Fran89

Fran89

@fran89.com

Geologist, Gamer, Programmer. Fran89.com Twitch.tv/TheFran89

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Amaze amaze amaze! Amazing film.

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Project Hail Mary rocketed to the top of the domestic box office with the biggest domestic opening of 2026.

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By sending low-voltage electrical currents through the ground and measuring how the current flows between electrodes, electrical resistivity tomography reveals variations in underground resistivity. These measurements are combined to create a detailed resistivity profile of subsurface materials.

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Uff this one hurts...

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social

Another chapter in the enshittification of US Govt websites: USGS Earth Explorer no longer has a satellite data basemap (which for a geospatial search tool is kinda useful) and also outside of the US, you can't even zoom very far. How is this saving money or making things more efficient? 🧪⚒️

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The other thing is that scientific research gives people who are both smart and really motivated to change the world something to do other than politics. Do they really want a lot of unoccupied scientific talent? Because that's how you get evil lairs in volcanos and sharks with lasers.

Wendy Fall@wendyfall.bsky.social

In case anyone was wondering why the government was so heavily invested in scientific research (pre-DOGE) here is a clear explanation from one of the workers on the chopping block:

I finally got my film developed from the last USGS Trip to PR where we did Seismic Lines in South and South-Western Puerto Rico. Kodak EKTAR H35 Half-Frame Camera. Fujifilm 400 ISO Color Film. Scanned by IndieFilmLab's Noritsu.

I also had my B&W film camera with me at the time. I love the look of film, and knowing it's just silver-halide crystals. Nikon N65 Camera. Ilford HP5 Plus B&W 400 ISO film. Scanned by IndieFilmLab's Noritsu.

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Replying to @obialik.bsky.social

As a reminder, scientists do not receive royalties when someone accesses, downloads, or reads their papers. All proceedings go exclusively to the publisher. Nor do they get paid for reviewing or (mostly) editing other people's papers for a journal. Yes, its sucks, and it's broken.

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This is the Network of the Americas (NOTA). Upwards of 1000 high quality GPS stations used to monitor all big active faults that produce the biggest most damaging earthquakes as well as volcanoes from Mt. St. Helens to Yellowstone, etc. Every single on of them is grant funded.

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Replying to @morganmp.bsky.social

Maximum slip here was more than 2 m—more than 6 ft! Because the rupture went eastwards, we see interesting features in the ground motions onshore that are similar to the Doppler effect. We’re all familiar with the difference in how an ambulance sounds approaching you, compared to after it passes.

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Replying to @xkcd.com

Can I be one of 274 pedants to point out that it would only be a strike-slip faulting earthquake in map view? In cross-section that would be a normal fault.

Lucina main at the ready.

Christina Mijares-Doung@christinadrawin.bsky.social

If you see this, repost with your Smash Main! Used to main Pikachu up to the Wii version, but then I found love in SUPLEXING CHARACTERS AS A RAGING DINOSAUR-TURTLE 🔥🔥

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Ready for some more interesting facts about earthquake magnitude? Each whole number increase in magnitude is a 10x increase in the measured amplitude (size of earthquake waves recorded on a seismometer), but represents 32x more energy released. This video gives a visual demonstration.

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Replying to @celestelabedz.bsky.social

This figure alone tells you the whole story. Those median regression lines make no sense. I cannot understand how stuff like this gets through peer review.