Jackie Caplan-Auerbach

Small symbols of support mean SO much.

Noelle@finallynoelle.bsky.social

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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Laura Bassett

@lebassett.bsky.social

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

thehill.comGOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during WatergateRep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…

Oh, hell no. We are not doing this, people. We are not whitewashing Watergate. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social

Breaking news: The Earth is getting rounder agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

I'm gonna need @dieworkwear.bsky.social to evaluate this outfit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

youtube.comThird Thursday, August 20, 2026YouTube video by ndptc

28 Aug

For those interested, the video is available from my recent talk on the Tracy Arm landslide, given to the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center. Enjoy and let me know if you've got questions about any of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak27...

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social

27 Aug

Desperately trying to balance two things: (1) my anger at people who hate gay and trans people but allege to love Dolly Parton, and (2) my desire to be more like Dolly and not be judgy and hateful towards the people in category (1). Failing so far.

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Joshua Weitz

25 Aug

Replying to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social

Some relevant facts: 1. The White House FY 2027 budget proposal included a 43% cut to the NSF GRFP budget, so they have made it clear that prioritizing the development of America's next generation of scientific talent is not their priority. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

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Stephen Hicks

@seismo-steve.bsky.social

27 Aug

Dreadful scenes from the devastating Rasuwa flood in Nepal/Tibet. My heart goes out to everyone affected. It likely began with a glacier collapse / rock–ice avalanche recorded by seismometers worldwide. I hope real-time seismic monitoring can support early warning for communities downstream.

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

26 Aug

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Brandi Bennett

@bbennettesq.bsky.social

26 Aug

Replying to @theradr.bsky.social

You know what's loving your neighbor? Paying your fucking taxes.

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Noam Ross

@noamross.net

21 Aug

Three more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪

Noam Ross@noamross.net

My comment on NSF-2026-OTR-0001, NSF's obsequious gutting of their own procedures, replacing them with OMB's proposed rules undermining federal grantmaking with their ideological agenda. Need guidance on commenting? @standupforscience.net has you covered: fight2win.standupforscience.net #NSF

20 Aug

Late notice, but if you're interested in last year's Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami and the potential use of seismic data to forecast such events, I'm giving a Zoom talk today on that topic. Thanks to the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center for the invitation to present!

us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NDPTC's Virtual 3rd Thursday Event - August 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, PhD Title: The Tracy Arm Landslide: Scientific and Personal Perspectives on the Second Largest Landslide Tsunami Ever Recorded Stay Connected with NDPTC! Join our mailing lis...

20 Aug

Zoom link here if you can't read it on the JPEG or access the QR code: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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God

@thegodshow.com

21 July

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

21 July

New t-shirt to celebrate turning 59. You can wish me a happy birthday by telling me your favorite Buckaroo Banzai quote.

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@pnsn1.bsky.social

20 June

#USMNT got supporters rockin'n'rollin' in Seattle Stadium! Even with the flag up, Freeman's header tops the list and fans went WILD after the VAR overturn! Here's how Seattle #FIFAWorldCup goals stack up so far. Stay tuned to see how next other matches stack up to the USA goals!

19 June

Been in DC the last few days, and the reflecting pool really is a sight to behold.

18 June

DC this week. A barricaded monument to this absolute child of a president.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social

22 May

Literally weeping this basic shit is what governance was always supposed to be and we have become so used to corporate corruption and theft that the most basic concept of "making people do the things they are legally obligated to do" seems revolutionary

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov

22 May

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live There are many more but these are some of my favorites: 1. The Clash 2. Elvis Costello (my first concert) 3. The Who 4. The Jam 5. The English Beat 6. Taj Mahal 7. The Decemberists 8. David Byrne 9. Stevie Ray Vaughan 10. Bonnie Raitt

Dr. Wendy Bohon@drwendyrocks.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. NIN 2. The Ramones 3. Guns N Roses 4. Phish 5. Them Crooked Vultures 6. Tori Amos 7. Glen Phillips 8. The Indigo Girls 9. Bon Jovi 10. Greg Brown

17 May

Johnson: if you don't offer a competitive salary you won't get the best candidates to run for congress. Cool. Now do teachers.

Mickey Kuhns@mickeykuhns.bsky.social

Speaker Mike Johnson argues Congress should get to keep engaging in insider trading because they don’t make enough to feed their families. The average net worth of a Congress member is $8 million, which is 116 times that of the average American. You don’t hate Congress enough.

17 May

The kids are alright.

404 Media@404media.co

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

15 May

This really is the worst timeline.

@watershedlab.bsky.social

9 May

Me: "It's spelled C-A-P..." Them: "I can't find you in our files." Me: "C-A-P..." Them: "nope, I don't think we have you in our system." Me: "Are you looking under C or K?" Them: "K-A-P..." Me: "Look under C" Them: "Oh! Here you are!" Every. Freaking. Time.

Dave Parisi@daveparisi.bsky.social

2026 spell the professor's name correctly on the final paper challenge

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦

8 May

This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the #TracyArm landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in @science.org. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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8 May

It's the 6 year anniversary of the worst singing to come out of pandemic times. Also apparently my first collaboration with @watershedlab.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeU7...

science.orgA 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjordEarly in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is why I have so enjoyed working with the team studying the Tracy Arm. I've gotten to engage with geomorphologists, tsunami scientists, other seismologists, climate scientists and many others. I've learned a ton from them. Collaborative science, for the win!

And I get to be the one who says "Caplan-Auerbach et al. (2005) and Caplan-Auerbach and Huggel (2009) were wrong". That's so much nicer than having someone else correct me. 😉

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I think this speaks to the dangers of scientific silos. If I write my science to an audience that does the same thing as me, I may be missing an opportunity to connect with others who can correct me, modify my ideas, or extend them into other domains. That's a critical part of the process.

If I only read papers about volcanoes (which is what most of my research is on), I might miss opportunities to learn from other fields--things that make my science better.

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My papers all suggest that this is an ice phenomenon. I published in the Journal of Glaciology and I had words like "ice avalanche" in the titles. It's likely that people studying failures in rock would never have seen the papers.

There are other scientists who got it right, but their papers are more recent. Yamada et al. (2016) describe a precursory seismic sequence before a landslide in Japan, and Poli (2017) and Butler (2019) describe precursors to the 2017 Karrat fjord failure.

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first time this type of precursory signal was observed was during a glacial avalanche on Mount Baker volcano (credit to Weaver and Malone, 1977). I wrote a number of papers about similar events on Iliamna Volcano: ice avalanches that stuttered and skidded before collapsing.

These slides all had one thing in common: they were made of ice. As a consequence, we thought that it was the presence of ice that made the precursory signals possible. I thought that rock would behave differently.

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

You may ask why it was not widely known that landslides can generate this type of seismic signal. I'm an author on at least four papers that describe this exact sequence. In 20 years, had no one read my papers?

Well, probably not. Because it turns out that I got something fundamental very, very wrong.

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you read our paper you'll learn that the landslide was preceded by days of tiny earthquakes--a precursory seismic sequence that was only detected in retrospect. When Jeffrey and Christine asked me to check the seismic data, it was that sequence that told me that there had been a landslide.

How did I know this was indicative of a slide? Well, of all strange coincidences, I've been studying that exact precursory signal for about 20 years. Yep. My friends know one seismologist and it happens to be a person who studies the exact signal that we saw in the Tracy Arm data.

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Can we take a moment to recognize how cool this is? My friends are not geologists but they are (a) extremely familiar with the geology of Alaska, having run cruises there for 20+ years, and (b) knew the wave was anomalous.

They had also already checked online and confirmed that no earthquake had happened. They knew that landslides could also generate tsunamis.

In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I first learned about the landslide and tsunami about an hour after it happened, when my friends aboard the M/V David B (see map above) observed a surge of water entering the cove where they were anchored. They messaged me and asked me to check the seismic data to see if a landslide had occurred.