Mapping US wind energy infrastructure with hexagonal binning and "fade-on-zoom" effects. Learn how: gist.github.com/walkerke/a4b...

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

Impressed by the protected bike lanes in Oakland

If anything, politicians should be promising literal gravy trains. Get people excited about rail infrastructure again.

Holy moly. Landslide ruptured buried gas line which caused an explosion (apparently?) and now a major N/S artery from Central Cal to SoCal is still shut down. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Our take on the "12 Days of Geophysics" 🎶 Happy holiday greetings from all of us at EarthScope!

Are you a #teacher looking for training opportunities in #geosciences or seeking #financial assistance for events that promote geoscience #education? Apply now for the 2026 Field School for Teachers and Geoscience Education Event! 📆 31 December 2025: egu.eu/96EKUA 📸 Ole Zeising on #imaggeo

What could be more Christmas-y than a tube worm? Meet Spirobranchus giganteus, the Christmas Tree Worm. It burrows into corals in tropical waters, adding to the protection offered by its calcareous tube. The "Christmas trees" are mouth structures serving both feeding and respiration.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope) 📷 IWM A 10646 🧵1/17

"Life as a bug was rough. Eating rotten food and scurrying around all day isn’t as fun as it sounds. But the worst part was all the essays college students were forced to write about how what happened to me was supposed to represent man’s inhumanity to man or whatever." "

I see the justice department have had a go at Tristram Shandy too.

Timelapse walking the entire length of the conference center at the AGU meeting. 0.52 miles, 9 min 54 sec… in case people are wondering.. #agu25

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

Great work by the USGS Landslide team -- Cornell PhD @elizabetheiden.bsky.social who is now at the USGS published some of the data: www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item...

Very impressive. Timelapse via #Copernicus Browser link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/xvxi

An atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest in heavy rainfall, resulting in a widespread flooding threat across western Washington. This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.

Tomorrow’s the day! At 8am(ish) PST my Etsy store will spring to life with 44 of my 3D-printed scale model volcano tissue box covers. This batch has Lawetlat’la (St Helens), Wy’east (Hood), Tahoma (Rainier), Kweq’ Smanit (Baker), Kohm Yah-man-nee (Lassen) and Salton Sea Mud Volc. phaneritic.etsy.com

NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.

Huge Congratulations to Phd Student Jeena Yun for having two companion papers published in JGR Solid Earth agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... and agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...! In the first paper she explores the role of heterogeneous friction and stress in controlling

Did you make sure to keep the camera away from the volcano like we discussed? Yeah, about that…

Laerke the polar bear found the perfect winter toy: a giant stick! ❄️🐻‍❄️ 📹: Keeper Russell

Nested glacier surges! This is Liestolbreen in Svalbard, surging into Nathorstbreen (which itself surged from 2008), and then being surged into by Doktorbreen. All brought to you by the magic of Sentinel-1 SAR

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

This #givingtuesday please consider donating to the Paleontological Research Institution/Museum of the Earth PRI is a major US fossil collection and education center & has been struggling after a major donor was unable to fulfill a pledge but is almost out of the woods, any support helps! 🦑⚒️🧪🐌🐚

I have scripts memorized for how to deal with students disrupting various lectures. I have plans I have rehearsed and chains of who to contact memorized. So far I've been fortunate in my current position, but every semester it's the same panic again and again.

{Mariah Carey voice}: 🎶All I want for Christmas... ...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu... ...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶

Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #deforestation #Africa

"The armrest is shared space"

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented, but then you read. It was books that taught me that that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive." - James Baldwin #BookWormSat #JamesBaldwin

Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

You in USA on Thanksgiving... - ”It’s a nice reminder that every meal we enjoy is the result of thousands of farms, workers, supply chains, and landscapes working together across the country. Grateful for the people who grow the food...” - alturl.com/c9otj <-- source of this shared National map...

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch. Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026* Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Reach out to me if you have any questions! 🧵 1/5

Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

An eruption from the #HayliGubbi volcano in #Ethiopia resulted in a large ash cloud, visible here from space. 🌋 This impressive view was seen 36,000km above Earth by our Meteosat-12 satellite on 23 November at 13:40 UTC.

An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

As a human, I enjoy these pictures (and those from others) so much. As an InSAR researcher I would VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT IF THE SUN WOULD CHILL OUT, OKAY???

Waves coming off the basalt columns at Reynisfjara black sand beach. It's amazing that the camera technology is so good now that this was handheld at 1/8th second - the columns are sharp but I was able to capture the movement of the water too. #CanonR6II #Iceland #Geology

Fascinating to see this 2025 two-tone dust plume over Libya — a rare case where winds lifted soils from two distinct regions, blending darker, moisture-rich dust with lighter sandy particles over the Med. What makes it even more interesting? A nearly identical event happened before — in OCT 2007🧵1/3

Beautiful November day for Field Geophysics looking for a buried gorge. Thanks to Geoff Abers for the photos.

Speaking of bad science in media (and I am using the term "media" pretty loosely here), allow me to use The Daily Mail as evidence of why you should get your science information from reputable agencies rather than crap websites. I'm not going to link the article, but it looks like this: 1/n

Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

Fee-fi-fo-fum the Polar Vortex is about to come undone! 😳 That typically means wild weather/ big time cold to follow! But wait, don’t head for the hills just yet. I assure you the sky won’t fall. Seriously though, you’re bound to hear about this, and the science is fascinating, so let’s dig in… 1/

New discovery in Otter Space

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.