post forthcoming. Stay tuned.💚

The following is meant to be read at full volume, but we type in a reasonable manner: Drink tea and blast The Mountain Goats! (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) This message is brought to you by Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 and the good earl grey with a little bit of milk in it!

me: wow this playlist is so good the playlist:

Podcast I love liked my post. New microblogging platform off to a great start. 👍 (Are we calling them tweets? What are we calling them?)

Getting a taste of what it must be like to be @newestolympian.bsky.social as I send the @seaweedbrainpod.bsky.social discord my live reactions reading Trials of Apollo for the first time. Just stopped for the night after chapter 37 of Tyrant’s Tomb. 🫣(If you’ve been witnessing the play by play, hi!)

Occasionally, you enjoy a book and realize that it references @themountaingoats.bsky.social, a band you also enjoy. You of course only realize this when the endnotes tell you so, but the realization is nonetheless delightful. (The book in question is Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket, in audio)