Let’s just say if a certain soccer team needs help today they’re READY 🇺🇸⚽️

The end of an era: On 29 June, Copernicus Sentinel-1A gathered its last science data and final image, a glimpse of Melbourne, Australia. One of its final acquisitions over Europe captured Reykjavík and western Iceland. So long, and thanks for all the fish, Sentinel-1A! www.esa.int/Applications...

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.

🚨 As a service to global researchers working on the 24 June 2026 #Venezuela #earthquakes, SSA has created a short list of our journal papers related to the region. These papers will be freely available until 16 July 2026. #OpenAccess buff.ly/AxzKr5V ⚒️

It's taken me a while, but here is my first interferogram of the Venezuela earthquakes from Sentinel-1. It's an ascending track to the west of the epicenter, and the pattern of displacements is consistent with slip on a fault that runs close to and parallel to the coast.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

Sea Alps of the N.W. Coast Plate: Mountain Chains in North America. In: Johnston, A. K. (1850). The physical atlas a series of maps & illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural phenomena embracing I. geology, II. hydrography, III. meteorology, IV. natural history [Map]. W. Blackwood.

This year's AGU early bird registration rate is $845. Ouch. ⚒️

Today this summer's interns got to experience the joy and frustration of setting up campaign GNSS sites. They've been busy learning Linux, GMT, and going to lectures on how GNSS works, coordinate systems, and time series, so leveling and centering was a (mostly) enjoyable change of pace. ⚒️🧪

Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/

Episode 49 producing an impressive volnado.

I just found a box of CDs with photos from 2004. Here are pics from a trip up to Wiseman, Alaska. My brother had come to visit me in Fairbanks and we planned a flightseeing tour into the Brooks Range, but the wildfire smoke grounded the flights. We went north up the Dalton Highway instead.

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🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

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Another story on our lab group's recent study on oxygen loss from the oceans before the end-Triassic mass extinction. ⚒️🧪 #NSFfunded www.discovermagazine.com/clue-in-alas...

New: NSF is tightening its conflict of interest rules in what could be a headache for the understaffed agency. Starting in August, reviewers will no longer be able to participate in a panel with any proposals from their own institution. My reporting for @science.org:

Applications are now open (due July 1st) for the EarthScope ISCE+ course in InSAR processing and analysis! Alongside the usual background, theory and practical applications, we plan to cover some ISCE3 and NISAR content for the first time! www.earthscope.org/event/2026-t...

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

It is important to validate InSAR time series results! And to call it out when people oversell the capabilities of the method! (Ideally before Science magazine airs out your dirty laundry in public...)

Numbered ducks have appeared in the department (in places that probably violate some safety codes). I'm trying to convince myself that setting up data processing runs is much more interesting than figuring out if Ducks #1-7 exist.

Hello fellow scientists, I see a lot of conversation about this document, encourage you to read it, and would like to reinforce that it is open for Public Comment until July 13. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Cordova is my favorite town in Alaska and I've based a lot of fieldwork out of there. It has had to deal with a lot (M9.2 1964 earthquake, Exxon Valdez spill). This is a fabulous storymap that highlights what makes it so special and the challenges it is facing going forward.

I know a number of students who have done this and all found it to be extremely valuable. Students get introductions to Linux, Python, seismic data and analysis, Jupyter notebooks and even a bit of GNSS data analysis, skills that will be useful across multiple fields. Registration closes June 1. ⚒️

Check out our new paper in Solid Earth. In this study we show that deformation at the northern edge of the Quito-Latacunga microblock, a geodetically defined tectonic block, is accommodated by distributed faulting. Volcanism may also influence faulting. se.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

The 2026 Technical Course on GNSS Data Processing and Analysis with GAMIT/GLOBK and track, hosted by @earthscope.org, is now open for applications! #gamitglobk

May 18, 1980 | "Hell on Earth." KOMO cameraman Dave Crockett leaves Seattle at 4:30 a.m. At 8:32, he steps out along the S. Fk. Toutle and focuses on the mountain. A black plume shoots from the summit. Minutes later, he's surrounded by mudflow. On foot, still filming — convinced he won't survive.

What it was like in my hometown on the afternoon of May 18. 🧪⚒️

46 years ago today, Mount St. Helens turned day into night over eastern Washington state. It’s a good time to emphasize the value and criticality of federal funding for geological hazard research, monitoring, and disaster response. ⚒️🧪🌋 Photos and stories from my hometown below. bit.ly/4ds6SAX

May 17, 1980 Tucked away in the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science archive, these high-resolution aerial survey photographs of Mount St. Helens taken the day before the eruption — part of a systematic photogrammetric mission capturing the mountain's final hours.

These responses are wild. Academic research is reading papers and building your work based on what you've read in other people's published articles. How are they getting trained in academia without knowing the basics of research?

May 17, 1980 Mount St. Helens, as seen from Coldwater II USGS Observation Post, 5.5 miles north-northwest Photograph by Harry Glicken/USGS.

Circa 1916-1918 silent newsreel footage of Alaskan sled dogs ferrying wounded in the Vosges mountains of France during World War I. French authorities bought over a 100 Alaskan sled dogs from around Nome & used them to traverse difficult trails. #alaskahistory #alaska

Here it is, a Bluesky exclusive: The goth legends of baby birds The best baby American Coot encounter of my life, 2hrs next to a pond dangling my camera less than an inch above the water, cut down to the best 8 secs, and slowed down to 25% speed, and set to Clan of Xymox' "Jasmine and Rose" 🪶 🐣

"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

Here are my top 10 huskies of all time! youtu.be/jVtxefxEqWc?...

If you're a scientist who needs a little enthusiasm boost every once in a while, I highly recommend volunteering for @skypeascientist.bsky.social. Just chatted with a bunch of 4th graders about earthquakes and volcanoes. They were super engaged and had so many great questions. Science IS cool!

Happy 100th to Sir David Attenborough! There is a new program about the making of "Life on Earth". Lots of good inside stories and it made me appreciate how much easier field work logistics have become with email. A highly enjoyable watch. 🧪 www.pbs.org/video/life-o...

"Fifteen Maps that Changed How We See the Ocean Floor" Based on his research for The Library of Lost Maps, James Cheshire of @ucl.ac.uk pulled together these seminal works of Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen! cc @seabed2030.bsky.social 🌊 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 libraryoflostmaps.com/2026/05/06/f...

This is a much better excuse for missing class than many I've heard. Bonus points for demonstration of engineering skills. 🐻 www.youtube.com/shorts/6D2BV...

Guys! GUYS! It's back! It's coming back!!! The single greatest literacy promotion in human history* is coming back! All you 80s and 90s kids know what's up! *(this point may be a little hyperbolic, but just a little) people.com/pizza-huts-b...

We do not spend nearly enough time talking about the fact that the foil freaks from Reynolds Wrap built a deep-submergence vehicle to prove the utility of aluminum construction and then we had to use it to recover a hydrogen bomb that the US military lost at sea.

International Pallas Cat Day is a good day to celebrate my favourite camera trap video

“I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful…” April 22, 1984, died #OTD aged 82 years Ansel Easton Adams. He was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

We are planning some exciting new things for the ISCE+ course – e.g. processing data using ISCE3, making the most of NISAR standard product interferograms – alongside the 'classic' theory and data analysis content. Keep an eye out for the registration announcement if you are interested!