It's not the @iavcei.bsky.social calendar, but some great photography for volcanophiles at www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

My @nytimes.com subscription just expired. Haven't really read anything but the arts for months, because of their normalization of the tyranny of the federal government, extra charge for sports, and the jokers on the opinion page. Is there a decent source of news and opinion out there?

I'm looking for the perfect illustration of a mantle plume for a book I'm working on. Started with a web search and couldn't find exactly what I wanted. So I gave Chatgpt a go. Wow.

Is this incredibly stupid headline written by artificial stupidity or a real-life stupid person? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Great quote by @pkrugman.bsky.social today: "there is no reward for appeasing MAGA with performative displays of cowardice."

Little known fact: Epstein provided his clients with Tylenol. As Deep Throat said: follow the over-the-counter medications.

I'm confused: Tylenol causes fascism, or is it that acetaminophen results from abuse of fake spray tans? It's hard to follow facts when they just make this stuff up.

Now I'm going to have to decrease my watching of abc and cbs from zero to negative but not sure how to do that.

A shout out to Anchorage! You showed up strong a beautiful reminder that support for Ukraine spans every corner of the world. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

That press conference reminded me of when I was in the sixth grade and gave a book report on a book I hadn't read.

It is time, people, to protect our forces with sandwich-proof body armor.

About to start our rocking CDF 65 house party! #darwinfoundation

In 2004, it took many, many days to produce detailed tsunami models after the devastating Sumatra earthquake. Last night? Slip models were being produced and shared within hours. That’s federally funded science in action.

I just hit "traditional" social media for the first time in months to see how the tsunami might be affecting friends who live near the Pacific. It is shocking to see how much AI generated #bullshit there is on there. And #foxnewsbullshit. What motivates these people??? Do they get a dopamine rush?

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Great to see the eruption on our way to the airport in Reykjavik

Just witnessed the best noble gas geochemistry talk I've ever seen @ritaparai.bsky.social And certainly in the top 10 of any topic

Texas Hill Country is scenic – and deadly during storms. Its steep hills and fast-moving water make it one of the most dangerous places in the U.S. for flash floods. A flood on July 4 killed at least 27 people. A hydrologist explains why this keeps happening: theconversation.com/why-texas-hi...

It’s official: U.S. science is tanking on an international level. Just finished a great meeting of international volcanologists. U.S. presence about half that of previous meetings. Many talented people looking to get out of our shithole of a country.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

Darwin Foundation releases a manifesto for the marine reserve in preparation for the UN World Conference on the Oceans: www.darwinfoundation.org/en/news/all-...

A study I was involved with is covered by Fox "news". Does that invalidate it? www.foxnews.com/world/scient...

In the event you have been worried about the Earth's core leaking, you need to worry more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice comeback. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/a...

At Coldwater II, David Johnston grabs the transmitter. “Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” One final garbled message. Then silence.

Another stupid management decision. By all appearances Cheatham is a sycophant, perhaps the immoral offspring of Miller and Bondi. A marginally qualified economist at the lead of what used to be the world's premier science-funding organization. www.science.org/content/arti...

Why read tidbits about this conclave thing in Rome when you can watch it live here? youtu.be/FMENQeCbxfI?...

Our department is hiring a visiting assistant professor in structural geology! For addt’l info & to apply: apply.interfolio.com/167020. Please share this announcement with any colleagues who might be interested & contact any members of the department with your questions. Thanks!

HCR's essay yesterday is brilliant. A great summary of the culture behind our current mess of a country. People think they want to be cowboys, but no one really likes sleeping on the ground and doing it all by oneself. @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-24-2...

In Latin America, many bird species are under threat from habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change. @mongabaylatam.bsky.social highlights three conservation efforts, including our work to protect land birds from the devastating avian vampire fly. 🪰 es.mongabay.com/2025/04/hist...

Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.

The master of whataboutism and false equivalency realizes that maybe vilifying government for a generation wasn't such a great idea. Especially notable that he calls out the despised jerks from my college, some of whom who have become even more glorious turds: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

For a genius, he sure is a fucking idiot.

Can't wait until this is available outside Idaho! www.bigcountrynewsconnection.com/idaho/univer...

I don't see what the big deal is. After all, Fermi sent Szilard the plans for the fusion reactor on Snapchat.

you think hegseth is bad, one time I accidentally added the country I was about to invade to the chat and then I had to be like omg Iran no lol total typo I did not mean YOU, we're gonna invade Iraq again haha just autocorrect. it was sooo mortifying tbh and then we had to invade both?? full cringe

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

The Charles Darwin Foundation has been appointed as a co-executor of the Floreana Ecological Restoration Project! This major conservation initiative will restore native habitats and reintroduce lost species to one of the most impacted islands in Galápagos. 🔎 www.darwinfoundation.org/en/news/all-...

With fewer than 2,000 Galápagos penguins left, conservation is urgent. 🐧 Scientists are using innovative tracking methods to protect them, but threats like climate change and bycatch persist. 🐧 Learn how you can help safeguard their future here: www.darwinfoundation.org/en/news/all-...

2/2 M/T are destroying the system that gifted them opportunity. The Doggies are gutting NSF, the institution that awarded Robert Huggins a $4M grant for his materials research center at Stanford. Huggins invented the Li-ion battery, without which Musk would be living in his parents' basement.

1/2 Co-Presidents Musk/Trump are products of Penn, which has $617 million in federal research funding ($25K/student). Of course they got into this prestigious university not because of their wealthy parents but pure merit. They are destroying the very system that gifted....