Can't prove this but maybe the reason for Attenborough's longevity is that whenever Paddington arrives to shepherd his soul on, he fends him off with his powers of nature narration. "The perplexed ursine psychopomp withdraws, his hunt unsuccessful. Perhaps a 1970s bass player will make easier prey."

🔭 A cautionary tale for undergrads (and above!) using AI for #astro plots: our BSc student wanted to make a "quick" HR diagram showcasing M-dwarfs & thought some chatbot could make one and... well... ...extra credits are now offered to students who can correctly find all errors on cursedHR.png 🫠 🧪

Hey hive mind, I almost never do this but maybe someone can help... a few months ago, someone posted a set photo from the 'Alien' franchise I think, showing the gravity on/off switch - think it was stick figures right way up/upside down. Google-fu is weak and now I can't find it! Help? Thanks!

New slogan for the PSA just dropped. PSA: unbutterably strong.

Since early-March there has been an interesting sequence of larger earthquakes happening about halfway between Raoul Island and the North Island of New Zealand. They went on for a couple weeks in March, quieted down for a couple weeks, and then picked up again in early-April. 🧪

Science of sauces! physicstoday.aip.org/quick-study/...

one of the hardest science topics is explaining to a modern person that in the 1800s geologists were more popular than streamers are today books exploring topics like the history of a rock were doing multimillion print runs, & guys giving talks on igneous vs metamorphic were filling sports stadiums

@bluescsi.com AS/400 business is in hand... also have met @yyzkevin.com on Discord

Rest of the world: “Hooray, the astronauts splashed down safely” Every British person ever: “TUNNOCKS TEACAKES” #ArtemisII

Sakurajima is busy doing Sakurajima things, right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeEl...

It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.

The Apricot cordless mouse/trackball is a remarkable thing. Looks more like it came out of Cupertino in 2008 than Birmingham in 1984...

Hey @bluescsi.com what's the deal here? According to your website, Ultra Wide 68-pin is supposed to retail for $75. And that's the price on the JCM site you link. So why is your other linked reseller, totsrc.com, selling them for $133?! Are we being ripped off???

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned 1978 Citroen CX 1987 Citroen CX 1990 Citroen CX 2002 Renault Avantime 2025 IM6

Thinking of... - The people of Iran, who mostly hate their government - The people of Israel, who mostly hate their government - The people of Palestine, who mostly hate their government - The people of the USA, who mostly hate their government

One of my GNS Red Team colleagues has been busy doing some paleoseismology! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A post office where the service dashboard allows you track your current number of 'destroyed parcels'?! I don't know if I should be terrified, or awestruck by the honesty in marketing here! 😆

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

I think FinDer has been on the magic mushrooms. IYKYK.

First time I've seen anything priced over one million Yen at a Hard Off store!

Daddy & daughter holiday in Japan and encountering some *serious* snow!

A rare clear view of Fuji today - you can practically *feel* the geohazards!

Do you want to learn about the impacts of the M9 Cascadia subduction #earthquake that struck at 9 p.m. on this night, 326 years ago? Strong shaking, a tsunami and landslides as described in Indigenous oral traditions from #VancouverIsland to #California. ⚒️🧪 hakaimagazine.com/features/gre...

Ahhh memories!

Well that's the first time I've seen slipping on a solar storm plot!

BUGGER. (Spoiler: controller is not removed...)

Charging at 260kW! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Elon!

Was on the picket line in solidarity with striking NZ firefighters today.

Just dusted off my ancient AS/400 and powered it up... it failed quickly, with an error code... googled, and this was the first result I found for that error code. FML

Well the NeXTStation may not have been entirely successful but with a replacement PRAM battery the NeXTdimension Cube came right up first try! ✊

A very happy "fuck you" to John Stallard of Warlord Games, who is worried about "wokeism" killing wargames and thinks women don't play them, possibly because women don't want to hang around twats like John. And how did taking on female wargamers go for the non-"woke" side last time, John?

This is a list of all the female kākāpō in the world. They are spread across three islands; Whenua Hou, Pukenui, and Te Kakahu. The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.

Good news, good news! After too many years of sitting in the garage, it Just Worked!

Could be nothing but... there's an interesting uptick in microseismicity - something I haven't seen in a very long time - at Sundhnúkur, on the DAS plot:

A quick summary of 2025 New Zealand earthquakes. GeoNet located more than 21 000 earthquakes in New Zealand and the Kermadec region. Magnitudes range from -0.3 – 6.8 and depth from 0 (just below the surface) – 750 km. 1/ 🧪

Ngā mihi o te tau hou! (we're always the first!)

When I posted a version of this video last year, I underestimated the equivalent energy of a magnitude 9.1 earthquake relative to a nuclear blast by a factor of 10. This time I’ve quantified it using the Trinity test (as seen in the movie Oppenheimer). The 1957 underground test was 10x smaller again

Happy DEC-20 day to those who celebrate!

Dangerous hacking manoeuvres number 217: slowly reviving a dead Google Glass EE2 lithium battery with a lab power supply while monitoring battery temperature with a FLIR imager!

From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story

So I got a new toy. And being an incorrigible geek, and big-time fan of #TheExpanse, I had to do this... inspired by the G this thing pulls! #ScreamingFirehawks

Wētā Tūī Kererū Mokomoko Pīwakawaka

Prove you are a genuine Russian armed auxiliary ship with this simple Kamcaptcha...

Large amounts of flying tephra visible on the USGS V3 cam right now.

Watching 'A House of Dynamite' for our night shift movie on the Bridge in the NGMC. Cue my team yelling at the screen: "That's not how you run a response! Don't bother applying to be a Shift Leader! Wouldn't last 5 minutes in a big geohazard response!" 😆

On the night shift at work and been keeping an eye on the CME:

The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku. Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...

Late yesterday evening we had a M 4.9 earthquake in Cook Strait that was widely felt (~30K felt reports), mainly in the southern North Island and northern South Island. Shaking intensity was MMI ~4.5 in the Wellington region and northern South Island. 1/ 🧪

Verified - these settings had been applied to my account without my knowledge.

Reprehensible behavior. Anyone pushing this kind of malicious disinformation should be utterly ashamed