Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad
lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)
Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around
Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram
in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine.
i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft
I like my water fluoridated, my milk pasteurized, my vaccines on schedule, my medicine evidence-based, and my food sustainable, even if that means genetically modifying it.
I’m just going to say this because I am tired of seeing my peers, agriculture workers and scientists in general being bashed on social media. It’s definitely not good for our mental health and I know many desperately try avoid those kinds of situations, but
the only reason science deniers get away with their shit is because they post their science-denying crap where other science deniers can see it and support them, thereby perpetuating the cycle. science-deniers will flat out refuse to acknowledge facts, bullying anyone who contradicts what they believe. they are a community of intimidators
and guess what, it’s not your fault so do not feel guilty about it. do your best to educate people, but don’t let it get to you when they throw it back in your face.
I get angry, and I know you do too but don’t beat yourself up because someone else is stupid. You can only take your responsibility so far, other people need to be responsible for themselves and it’s not on you.
im highkey convinced that 99% of americans cant name the 7 continents correctly
Africa, Australia, South America, North America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe (?)
Probably messed that up but eh
australia is not a continent lghjglkhjglk
its oceania which also includes n. zealand, polynesia, etc.
Told you I messed up
If I wasn’t sick rn I might be able to? Idk geography isn’t my strong suit.
Oceania isn’t considered a continent where I live. Its Australia.
Australia is a continent and I have Google backing me up
Do people really not know the seven continents???????
Australia… isn’t… a continent… it’s… Oceania…
A continent’s a big chunk of mass do it’d be australia
OK YALL MOST AMERICAN SCHOOLS CONSIDER AUSTRALIA TO BE A CONTINENT BECAUSE THE SYLLABUS AND WHAT INFORMATION IS TAUGHT VARIES FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT TO SCHOOL DISTRICT
I cant believe this got 97 notes ajfkskd
and a discussion wheter australia is or isnt a continent djgkdn
Yeah i was taught that Australia is a continent and country so
this is weird
wikipedia english calls it australia
while other languages call it oceania
German says Australia
In Croatia it’s Australia. It’s both a country and a continent.
Our books were inconsistent. Half of them said Australia, and the other half said Oceania.
And Indians are just as ridiculously bad at geography as Americans despite having it as a school subject (while Americans do not). One of my classmates thought Czechoslovakia was in Africa…
In Australia we use both….
Australia for the continent.
Australiasia for Australia, New Zealand, and a couple of neighbouring islands, sometimes including Papua.
Oceania as a broader geographic region, also including Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. Its a large enough geographic region that it also includes the Bonin island (Japanese), Hawaii, Juan Fernandez Islands (Chilean), and the Cocos Keeling Islands (Australian, but closer to Java than Australia…).
And if you want to play plate tectonics, it’s called the Australian plate. The current position seems to be that it broke from the Indo-Australian plate (again). Much of what is included in Oceania is not on the Australian plate, nor any where close to it.
sjdkak i almost forgot of this post
thanks for your input
In Canada we were mostly taught Australia (Australia is a continent, country, and an island! Wow so cool), but we have some books that say Oceania and that’s what I always went by. Bottom line is it’s sort of a grey area and no one’s really right or wrong.
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