That’s how early I got there 😆there is nobody apart from the guards

On my way from Santa Monica to Pasadena for the Seismological Society of AmericaS meeting at an ungodly hour to beat traffic and have time to upload my slides before my 8am session!

Britney Schmidt, an Earth and planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., travels to some of Earth’s coldest places to learn about distant icy worlds. eos.org/features/bri...

There's a conspicuous absence of states where "planetary scientist" is the highest paid gov job but that'll bother you less when you learn about the racism and other bigotry in science.

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

this is a level of casual, petty depravity that defies comprehension. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!

Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science. UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled. buff.ly/jR6tGwo

Really need other voices in this field carrying the water and doing the heavy lifting too. It can’t just be a few of us.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 #GoldenAge @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

Literally gagging at this. Whether 15, 8, or 5, they are all CHILDREN. A 15-year-old is not "barely legal" - she is a CHILD. Not legal. Not OK. Pre-pubescent or post-pubescent, they are all children. Do not normalize this.

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

🧶 cowgirl is done!

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

wow, which common vaccine was it?

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Senator Roland Gutierrez THIS BULLSHIT TWEET BY ABBOTT I CANT KEEP QUIET ANYMORE

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.

Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️

That's easy!

Nothing like a second trip to the ER to make our vacation great again. #MOVGA. Did I get that one right?

US customs stopped me and put me in a room for questioning The woman didn’t like it when I told her I was on vacation Asked me if I was on drugs. Did drugs or had drugs on me? In my carryon or backpack. What was the issue? I traveled for 5+ weeks without checking a bag and how I could afford it. 1/2

New 🧶friend finished! Pattern from Hobbii’s Picapau 🐞

Someone is having a tantrum again

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. (Pssst - federally funded science saves lives) 🧪

That is just fantastic...

Did you know that part of the Apollo missions to our moon included seismic data collection? A new #BSSA study presents a new automated workflow for these data. ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...

Russia: Tsunami destroyed the Port of Severo-Kurilsk in Kamchatka following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Coasts all across the Pacific Ocean including Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, and even California are on tsunami alert.

Life expectancy for newborn children varies widely across the US. The difference is as high as 15 years! This is a mismatch of wealth and opportunity that I would be rather outraged about (and I am outraged about in the Australian context that I live in). Source: buff.ly/upNK8HD

Although large earthquakes generates strong shaking over a wide area, this is somewhat mitigated by the rupture being offshore. But if the rupture breaks the ocean floor, it generates destructive a tsunami that can spread across the ocean basin in the hours that follow.

Footage of the #Kamchatka earthquake. Bricks falling off roofs is one of the reasons why you should not leave a building during an earthquake. Drop, cover, and hold on instead. www.earthquakecountry.org/step5/?fbcli...

For everyone paying attention to earthquake & tsunami info, a lot of funding for tsunami & earthquake monitoring comes from NOAA, but the fed gov is cutting their funding. Call your legislators, tell them to fund NOAA & USGS, who in turn funds regional network operators, like AK Earthquake Center

Tsunami watch vs advisory vs warning

⚒️ 🧪 A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean. This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53? rdcu.be/eyrre

I’m convening a session at a planetary science conference this fall and people keep withdrawing their presentations. So far every one has been withdrawn because of lack of travel support. It’s all folks coming from the US. This administration is killing scientific disciplines in big ways and small

and not just mental health. we're living under fascism; your family is plausibly in a position to get you deported, arrested, or targeted by the state right now. people need to protect themselves. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...

The purpose of the thing is what it does.

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, revealing more than twice as many Americans live in flood prone areas than FEMA's maps show.

In honor of today's Supreme Court decision

Latest 🧶project, which took way longer than I thought!