This is a Must Read.

5 classes you took in college [my ~top 5] - Climate Dynamics (as @climatebook.bsky.social was finalizing the Climate Book) - Evol. Hist. of Terrestr. Ecosys. (pterosaur term paper!) - Electronics (8h lab/wk, 💙d all 8) - E&M II (finally felt like I "got" physics) - Natural Hist. of N American Deserts

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

Carved out some time to hit up the Brett Allen Johnson show on its last day at the Maxwell Alexander Gallery, hands down one of my favourite working artists:

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

That S3 will continue next year is *really* helpful to know. Still unsure whether Congress approving a larger budget would actually mean more funding, how best to avoid playing myself with the year-between-resubmissions rule in the current environment, etc. but at least that's one question answered.

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

"To call her death merely a suicide misses the larger truth—no suicide happens in a vacuum. Policies designed to make life unlivable for transgender people bear responsibility too; every trans suicide is a murder by those in power." www.erininthemorning.com/p/every-tran...

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Submitted my first ever faculty application! It would obviously be incredibly exciting if I get an interview, but I'm also just really glad to have gone through the process of assembling a teaching statement, etc. for the first time.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Off the top of my head, the cover of Sleep All Summer by the National and St. Vincent... this probably also doubles as a response to that "what is your most Millennial opinion" meme that was going around again a week or two ago.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Makapuʻu-Stage #Koʻolau Basalt has the most radiogenic Sr87/86 of #Hawaiʻi #lavas, low εNd, Hf176/177, and Pb206/204, and high La/Nb and Sr/Nb indicating a filament of recycled material (secondary garnet #pyroxenite via #eclogite) of the Hawaiian ULVZ associated with the Pacific LLSVP. #geology

I met the world's cutest integrating sphere at NIST this week.

This passage nearly broke me.

I will always RT NASA U-2s :)

Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson

Yardangs in the morning, yardangs in the evening #Mars 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

i am preparing for a conference in october, and i went back and read this talk i gave at the climate hope conference in vancouver, and ugh. i just want to share it with more people. i think it's my favorite talk i've ever given. i usually never write them out. read if you'd like.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Post your last photo of DC to show what a hell-hole it is. [I think the subjects of my last photo in DC might be somewhat upset at that characterization]

Took a climber/rescuer course this week to qualify for upcoming work fixing a radiometer on an 80' tower. Excited for the project! Also so sore in muscles I haven't used since I climbed 4x/week that I can't tell if my current running injury is cured or just not yelling as loudly as everything else 😆

Life has been too busy for droidbuilding since early May but I've been lucky to spend all day today back on my BD project! Unfortunately today's job = repeatedly assembling & disassembling the same part in between rounds of soldering & crimping, rather than anything photogenic, but getting so close!

Good news RI story: PlumpyNut is a famine relief nutrition paste made in RI for USAID. Trump killed the contract leaving tons of it sitting in a warehouse. RI discount store chain will now donate trucks and labor to move to NGOs that can use it. turnto10.com/news/local/o...

as someone who was raised Catholic & has spent my adult life as a person of faith (Buddhism), this @theradr.bsky.social post spoke to me deeply. after reading it, I set up a monthly donation to Gaza Soup Kitchen (link within ⬇️) 🙏🏻💚 “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me”

For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing: "Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."

Good night, Earth. During the 20-day #Ignis mission, @esa.int's Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski captured this majestic view of our planet from the seven-windowed Cupola on the International Space Station.

On this call right now and it's funny because most of the guidance for combat vets in attendance is "PLEASE PLEASE do not pick fights with ICE agents at the courthouse." This is, of course, important, but it reflects how incandescently angry veterans are over the treatment of our Afghan allies.

Back in the US after IAVCEI 2025 and a few days off afterwards! It was great to see colleagues (some for the first time in person!) and to absorb so many thought-provoking talks and posters.

that second one in particular 😍

🧪⚛️ Just a reminder that Ted Cruz’s shameless “steal a space shuttle” add-on to the reconciliation bill will cost at least $300M, which is the equivalent of about 600 3-year NSF single PI awards. You know, NSF, the agency overseen by the committee Cruz chairs.

One day I will be able to load a large raster in ArcGIS without having this song stuck in my head for the rest of the week, but today is not that day.

Stopping yet again to curse what happened to Twitter, this time because I have a perfect 🇮🇸 photo in my Pavonis folder I'm 95% sure a particular geologist sent me to use. But I never screencapped the conversation and we both deleted our accounts, so I'm not 100% sure who to credit, so I can't use it.

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃

@plotastro.bsky.social This is a pretty visualization of hydrocarbon opacities in the atmosphere of Titan in arxiv.org/abs/2506.12144

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

I try not to post my problems given everything going on in the world, but need to vent: split today between (1) preparing my first invited talk for a major conference + (2) deciding how safest to mothball my science career / WTF to do with my life if the US science cuts happen. Does not feel great!

Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science. planet.ly/petition

Dear backyard crows, The birdbath is for: Drinking, washing your butts, perching on to yell at magpies. Things it is not for: Naan, either whole or in part. Please stop putting your takeout into the pump. Thank you, The person who gives you those damned peanuts

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away