Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪
@tuffcookie.bsky.social
Volcanologist, scicomm-er, Magma PI, Field Fiddler. She/her. Tweets, likes, retweets do not speak for or represent past/present employers.
Seriously considering asking for one of those noise-blocking screaming pillows for Christmas. Anyone have a favorite brand? (Small business artisinal screaming pillows preferred...)
a cartoon girl in shorts and a pink shirt is standing in a room
Alt: Animated GIF of Noni from the cartoon Lilo and Stitch movie as she grabs a throw pillow, clutches it to her face, and screams
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November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Seriously considering asking for one of those noise-blocking screaming pillows for Christmas. Anyone have a favorite brand? (Small business artisinal screaming pillows preferred...)
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delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍
Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune
Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”
fortune.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍
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"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
September 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Sad news about a colleague of mine at the USGS and a legend in the volcanology field: www.usgs.gov/observatorie...
In Memoriam: Wes Hildreth, 1938-2025
The USGS California Volcano Observatory is saddened to announce the death of Edward Wesley (Wes) Hildreth III, in a vehicle accident on June 19, 2025, in rural western Nevada near Long Valley Caldera.
www.usgs.gov
July 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sad news about a colleague of mine at the USGS and a legend in the volcanology field: www.usgs.gov/observatorie...
Trewly.
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
July 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Trewly.
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Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...
Live: The New Golden Age of HUD | Secretary Turner Unveils HUD’s New Building
YouTube video by HUDchannel
www.youtube.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...
Not seeing nearly enough coverage of this.
I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.
National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos
Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...
eos.org
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Not seeing nearly enough coverage of this.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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This is how it’s done!
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June 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is how it’s done!
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A very important doggo from one of today's #NoKings protests. (The other side of his signs says "No tariffs on treats")
@weratedogs.com
@weratedogs.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
A very important doggo from one of today's #NoKings protests. (The other side of his signs says "No tariffs on treats")
@weratedogs.com
@weratedogs.com
If anyone wants to hear me and my observatory's monitoring chief talk California volcanoes, this week's NSPR Blue Dot podcast is out! 🧪⚒️🌋
Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...
Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...
Blue Dot: The golden state's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory
Host Dave Schlom discusses one of his favorite topics, California's volcanoes, with two United States Geological Survey staff members from the USGS California Volcano Observatory based at Moffett Fiel...
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June 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If anyone wants to hear me and my observatory's monitoring chief talk California volcanoes, this week's NSPR Blue Dot podcast is out! 🧪⚒️🌋
Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...
Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...
Imagine this thread, with added volcanoes, and you've got a decent idea of what my job feels like nowadays. I'm either depressed or angry, unable to plan, constantly on edge. Utterly maddening when all I want to do is help people.
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Imagine this thread, with added volcanoes, and you've got a decent idea of what my job feels like nowadays. I'm either depressed or angry, unable to plan, constantly on edge. Utterly maddening when all I want to do is help people.
Well, that's the presidential proposed USGS budget for FY26. It’s not just NSF and NASA that would be taking earth science research hits if it's enacted.
May 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Well, that's the presidential proposed USGS budget for FY26. It’s not just NSF and NASA that would be taking earth science research hits if it's enacted.
Holy mackerel! Check out today's Kilauea eruption www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Holy mackerel! Check out today's Kilauea eruption www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story!
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
March 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story!
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
I live in Silicon Valley and the obliviousness and waste when they could be doing some real good for the world is MADDENING.
I'm tired of Silicon Valley and the coder kiddies. Let's look at making real people's lives better.
March 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I live in Silicon Valley and the obliviousness and waste when they could be doing some real good for the world is MADDENING.
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
Glad I have this elegant lady in my life. #geokitties 🐾
March 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Glad I have this elegant lady in my life. #geokitties 🐾
I want to be outside getting exercise in nature, but instead I have a headache and cramps and I'm clutching a pillow wrapped in a heating pad and trying not to eat an entire bag of Oreos out of self-pity. Do lemon laws apply to bodies? If so, I want to return this one for a refund.
a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .
Alt: a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .
media.tenor.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I want to be outside getting exercise in nature, but instead I have a headache and cramps and I'm clutching a pillow wrapped in a heating pad and trying not to eat an entire bag of Oreos out of self-pity. Do lemon laws apply to bodies? If so, I want to return this one for a refund.
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Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
January 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.
Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov
March 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.
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every day I spend time thinking about how stupid and unnecessary all of this is and I hate it
March 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
every day I spend time thinking about how stupid and unnecessary all of this is and I hate it