In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly. "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars." Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Which is to say: If the LLM, given ALL OF THE TEXT as in it was given the dang science papers, cannot convey more than one point, overhypes it, and oversimplifies to the point of wrongness, when given ALL OF THE INFORMATION... Why are you using it to write your term paper?

I'd take a Bloodywood x Babymetal series over Kpop Demon Slayers every day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXl...

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

Fossil ID question: Does anyone recognize this Cretaceous fossil (in a chert nodule within the Ulster White Limestone on Rathlin Island)? Is it just a fenestrate bryozoan?⚒️

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social. More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com Nice to meet you❤️🌋

Of this you can be sure: if I send out a newsletter saying Kīlauea is likely to erupt soon, it does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

The new Eruptions newsletter is out! Lots of stuff about the resuspended ash in Alaska and Washington, a deep dive into resurgent calderas and satellite views of Russian lava flows: eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

Sometimes it sucks to get up early every day to get the kid off to school. And sometimes you get to see stuff like this.

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Mount St. Helens as seen by Sentinel-2 on Sept. 16, 2025. 45 years old volcanic ash was kicked up by wind. h/t @wisc-satellite.bsky.social @wed-explorer.bsky.social @sangasso.bsky.social 😊👍

I don't remember who said this, but it isn't "capitulation" if the people in charge are on the same side as the tyrants.

Need a palette cleanser? Why not post some of the science communicators that influenced you as a kid! Here are some of mine, starting with Jack Horkheimer. I remember staying up/getting up at weird hours to catch this mini-show on PBS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ou1...

We are truly following the Max Power Way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0J...

If the question raised for every crisis in the boardrooms across the planet is "how will it impact share prices?" of course we'll just see capitulation to whatever movement can cause the most financial havoc. We live in maximal abstract capitalist times.

I mean, what did we expect in a world where unfettered accumulation of wealth by individuals and corporations is the goal?

Bravo again! Part 1 of 3 article on Portland schools and earthquake risk. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

“The fundamental issue with ‘debate me bro’ culture isn’t just that it’s obnoxious, it’s that it creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling.”

In academia, excellence appears to come with a price tag. Stresses often normalise certain behaviours such as workaholism. In this week's blog, Katherine Villavicencio writes about the effects of workaholism in academic life, and suggests us: forget the price tag! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd...

Political think tank (yes, I'm old).

"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working." (Douglas Adams)

I shared this earlier, but this is *exactly* the point I try to make whenever I get the question about "which volcano will be the next to have a big eruption?" It is rarely the ones that are in the headlines at the time.

[In the tone of the sadly now-defunct Ironic Times] 100% agree it's the other guy's fault.

🌋 Excited to share my new essay in Aeon: one of the most underappreciated global risks isn’t an asteroid or supervolcano—it’s the eruptions we don’t see coming:

⚒️ 🧪 A M7.4 earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka peninsula today: the largest aftershock so far of the great M8.8 on July 29th. What do we see in the seismic data so far? And what are the chances of a triggered earthquake next door? earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m74-earthq...

Volcanic Ash Advisory (#VAAC) for #Nevado_del_Ruiz #volcano Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (#VAAC) #Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 21000 ft (6400 m) altitude or flight level 210 .

Folks! The coolest bassist in the world is even cooler than we imagined! youtu.be/oxb9k-u9t-U?...

The Mariners? In first? In mid-September?

Sledgehammer.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... great to see this paper out about potential biosignatures in one of Perseverance’s samples! and it’s making quite a splash! What an amazing discovery and I am lucky to have played a small part.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Did all you #MineralCup people crash Mindat?

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

I am not a Korn fan by any stretch of the imagination, but some days do require “Freak on a Leash”

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Hmmm what’s changed since this time last year? www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...

I’ll assume $1.5 billion is just the first payment, right?

Hank Aaron’s guest spot on Futurama is very under appreciated.

Built to Spill? Oh, that's easy. Doug Martsch. Hold on, I'm being informed that there may be some confusion here ...

In the least shocking news imaginable, after staying home with sick kids twice in the last week, I am now sick.

We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.

I understand Lego flowers. They wilt right? Flowers are ephemeral. So, what is the deal with Lego minerals? www.lego.com/en-us/catego...

Yes, indeed, a new Eruptions newsletter is out. In it you'll find news about the eruptions at Kīlauea, a deep dive into calderas, and rants about AI eruption videos and Axial Seamount news. eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

Again, muting a particular set of words makes reading the skeets that make it through even more fun when you attempt to understand the world.

Hey look, new eruption at Kīlauea! Return of the "inclined fountain". www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

"Move fast and break things" but the things are kids and the people allowing tech bros to break them are educators.