Time to get your public comments in on the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule that would strip protections for countless wetlands and streams. Trout unlimited has a tool on their page that will automatically send your message to the EPA as well as your representatives: www.tu.org/conservation...

#FossilFriday Late Triassic Chinle Formation coprolite. You can see the spiral pattern in at least one of the images. No wolf hair or credit card fragments…

38°38” N. Video slightly undersells how vivid it is this far south. #AuroraBorealis

Regarding the general vibes of 2025.

More pictures from the Beaver Dam area, far SW Utah. #geology

Fossil corals and other bits, unknown Paleozoic age.

This isn’t my university but it’s not far away. It’s a good opportunity for someone who loves teaching and wants to develop some undergraduate research, too. Highly deformed rocks aplenty within 5-30 minutes from St. george. #geology www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

#Triassic plant (?) #fossils from the Chinle Formation, found in a talus slope full of boulders from the Shinarump Member. I don’t recognize anything, but I’m no paleobotanist. #Paleontology

@adobe.com has so enshittified their software that Photoshop can’t even complete my “request” to close the program. To Task Manager I go!

Some iPhone dark sky images from southern Utah. Remarkable for a phone camera, even more spectacular in person.

Based on the CBS commercials during this Lions-Packers game I have a new pilot to sell them called Detective Police Cop. If it is successful I will follow up with my script for Detective Police Cop: Firefighter, M.D. 911

desert summer monsoon rain, better late than never. waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site...

I’ve discovered that, at least temporarily, lower back pain is great at relieving feelings depression. Silver linings! Now time to hobble off to work.

Highlighting the grain flow and grain fall deposits in the preserved lower part of a Jurassic dune, Navajo Sandstone, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah 🧪⚒️

The most frustrating narrative around deep-sea mining is the argument that it is "better" than terrestrial mining. There is no version of deep-sea mining that offsets terrestrial mining. The commercialization of deep-sea mining may accelerate terrestrial mining. It is an additive impact.

Got a tire puncture today and could hear the hissing (stopped to reinflate and head home before putting on the spare). Figured I’d try the old dish soap method to find the leak and it was a lot more obvious than I expected.

Good article on local wildfire in southern Utah. www.kuer.org/science-envi...

WEATHER ALERT: Yet another red flag day. A reminder, red flag is hot temperatures + strong winds = fire danger! #utpol #Utah

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

This is why we use 3D sensors in earthquake data analysis. I selected a seismogram that highlights how the vertical channel has a clearer P-wave onset. The S-wave arrival on this channel is really unclear compared to the horizontals. Low-frequency high-energy S-waves are often the destructive phases

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America. By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

The “it’s a dry heat” distinction has never felt more personally clear to me than this last week as I went from Utah desert to Midwestern corn sweat and thunderstorms, and then back to Utah.

On Sunday AM KOTZ (our public radio station) plays hymns sung in Inupiaq. My dad loves hearing Inupiaq. Another thing we'll miss if KOTZ closes (now slated to close in May without federal funding). They also have a huge stash of "Eskimo stories", all in Inupiaq, that aren't available anywhere else.

One like, one clam fact

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month. There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

A M7.3 struck Alaska minutes ago, at a depth of 20 km. This event was close to the M7.2 2023. A tsunami alert has been issued for some parts of Alaska. For more information, visit: www.tsunami.gov

For (trace) #FossilFriday, an action shot of the team from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site and some current and former #SUU students doing photogrammetry on Kayenta Formation #dinosaur tracks near Cedar City. Site originally noted by Tyler Knudsen of the Utah Geological Survey.

Fire fighting aircraft very busy today out of CDC (airport) in Cedar City. Seems like tankers every 20-30 minutes coming in from the SE, so maybe the North Rim fire. www.flightradar24.com/TKR103/3b362...

Valar Atomics, one of the companies hoping to develop nuclear power in Utah, has claimed its technology is so safe that a person can hold the spent nuclear fuel from its reactor and get the same amount of radiation as a hospital CT scan. Nuclear experts have decried those claims as impossible.

I put together a little discussion / breakdown of the flash flooding in Texas. Can watch here: 🧪

'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

It’s that time again! Time for @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s 7th annual United States of Science Challenge! Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we marched w/scientists this year. $10 donations fill bubbles! The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins! givebutter.com/USS2025

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

Those stating that AI is doing good for the world: it's single-handedly derailing any headway we've made towards renewable energy and leading us faster into a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gonna watch this ocean documentary and see how long it takes before I become radicalized.

True size of Iran superimposed on USA’s similarly ultra right wing “religious” petrostate.

Reminder for everyone, that in the last 50 years our executives have been: - criminal who resigned - a college football player known mostly for falling down and pardoning his criminal predecessor - a rocket scientist peanut farmer that just wanted to help people

Light pollution, both on the ground and from megaconstellations, is cutting us off from one of the only universal things humanity shares across the globe: Visual access to the night sky. And it has serious biological, scientific, and cultural consequences: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

Plume of smoke from the Forsyth fire (Pine Valley, Utah) stretching 30-40 miles north across Iron County.

Southern Utah is on fire during a windstorm just as the fireworks stands are rolling into town. I grew up in a place with actual moisture and these kind of fireworks stands were still illegal, yet here in fire country anyone can just load up on incendiary devices.

Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological Survey has provided a stunning set of the images of the fascinating recent failure that partially blocked the Yukon River. This is a textbook example of a complex rotational landslide:- eos.org/thelandslide...

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

The nice thing about skipping the Oxford comma is that a bit of confusion is worth an occasional chuckle.

I know I’ve been watching too many cat videos because my mind keeps thinking about adopting one, even though I am very allergic to most cars and one of the dogs in the house is not cat-friendly. But my dog is and I kind of want her to have a cat sidekick for wacky adventures. That is all.

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

Beetle time. I startled it at first so it went into stink posture.

JFC this reads like a horror movie except it's been unfolding across a swathe of the South Australian coastline, indiscriminately killing all manner of marine life Yet another devastating phenomenon we're all going to become more familiar with in the advent of fossil-fueled marine heatwaves