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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃

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Upjumped farmboy from Missouri. Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University interested in volcanism of Venus, Earth, Mars, etc. #FirstGen. Do good recklessly. He/Him.

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · Mar 7

Nine years ago today I saw a BIG rock in Mexico that even had wispy steam emission from its summit, so you could say that was a good day.

A rare clear view of the summit of Popocatépetl, a volcano near Mexico City. Before a dark foreground of pine, the steep, rocky sides of the volcano are bright white with snow and ice as the sun shines on it. As the view is straight on from ground-level, you cannot see the crater at its summit, but white wispy clouds of water vapor rise from it.

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 19h

There's edgelord 14-year-old dipshits, and then there's this.

This being... Actual staffers in the administration and at least one state senator.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 22h

It extremely bothers me.

Also, Amanda's earlier comment about reference managers.

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think it's by design, figuring that most people will get frustrated and give up before getting their refund?

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 1d

I get what you mean! I enjoyed the story before, but on my later reading I really *got it*, if that makes sense. Like, this line just hit differently:

"They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness..."

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 1d

I did always like Great Gatsby, but reading in my early 30s in the early 2020s versus in my teens in the mid-200s was a completely different experience.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 1d

I was asked this weekend if I would officiate a wedding (my 5th!), and that feels nice for what otherwise is looking like a shit week.

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaw, shucks!

I was going to respond with dicaprioPointing.gif, but why not throw in some Penzance too?

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 2d

I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 2d

It is truly a *wild* thing to have put out there.

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Sudden loss of communication."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Mark Tingay @marktingay.bsky.social · 4d

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!

The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).

Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.

Video source: @_yagha_

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · Mar 8

You know how the best thing in the Old Days was that like a flaming mud volcano would erupt, and you'd immediately have access to a world expert on mud volcanology?

1-He's here, @marktingay.bsky.social
2-Here's a professor of sand taking down a late night Dune analysis

This place has the juice.

Robert Mahon @bedform.org · Mar 8

Should I tell Neil deGrasse Tyson that you *can* in fact thump sand? I've got a PhD in sand, and I am a professor of sand. I have, in fact hit my hand on a sand dune and can confirm it can thump (if the packing arrangement is right)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qlm...

Is “Dune” A Perfect Movie? Neil deGrasse Tyson And Stephen Colbert Agree To Disagree

America’s favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tests the limits of his friendship with “Dune” superfan Stephen Colbert by pointing out potential scien...

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 3d

I really miss having a TA this semester.

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 4d

I made a joke during lecture this week that we were doing "applied quantum mechanics," and I got some laughs!

A chalkboard showing a diagram in various colors of chalk. Visually, it shows an 8-petal rosette with alternating purple petals with green-outlined ones.

It is surrounded by text annotation. Briefly, the diagram shows the the intersection of transition metal d orbitals with the XY-plane. It is illustrating the "splitting" of the orbitals due to the atom (iron, or Fe) being coordinated (i.e., surrounded) by six oxygen atoms (though only 4 in this XY cross-section).

If you want to know more, just ask.

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 4d

LinkedIn is a scourge.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 5d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 5d

How is the new Ranma 1/2? I've been meaning to check it out, but I've also mean meaning to check out 219 different things (conservative estimate).

I never watched the old anime, but I loved the manga back in the day!

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 5d

I hate that, for a moment, I thought this was a real quote from the clip.

(...it's not, right???)

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 6d

Did you know that Earth's most & 2nd most powerful/explosive #volcanic #eruptions of the century were submarine? We are discussing both the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (pictured) & the 2012 Havre eruptions, both in the Kingdom of Tonga, this week in my Submarine volcanoes course at #URIGSO 🧪🌋🌊

Two true color satellite views of the rising and spreading tephra plume from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption, from the geostationary satellite GOES-West. (a) Aerial emission linked with the volcanic activity on 13 January; (b) Ash plume emitted during the main eruption on 15 January. Red lines depict the coastline and the yellow triangle depicts the position of the HTHH volcano. Source: Barone, Letelier, Rubin & Karl (2022) Satellite Detection of a Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Following the 2022 Submarine Eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai Volcano, Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (17) e2022GL099293; open access at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL099293

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 6d

Aaw, this is kind of sweet. Happy for you!

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 6d

I got called out on this once!

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 6d

Just, like, why???

Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 6d

A discerning person might ask why there was an anti-fascist movement in the Weimar Republic.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Dr. GabriHELL Eggers 🎃 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 7d

I'd agree regarding St. Louis!