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Dr. Rowena Lohman
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InSAR! 🦇On my radar: Earthquakes, subsidence, land surface properties and change detection. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💛🤍💜🖤

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mattepritchard.bsky.social
Beautiful November day for Field Geophysics looking for a buried gorge. Thanks to Geoff Abers for the photos.
Four students collecting seismic data with computer and sledgehammer 3 people collecting surveying data in open field
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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geophysichick.bsky.social
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:

1/n
An article in the Daily Mail entitled "America's deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase as eruption threat looms over millions". This is incorrect.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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jessethorn.bsky.social
Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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pandersera.bsky.social
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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weatherprof.bsky.social
Fee-fi-fo-fum the Polar Vortex is about to come undone! 😳
That typically means wild weather/ big time cold to follow!
But wait, don’t head for the hills just yet. I assure you the sky won’t fall.
Seriously though, you’re bound to hear about this, and the science is fascinating, so let’s dig in… 1/
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
New discovery in Otter Space
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i
www.schooljobs.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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wilwheaton.net
Reposting this, because it's the best alt text I have ever written.
wilwheaton.net Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 8d
The cosmic ballet goes on.
An extremely real photograph of the Aurora Borealis, its gossamer shrouds of red and green blown by the solar wind across the skies about Los Angeles. Definitely not a fake if you were wondering. I mean why would anyone even fake something like that? Because he's like jealous of everyone who gets to see it for real tonight? Pfft! That's just silly. Go back to enjoying the very real picture of nature's very real majesty that was just taken in the skies above Los Angeles. Oh and if you go outside to look for yourself you probably won't see it because it was almost out of science energy and was kind of just vanishing. Good thing there's a real picture of it from someone who really saw it, to remember it.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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esa.int
⚡️Solar storm incoming! We are actively monitoring severe space weather events, occurring on 11-12 November. Severely disturbed geomagnetic conditions are expected to persist for at least 24 to 48 hours.

🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

@operations.esa.int @science.esa.int
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social
It’s aurora time people. Get those cameras out
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"

Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Polar bears are experts in relaxing. Nothing like a good kelp bed in the sunshine. #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
A polar bear lies on his back in a deep bed of brown kelp next to the blue water of Hudson Bay. He stretches his right arm up over its head. A polar bear lies on his back in a deep bed of reddish kelp and smiles in the sunshine, showing off his canines. A polar bear stretches out on his back in a deep bed of brown kelp in the sunshine.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
As a remote sensing geoscientist, I am often asked about satellite and other aerial images. So here's a primer:

Arial imagery vs Times New Roman imagery.

#dadjoke #EarthObservation

🧪⚒️🛰️
Satellite image of the City of Calgary with the word Calgary in yellow Arial font Satellite image of the City of Calgary with the word Calgary in yellow Times New Roman font
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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nuphoto.com
A ~3 hour timelapse of this morning's plume of lake effect snow totally obscuring the city before blue skies appear. #chicago
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
capitalbnews.org/snap-crisis-...
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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estibass.com
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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judithgeology.bsky.social
Sixty days left to save the Museum of the Earth. Please donate if you can, and share.

This is not only one of the most important fossil collections in the world, it also home to the world’s best plushies: Paleozoic Pals!

www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...
Progress bar showing how much money the Museum has raised: $2069708. Goal of $3200000.
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
rowenalohman.bsky.social
#caturday but maybe a kangaroo? Not sure, but he is purring.
Black cat on a brown blanket who flipped over on his back and is holding all four paws out awkwardly, in a way that kind of makes him look like a kangaroo.
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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banditelli.org
This is one of those pictures that while I'm editing I'm thinking "Who the fuck do you think you are Brett Banditelli? what are you doing with your life? How dare you bring this content into the world in this moment?"

Then I remember I have a meeting in 12 minutes about unions. 🪶
A snowy eager in front of what looks like a lake but is actually an inlet comma it's backlit by the and you can see the wing is exceptionally lit up period they have a small fish in their beak period I added a little bit more yellow to the water for contrast
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Astronomers have discovered rings forming around a Centaur. For real: Chiron (a comet-asteroid hybrid orbiting beyond Saturn) has set of rings that seem to be changing by the year.

Regardless of what's happening on Earth, space continues to be amazing. 🧪🔭

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Sky-plane view of the equatorial disk model of Chiron's rings. The gray circle (98 km radius) marks Chiron itself. Black ellipses show the three narrow rings; dashed blue ellipses mark the 1/2 and 1/3 resonant zones; red ellipses indicate Roche limits.
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM