Renee Pieschke

How do I get this to happen to me?

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?

You know what platform never crashes?

My cat’s vet responded the same way the other day.

Sylvatic Plague Sylvatic plague is a flea-borne bacterial disease of wild rodents. Humans, pets, and wildlife can be afflicted with this disease.  Prairie dogs are highly susceptible to plague and are the primary foo...

www.usgs.gov/programs/fis... Sylvatic Plague | U.S. Geological Survey

Love northern exposure so much.

Ableism is everywhere.

When you say “only the vulnerable have to worry”… that’s ableism.

When you tell someone to “just try harder”… that’s ableism.

When you ask if someone has pre-existing conditions? That’s ableism.

No social justice without disability justice and inclusion.

A picture of Minnehaha Falls from last summer. Waiting for the lilacs to stop blooming til I can go on more walks.

Please stop saying N95 masks prevent facial recognition. First off, they don't. Second, this completely undermines the other more important reason we're wearing them and offers up the exact reasoning anti-maskers want to use as an excuse for banning them.

Need to get out in nature a bit.

COVID, flu, measles, and all airborne viruses can seriously harm anyone, not just people who are immunocompromised. EVERYONE has a medical reason to wear a mask at any time and in any place.

Minnehaha Falls and the Stone Bridge just Bellow the Falls (1926)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Looking across the bridge up the falls

Team standard time. Solar noon forever.

It’s a horrible reality that many of us are not respected in medical settings when we advocate for ourselves but we require an ally (often with privilege such as male, white, etc) to advocate for basic needs

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Same.

I wish I could have a restful weekend for a change, but I can't.

The role of librarians is increasingly essential in today's society, particularly in promoting information literacy and identifying disinformation.

Two bird skeletons. They are large, standing fairly upright, and have noticeably small wings.

Something for (sub) #FossilFriday!

Saw a beautiful pair of solitaire skeletons at the Hunterian. These birds were basically the island of Rodrigues' equivalent of a dodo.

Also large, also flightless, also driven to extinction by European colonists 🦤🧪🦉

Wishing you and yours a healthy, safe start to this holiday season. 🦃

I think one of the reasons is because it’s easier to control the temperature. I haven’t had a gas range since I was a kid first learning how to cook. It didn’t take too long to adapt to coils or glass cooktops.

‘Forever chemicals’ found in Big Sioux River, based on preliminary data • South Dakota Searchlight Preliminary sampling data identified “forever chemicals” (PFAS) in the Big Sioux River in eastern South Dakota.

"32 detections representing 9 types of PFAS compounds. They detected 1 or more PFAS compounds at 9 of the 11 sites, all below Watertown.

At Falls Park, researchers found amounts of a PFAS tied most commonly to firefighting foams at 30 parts per trillion"

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/11/21/f...

Is it time series or timeseries? Not grammatically. I know that answer. To me, the singular word represents serial data better. Let me know if you agree and if you have some etymological evidence of when it was first used as a single word.

Canada's new satellite-based forest inventory (#SBFI) uses image segmentation to create detailed, stand-level maps for forest science & monitoring, including tree species and #biomass, available via open access. #Landsat
📜Paper: doi.org/10.1093/fore...
🔗Data: opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nf...

One of my water colleagues pointed me toward this excellent starter pack.

The World Is Losing Its Sandy Beaches. Here's What We Can Do to Save Them Sandy beaches are beloved recreational settings, and they are also one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems. Up to 70% of California’s beaches may disappear by the end of this century

"The World Is Losing Its Sandy Beaches. Here's What We Can Do to Save Them" by Dr. Karen Martin

Note that beach armoring (sea walls, etc.) don't protect the beach. We need beaches for so many reasons.

www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

Foggy scene on a lake, nearly all Grey with dock on lower right of frame with two people fishing

Foggy scene today while birdwatching out at Bald Eagle State Park in central Pennsylvania

Hmmmm. Maybe this will pick up due to recent events.