Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
@geophysichick.bsky.social
Seismologist, volcanologist, professor, and hazards junkie. Soapbox stander. Opinions are my own but I'm happy to share. She/her.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Cuttlefish
Emperor penguin
Moose
Orca
Cirroteuthis
Cuttlefish
Emperor penguin
Moose
Orca
Cirroteuthis
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Cuttlefish
Emperor penguin
Moose
Orca
Cirroteuthis
Cuttlefish
Emperor penguin
Moose
Orca
Cirroteuthis
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No federal badge authorizes the unlawful arrest of or use of excessive force on American citizens.
When ICE crosses that line, they’re committing crimes under state law. Local law enforcement has a duty to intervene and protect the public, not rogue agents.
When ICE crosses that line, they’re committing crimes under state law. Local law enforcement has a duty to intervene and protect the public, not rogue agents.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
No federal badge authorizes the unlawful arrest of or use of excessive force on American citizens.
When ICE crosses that line, they’re committing crimes under state law. Local law enforcement has a duty to intervene and protect the public, not rogue agents.
When ICE crosses that line, they’re committing crimes under state law. Local law enforcement has a duty to intervene and protect the public, not rogue agents.
Join me and my wonderful colleagues at WWU!
📣 WWU Geology is searching for an Assistant Prof in *Hydrogeology*! Application deadline Dec 15.
Please help us spread the word! It's a lovely nook of the world to call home, and a genuinely great department community.
App @ hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Pic from my local field trip last week.
Please help us spread the word! It's a lovely nook of the world to call home, and a genuinely great department community.
App @ hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Pic from my local field trip last week.
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Join me and my wonderful colleagues at WWU!
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Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
Simple but excellent thread on why the CDC's new phrasing around vaccines and autism is just bad science.
The CDC website under RFK Jr. now argues that we “can’t say vaccines don’t cause autism” because studies haven’t ruled out every possible scenario.
It’s wild to see this misunderstanding of science on a federal health website, but it’s also an opportunity to explain how the scientific process works
It’s wild to see this misunderstanding of science on a federal health website, but it’s also an opportunity to explain how the scientific process works
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Simple but excellent thread on why the CDC's new phrasing around vaccines and autism is just bad science.
The USGS has a new post explaining that the electrical problem that caused this gross misinterpretation was icing over of an antenna.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lbe...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lbe...
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The USGS has a new post explaining that the electrical problem that caused this gross misinterpretation was icing over of an antenna.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lbe...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lbe...
Speaking of bad science in media (and I am using the term "media" pretty loosely here), allow me to use The Daily Mail as evidence of why you should get your science information from reputable agencies rather than crap websites. I'm not going to link the article, but it looks like this:
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November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Speaking of bad science in media (and I am using the term "media" pretty loosely here), allow me to use The Daily Mail as evidence of why you should get your science information from reputable agencies rather than crap websites. I'm not going to link the article, but it looks like this:
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1/n
Fox News has interpreted Amelia Earhart's final transmission as her being "near 157 degrees east longitude and 337 degrees south latitude."
Join me, friends, at 337 degrees south where we will party with the Loch Ness monster, Sasquatch, and a variety of other things that do not exist.
Join me, friends, at 337 degrees south where we will party with the Loch Ness monster, Sasquatch, and a variety of other things that do not exist.
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Fox News has interpreted Amelia Earhart's final transmission as her being "near 157 degrees east longitude and 337 degrees south latitude."
Join me, friends, at 337 degrees south where we will party with the Loch Ness monster, Sasquatch, and a variety of other things that do not exist.
Join me, friends, at 337 degrees south where we will party with the Loch Ness monster, Sasquatch, and a variety of other things that do not exist.
Job opportunity! Please share!
Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Job opportunity! Please share!
Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Of all of the crazy in this email (the fact that he was writing to himself, and, oh, all of the content), what shocks me is that apparently Jeffrey Epstein knew about the Fourier transform.
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Of all of the crazy in this email (the fact that he was writing to himself, and, oh, all of the content), what shocks me is that apparently Jeffrey Epstein knew about the Fourier transform.
Global seismology has entered the chat.
I told him that I just went to a conference with several hundred people whose jobs would be VASTLY easier on a 2D Cartesian plane
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Global seismology has entered the chat.
This is horrific. I've been counting down the days to his concert next week. Sending all good thoughts for healing to this king of singing and songwriting.
Todd Snider, already coping with a recent spinal stenosis diagnosis, has had to cancel shows after he was assaulted outside his hotel in Salt Lake City.
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is horrific. I've been counting down the days to his concert next week. Sending all good thoughts for healing to this king of singing and songwriting.
Never realized how much excellent life advice is available in the comments to the New York Times cooking section.
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Never realized how much excellent life advice is available in the comments to the New York Times cooking section.
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Finally there's something better than the lobster scene in Annie Hall.
This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finally there's something better than the lobster scene in Annie Hall.
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Worth reading the whole thread to see how @brandontbishop.bsky.social got to this question.
A magnitude 46 earthquake would release the equivalent of 3x10^68 metric tons of TNT, or 5.597x10^45 Death Star laser blasts.
Which is something like 4.48x10^33 Milky Way's worth of planets (assuming an average 6 planets per star and 400 billion stars for the Milky Way).
I may have dropped a zero.
Which is something like 4.48x10^33 Milky Way's worth of planets (assuming an average 6 planets per star and 400 billion stars for the Milky Way).
I may have dropped a zero.
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Worth reading the whole thread to see how @brandontbishop.bsky.social got to this question.
This was behind a paywall for me (ironic, since I'm quoted in it), but if you can read it, it's worthy.
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
Cruise ships are flocking to Alaska to chase ice. But receding glaciers are leaving a new threat behind | CNN
It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.
edition.cnn.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This was behind a paywall for me (ironic, since I'm quoted in it), but if you can read it, it's worthy.
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
It wasn't enough to overthrow their queen, steal their land, and nearly destroy their language? Now we want to take their schools away?
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
This School Has Taught Native Hawaiians Since 1887. Is That Discrimination?
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It wasn't enough to overthrow their queen, steal their land, and nearly destroy their language? Now we want to take their schools away?
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
It takes a lot to render me speechless, but I truly have no words. I swear I thought this was the Onion.
Wow. Everyone needs to ask @SpeakerJohnson and every GOP candidate about this. As if he isn’t corrupt enough…
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It takes a lot to render me speechless, but I truly have no words. I swear I thought this was the Onion.
We are perilously close to Total Recall.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We are perilously close to Total Recall.
Chip Roy: antisemistism is evil.
Also Chip Roy:
Also Chip Roy:
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Chip Roy: antisemistism is evil.
Also Chip Roy:
Also Chip Roy:
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This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.