Update: it is indeed a good night!

Aurora’s out! Taken in Colorado, 40 degrees north

Starting to see the northern lights - taken from my backyard north of Denver with a 3-s exposure.

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

Thanks, I hate it. Especially including sexist creep Feynman. Why are you promoting this slop, @nature.com?

University Title IX offices are not prepared for the worst professors they have to have the Feynman Advice Machine in their pocket.

Jeffery I am the wallet inspector

Those who believe "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" usually overestimate both what people will put up with, and their skill at math.

The goal of an advisory panel is to help you, which sometimes requires criticism or redirection. The goal of the LLMs in this article are to retain users, which usually requires affirmation and flattery. The path in this article doesn't give you wise advisors, it gives you embarrassing flunkies.

NOAA cut funding for critical parts of the tsunami and earthquake detection system in Alaska, primarily in the Aleutians. I spoke to Wash Post about negative impacts. But, hey, what are the chances of a deadly tsunami being triggered in Alaska? (Gift article, not behind paywall) ⚒️ wapo.st/4qKvavQ

I will believe that these people love Lord of the Rings when I see any evidence that they can read.

Any cuts to public education are devastating, but the loss of the department where I got my start really hits home. Geoscience expertise empowers communities to effectively use resources and mitigate hazards. Nebraskans need and deserve that expertise, but it's being cruelly taken away.

Democracy kinda depends on voters hearing accurate facts and analysis more than they hear made up nonsense, and that’s kinda sort of an issue

Any cuts to public education are devastating, but the loss of the department where I got my start really hits home. Geoscience expertise empowers communities to effectively use resources and mitigate hazards. Nebraskans need and deserve that expertise, but it's being cruelly taken away.

They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable. If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Jupiter says trans rights

Earthquake Prediction Flowchart xkcd.com/3165/

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

Quoted supporting our counterparts and friends at the Alaska Earthquake Center. The cost of the U.S. tsunami warning and mitigation effort is really a pittance. None of it has ever been adequately funded in any administration, and now things are worse. ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth." www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Me, an atom of tellurium-128: sounds good, I'll arrange the down payment.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

This was the score at the end of the musical, too.

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

This was the score at the end of the musical, too.

Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is a home printer that simply works.

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

I saw him give a talk at Harvard. He opened by saying he'd taught there so he could marry a rich younger woman, and it had worked. Then he complained that Salvador Luria really should have gotten over the Holocaust. The main thrust of his talk was explaining that Rosalind Franklin was a b*tch.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I never met Watson. But he gave a public seminar at my undergrad. Don't remember the talk but do remember the incredibly disturbing and degrading misogynistic comments he made at the female biology majors given the honor to meet him. A real piece of shit! World class.

this is how I found out James Watson died. Too bad he didn't die falling down marble steps and hitting Charles Murray at the bottom, but we can't have everything.

Every conservative commentator publishes a story 2-3 times a year that goes “I was an asshole to random people for no and now they don’t like me. The left has gone too far.”

The bathymetry of eastern Lake Superior, the part that would be crossed by an ore carrier coming from the NW, trying to make Whitefish Bay in a storm, is fascinating. I have heard those N-S troughs explained as subglacially eroded tunnel channels, but there are probably other ideas out there.

Yes, for the first 10 days of November you should be legally required to play The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald on repeat.

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

bored: do you prefer the big spoon or little spoon inspired: do you prefer the dorsal valve or ventral valve of a brachiopod

Free ebook of Conevery Bolton Valencius's book The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb... #HistSci ⚒️

"If NOAA’s forecast holds, Thursday could bring an even higher chance of seeing the northern lights as a Kp index of 7 has been issued for tomorrow night"

Reminder: well-fitting, high-quality masks can prevent you from getting sick in the first place, and booster shots reduce the odds of severe acute effects. Pretending COVID doesn't exist anymore is wishful thinking that can cause long-term health damage to you, your loved ones, and your community.

Delighted to have contributed to this article. 👇 COVID19 hasn’t gone away, and continued SARSCoV2 surveillance is critical.

Heart Mountain xkcd.com/3162/

6,000,000 year old ice & plenty of wind and cold! What folks go through for old ice. Team is headed back to Allan Hills now, follow more at COLDEX.org Support via the incredible National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program. PNAS 6Myr results: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.