<sigh> One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript. How do we know? Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth. Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Toured the new offshore research vessel CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk today at the base in Victoria. Impressive research vessel and investment by the Canadian government to meet our responsibilities w/r/t protecting our marine resources

The US has published a list today of dozens of environmental, scientific, and development organizations and treaties from which it is withdrawing. This list includes the IPCC; IRENA; the UNFCCC; UN Water; IPBES; among many others. Absolutely nuts. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Come by my poster at #AGU25 tomorrow morning if you’re still around! Understanding Seismic Anisotropy Observations in the Context of 3D Slab-Induced Flow in the Cascadia Subduction Zone (DI51B-0018)

Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science. UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled. buff.ly/jR6tGwo

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/

An early-career presenter at AGU Monday: Julia Baumgarte Frictional Behavior and Shear Localization in Experiments with Realistic Fault Roughness Bounding Gouge Layer T12A-07, 354-355 (NOLA CC) Monday: 11:35 - 11:45 (Jamie Kirkpatrick’s group, McGill and Univ. Nevada, Reno) They will present […]

An early career presenter at #AGU25 Monday: Luhong (Amy) Lu The influence of the 2011 Mw 9.1 Tohoku earthquake on the Boso slow slip sequence T14A-05, 353 (NOLA CC) 15Dec, 17:00 - 17:10 (Yajing Liu’s group, #McGillUniversity) The Boso Peninsula is south of the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

I have the first edition of this wall hanging in my room!!

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...

The number of people I see cruising at 20 mph, no helmets and phone in hand on the way to campus on e-bikes and scooters is disturbing

VOLCANO AWAKENS! Dramatic video shows a dormant volcano erupting in Ethiopia, filmed from aboard a passenger plane. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #volcano #Breaking #breakingnews

Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

Happy to leave California for a minute to watch the snow falling from the fireplace here in NYS

This is the best thing I’ve seen in a while. Boy, do I miss Canada 🇨🇦

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

I thought this was an Onion article for half a second

Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep! We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵

I am grateful that I had the chance to sit down with one of the undergraduate journalists at The California Aggie to discuss my master’s research in the geodynamics lab at UC Davis and some of the exciting field work I’ve been a part of this summer theaggie.org/2025/10/20/b... 🧪

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Today, the Python Software Foundation withdrew a huge NSF proposal because they refused to betray their commitment to their “diverse and international community” by capitulating to the demands of the current regime. 3 cheers for my favourite language, please pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

wow, which common vaccine was it?

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Well, the architects of the outage are actually AWS, who control a global majority of the cloud computing services that web services like Canvas depend on. This is what happens when the internet has all of its eggs in one basket

The inherent corollary of "this is murder" is that we prosecute and punish people who commit murder.

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

I was able to try out an earthquake (Mw 7.0) shake simulator at UC Davis today, super cool. Would not want to experience it for real. Probably.

It was a pleasure to contribute to this article, which talks about how AI contributes to seismology - indeed, we have seen tremendous progress in the use of machine learning to detect small events. 1/

this was the most important thing I learned during my CS degree and now the most frustrating thing to see as I watch my peers (other grad students) and younger computer scientists replace critical thinking with AI

Current mood

Something new to consider on my PhD search

Jane Goodall was an inspiration to all young female scientists, I hope she rests in peace

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

👏 We initiated this open letter re: #GRFP yesterday, before the solicitation came out. We updated this morning, and are working on additional response & actions focused on the eligibility change. Please sign/add stories/share this letter if you can! AND call your reps! bsky.app/profile/jaso...

It’s just so great that the GRFP rules have been updated. Decided not to apply in my first year of grad school so I could apply this year, I guess now I’ll never be eligible 🙃

Northwestern Venezuela was struck by several large earthquakes today and yesterday (M6.2, 5.8, 6.3). Why did these shallow thrust events occur in an area where previously only strike-slip earthquakes have been documented? We speculate about the geology in our latest post. ⚒️ 🧪

Things that make me happy: When @mineralcup.bsky.social & Fat Bear Week overlap.

⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far. With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:

an exciting weekend of some fieldwork firsts in Mt. St. Helens: a helicopter ride, infrasound, and cameras

me & my refried beans enjoyed the view of Mt. Rainier from Mt. St. Helens this weekend

spent the last two days hiking and army crawling through the bush on Mt. Rainier to recover ~50 temporary seismic nodes that were monitoring debris flows on the Tahoma creek drainage

⚒️ 🧪 The situation in Afghanistan is dire following the M6 earthquake on August 31st. More than 2,200 people have died; reports indicate that 65% of buildings in the region were destroyed. Meanwhile, satellite imaging has begun to reveal both devastation and scientific details about the quake.

Americans should learn from the French about how to protest.

If listing cases of 2025 US political violence, one would include the Charlie Kirk killing, the Melissa Horman killing (MN state legislator), and the CDC shooting. The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.

Call out the hypocrisy. Trump is ordering flags at half staff for Kirk's murder. Yet, two months after the murder of MN Speaker Melissa Hortman he's refused to so much as call the Hortman family or Gov Walz, & instead mocked them. Vile hypocrisy doesn't facilitate peace, it enables more violence.

Yesterday's congressional hearing on vaccine safety relied on a study that was never published—or even submitted to a journal—to trot out the old myths about vaccines causing chronic illnesses. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...