Well I…what? #iufb

Strategic Minerals and the False Promise of Seabed Mining cimsec.org/strategic-mi...

A great new analogy just occurred to me. ⚒️

Canyon view from the South Rim trail of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. See the ALT notes. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #Yellowstone #geothermal

Last week I was co-leading a field trip in Utah, to check out some fluvial and eolian rocks. It was exhausting but fun and forced me to think more carefully than before about complex bedforms. This is a 3D model of one of the many stunning exposures of the Navajo Sandstone near Escalante 🧪⚒️

We already know what happened to Amelia Earhart!

Tsé Bit A'í. #photography

Zero conservation calls this summer for Texas, thanks to new solar and storage builds.

NEW: More than 500 pages of #FOIA docs @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center last March, I was confronted with an environment of fear, uncertainty and discrimination which struck me as a troubling moral issue that also raises serious safety concerns. Read all about it here: www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1

Some of the scariest scientific findings yet nearly 10 years after the Aliso Canyon gas leak. Dramatically increased likelihood of low birth weights, new research finds: laist.com/news/health/...

Marmolada Glacier 2025 | 2015 | 1916 Everything is happening far too quickly... 🔥 We are witnessing the final years of glaciers on mountains below 3,500 metres! 📷Credits: www.unipd.it/news/campagn...

Ohhh myyyyy....a XKCD nailing Geology and Geophysics today. Excellent alt text too.

Chris Getz’s speech to the White Sox to open every Spring Training.

Nice gift "Plate Tectonics Flip Book" from the author Ch. Scotese to our tectonist J. Lazauskienė 😀

This is approximately Yamamoto losing the no hitter with 2 outs in the 9th inning and the Dodgers losing the game #BillsMafia #Gobills

How in the name of hell did the Bills win that game? What the Hell did I just watch!!! #Billsmafia

In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change. www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862...

#MinCup25 fans: A #minerals themed Lego set is coming out in October! Featuring pyrite, tourmaline, amethyst, rhodochrosite, fluorite and tangerine quartz. It's based on a Lego Ideas design which was submitted back in 2023! ⚒️🧪 #geology www.lego.com/en-gb/catego...

Seismic data reveal a tectonic plate breaking apart beneath the Atlantic near Portugal. This marks the first direct observation of oceanic plate delamination. 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Geology #PlateTectonics #Seismology #EarthScience

Highlighting the grain flow and grain fall deposits in the preserved lower part of a Jurassic dune, Navajo Sandstone, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah 🧪⚒️

I I round to 1 significant figure, I have spent 40% of my life in a failed academic job search.

From the North Rim…

Canonically, McDonald's character Grimace hails from an island that features Mt. McDonaldland, a volcano that erupts milkshakes. As this is a form of cryovolcanism, it suggests that Grimace, in fact, originates from one of our solar system's icy moons, possibly Triton or Enceladus. In this essay,

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The latest eruption of Kilauea is underway, and she's shootin' sideways this time around! USGS live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

NBD, just the culmination of the things I know about disaster response organizing, compiled into a printable zine or available online. I'm really proud of it, and of all the folks who worked on it with me. www.disasterzine.com/get-the-zine/ Print it out, keep it in a plastic bag on your bookshelf.

How 30 years of NOAA research led to one very accurate and timely tsunami forecast ⚒️🧪 research.noaa.gov/how-30-years...

Pelona Schist, northern Los Angeles County: ~75 million years ago turbidite or trench deposits sourced from the Sierra Nevadas and SW United States where subducted with the Farallon tectonic plate, metamorphosed, and underplated beneath the North American plate. Subsequently uplifted and exhumed.

New video looking at bayside outcrops of Resurrection Ophiolite, near Seward, Alaska, last summer: ⚒️ youtu.be/5UMb6ygUCCA?...

At one point while teaching field camp, we drove past another camp cutting fruit with a sword. Because of that I can confirm Dr. Tuttle is correct. ⚒️⛏️

Do not trust AI or ChatGPT-5 to do the most basic things like labeling a picture of the hydrologic cycle. Here's what it gave me. (Evaporation arrow pointing into the ground. Both surface water and the "ocean" labels underground. Transpiration arrow coming from the #water surface, not plants...]

This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Climate change Things can only get sweatier www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

There is a fascinating article that nuances the classic 'Lord Kelvin vs. The Geologists' legend about the age of the Earth with another 'ghost', John Perry, who suggested the mantle could convect in 1895.

Another case of apparent meteorite smuggling: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:

30th eruptive episode has started at Kilauea: www.youtube.com/live/fiyttmA... 🌋⚒️

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Petrifying Well at Mother Shiptons Cave, Knaresborough was recorded by the King's antiquary in 1538 and is the oldest tourist attraction in England, having opened in 1630. People leave items in the dripping waters to be 'turned into stone', taking about 3 months to petrify small objects.

Several days later, I am still confused at how boring a properly evacuated, planned, and prepared global tsunami turned out to be. I know we want boring emergencies. But humans usually fail. This was not fail. Kudos planet. You all did good. Humanity surprised me.

How on Earth did I miss this incredible shot of Phobos over the scarp on Olympus Mons from Mars Express earlier this month?

Sometimes Wikipedia is so pure — today I stumbled upon the page that is titled “List of individual rocks” and it is exactly as advertised.

#NASACuts #Landsat, one of NASA's proudest achievements in Earth Sciences, is being "reformulated" but in practice it means it will be killed (see @nasawatch article). Learn about its history and how much it has contributed to taxpayer, society and business. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat...

Fossils from Lake Michigan near Petoskey. Lots of cool bits including corals, crinoids, and what I think are brachiopods and maybe a trilobite?

As a little kid I thought the black streaks in the sand of Lake Michigan beaches was “oil” (proving that I grew up in a post Exxon Valdez world). Turns out it harmless magnetite, which makes up 2-3% of all Lk Michigan sand, most of which is quartz with a bit of felspar.

Josephine Ophiolite appreciation article in a popular free news site? Yes! www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

Just wait until you all hear about the lack of funding for tsunami preparedness and mitigation in the U.S. Until then: www.tsunami.gov