In academia, we're good at talking about successes, but sweep unfunded grants & unsuccessful job apps under the rug. It can be a tough road, filled w/ failure* For anyone discouraged about the process, here's my failure CV #AcademicSky 🧪 *None are really failures if you learn from them

Russia doesn't need people like me. And I'll take it as a compliment

Amazing work, feel inspired to do similar things on the Kolka Glacier!

On 14th March, an impressive rock avalanche occurred on Cotopaxi (5,897 m asl, EC)! 🔥 A rock mass detached from the Yanasacha summit cliff and then triggered an ice avalanche onto the glacier! 🌊🧊 The deposit spans ~1000 vertical distance between 5,700 and 4,700 m asl! 😲 📷 Pablo Chiquiza

🏔️❄️New book chapter on GLACIAL HAZARDS now published in ‘Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change’. Covers paraglacial landslides, permafrost degradation, ice &snow avalanches, glacier detachments, GLOFs, ice-volcano interactions Full: lnkd.in/eGtqQf8H Pre-print: lnkd.in/ek59Swfu

today is four-year anniversary since the russian invasion of ukraine started. in these four years, a lot of things have changed. i feel very lucky to write this from the united states. i feel very lucky to know english. i feel very lucky to be in academia for the past three years.

Incinération d’un Lama, Tibet, 1927, crayon sur papier, 23,5 x 32 cm. Coll. J.D. far-orientalism.com/collection/l...

🛰️ Rock–ice avalanche 🏔️ spotted on an unnamed glacier in the Himalaya during random Google Earth browsing 🔎🌍

'La Mer de Glace' Léon Gimpel 1911 Shortly after invention by the Lumière brothers in 1904, Gimpel already mastered the autochrome technique: 'the brightness of the ice made it a photogenic subject par excellence for colour' 📷🌈 This view is remarkable for its precision, quite rare in autochromes.

In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb 11), it's a great time to re-share this paper from 2010 - lots of progress and lots more room to grow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

***Our review paper on glacier surging is out!*** Lovell H, Benn DI, Jiskoot H and 12 others (2026) “Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate.” Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 7(2). doi.org/10.1038/s430... @hazlovell.bsky.social #cryosphere #glaciology #science #glaciers

January 2026 was the 5th warmest on record in the ERA5 dataset, at 1.48C above preindustrial levels, after 2025, 2024, 2020, and 2016.

NASA: Western U.S. snow cover is tracking at record-low levels for January, based on satellite observations dating back to 2001. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

❄️ 💧 New paper out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology: "Monitoring glacier evolution and assessing glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) susceptibility in the Bolivian Andes" lnkd.in/e2tWUXeu #glaciers #climatechange #climate #andes #glofs #Bolivia (1/2)

«Then I thought that the glacier would, in turn, be gradually destroyed through ice avalanches. I had not imagined that it could break apart all at once.»

fantastic piece of art posted on @atmosmag.bsky.social guys please don’t give up on your bluesky account!

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...

People should really think twice about whose portraits they put on the wall, and ask themselves why they even need some stranger’s face there in the first place. Put your mom’s photo on the wall instead and be good.

I was sooo lucky to see these cute guys from the plane while returning to the US from Russia. Of course, almost all the window shades were down and people were staring at their phones 😓 I just want to look at this beauty in real life while I still can. July 31, 2025

🚨 CLaSH Small Grants Program now open! We’re funding creative, seed-level projects on land surface hazard cascades, including modeling, AI/ML, and site-based studies at CLaSH Hazard Observatories. 💰 $20–40K | 🗓 Deadline: Feb 4, 2026 🔗 www.geoclash.org/small-grant-...

"Venezuela's oil is heavy & dense, and requires special refineries. Burning any type of oil contributes to climate change, but Venezuela's oil is "among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming," says Paasha Mahdavi, at UC Santa Barbara." www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...

Choose your fighter: Putin or Trump

After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵

A new paper in the journal Landslides (Darrow and Jacobs 2025) presents a landslide inventory that extends over a century for Alaska. It clearly demonstrates that climate change is driving a significant increase in landslides in this US state. eos.org/thelandslide...

Some people said my AGU poster actually looks good, I’ll take it haha My first PhD paper draft is almost done (not sure tho). There will definitely be more zoomed-in maps…

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

New cires.colorado.edu research shows that winter clouds in the Arctic may be warming the region more than expected. ☁️ Using surface observations from Alaska’s North Slope, scientists uncovered how shifting cloud patterns are influencing rising temperatures. Read more ↓ https://bit.ly/3MtD4tQ

Join CLaSH at #AGU2025! 📘Wed: EPSP session: Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes 🌟Thu: Town Hall — Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... #CLaSH #LandSurfaceHazards #EarthScience

No fun at AGU this year? It was expected, but still… Take me to EGU 😪

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

It’s interesting to see how many ice avalanches occurred due to earthquake and aftershocks!

While finalizing my class project on active remote sensing for glaciers, I ran into this animation again. Ten years ago I read the article behind it for my first academic assignment ever, and I still remember how excited I was. Science does not exist without emotions. doi.org/10.5194/tc-9...

Romanticizing overpriced ski towns is my guilty pleasure 📍Telluride, CO

A giant low angle glacier detachment (40 M m3) occurred on 1st Nov. 2022 in the remote Kunlun range (Tibet, 90.869° E, 35.969° N) and was discovered only 2 years later! 😲🧊🌊 Before collapsing the glacier reached speeds of up to 46 m/day! ⚡️ Must read! 🔥 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

A serac broke off high on the steep Ultar Glacier and the avalanche reached the Hunza Valley, covering Karimabad and surroundings with snow and dust! 🧊❄️😱 Ultar Sar (7,388 m) is the peak at the background right! 🏔️ 🎥 karimiehunzai

Based on climate trends in the Caucasus, Kolka Glacier was not expected to return after the 2002 collapse. But it did! Today it has already regained about 50% of its pre-collapse mass, mostly thanks to constant snow, ice, and rock avalanches filling the basin. Photos from our 2021 field trip!

#Avalanches are of key importance to #glaciers worldwide. An international research team led by Marin Kneib (WSL & ETH Zurich) shows that up to 22% of the snow on glaciers comes from avalanches. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/aval... @marinkneib.bsky.social @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

WTF

Avalanches again, but this time in beautiful Kyrgyzstan (2021). The mountains looked surreal in the windows of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum. I really miss field trips now, even though I didn’t really enjoyed them at the time. Funny how that works.

It is hard to believe, but I miss Russian winter after 3 years in the United States. Russian far North is my favorite place in the country (after Central Caucasus, of course). Here are some photos from Khibiny mountains (Kola peninsula), where we did snow and avalanche assessment in Jan 2018 & 2022

Zermatters are really working hard to destroy their land! 😭 After Gorner dam, digging Theodule gl. and excessive cable cars, introducing... A 260 m-high tower! 😲 'to fix the housing shortage caused by tourist pressure' 😂 Wait, have you thought about regulating this unrestrained tourism?! 🤔🤬 1/

In this animation, we can see that the glacier detached sometime between September 4 and 21, 2025 (actually Sept 17-21), and a piece traveled ~5km down valley to just below the village of Safedob. And then on Oct 25, the glacier farther upvalley again advanced, pushing the detached piece another km

It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️ Don't miss that read! 🙏 polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/... 📷 Pomona