Happy Exploding Whale Day!

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

This is a perfect allegory for what he's doing to the US Government and to our nation as a whole.

We needed a brass band like this on El Camino! 😍🎺

No Kings rally along El Camino Real in Mountain View CA.

1. A junior high school geology teacher, Steve Carlson. Yes, he arranged things so he taught mineralogy and geology to 7th and 8th graders and took us on field trips. In 8th grade I was his TA! (1/3)

Using measurements of tsunami waves (two kinds) to infer source area and slip for Kamchatka earthquake. ❤️

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Found the Tacoma USGS office.

This is fun!

Never gets old does it? ⚒️🧪🌋 Kilauea is at it again! Live webcam: www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.

The evil that men do lives after them

They're talking about having a strong pipeline - While they are destroying US space science and engineering expertise? Y'all, WE CAN'T TRAIN STUDENTS FOR FAKE JOBS.

Children need to stop being curious about the cosmos, life, our planet, the oceans, etc. and start getting into the intricacies of buying and selling stablecoin or some shit. This is all that matters, apparently. science cuts: almost 50% Earth science cuts: over 50% www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

No Kings protest in Mountain View, California. People were lined up along El Camino Real for miles! So much honking - many drivers were waving flags and signs from their cars. We only saw one Maga hat and one middle finger!

US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

Yeah. I keep seeing these breathless articles about wonderful scientific discoveries and thinking 'you all know that this era is ending, right?'. People don't think funding cuts are important because they don't realize that US science research is currently running on fumes.

"What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has." www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

I loved working at NSF. Still wondering why its "leadership" would object to a group photo. www.science.org/content/arti...

I discovered today that Google Earth now has post-earthquake imagery from the 3/28/25 M7.8 earthquake in Myanmar. The area includes the site we trenched in 2018 before the earthquake to look for evidence of past earthquakes. The image shows the locations of our trenches with the 2025 ruptures. 1/3

When this was first being shared, I couldn't see what the fuss was about. Looking at the right hand side, beyond the fence, it's amazing! Right-lateral offset of a few meters, over maybe a second (which is correct for offset rate, not to be confused with rupture propagation rate).

So many of my colleagues are struggling with this same decision: stay or leave. I’m staying as long as it’s within my power to do so, but this is 🔥🔥🔥

If we are talking about that awful Theranos woman again, let's talk about Ian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gib... #Theranos #ElizabethHolmes

Our union has thoughts on our CMO. Spread the word.

Stations of the Global #Seismographic Network provide critical data and information on #earthquake locations, hazard mitigation, and emergency response. From all of us, thank you to the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey for operating this invaluable resource.

The latest on NSF. Ungated. I've got nothing. I'm sorry. archive.ph/0nfSw

Earthquake hazard maps are one concrete example of how the public benefits from federally funded science. The USGS produces the maps (it is a huge effort!), but they draw on research and data funded by NSF, NASA, NOAA, and others. Read more about this in the thread below. (1/6) 🧪⚒️

Ungated version: archive.ph/0u3gq

As a taxpayer, I would prefer that VOA be shut down rather than broadcast right-wing lies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NIH, NSF, NASA, NEA, NEH If it funds thought it’s under attack

"Despite long-standing legal mandates from Congress to do exactly that, NSF now says ... such efforts violate the president’s directive* banning research that relates to so-called “protected characteristics”—such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or age." *ILLEGAL archive.ph/Albs4#select...

It's all batshit chaotic. We are being "led" by a greedy lunatic who probably made a lot of money off of this latest stunt.

Hands Off rally at Civic Center in downtown SF today! Great weather, enthusiastic people, funny signs, inaudible speakers.

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

Reposting myself because I have finally figured it all out.

Obvious but worth reposting: basic science research funded by our government is necessary for US business productivity and innovation. Businesses do not do their own basic research because it is expensive and doesn't increase shareholder value. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

NEW: The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸 (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )

#catofnoirs You have a twin!

Oh HELL yeah, buddy.

Helpful advice

Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, King, Peters, Schatz, and Shaheen and Schumer Primary all of them.

Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

I block cynics, edgelords, and people who feel the need to shit on earnestness as a personality trait.