Of all of the crazy in this email (the fact that he was writing to himself, and, oh, all of the content), what shocks me is that apparently Jeffrey Epstein knew about the Fourier transform.

Global seismology has entered the chat.

This is horrific. I've been counting down the days to his concert next week. Sending all good thoughts for healing to this king of singing and songwriting.

Never realized how much excellent life advice is available in the comments to the New York Times cooking section.

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Finally there's something better than the lobster scene in Annie Hall.

Worth reading the whole thread to see how @brandontbishop.bsky.social got to this question.

This was behind a paywall for me (ironic, since I'm quoted in it), but if you can read it, it's worthy. If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

It wasn't enough to overthrow their queen, steal their land, and nearly destroy their language? Now we want to take their schools away? This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

It takes a lot to render me speechless, but I truly have no words. I swear I thought this was the Onion.

We are perilously close to Total Recall.

Chip Roy: antisemistism is evil. Also Chip Roy:

Lots of beasts at the Bellingham #NoKings march too! We are all frogs today!

This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.

Important post from @seismosocam.bsky.social! This is a great opportunity to work with SSA's flagship journal and cutting edge seismology papers!

Intrigued by this extraordinarily inclusive list of languages one can select at a local doctors office. They apparently welcome time travelers and aliens as well as global citizens.

The most accurate graph I have ever come across

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Grading the first assignment of the quarter. First student, first question: answer most likely written by AI. It's gonna be a long quarter.

Just thinking about the American citizens I know who have been sick/injured abroad, in countries with nationalized health care. They received healthcare benefits paid for by the citizens of those countries. It's what good people do--they care for the sick. Period.

In case you didn't know what that military shaving ban is all about:

Bit of fieldwork nostalgia--these photos of an amazing cave in columnar jointed rocks on Tanaga Island. Back in the day when my hair was still brown (almost all grey now).

Hey, that's my student featured in this story on new monitoring stations on Mt. Rainier! Please note the tidy and organized hut interior, a hallmark of Craig's installations. I also appreciate his "my bad" right after they refer to the team as "volcano cowboys". Really proud of this guy.

Someone just brought me a scrapbook that was found under the floorboards of my attic before I lived here. Includes some interesting news articles from 1927 and apparently the cure for diphtheria. Don't tell RFK.

Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.

Absolute amen to this one.

So when they came for the trans people and the protestors and the supporters of DEI, did you think they weren't coming for you too? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

The WSJ should pay every trans person $2,000 just for the shit they pulled yesterday.

Maybe the people who baselessly blamed transgender people for Kirk's murder and spread disinformation and hate should apologize. Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ

I wanted to share some light with you. These words, this song. "For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." ~ Tolkien They cannot hold sway forever. 🕯

Hey Seattle -- let's rally for Science! I'll be talking about how disinformation campaigns are the heart of the attacks on science.

The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country. Funny how that works.

Adventures in algebra. Had to get a new oven knob. Temps on the old knob run from 275 to 500. New knob runs 220 to 440. The old knob conveniently marked temperatures at 25 degree intervals, whereas the new one has (no joke) marks every 36.7 degrees. Find 350 degrees on the new knob. I dare you.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

Anyway when the Trump administration tells you they are concerned about antisemitism, just remember they haven’t told federal agencies that scheduling major events on Jewish High Holy Days is off limits but they do want to deport brown people who oppose genocide You can do the math

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

This is really an extraordinary event: landslide, glacial failure, tsunami. But to me, the most exciting part is the sequence of tiny earthquakes that occurred before the slide. 1/n

Couldn't do much work on the recent AK landslide today because I was busy making curly fries at the NW Washington Fair. Science starts again tomorrow..

Meanwhile my college-aged daughter travels solo all over DC, unafraid. Tom Cotton is a wuss.

Yesterday morning I received a text from friends anchored near this event--they were experiencing huge surges of water. Seismic data showed a clear landslide event that the Alaska Earthquake Center eventually located in the Tracy Arm. Happily, everyone nearby appears to be okay. 1/3

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

Take a minute to read this thread describing the extraordinary work done by tsunami modelers to understand and forecast the behavior of waves as they are progressing. This is one of the many reasons it is critical that we fund federal science agencies!

NY Times: newly declassified documents show Russian intent to sway the 2016 election against Clinton. Fox News: [the same] newly declassified documents confirm that Clinton, Comey et al. were coordinating to link Trump to Russia. The blatant lies by Fox are getting worse.

Nothing to see here. Literally, nothing to see here.

WOW, there are a lot of salmon jumping at Brooks Falls (Alaska) right now. Check out salmon and bears on the live cam: explore.org/livecams/cur...

I just love this typo in the NYTimes. Not only is it an ironic error, but misspelling "Genius" is the only way that one could justify Trump's observation (highlighted).

My bad. I thought this was how we all did our AGU prep.