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Ryan J Hollister

@phaneritic.bsky.social

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Earth & EnviroSci Educator, Central Valley equity/sustainability advocate, Hiker, Photographer, 2015 NAGT FW Outstanding Educator. 🌋 Tissue Box Maker. ❤️🏕⛰🏜 w/ @Xenolith & Z.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · May 22

I’m Ryan, an earth science educator & curriculum developer at two colleges in Central California. I’ve had a hand in some cool virtual field experience innovations, but lately I’m the “Volcano Tissue Box Guy”. I’m pinning my Etsy store link here for when I release batches.

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Me, a white guy standing on Johnston Ridge in front of Mount Saint Helens on a partly cloudy day. The mountain is visible with lots of green growth on the landslide zone in the mid ground. I’m leaning on a stone wall with my butt holding a black tissue box cover holder that also looks like Mount Saint Helens.

Screenshot of science Fridays website that hosts my virtual field trip to columns of the Giants and Central California. It says science Friday in the top left-hand corner underneath which is a picture of the tallest pile at the columns of the Giants full of brown and black, the salt boulders with a few pine trees in the distance There is a hexagon with a light bulb as a page brake with a title underneath that says embark on a 360° geologic expedition.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/360-degree-expedition/

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 25m

Happy National Fossil Day!
Take a look at @xenolith.bsky.social big piece of fossilized crap from the Cloverly Formation in Montana found many decades ago on a dig with Jack Horner. It's one of her prized possessions, and I made a 3D scan of it several years ago. Take it for a spin! ⚒️
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Dino Poop (coprolite). - Download Free 3D model by phaneritic

Found by @xeno_lith in the Cloverly Formation in Montana on a dig w/ Jack Horner many years ago. - Dino Poop (coprolite). - Download Free 3D model by phaneritic

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Alka Tripathy-Lang @dralkatrip.bsky.social · 6h

My latest for @earthscope.org combines Silurian reef systems with seismology! The highlighted research looks at how to parse noisy seismic data from a single station in the Chicago area. ⚒️🧪

www.earthscope.org/news/chicago...

Chicago’s seismicity captured by single seismic station | EarthScope Consortium

Model catalogs quarry blasts, heavy machinery noise, and other anthropogenic signals that can muddy seismic data.

www.earthscope.org

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California Geological Survey @cageosurvey.bsky.social · 5h

It’s National Fossil Day! Learn more about the work that the CGS has done with Caltrans mapping mineral hazards & paleontological resources along the highway system. #EarthScienceWeek
www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/documents/publications/california-geology-magazine/CG_2024-MineralHazardsFossils.pdf

This is a series of 4 photos. The 1st photo shows the excavation of a large fossil. There is a net over the fossil showing a grid pattern. The 2nd image shows heavy equipment in a construction area. The 3rd image is of 2 people digging around a large fossil. The final image shows heavy equipment lifting the fossil out of the ground.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 37m

I hope I don't have to QT myself in June saying "I can't believe that October storm was the biggest of the year!"

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 37m

Quite a nice start to the water year in Turlock! After yesterday's storms I've recorded 1.64" since October 1st. The 1991-2020 average for this date is 0.20". Looks to be drier the next week+, but we'll take it when we can.

Line graph showing rain total in inches on the y axis and every date of the year on the X axis starting with October 1 on the origin and ending on Sept 30 on the right. The thin grey dashed line represents climatic average rainfall accumulation based on 1991-2020 averages from official TID Station 2 data. There is a blue line representing my station's wettest year that ended with 22.14" of rain due to a very wet december and february. The brown line at the bottom was my station's driest year in 2013-14 with only 5.06" of rain total.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 4h

Supershear earthquakes move faster and pack a stronger punch than “regular” earthquakes. But what ARE they? 🧪

youtu.be/RLotIaSkmM4?...

Supershear Earthquakes

YouTube video by Dr. Wendy Rocks

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UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab @cssl.bsky.social · 3h

How did this year's first #snow date compare to what we've seen in the past? Check out our calendar of first snowfall occurrences below for the details 👇

We're right in that early to mid-October hotspot of activity.

#CAwx #CAwater

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 4h

Merced NWR out here with the tko.

A green lush wetland with blue skies and impossibly fluffy clouds

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 4h

Just found this person told management that if they were thinking of firing someone early career to fire them instead.

This kind of amazing selflessness is who we are losing. It is maddening.

Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 1d

Just heard about a 30-yr JPL scientist that was laid off. Had an email from them about one of our projects at 1PM. Three hours later: fired.

Again, if JPL leadership were actively trying to destroy morale, would they be handling the layoffs any differently?

Eos @eos.org · 1d

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 4h

Big Sky country for a few days each year, anyway.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 4h

Last rays on the Fee W. Gl. moraine this evening! 😍

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 7h

Finally, some reporting on how Kevin Guthrie is using Florida's Emergency Management Agency to build concentration camps. Thank you to @sfedie.bsky.social @scba.bsky.social and others quoted here for being the field's moral backbone in this moment.

www.eenews.net/articles/flo...

Florida’s emergency manager has a new job: Detaining immigrants

Kevin Guthrie operates "Alligator Alcatraz." Some emergency managers worry that could scare Hispanic residents away from seeking help in a hurricane or

www.eenews.net

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 8h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 8h

I had no idea sleep-deprivation was such a major problem among our avian friends.

Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 8h

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 9h

Irony is officially, terminally, dead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h

Air overhead is record cold. Weather balloon from Oakland found the temps about three miles up are coldest ever measured for this date on record, second coldest for any date in October. forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... #CAwx

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The 12Z sounding found very cold air aloft. The 850 temp was 2.35C and 500 temp -25.35C. Both near the minimum daily values. Most notable was the 500 mb height of 5460m. That shattered the daily record. For context the average for this date is 5787, 10th percentile: 5667, old record: 5572. In fact, 5460 is tied for the second lowest 500 mb height ever measured in the month of October, beaten only by 5457m measured on 10/28/56. While this cold air is keeping lapse rates steep, the moisture has plummeted and the surface

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 23h

Seems temporary based on warming trend of forecast

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 1d

“How big of a difference the missing balloon data made, though, may never be known. The best way to determine that would be to run computer models with weather balloon data fed into them and without it, in what is known as a data denial experiment — impossible to do without the data itself.”

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Funnel clouds over Salinas and San Juan Bautista today. 🌪️🌪️ #CAwx
www.ksbw.com/article/poss...

Tornado on hillside, photo by Kurt kurasaki

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

Major snow accumulations atop Glacier Point in Yosemite and still going this morning. Can’t imagine the logistical chaos during a shutdown where they’re trying to stay open.

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Screenshot of my WebCam view from a top glacier point where you can see about 20 big pine trees in the foreground covered with snow with what looks to be about 2 feet of snow piled up on bushes in front of the camera. There is not much background, View because everything is in clouds and snowing heavily.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

Man, we’re already at 1.3!

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

Two rockfalls/slides reported on HWY 41 between Atascadero and Morrow Bay.

Screen cap of everythingwx radar showing rain overlay and brown dots denoting rockfall report location halfway betweeen Atascadero and Morro Bay

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

One more shot from the main punch to go. Just took Jasper out to pee and it is actually chilly out.

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