Top things to do while with the Hollisters: 1-Play with Zephyr 2-ROAST @phaneritic.bsky.social with @xenolith.bsky.social

LITERALLY CRYING!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The dream team is back together @xenolith.bsky.social @phaneritic.bsky.social

My goodness, a MILLION square foot warehouse is on fire west of Tracy at the moment and it is a terribly acrid-looking plume. www.modbee.com

What do we think? Mineral? Oxidation?

What do we think? Mineral? Oxidation?

Look at this big boy!!! He is 4.5 months 😂😂💕💕💕💕 I am in love!!!

I loathe flying to the East coast. There is ALWAYS turbulence and my anti-anxiety meds have worn off by then! 😭😭😭⛈️⛈️⛈️⛈️⛈️☠️☠️☠️ Worst. Landing. Ever!!!

46 years ago tomorrow - the iconic collapse of the north flank of Mount St. Helens volcano youtu.be/i0xDJpBiz4Q

Step into the shadows of Greyfriars Kirkyard to walk the path of the man who redefined the age of the Earth. 🌍 Join us for an exclusive Royal Society of Edinburgh & Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard historical tour tracing the life, burial, and enduring legacy of James Hutton.

The Imperial Valley has seen dozens if not hundreds of these sort of swarms over the century we have recorded. A swarm is a group of quakes (dozens to thousands) where there are many quakes close in size and no obvious mainshock. Often the size will grow like we've seen here going from M3s to M4s.

Wei et al. (EPSL, 2015) paper on the 2012 Brawley earthquake sequence, which also had associated surface faulting, in the Brawley Seismic Zone www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So 2 areas with swarms ongoing in Southern California. A classic Brawley seismic zone swarm today in the Imperial Valley fault. Largest so far is M4.1. These continue until they stop so we will likely see more M3s tonight and may get bigger.

Honestly, everyone getting As. I am not stressing over this.

Seems like the world is about to end AGAIN. I am gonna go shoot my shot with Reid Wiseman! 🤷🏽‍♀️😬 The moon is a rock. I like rocks! Slides in DMs***

Might've been a somewhat bad idea to put literally all teaching, learning, and assessment tools and identifying information for university members on one universal hub. 🤷‍♀️

Some cool new subduction zone research conducted on the R/V Sikuliaq: ⚒️

5/5 classes are on canvas! It is not a good day over here!!!

Today my students found out I don’t cook! THE JUDGMENT!!!

I explained the Wilson Cycle to my students today and they clapped! They literally gave it a standing ovation. I will be doing less caffeine tomorrow!!! 😂😂😂

We are not allowed to have favorites BUT they are my favorite!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Hey @phaneritic.bsky.social - Your Avenue of the Giants VFE was cited as inspiration for a talk on VFEs by faculty at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ⚒️

FOMO!!!!

I told students to get created. They did not disappoint. I don’t think we were supposed to cry laughing at mass extinctions!

Renting my spare bedroom for Coachella weekend 2. Internet, toilet, and shower are extra. 20 mins from main entrance (yellow path) Serious inquiries only!!

I am not a regular aunt. I am a cool aunt! Took my baby to Coachella for his 12 Bday!!!

I don’t think his Spring break is going as fun. Boy goes to college

I introduced my nephew to K2. He did not know there were more technical and dangerous mountains than Everest! We watched “The Summit” We talked about knowing when to turn around and how that can save your life.

“Bro, you gotta lock in!!!” He said I still ai am cool SOMETIMES cuz I know a lot of science facts!!!

I made my nephew help me do an IG analogy for why we only see one side of the moon! He was obviously stoked!!!

My oldest nephew has been raised like I am his second mom. He is about to be 12. We were playing a game and I read the card (see below) as: “GEE-TWO-GEE” He looked at me like I had broken something: “😳😒GOT-TO-GO” Never felt dumber!!! I lost 1M aura points

Biopsy results posted! Benign!!! I don’t think I have cried this much in a long while. 🙏🙏🙏

Fiddling around with a diagram (built in PPT) to illustrate mixed sedimentation + mafic volcanism in Neoproterozoic rift basins in Virginia. ⚒️

Welp, I just broke character at work. My student had to miss her exams because her grandfather who is in dialysis was detained by ICE and she is the inly person in her family who can safely go to where he is being held. I started sobbing with her. She is 19!!! 1/n

We also explored an angular Unconformity! Quotes of the day: “I know how James (Hutton) felt” “Prof. Rojas you are a real life Indiana Jones” 😂😂 “Yeah, there was no way I understood this in the classroom” 😭😬

Wooot! And for all the folks that want to play along at home, follow the link to explore 700 -megapixel (hi-res) photospheres of the area. Made when @edithrojas.bsky.social led GSA Field trip w/ @callanbentley.bsky.social back in 2024. mrhollister.com/360/GSA2024/...

Say JAMES HUTTON!!! Historical Geology went to the the Mecca Hills Great Unconformity!!! My heart is singing!!!

My spring break plans are now canceled. ICE in the airports. I am not taking a chance. Yes, I am a US citizen. I just don’t look or sound the part. 😒😒😒

I didn’t get in anywhere my first time applying. I didn’t know you had to contact potential advisors first! Now I run a free workshop series through the Society of Vertebrate paleontology to walk folks through the application process. If you’re in paleo, bio, or geo, dm if interested!

This person should quit their job. They don't even understand their job.

Having the worst FOMO. @callanbentley.bsky.social I am missing you all!!!

Chardonnay and costco almond croissants. You cannot beat this combination. On a side note: waiting on a biopsy is a special kind of hell I wish on no one and if one more doctor tells me to not worry YET I am gonna go on a slapping spree.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The California Geological Survey Seismic Hazards Program is hiring for 2 key positions: 🔸Liquefaction Unit Supervisior 🔸Tsunami Unit Supervisor / Seismic Hazards Program Project Manager

I have to have a lymph node biopsy! I am not doing well. Emotionally! Physically I don’t feel sick so 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️😭

I run out of my gigantic container of costco bear claws. I am watching tv with empty hands and empty mouth. Sad!!!

Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.

My guilty pleasure is watching “Love is Blind” Let me tell you. The men and their behavior is not the exception. It is the rule. That is what it is out there for pretty, successful women. Heck, women in general. It is THAT bad.

Sometimes I am like be happy with what you get. I allow a flash card (front and back) 3x5in. Then it becomes: what size? Can I have the biggest one? JUST ONE FLASH CARD?! What can I put on it? No good deed goes unpunished!

Spent most of the day doing field work with my independent research student. We visited a neat outcrop of sedimentary rock between Catoctin Formation lava flows. The ~4m strat column here grades from mud at the bottom through arkosic turbidites and into a conglomerate full of rounded pebbles. ⚒️