Nice commentary on climate change planning. “The climate does not negotiate with infrastructure timelines. In Corpus Christi, the forecast arrived before the infrastructure did. Other Texas cities are likely to encounter the same alignment problem as their reservoirs decline.”

Welp, that’s it, the spacecraft has clearly been assimilated.

The Planetary Society has re-launched our Save NASA Science action hub today given the draconian cuts proposed in the FY 2027 NASA budget — follow here for running updates, statements, charts, and advocacy actions you can take now: planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

So did this camera literally exist to transmit exactly 2 seconds of video?

Many weather stations across the southern two thirds of the U.S. are already logging a record number of 80°F (and even 85°F+) days this year. This really highlights to me the extreme nature of the warmth in March, with many areas already seeing summer-like heat. Graphic from: sercc.com

Geosciences is at *74* total awards this fiscal year (which is now half over). Compared to 279 by the same point last year and between 330 and 440 by the same point 2021-2024. 13 grants were made in the month of March.

got a good photo of mount st helens yesterday as i was levitating above portland, working on my swoops

A single pyrite crystal we had years back. Mined in Peru in the 1950’s. Photo copyright goldenhourminerals. www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

154 years ago the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake struck eastern California devastating the small community of Lone Pine, CA. The cemetery with the earthquake victims is within sight of the scarp formed by this earthquake.

Snow 🌋Mauna Loa, Hawaii 🌺 📸🛰 Sentinel2 2026.03.25 link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/275l H/t @rsimmon.bsky.social

Is climate change making cold extremes more frequent/severe? No This plot shows the difference in temperature of the 0.2% coldest hourly temps (from ERA5) from two periods: 2000-2019 and 1980-1999. Red colors indicate that the later period had warmer extreme cold temperatures.

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Please let us have the Milky Way-Andromeda merger, as a treat arxiv.org/abs/2603.22863

I have yet to see anyone note this. What are the odds the NASA head understands the difference between a fission reactor and an RTG, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator? The latter has been used in NASA spacecraft going back decades, but it is decidedly not a fission reactor.

Preparing a class on Deep-sea Palaeoceanography, but the students are half engineers and half biologists, so every few slides I have to stop and go 🤔 "I should probably explain sequential deposition" or something like that. ⚒️

This is quite a map - highlighting that 2026 is leading the way for many stations stretching across the entire contiguous United States in the number of 80°F days (year-to-date). Remarkable areal extent of summer-like warmth... 🔥 Map from the Southeast Regional Climate Center: sercc.com

So there’s tons of people in Ohio hunting for the new meteorite using metal detectors and magnets… but it’s an Eucrite type which means it has no metal, only going to be able to find it with your eyes

I downloaded this Sentinel-2 scene to get a closer look at infrastructure burning at Bandar Abbas, Iran. But these crazy folds and a salt dome nearby are way cooler. 🛰️🖼️

Fremont's Central Park has repaved the parking lot where the most beautiful transpressional pop-up used to be: ⚒️🥲

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Here's a piece of tephra that is about five inches across but only weighs about 9 grams. This was found in the yard.

As a bonus, this could get Jadzia into Sto'Vo'Kor.

Per @kbtx.com & @maxwx.bsky.social: Texas just experienced the worst February for wildfires since 2005. 🔥258 wildfires responded to 🔥45,881 acred burned 🚒530 firefighters, 74 engines, 31 dozers, and 48 aircraft worked these blazes More: www.kbtx.com/2026/03/06/t... 🧵

New: Despite Congress' rejection of the Trump administration's cuts, OMB has been throttling funding to agencies like NIH and NASA. These restrictions, on top of the 6-week government shutdown, have stopped projects and slowed new grants. Story w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

Absolutely eye-opening thread here on the human impacts of the repeal of the EPA's endangerment finding - calculated using the EPA's own methods!

At the tip of this arrow, there is a 290 million years old impression of a cloaca from a fossilised reptile of the Goldlauter Formation in Germany. It’s the oldest known butthole. #PaleoSky ⚒️

Fractures in the Burren limestone running off to the distant wave lashed cliffs of Moher. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking

A sample of Tasmanian crocoite in my collection. The needle-like crystals will always pull my gaze. #Photography

Love this old fold exhibit showing this gorgeous example of a anticline and a syncline. The oldest rock layers are on the bottom which helps identify the type of fold. These formed from pressure caused by compression. #FridayFold #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

Yosemite had a big “Find Out” phase this past weekend of after messing around and making the Fire Fall weekend reservation-less for the fist time since reservations were introduced. I feel so bad for the understaffed rangers and park workers. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

America is not ready for deep-sea mining. My latest OpEd, in my local paper, The Star Democrat, this time: www.stardem.com/opinion/colu...

The Pale Blue Dot was just one frame out of a mosaic of 60 images recorded by the Voyager 1 cameras #OTD in 1990. Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all visible, though Earth and Venus were each just a fraction of a pixel. (2/n) science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

This is…unbelievable. Unconscionable. The story grows more nightmarish with every sentence, every paragraph. The worst part? Public servants who are inept or corrupt, maybe both, more concerned about inconveniencing an oil company than protecting human health.

The Royal Tyrrell Museum's galleries are like a Who's Who of famous death posture dinos:

Wow 48. Since there are only about 200 scientists in the USA this will surely be worth noting.

Bancroft received the President's Medal at GSA2024 in Anaheim. RIP www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/Awar...

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

Take it away Stone, it’s your night now. @pearljam.com youtu.be/qPh3S1DUC1s?...

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think whether they should

If you take a breath today remember to be grateful to the bottom of your lungs to these guys that made it all possible. Ice-polished ~1.5 billion yo Proterozoic fossil cyanobacterial stromatolite pavement, at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier NP, MT. Oldest fossils I have ever seen!

Impressive rockfalls two days ago in the SW face of Cerro Chaltén! 🏔️😰 What. A. Place! 🤩 📷 Zachary Dreher

A Lithospheric Drip Triggered Green and Colorado River Integration 🧪⚒️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Four days of icy weather in Texas = oil, gas and petrochemical facilities released 1.6 million pounds of regulated pollutants. Companies were allowed to vent or burn off pollutants, because of "enforcement discretion" during the big freeze. ICN did the data: insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

NASA's Juno spacecraft detected the largest volcanic hotspot ever seen in our solar system. It appeared on Jupiter's moon Io, it covers 100,000 square kilometers (bigger than Lake Superior), and it radiates 80 trillion watts of heat. 🧪🔭 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-ju...

Just an incredible and unusual landslide at Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, as captured by @planet.com SuperDove satellites 🧪⚒️🛰️

Serious stuff: “By 2100, global crop yields would be reduced by 11% if emissions rapidly plummet to net zero -- and by 24% if emissions continue to increased unchecked. In the shorter term, by 2050 climate change will decrease global crop yields by 8 percent”, regardless of scenario.

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.