Chaos in the bird feeder this morning. My two squirrel buddies decided to tolerate each other again so I grabbed my camera. A third tried to get in on the action and these crazy photos ensued. I promise no squirrel was injured. All of this happened in the space of seconds. #Mammals 🌿

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

In case there was any confusion.

get in losers we're flying the barn

📸 Do you work in near-surface geophysics? I'm looking for a few recent community photos (field, lab, classes, conferences) to include in the upcoming issue of the EEGS magazine. Focus is environmental & engineering near-surface geophysics. DM for details. ⚒️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM

Today is the 10 year (!!) anniversary of my first space pottery. (Thread)

What's My JND? 0.0018 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd... (this was vaguely upsetting)

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

Invasion: Earth. Very fun commission and a throwback to one of my first bowls.

Visiting friends in Salt Lake and got a bonus earthquake! Really wiggly, as compared to the short impulses of what I typically experienced in Berkeley.

Okay I admit we are referring to #StarfleetAcademy as "Space Riverdale" in our household, and I'm not sure how I feel overall about the series. But the last two episodes have been rock solid and Holly Hunter is superb. If you dropped it early, give the latest episodes a chance.

US NSF/GEO folks: if you/your students had GRFP applications that were returned without review, please send a note to [email protected] - they are logging and handling inquiries.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

oh hello X8 flare Would you like to direct some happy energized particles this way? Thanks in advance.

I guess I have the unpopular opinion that my earth science colleagues are being weird about piling on a (usually decent?) science communicator about bungling something related to our field. Yeah, the doubling down on that person's part is baffling, but the pile on ain't going to help.

Hey there, couldn't help but notice your Chicago-sized bulge. 😳 Yes, the Norris uplift anomaly is back (fun!), but uh, phrasing! For more on this I'd recommend a recent Caldera Chronicles article that discusses the history of uplift around the N Yellowstone caldera rim: www.usgs.gov/observatorie...

Anywho, things are messy. We are both complicit in terrible things while also being subjected to horrors. We perpetrate harm and also experience it.

I was outside watching the sky shimmer and apparently I missed Something™...

Layered up, snacks packed, making coffee. Ready for whatever the sky brings tonight! 🫡

Get in babies, we are hope scrolling tonight

I'm sorry B_t is at 90 nT? Depending on the timing of if/when the field tips south could make tonight insane.

BREAKING: Minnesota and Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop ICE enforcement surge after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

Up until a few years ago, this cave in Carlsbad National Park could be visited on semi-wild, ranger-led tours. For the moment it is only open for work trips. After reflagging several hundred meters of trail in the cave, I took some time to capture this scene. The scale of NM caves is something else.

I’ve been volunteering at CAVE this past week but it’s been hard to focus. I grew up in a Twin Cities suburb and I am just so terrified for my home.

I just drove from Mammoth to Bozeman through intermittent heavy rain. It is January 2nd. >:(

What's your fav national park (or monument)? Death Valley for me, hands down.

Choose your 19th century weird cave formation theory fighter: ⚒️ 1) Caves are just natural void spaces in giant coral reefs 2) Caves are the plumbing systems of limey volcanoes 3) Electricity did it because I put an electrode in water and clay and the clay cracked

If you're looking for hydro academic positions & opportunities, definitely follow the @csdms.bsky.social acct, they post about a lot of openings

"Rightside Upside Down" I spent several weekends surveying and photographing this Wyoming cave over the summer. This was one of the funkier photos I tried to shoot.

It took 7.5 years, but I made it: the PhD is complete. 😮‍💨

I'm experiencing the worst nerve pain of my life—did something stupid in the gym a week ago and after a day of feeling back to normal, this bullshit—but I swear on my life this full dissertation draft will be DONE by the wee hours. (To my one committee member who is On Here: SOON, and thank you)

Holy shit. Hoping no USGS folks were in the field during this eruption

The quote used in this headline is incredibly ominous if you're not used to the phrase "in the field." 😆 www.kqed.org/news/1206608...

Someday I will learn that the problem of not knowing how to organize my scientific results into a compelling and coherent narrative is solved through the process of writing things down, however disjointed. Because writing *is* thinking.

I WAS BORN TO WATCH WATER BOIL NOT WATCH QGIS CRASH The final sprint of dissertation is going well, why do you ask?

I know the news is newsing but tonight and last night I've sat the camp chair in the backyard and typed out a couple paragraphs on the dissertation while watching auroral glow. Personally I think I'm as close to winning dissertation writing as possible without submitting.

We've had two CMEs, why not third CME? Fingers crossed for round two of aurora chasing tonight, but too early to say what this third impact has in store.

Long exposure from the camera during peak—this is not what auroras look like to the unaided eye. But I could easily walk around the terraces without a headlamp. Not much motion for this display, but very intense red colors and generally bright glow.

[manically refreshing NOAA's Real-Time Solar Wind page]

Find the pine marten!

It seems like the number of things I misplace or forget to do has grown exponentially in the last couple years. I don't know if it's increased cognitive load from living in the collapse of a democracy or something more normal, but wow do I feel incompetent as a human.

A visualisation of forest canopy height in Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido, two ways. Which do you prefer? I can never decide. What I can say is that Shiretoko is beautiful. And windy. And the sika are unafraid. Also, hot waterfalls. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

What's it like inside your head?

you are proof that love is real

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

New albums from Tame Impala, Of Monsters and Men, and The Barr Brothers this month and they're all fantastic. How am I supposed to hyperfixate on one song with all these options?

It is the end of the 2nd day. I drove a friend to the airport, tidied the house, and finished slides for the modules I'll teach this weekend at an orientation to cave rescue course.

Uncertainty ahead, but the sunrise and the day’s work were good. And I unexpectedly got to talk to 6th graders and undergrads on field trips today. Difficult to tell which group was more excited!

It's 2025 and I'm tired, but not *so* tired that I can't encourage you to vote for calcite by posting my cave photos. Here's a view from a cave system that straddles the Montana/Wyoming border. If you want to see photos from the deepest point in Carlsbad Caverns, calcite has to advance... #MinCup25