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In my latest for @earthscope.org, I dug into how fiber optic cables can help us better understand flash floods in the SW US. DAS may not be ready for flood early warning, but it can help define thresholds for the switch from infiltration to overland flow. ⚒️🧪 ngf.earthscope.org/news/from-ra...

Have seen several versions of this video floating around. Can't find an original source yet, but if this is legit umm... going to need some sedimentologists in the chat 🧪⚒️ via www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

Interesting 2025 earthquake sequence in western Turkey discussed in @temblorinc.bsky.social, looking at migrating seismicity and recently published papers about the curious quakes. ⚒️

Fantastic column by @rdzombak.bsky.social for @sciencenews.bsky.social about the pros and cons of bamboo toilet paper 💩🧪 Becca writes at the end: "On to the next quest: finding the softest 100 percent recycled TP." Please let us know the answer! www.sciencenews.org/article/bamb...

And while we're on the topic, I had the pleasure of profiling the space biologist/equine therapist of this year's group, Jess Atkin of @tamu.bsky.social. Her story from veteran to therapist to biologist is one of horses, microbes and undaunted grit. eos.org/features/jes...

I love this annual issue of Eos! It's a reminder to us all that there's no one way to be a scientist. ❤️ 🧪⚒️

Cascadia is so weird! Kidding, it's actually fascinating. Diving into what might be happening near and just south of the Mendocino Triple Junction was deeply satisfying for someone who studied Cali's accretionary prisms long ago (that someone is me, btw). Check out my latest, for @earthscope.org! ⚒️🧪

The Cotabato Trench, and perhaps the southernmost Mindanao Fault, may be closer to failure as a result of the magnitude 7.8 mainshock in the Philippines, according to Temblor scientists Ross Stein and Shinji Toda. ⚒️

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🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) & interested email CV & transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️ @igs-egg.bsky.social

So fun to write about seismology+Columbia Glacier for @earthscope.org! Bonus: I got to talk to one of my fave glaciologists, Kurt Cuffey @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! New research from @uafairbanks.bsky.social connects glacial quakes how Columbia loses ice at its terminus. ⚒️❄️

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Every so often when I'm interviewing a scientist, they explain something to me in such a clear and illuminating way that I have an internal epiphany. When I put on my science writer hat, my goal is to pass those epiphanies on to y'all ❤️

My latest, for @eos.org! Yes, its about a way to narrow the search for certain critical mineral deposits. But consider this: The paper uses GPlates, built on paleomagnetic data, geochronology, and geodynamics. The lead author studies petrology and geochemistry. Such work needs all of geology ⚒️🧪

This article in @temblorinc.bsky.social talks about how swarms along the Cotabato Trench in the Philippines are reminding us that the trench remains a potentially hazardous plate boundary, even though the quakes may not be a preface to a repeat of a major 1976 event. ⚒️

80 years ago today, Canadian-born physicist Louis Slotin, 35, received a lethal dose of radiation at Los Alamos Laboratory while performing a very dangerous criticality experiment known as “tickling the dragon’s tail” with a plutonium bomb core. He died from acute radiation syndrome nine days later.

This is fantastic advice for graduate students! The reverse exercise is also often interesting. Start with a recent important paper that's key to your work and go back and back and back!

I was given the excellent advice to read about my dissertation field in chronological order when possible so I have a better understanding of how current thought developed

⚠️Earthquake preparedness saves lives⚠️ Thats why AGU joined science partners urging the House to pass NEHRP reauthorization. Learn more and share with others👇 thebridge.agu.org/2026/05/04/a...

Mount St. Helens erupted on this day in 1980, killing 57 people and spreading rocks, ash, and volcanic gas over hundreds of square miles. Follow along with @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social as they recount the eruption👇

Do you have kids in your life? Teach them about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens AND help them to get their wiggles out with VOLCANO YOGA! 🌋🧘 youtu.be/qEmOyFsYQsI?...

In case you missed it, this AMA is delightful Even if they're wrong: Volcano >>> Dante's Peak

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When a total solar eclipse swept across North America in April 2024, a seismic hush fell over the continent. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/seismic-data-awe-total-solar-eclipse

Hey folks! If you happen to be building seminar/colloquia series and you want someone who can talk volcanoes and magmatic systems, ping me! I have highly technical stuff on zircon geochronology as well as high accessible stuff like how to figure out the most dangerous volcano on the planet.

Check out this news segment featuring @temblorinc.bsky.social CEO Ross Stein talking about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake! The photos over which he narrates Jack London's reporting are heartbreaking. ⚒️🧪

More good stuff for @earthscope.org! This feature dives into a @geosociety.bsky.social paper about Arizona's San Francisco volcanic field, a sea of monogenetic (single-eruption) vents in the northern part of the state crowned by a curious stratovolcano. 🧪⚒️ www.earthscope.org/news/what-li...

Love the book Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick, in which Dolnick tells the stories of some of the geo-celebs of the 1800s ⚒️

I had good fun diving into this @seismosocam.bsky.social paper for @earthscope.org on the topic of how an earthquake in New Jersey drove research into 3D seismic velocity models. Also discussed: What is even a seismic velocity model and why should anyone care? ⚒️🧪 www.earthscope.org/news/new-jer...

Did you hear or feel the sonic boom from the Artemis II reentry? Fill out a “Did You Feel It?” report! It will say earthquake but fill it out for the boom. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

See that planet in the distance? That’s us. ALL of us. Every living being we are aware of lives there. We are completely alone, floating in the great abyss of dark, infinite space. Life like ours is incredibly rare - perhaps even without precedent - in the Universe. All we have is each other… 1/

Did you feel last night’s M4.6 earthquake in the Bay Area? If so, you’re not alone: more than 32,000 people have reported it so far. We explore the geology to try to figure out what fault ruptured, and what to expect. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m46-earthq... ⚒️ 🧪

As usual, @seismosue.bsky.social brings the best article titles: Only Very Strong Shaking Can Break a Tree. And the figure of the tall tree 😂 ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/arti...

When we think about the aftermath of major earthquakes, we often first (and rightly) begin with the population. But another consideration is how such an event's effects might impact the regional and global economy. Take Tokyo, for example, in Lauren Koenig's latest for TEN. ⚒️

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

What happens when you consider #earthquakes as a social phenomenon? Learn more in this month's SSA At Work with Max Schneider! buff.ly/RCVMm4P ⚒️

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

📣PRESS RELEASE📣 Rupture into Slow‐Slip Fault Regime During the 2018 Mw 6.9 Island of Hawai‘i Earthquake is Followed by Modest Postseismic Slip #BSSA ⚒️ A M6.9 Hawaii quake may have stalled episodes of periodic slow slip. PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/OY10yq2 PAPER:https://buff.ly/bNUFl92

Ok, positive scientific thing (for a change): We're going to talk about the work of Yale seismologist Maureen Long, because her work is focused on the most direct evidence of mantle flow and convection we can get. Her career essentially defines our direct knowledge of mantle flow.

For @highcountrynews.org's latest issue on Deep Time, I reviewed 3 books that help us explore Earth's past in different ways: Basin and Range by John McPhee, Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and When the Earth was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

Good morning everyone. My 3D printed lidar-derived volcano tissue box covers are now for sale in my Etsy store. Majority are of Lawetlat'la (St Helens), Tahoma (Rainier), Wy'east (Hood), Kweq' Smanit (Baker), Kohm Yah-mah-nee (Lassen) and even one Salton Sea mud volcano. ⚒️ phaneritic.etsy.com

A new Temblor article talks about how Alaska's Connector Fault, which recently ruptured in the M7 earthquake on Dec. 6, was found and included in Alaska's seismic hazard map *before* the earthquake. ⚒️🧪

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