Amber Kumpf
@akumpf.bsky.social
Geoscience educator, mom, wife.
Past 🧪🎉: thermochemical mantle convection, numerical & lab models. Expeditions on the JR.
Present 🧪🎉: teaching at a CC (best job ever), new/engaging activities online & in-person, and I built/run a hands-on museum.
Past 🧪🎉: thermochemical mantle convection, numerical & lab models. Expeditions on the JR.
Present 🧪🎉: teaching at a CC (best job ever), new/engaging activities online & in-person, and I built/run a hands-on museum.
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February 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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If there is anyone I want to survive this shitstorm, it’s this excellent science translator.
Time to upgrade my YLE subscription to paid. ✅
Time to upgrade my YLE subscription to paid. ✅
Lost my CDC contract after a visit from DOGE. I feel like I’m in the dirt (or TBH eating a pint of ice cream on a couch crying). But here’s the thing: Pushing people down—especially those with heart, purpose, and love for public service—doesn’t mean they stay down. It’s literally against their DNA.
February 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If there is anyone I want to survive this shitstorm, it’s this excellent science translator.
Time to upgrade my YLE subscription to paid. ✅
Time to upgrade my YLE subscription to paid. ✅
I hate when the slimy things that bite get in the way of the real science. 🤣
Another amazing ROV dive offshore Stewart island (NZ) today using the @marumunibremen.bsky.social 🦑 ROV. Geos any thoughts on what the rocks are? Look volcanic to me? We took some samples but the biologists haven’t handed them over as they are still removing the critters.
January 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I hate when the slimy things that bite get in the way of the real science. 🤣
Happy start of the semester!
My fitness watch thinks I’m swimming when I lecture 🤣🏊♀️ (talk with my hands much?) Interpretive dance of natural disasters 🌋⚒️💃
Also: don’t judge - Monday was the kids’ morning routine with their dad & I didn’t have class until 12:20. 💕😴🦉
My fitness watch thinks I’m swimming when I lecture 🤣🏊♀️ (talk with my hands much?) Interpretive dance of natural disasters 🌋⚒️💃
Also: don’t judge - Monday was the kids’ morning routine with their dad & I didn’t have class until 12:20. 💕😴🦉
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Happy start of the semester!
My fitness watch thinks I’m swimming when I lecture 🤣🏊♀️ (talk with my hands much?) Interpretive dance of natural disasters 🌋⚒️💃
Also: don’t judge - Monday was the kids’ morning routine with their dad & I didn’t have class until 12:20. 💕😴🦉
My fitness watch thinks I’m swimming when I lecture 🤣🏊♀️ (talk with my hands much?) Interpretive dance of natural disasters 🌋⚒️💃
Also: don’t judge - Monday was the kids’ morning routine with their dad & I didn’t have class until 12:20. 💕😴🦉
Reposted by Amber Kumpf
Finding a scientific angle on a trending news topic can make a pitch pleasantly unexpected, and more likely to pique an editor’s interest, writes freelancer Kate Morgan. 🧪
Finding the Science in Any Story - The Open Notebook
You don’t have to consider yourself a science writer to write about science. There’s at least a little bit of science in everything people do, and becoming attuned to it could open countless avenues f...
www.theopennotebook.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Finding a scientific angle on a trending news topic can make a pitch pleasantly unexpected, and more likely to pique an editor’s interest, writes freelancer Kate Morgan. 🧪
Reposted by Amber Kumpf
One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 9:40 PM
One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵
This is SO interesting! Perfect timing for Thanksgiving & next semester’s historical geology class! 💕🦃🍗
Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w
November 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM
This is SO interesting! Perfect timing for Thanksgiving & next semester’s historical geology class! 💕🦃🍗
Reposted by Amber Kumpf
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My first Bluesky exclusive giveaway! Up for grabs are 5 of my best-selling holiday ornaments!
💫 How to participate:
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3) like/repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.co for your holiday shopping :)
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November 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM
✨#JWST ornament giveaway! 🤩
My first Bluesky exclusive giveaway! Up for grabs are 5 of my best-selling holiday ornaments!
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.co/pages/giveaway
3) like/repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.co for your holiday shopping :)
🔭🐡🧪#bsnm
My first Bluesky exclusive giveaway! Up for grabs are 5 of my best-selling holiday ornaments!
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.co/pages/giveaway
3) like/repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.co for your holiday shopping :)
🔭🐡🧪#bsnm