It was a pleasure to contribute to this article, which talks about how AI contributes to seismology - indeed, we have seen tremendous progress in the use of machine learning to detect small events.

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this was the most important thing I learned during my CS degree and now the most frustrating thing to see as I watch my peers (other grad students) and younger computer scientists replace critical thinking with AI

Current mood

Something new to consider on my PhD search

Jane Goodall was an inspiration to all young female scientists, I hope she rests in peace

It’s very entertaining

I personally waited a while to see where science twitter was going to end up after it imploded

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

👏 We initiated this open letter re: #GRFP yesterday, before the solicitation came out. We updated this morning, and are working on additional response & actions focused on the eligibility change.

Please sign/add stories/share this letter if you can!

AND call your reps!

bsky.app/profile/jaso...

It’s just so great that the GRFP rules have been updated. Decided not to apply in my first year of grad school so I could apply this year, I guess now I’ll never be eligible 🙃

Northwestern Venezuela was struck by several large earthquakes today and yesterday (M6.2, 5.8, 6.3). Why did these shallow thrust events occur in an area where previously only strike-slip earthquakes have been documented? We speculate about the geology in our latest post.

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Things that make me happy:
When @mineralcup.bsky.social & Fat Bear Week overlap.

⚒️ 🧪 Another big addition to the remarkable M8.8 earthquake sequence offshore Kamchatka: a M7.8 - the biggest aftershock so far.

With foreshocks, aftershocks, aftershocks of foreshocks, and foreshocks of aftershocks, it's hard to keep these earthquakes straight! Read more about what's going on:

this weekend, I joined others from UO and the Cascades Volcano Observatory to deploy seismometers on Mt. St. Helens to monitor debris flows on the volcano

an exciting weekend of some fieldwork firsts in Mt. St. Helens: a helicopter ride, infrasound, and cameras

me & my refried beans enjoyed the view of Mt. Rainier from Mt. St. Helens this weekend

This was especially cool because the nodes recorded a big debris flow this season

spent the last two days hiking and army crawling through the bush on Mt. Rainier to recover ~50 temporary seismic nodes that were monitoring debris flows on the Tahoma creek drainage

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The situation in Afghanistan is dire following the M6 earthquake on August 31st. More than 2,200 people have died; reports indicate that 65% of buildings in the region were destroyed.

Meanwhile, satellite imaging has begun to reveal both devastation and scientific details about the quake.

Americans should learn from the French about how to protest.

If listing cases of 2025 US political violence, one would include the Charlie Kirk killing, the Melissa Horman killing (MN state legislator), and the CDC shooting.
The president omitting Horman and CDC, but reaching back 8 years for a non-deadly shooting to cite, conveys approval of those shootings.

Call out the hypocrisy.

Trump is ordering flags at half staff for Kirk's murder.

Yet, two months after the murder of MN Speaker Melissa Hortman he's refused to so much as call the Hortman family or Gov Walz, & instead mocked them.

Vile hypocrisy doesn't facilitate peace, it enables more violence.

Yesterday's congressional hearing on vaccine safety relied on a study that was never published—or even submitted to a journal—to trot out the old myths about vaccines causing chronic illnesses. My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.