Heavy metal is good for the soul.

I like to watch Fox News on nights like this.

Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...

I paid £60 to rush my ballot back to the US when I lived in England just so that I could vote against this guy.

Highlight of the field day was finding a pig’s tail disarticulated from the original owner. Also we measured the offset of faults with our undergraduates today. Mauna Loa made a brief appearance before hiding behind the clouds.

At the empty USGS booth at GSA. More out of view on both sides

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

Kīlauea episode 35 has arrived. The double fountain shot is from one of the HVO interns, Christina. All are taken from the public viewing areas.

Banger line in the obit of the man who introduced me to rugby: In an early sign that he would always have a problem with authority, young Andy was kicked out of Catholic grammar school in the first grade for asking why the priest drove a brand new Cadillac while some of his parishioners were poor.

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

I ordered one for my office and one for our student lounge — supporting independent artists is one of the many small ways you can make the world around you a little bit better.

I wrote my entire Masters manuscript in a week. I parked myself at a 24-hour diner or a brewery in between short naps and hammered it out. I also wrote up part of my grad school comps while on a rugby tour. I don’t recommend undiagnosed ADD, but I also don’t recommend outsourcing your thinking.

This friend, scolopendra subspinipes, packs a spicy bite. This one was about 5in (12.7cm) long and hanging around the outside of my lab today.

🍎⚒️🧪🌋 So much fun filming episode 83 of Every Rock Has A Story with amazing Kama Poepoe at Kīlauea yesterday!!! Hear what makes this volcano so special and how Kama is studying its innermost secrets! youtube.com/shorts/FLRpN...

Yesterday I was reminded of the existence of Jai Alai! If you aren’t familiar, it’s a Basque game (I learned this today) that was popular in the 70’s and 80’s in Florida, Baja California, and New England. My dad used to play and was a menace on the fronton. connecticuthistory.org/the-basque-g...

⚒️🍎🧪🌋 Filming new episodes of Every Rock Has A Story on Hawaii! This place is amazing… so many stories to tell!! youtube.com/shorts/RfpDP...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a textbook that could be used for both mineralogy and ig/met petrology courses? I’m trying to reduce the number of books my students need to purchase and have found that hard copies work better for them than online-only options.

If journals want me to give a shit about their time to publication metric, they can pay my ass to edit/review and offer an incentive to publish with them. People who get my effort for free don’t get to make demands on timeliness.

Episode 34 of the ongoing eruption of #Kīlauea

Woke up and looked out my window, insomnia has its perks. Episode 34 is here after several days of overflow cycles. #Kīlauea

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Is anyone willing to share a successful GRFP they wrote along with the reviews with me? I didn’t know what they were when I was eligible and have some students that are thinking of writing them. Please and thank you.

Exciting Announcement: Our program is the 2025 winner of the @agu.org Award for Advancing Inclusive Excellence in STEM! We are so thankful to our peers and former students that nominated us for creating geoscience field training opportunities for all ⚒️🌎♿ news.clas.ufl.edu/geospace-pro...

Every conversation when someone tries to shoehorn AI into my job: Person: we will obviously discuss ethical usage when teaching the students about AI. Me: is that possible given that training data are stolen intellectual property and the environmental impacts are aggressive and disastrous?

We’re living in stupid times, enjoy this video of turtles bobbing around in the surf.

Stunning views up on Haleakalā this weekend.

A few months ago I pitched @lisatozzi.bsky.social a story about the revival of an ancient Hawaiian board game. She said just go and write it. Before the story was published today she was laid off — so thank you to Lisa for making this happen and everyone involved in the story except Mark Zuckerberg

One of the HVO interns (Christina) grabbed this shot of episode 33 from the public viewing area.

The people I know who hard scrabbled their way out of poverty - ACTUAL poverty - don’t call themselves “self made”. They are more apt to call themselves ‘community made’. They see and acknowledge the ones who helped them build along the way. And will then become someone else’s community too.

I saw this dog on my way to work. 10/10 commute experience.

Professionalism is classism, racism, and sexism in a trench coat. These same people will find new reasons to not take you seriously if you fix this; the only way to win is to not care about their opinions.

If anyone is interested, the paper from my postdoc I left (coming up to 3 years now?!) got published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Just FYI I've forgotten everything and so removed from academia now, so please direct any questions to @volcanojenni.bsky.social @davidmpyle.bsky.social

I miss my dog but I’m thankful that he doesn’t have to watch the world shrink around him anymore. He is dearly missed and my home feels empty without him. Hug your pets a little extra today for us.

professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:

The light has gone out of my life. We are saying goodbye to our best friend tomorrow. He was a good boy till the end and we had so many adventures. www.instagram.com/p/DNBDXE5xVR...

Kīlauea’s 30th episode of this eruption is underway.

she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious

Strong and unusual currents expected through the weekend could still be dangerous. We summed up the science of this huge quake @earthsciencesnz on @radionewzealand with Susie www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nice article about the tsunami response here in Hawaiʻi earlier this week. While this time the waves and impacts were minimal, it’s a reminder that isn’t always the case and we won’t always have that much time. An Aleutian earthquake can generate a tsunami that reaches Hawaiʻi in ~4.5-5 hrs.

Evaluation is important and we have good ways of evaluating instructors (observations, audits, mentoring). But the evidence is clear that asking students to Yelp review their instructors the week before exams yields no valuable information on teaching or learning--just customer satisfaction.

Hey @agu.org — your website is glitching and a bunch of us were dealing with a tsunami situation yesterday... do us all a kindness and just extend the submission window sooner rather than later. Mahalo.

Tsunami information with a side of dog.

Busy week here on the hazards front.

Hawai‘i is starting to feel a lot like Florida…

My liliko‘i (maracugá / passion fruit) is in bloom. The flowers are attracting the neighborhood bees.

We were lucky enough to deploy a ground-based radar during one of Kīlauea’s 2023 eruptions and captured some interesting deformation signals — you can lear more about it in our open access paper, lead by USF graduate student Taha Sadeghi Chorsi! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Anyway, thinking a lot today about what defines success for Indigenous scientists. I have a lot of pressure to do well by academic standards and Native standards, and really wish I had tools/wisdom earlier to make sure I didn't sacrifice one for the other.