Step away from the churn of day-to-day, season-to-season, election-to-election urgencies.

Doh! I was born & raised in Indiana, so fun to see IU actually relevant in college football.

1/2 *Call for Abstracts*! GAC-MAC 2026 will be held in St. John’s, NL. Consider submitting an abstract to SS22: Exploring the Magmatic Framework of Continental Large Igneous Provinces and their Ni-Cu-PGE Prospectivity.

this is library of Alexandria-level stuff

Nice of this guy to let the entire scientific community know they have no reason to ever read any of his papers

Wrangell - St Elias NP, Alaska #Stunday #NationalParks #Alaska #Wrangell #EastCoastKin #BlueSky #blueskyphotography #photography #landscapes #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

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Seasons wishes #NukeSky

I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

This is just flat out nasty.. #gross

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Have a weird urge to write an abstract over Christmas? Tephrochronology Beyond Boundaries: Chronology, Correlation, and Innovation in Earth System Studies Tephrochronology Keynote: Victoria Smith Deadline: 15 Jan 2026, 13:00 CET @oxfordtephra.bsky.social @egu.eu @iavcei.bsky.social

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

For #MineralMonday, the vanishingly rare and delightfully named* clinojimthomsponite. A very weird triple-chain silicate from Achmelvich, Sutherland. *named for James Thompson, but there was already a thomsonite, so they called it jimthompsonite, and this is the monoclinic polymorph

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.

NCAR folks, especially folks who are currently here at AGU -- I know it's a really tough day amid a week that was supposed to be about celebrating science. Would be interested in how you're feeling and how this has affected your week and your presentations. I'm on Signal @chelseaeharvey.01

Yep, 100% agree - the new OS sucks. #hatetheupdate

Someone’s after the gingerbread

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

It’s insanity to not have Geology/Earth Science (not to mention Meteorology) at a Land Grant University, located in the Great Plains, USA, where agriculture & water matter more than almost anything. Crazy times.

This is literally Saturday-morning-cartoon level villainy

Teewinot Mountain, Grand Teton National Park. May, 2020. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 290 mm – 1/240″ – f/11 – ISO 160 🏷️ #Photography #NationalParks #Landscapes

Cuts to geology programmes, departmental mergers and shrinking university support threaten the long-term health of the discipline. Now, Jan Zalasiewicz examines the developing situation at the University of Leicester: geoscientist.online/sections/vie... #Geology #Geoscience #HigherEducation

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Textbook.

#Hayli Gubbi #volcano (Ethiopia): large explosive eruption, first in #volcano's recorded history - Our group currently at Erta Ale volcano during our ongoing expedition to Ethiopia's Danakil depression undertook an exploration to approach the crater of Hayli Gubbi volcano, which had suddenly erup...

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Yesterday I had the honor of giving a talk to the @ebtsoyp.bsky.social network, where I discussed earthquake science with 400+ kids in 23 classrooms in 4 countries! Video linked below - intended for kids but suitable for all quake curious audiences. 😁 www.youtube.com/live/_jbPET8...

I've started research on historic (preWW2) women who worked on volcanology/magmatic rocks. This includes anyone who was traveling to and writing about/observing/drawing/engaging with the landscape in myriad ways. I'm building a list for further investigation. Will share soon! Any tip offs welcome!

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

How come colonoscopy prep evening had to occur during “awesome aurora” evening??? lol 😂

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

My refrigerator knows

As a lucky survivor of rectal cancer, I get colonoscopies annually (woo next week!).. they are a piece of cake & so is the prep. Especially compared to the radiation/surgery/chemo that could occur if you are diagnosed with a colorectal tumor. Trust me. #f_ckcancer

#Carrollite from Congo at the Tucson show #OreCup #MineralMonday

Vote for #molybdenite! It’s fun to say, the name tells you it has molybdenum in it, and it’s pretty! Stockwork veins of it are my favorite, like these from Climax Mine in Colorado.

##tectonictuesday Just polishin' the good stuff #geology ⚒️

#MineralMonday #Copper pseudomorph after pseudohexagonal aragonite twin, Corocoro, Bolivia. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience

#OreCup is launching with two famous & beloved ore minerals, #Galena vs #Copper! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... You have 24 hours to campaign. Go!

Poor candy corn… Lewis Black has some thoughts on this; www.halloweenforum.com/threads/cand... #halloweencandyreject

That home run was the most Miguel Rojas of Bill Mazeroskis

Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...

Science teachers this is a great way to explain the difference! 🍎 🧬🧪

Do not, I repeat, do not, use AI "art" in your talks unless you'd be ok with someone stealing your work and giving you no credit for it.