he incorrectly predicted that there would be massive famines in the 1980s and advocated directly for maximizing the deaths of the people affected

Got to explore Mono Craters and Bodie Hills today. I am buzzing with research ideas on these rocks…I’d love to chat with folks who know more about the local geology! Special thanks to @bptt.bsky.social for the rec to see the backside of Obsidian dome! It was spectacular!

Happy 300th birthday, James Hutton! You changed the way we view the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H... ⚒️

It is tasteless for Marcia McNutt, the president of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, to JOKE about the exploitation of students. Students who are watching their hope of a scientific career burning up in front of their eyes.

Dope lava flows at Crater Mountain, Big Pine volcanic field!

The Mono-Inyo chain aren’t actually related to the caldera’s magnetic system despite the proximity (and slight overlap). Peacock et al (2015) is a good read for the location of the magmatic plumbing system. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

What the actual f$&k. Trump is dismantling the OOI. A shining achievement of oceanography. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Off to great start on some field work out west! I’m exploring the volcanic/plutonic relationships among some of Nevada’s coolest old mining sites. A highlight reel so far (1) altered andesites (2) altered granites (3) smushed ash layers.

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Graduation was this week! So proud of all my geoscience seniors 🧑‍🎓 Doubly proud of my two amazing thesis students Nikola (Gakkel ridge petrology🧪🌋) and Augusta (Landslide remote sensing🇸🇱🛰️🛘). Cant wait to see what they do next!!

At this point I don't see how I could in good conscience advise any graduate student or academic researcher with other options to take up a position in the United States.

For this, read the whole section "Section 200.340 —Termination and suspension" TL:DR - any grant can be terminated at any time for any reason.

🚨Job Alert!!🚨 #Mineralogy Full Professorship at Heidelberg : igneous and metamorphic processes, geochemistry, geochronology, planetary sciences/cosmochemistry, environmental. ⚒️🧪 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to 3 ppl, one of whom is Palestinian

Crunchwrap supreme in any form

i am a simple man who enjoys simple things. give me a nice, sharp english cheddar

I am once again urging universities to band together and fight what is obviously a war on the concept of research universities and the pursuit of truth itself. We should give FTE for political action and public engagement rather than competing over arbitrarily doled out crumbs.

Tell me about it… www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

This is sad. Young countertop fabrication workers—especially those working with synthetic “quartz” countertops—and even cleaners sweeping up after them developing silicosis that is likely preventable with proper workplace safety measures.

I’ll share another bright mineral for Mineral Monday: check out this pyromorphite!! It’s from Daoping, China. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

"oldest... eukaryotes, approximately 1.75–1.4 billion years old... their near absence from otherwise fossiliferous anoxic samples suggests a benthic habit, as planktonic eukaryotes would be expected to be present in both oxic and anoxic samples" 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TOTTENHAM MOTHERFUCKING HOTSPUR

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Here's an uncomfortable question - what if the geological record doesn't actually record everything? Well, we actually know that it doesn't, but how much and how is still unclear. This is a nice attempt to quantify this fundamental problem. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/13113/​

CAMPI FLEGREI - COMUNICATO FINE SCIAME (21/06/2026 ore 14.01) Si è concluso lo sciame sismico iniziato alle ore 5:50 del 21/05/2026 costituito in via preliminare da 12 terremoti con magnitudo Md≥0.0 e con magnitudo max Md=4.4±0.3 localizzati nei Campi Flegrei. INFO: banca dati GOSSIP buff.ly/WCaAQJe

Call me foolish but I think the first step towards fixing higher education is returning to the collegial model whereby major decisions are made by the collective body of professors, and administrators are accountable to said body.

I sincerely got to graduate school and almost immediately locked myself in the library. All I wanted to do was read. I’m still mad at how hard it is to find time to read! This isn’t nearly as common as I naively imagined when I started out.

Why do faculty and students have so little say in the governance of American universities? This terrific new paper by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen asks why American universities are liberal autocracies rather than stakeholder democracies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We should not compare energy to Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. It’s grotesque and doesn’t make it more relatable.

Scientists and artists practicing their craft until the very end at the eruption of Mt St Helens. For all the STEM vs humanities discourse, today's stories of geologists and photographers are a reminder that we're all just trying to get a little closer to understanding something about the world.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Richard Lasher was (illegally) on his way to Spirit Lake with his Pinto and dirt bike when Mt. St. Helens erupted in front of him. He actually managed to escape the 300-400°C hot pyroclastic flow by car, and after the car broke down due to ash in the engine, by motorcycle ...

It would be a lot cheaper in terms of salary costs not to have a university at all, and if they’re not careful, that’s what they’ll get (UNC and plenty of other places too)

In 1977 Steven Harris wrote a book about the Cascade volcanoes with a fictional big Shasta eruption that kills no one due to effective public safety messaging and evacuations. After seeing how MSH played out for real, his revised edition had the same eruption kill hundreds.

I’m only talking about projects that the US government has given loans, equity investments, or grants to. Not what the USGS is working on. Like investments into MP Minerals to become its largest shareholder or EXIM loans to Graphite One

Equant, Tabular, Prismatic, Bladed, Acicular, Filiform

Sneak peek of the 2027 USGS List of Critical Minerals:

Significant 🦅 games this season adjacent to wife’s birthday, wedding anniversary, and a kid’s birthday? It better be a good season!

This looks like a great volcano related PhD opportunity in a great place in New Zealand. 🌋⚒️🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

New submarine #volcanic #eruption in the Central Bismarck Sea (Papua New Guinea) at ~3ºS, 148ºE. Previous activity reported in this region in 1972. Plume breached ocean surface on May 9 at ~01:00 UTC; w/ small pumice raft. Animation shows MODIS/VIIRS imagery & thermal IR hotspots from May 9-12.

“The U.S. National Science Foundation X-Labs (NSF X-Labs) initiative is designed to launch and scale a new generation of organizations focused on independent research, development and innovation.” We have those, thanks, they’re called universities and national laboratories.

Pulsed volcanic sulfur emissions linked to the end-Triassic terrestrial crisis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

To piggyback on this silly NYT framing: I got the most pushback in class when I went over how levees are not good mitigation solutions for floods. I presented them with a different perspective! Broke them out of their engineering-focused disaster-prep biases! Can I get a column at The Atlantic now?

Wow. www.wsj.com/science/arch...

So, what are we doing now that we're just not going to have new grants in GEO? The hyper competitive NSF postdoc fellowship is outright gone, the grants that fund us normal people are effectively gone. Hell, you could say the same thing about most other fields, too.

Earth science has been archived: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The tech industry is gutting our public science infrastructure and hijacking the NSF to be their own R&D department. Not paying taxes is apparently not enough; they need both hands in our pockets. (There’s nothing wrong with funding those fields; it’s funding them only at the expense of others).