“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!

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

Interested in borrowing geophysical instruments for field education? We have a helpful suite of new video tutorials that walk you through the field set-up for ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity, and seismic refraction surveys. Watch tutorials 📽️➡️ https://loom.ly/4deb2Sw

This shake table test at the @ucsdshaketable.bsky.social is re-creating the shaking experienced at a specific location in Gilroy, California during the 1989 magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake. 🧪

This is suicide in a country exposed to so many climate-related natural disasters. And those wil lonly get worse with global climate change

The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

It’s a giant planet orbiting a bitty star.

One of my cats (Artemis) hanging out in her rocket last night :-)

Crochet bear I made in #UCLA colors for my graduating PhD student's child. #crochet 🧶 🎓

Sometimes, when you review a paper or a proposal, it is best to take a deep breath before writing comments down. #academia #advicedujour #dailywisdom

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Manzanar is such a crucial historic site. We must not forget.

Because ignorance is bliss?

Folks are leaving NASA like the sinking ship this administration is hell bent on turning it into. Every day feels more depressing than the day before.

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

On my way to Los Angeles for the #UCLA EPSS graduation ceremony! The flight attendant speaking in the microphone before departure celebrated Father’s Day with two dad jokes 😂

🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏 *squinting* We had more people at the Lincoln Memorial for our Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! #StandUpforScience #FailedBirthdayParade