#stream science

[thedisablednaturalist]

This is a long shot but if someone can save me a few hours worth of research I'd be super grateful

I am a field technician doing stream monitoring and my local county department is developing a more detailed assessment method using family-level pollution tolerances rather than the more commonly used method of sorting specimens into either Philopotamidae vs. Hydropsychidae. Through my research I've found that tolerance varies between members of the same family, and it is useful to also be aware of genus-level tolerances. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a good reference for many genera (except for macroinvertebrates.org, love that site) I also don't have access to paywalled research papers and have been stuck with looking through old government reports and open-source journals. Is anyone willing to share a good paper/report/website with me that includes any information available for Trichoptera (and any other macroinvertebrate order) genera-level tolerance values?

(I tried posting on reddit but all the relevant invert forums are dead)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

M42, Star Streams of Orion

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

You have been in suspension for 9999999-

[good-chimes]

Okay, so, a summary of the Scar & Tubbo livestream:

Tubbo is extremely excited to meet Scar

Scar has no idea what they’re doing

They have picked a challenge world in which lava is constantly rising

Tubbo picked this world

Tubbo did not read a tutorial and has no idea what they’re doing either

They totally fail to gather appropriate resources

Scar uses this time to successfully convince Tubbo that fireflies now exist in Minecraft

Scar attempts the double-life dripstone trick on Tubbo

They scaffold up above the lava. Scar nearly dies about five times. They escape to the nether, nearly dying again when Scar puts the lava bucket in the wrong place.

Tubbo: “Er, I’ve just had a discord message from Grian that just says Welcome to my world.”

Tubbo: “Also my chat keeps telling me you betrayed me??”

Tubbo destroys the nether portal back “until we’ve talked this out!”

Scar: “I haven’t betrayed you!”

Scar: “Grian will vouch for me!”

Grian has left the chat.

Scar reluctantly admits that they didn’t put fireflies in Minecraft

They leave the nether for the lava-world again and realize they’ve won

Scar falls into the lava by accident and Tubbo dies trying to save him.

Grian enters voicechat and proposes a therapy group of people who have had to keep Scar alive.

Tubbo immediately volunteers to join this.

Grian re-convinces Tubbo there are now fireflies in Minecraft.

[archiarthur]

The Texan rizz

[randomthunk]

Every January I reach the point where I've been watching a constant stream of MST3K episodes since Thanksgiving, so I just have to draw something. Dr. Forrester is fun since he has such a strong look, including a ponytail in the early seasons because mullets.

[possiblyawesometmblr]

the faculty photo they take for the middle school yearbook:

[mindblowingscience]

The Gulf Stream is almost certainly weakening, a new study has confirmed. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with grave implications for the world's climate.  The ocean current starts near Florida and threads a belt of warm water along the U.S. East Coast and Canada before crossing the Atlantic to Europe. The heat it transports is essential for maintaining temperate conditions and regulating sea levels.  But this stream is slowing down, researchers wrote in a study published Sept. 25 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.  "This is the strongest, most definitive evidence we have of the weakening of this climatically-relevant ocean current," lead-author Christopher Piecuch, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said in a statement.

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[donniesexceptionalmind]

Solar Eclipse, 8th April of 2024

Credit to NASA 💜

It was so beautiful.

[thecoffeeisblack]

Quick sketch for a possible stream avatar. Mostly just for fun.

[thedisablednaturalist]

Trash buildup over a month in the bandalong.

PLEASE dispose of your shit properly. ESPECIALLY if it's styrofoam. Styrofoam breaks up into tiny beads and is impossible for us to clean. We have to throw out woody debris because it gets covered in the stuff, which gets rid of important habitat for guys like

This painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and lil toad were using the bandalong as habitat (lots of tasty fish and bugs congregate on it)

Also if you pee in a bottle...pls...dispose of it properly...you'd be surprised how many bottles we find with suspiciously yellow liquid.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

M43, Star Streams of Orion

[evilkitten3]

team minato modern middle school au where kakashi is the annoying genius who skipped like two grades, rin somehow lives in a hospital (no one's sure which nurse/doctor is her parent but. it's one of them. right? it's gotta be. no way did a bunch of worked-half-to-death medical staff accidentally adopt a baby someone forgot about. definitely one of them is her parent. her birth certificate is around here somewhere i'm sure look i'll get back to you once my shift ends in six hours), and obito is the class clown who lives with his awful anarchist stoner grandpa and calls his house "the cave"

minato is a former student of kakashi's dad's friend and he's their carpool driver bc no way in hell would that man be allowed to teach in real life

[pactw]

i love seeing foolish's process of learning spanish. it's like he's trying to rebuild the language itself from the ground up as he goes. like, he doesn't want to know that X means Y and be done with it, he needs the history of the latin alphabet, a phonetics lesson on all possible pronunciations of X, and an explanation for why people decided that it comes after W. his approach to spanish seems to carry an underlying hope that he'll be able to logic a thousand-year old romance language into becoming, like, a balto-slavic toki pona. this guy is trying to min-max the tower of babel, i want to study him in a lab.

[incandescent-creativity]

I can’t believe I never knew the original version of this meme was about NASA. Fuckin relatable.