I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I felt motivated this morning to revisit my photo catalog from Iceland, including re-touching some edits that were lost to an older computer years ago. This is my new spin on an old photo of Kirkjufellsfoss from 2019. #Iceland #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Howdy Bluesky - it's been a while. I haven't posted much for a variety of reasons, including being behind on photo edits. As a sort of re-introduction, here are some of my favorite weather photos from over the years. Descriptions in the alt text.

"Remote sensing for species distribution models: An illustration from a sentinel taxon of the world's driest ecosystem" By Khum Thapa-Magar, @sokole.bsky.social, Michael Gooseff, Mark Salvatore, John Barrett, @colddirt.bsky.social, @paulknightly.bsky.social, & Sarah Power

ICYMI: Ecology paper in @esajournals.bsky.social couples remote sensing with a species distribution model to better understand the dominant primary producers at @mcm-lter.bsky.social, Antarctica: 🦠 cyanobacterial mats Thapa-Magar, @sokole.bsky.social, Gooseff, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Me: The youngs don't know what a file is. Or file structure. @nianorris.com: My students "live out of their downloads folder like it's a van by the river."

My followers count has nearly doubled since the last time I logged in here. Are we all doing this now for real?

I’m suddenly disappointed in my life decisions

Gearing up for a few days of storm chasing from tomorrow (most likely) and into the weekend (for sure). Not planning on any real-time updates - that went away when I left Twitter. Hardly post here but has there been any improvement in building up the wx community here?

Bsky has been open for a few hours now. Where my peeps?

It's not like the end of a planetary mission is a happy thing, but damn, if you surpass all specs like Ingenuity did — and became the first helicopter to fly on Mars at the same time! — then it's cause to celebrate what it *did* acheive. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-t...

Since Tuesday, record amounts of fog have blanketed the Lower 48 states, lowering visibility, disrupting flights, causing vehicle accidents and even delaying schools. At least two decades have passed since the United States was this foggy.

Decay Modes xkcd.com/2860

It's been what, a couple of months? Busy with moving across town plus travel, but slowing down for a soft landing to end the year. Had field work in NC and a meeting in AZ, so some travel photos to share. Descriptions in alt text.

This reminds me of the awesome tweet that was like: It's wild that it took until the 1960s to figure out plate tectonics. A little kid in the 50s would be like "it looks like Africa and South America fit together" and his mom would say "that's cute sweetie, here have a cigarette."

I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse. I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.

This is our present but it doesn't have to be our future.

I saw somebody share this regarding AI/LLM generated text on Mastodon this morning and I think it's fantastic. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

We're coming up on National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship application season, and soon after, announcements of who got that prestigious award. On The Other Site, ~99% of that discussion was "don't worry if you don't get it, you're not a huge failure." Super normal job we have

Canister is open! Lots of fine grained material already has spilled out. I hope they have a vacuum cleaner handy.

Science on Bluesky is growing rapidly! Science friends, introduce yourselves below and I’ll share! Who are you? What do you work on? Where are you based? I’ll go first. I’m David, and I study sharks and their conservation. I’m based in the Washington, DC area. 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐡

Dear humans of this brave new world: if anybody is missing the bluesky equivalent of tweetdeck, PINE NO FURTHER

Lithium! We know that we need more to make batteries ... but where do we find it? One place is a remote caldera on the Oregon-Nevada border that might be a mother lode of lithium. So, how'd so much lithium end up in a 16 million year old volcanic deposit? www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...