🚨 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. ⚒️

My worst skill in college/field work is sketching. I gotta teach it to Historical students. Send me tips or videos!!! @callanbentley.bsky.social are you there?! Help (insert sad big eyes) 🫶🏽🫶🏽

I’d like to thank @geotripper.bsky.social for perfectly threading the periods of foul weather for his Death Valley Field Study that @xenolith.bsky.social and I will be joining this Thursday-Monday. Well done!

For those of you who are very busy people, how do you have relationships? How do you CONSTANTLY explain to your partner that you are busy? Cuz mine does not seem to grasp the idea. Like, did you think I am where I am in my career and life cuz I take it easy. I am so annoyed!!!

Applications open for a community-college-student-focused summer REU in Earth Science: www.earthscope.org/education/st... ⚒️

My final #FridayFold from December's visit to Mosaic Canyon in Death Valley NP in California. This one is pretty crazy, with at least two hinges. See if you can make any sense of it. ⚒️

Can forget the Hollister too! Thanks @phaneritic.bsky.social for helping me out and @xenolith.bsky.social for keeping me sane and remind me to kead with kindness! First week was a success! I got momentum y’all!!

I am so humbled and forever thankful to my colleagues all over the country who have helped me with historical geology resources and so much help! We gotta be the closest net discipline out there. Special shout out to @callanbentley.bsky.social for always coming through!

How about you go to the front lines and march with your people. Walk the walk and talk the talk! I am tired of “I made a phone call” “I wrote a strongly worded letter”

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

Mandatory first day selfie! Back to school 😭😭

On a happier note: my current hyper fixation is being able to do arm balancing. Here is a couple of crows. Reach out to your Adhd friends. They are doing dumb shit.

School starts Monday. I got these emails from a student enrolled in one of my classes. Same student harassed the other geologist last semester. Prof asked to remove him. As someone who had a student stalker before and spent 7 months in court getting a restraining order he broke. I am not well

4.2 Quake! Why? 😭😭😭

Felt this one!!! The bed swayed pretty hard. I am still too close to the epicenter. The alerts come in as the quake is happening. Sooo no sleep tonight

Oof Another one!!! Indio is happening!!

Word on the street is that this 4.9 about 40 minutes ago had some amplified shaking in Palm Desert area. Did you feel it? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M 4.9 earthquake 19 km NNE of Indio, CA Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

A M4.9 quake occurred this evening north of Indio. It is east of the San Andreas fault, far enough away to not change the likelihood of a quake on the San Andreas. It's located very near the minor EW-striking Blue Cut fault earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Y’all I didn’t drop cover and hold on! I was too scared!!!

Holy Fuck!! That was a big one! I thought the house was gonna collapse!!!

No body else (the other geologist who got hired for it) wanted or could teach Historical Geology this semester, so the school was gonna get rid of it and the geology degree so I took a bullet for our 7 geology majors. I have no idea how this is gonna go. It is so out of my scoop! Wish me luck! 😭😭😭

We (as a department w the union) filed a grievance against our dean. Guess who denied the grievance? The dean himself! How is this possible?!

Into subduction zones? There's an upcoming SZ4D International Webinar about shallow megathrust behavior on January 22. You can register for the zoom meeting below. ⚒️🧪 ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some people chase views. I chase rock stories. Stay curious. 🪨💫 #geology #anzaborrego #fishcreek #staycurious #adventure #outcrop #formation #rocks #camping #STEM #Y2C #professor #geologist #science

Come check out my AGU talk tomorrow at 4:15pm (350-351) on our rhyolite-MELTS modeling which illustrates highly efficient crystallization directly from basalt to rhyolite fueled recent volcanism at Córdon Caulle.

Just me, the Colorado Desert, and some very fast space rocks.!!! ☄️💫☄️💫 Geminids meteor shower 2025!

After finding this out, every one is getting coal in this household!!!

In class today: Me: “I am blanking on the name of the Xmas Rock 🎄” (Eclogite: It is green and red***) Students in unison: “COAL” 😂😂😂😂😂 I literally cried laughing! Who is giving coal to my students?

Today a student said “cemetery” instead of “sedimentary” and honestly I am not mad about it! 😂😂😂😂😂🪦🪦☠️🪨🪨🪨

I will never understand the students that show up to the test without their allowed flashcards. Or the ones who leave the silly extra credit question empty. What 🪨 would u b n why is pretty fun!

Me at the Louvre wasting my time with pictures instead of taking a crown or something! 🙄🙄🙄👑💎

Ugh! I am the person crying at the airport. This never gets easier.

I will not be having any rum any time soon. 🥴🥴🥴

My Nicaraguan Bff gifted the map of Nicaragua as a necklace. In case it wasn’t clear, I am incredibly proud of my heritage, ethnicity, and country.

When I tell people I come from a developing country, this is what I mean 👇👇👇

In Nicaragua we have dry season and rainy season. This Californian forgot we actually have rain in the wet months.

There has been no volcano hunting on this trip. I forgot it is rainy season and I am not trying to die in a landslide/debrisflow. Thunder storms every. single. day!

Y’all I am headed to Nicaragua!!! Volcano pics coming up!!!! Stay tuned!!! 🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋

We’ve called so many things “tipping points” that the public can’t tell when one really tips. Antarctic sea ice may have just crossed a threshold for real. The crisis is clearer than the language. apple.news/A5tAA09s3SQm...

Students calling a rock VASCULAR instead of VESICULAR will always be funny!

Students really overestimate what we know. I asked them how many minerals do they think I can recognize out of the 3,000ish! My three classes said 3000. 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Did not deny nor confirm. Lol

We have some fun speakers & activities coming up this month in Geology Club! ⚒️

Today is the day students learn this is not “the rocks for jocks” class they signed up for!!! 😂😂😬😬😬 📚📒And crystals have no magical powers! 🥴🔮 #geology #2YC #geologist #geologyteaching #communitycollege