Katie Gansler
@planetarykg.bsky.social
U. of Maryland Geology graduate student, JPL Solar System Ambassador, semi-professional space nerd and queen of whacky seismology
One of my students, Jingqui Liu, has been reported missing (she also goes by Nunnally - like Natalie but with an N instead of a T). She's an international student and hasn't been seen since Sept. 17/18. Please call UMD police with leads:
Non emergency line: 301-405-3555
Emergency line: 301-405-3333
Non emergency line: 301-405-3555
Emergency line: 301-405-3333
September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One of my students, Jingqui Liu, has been reported missing (she also goes by Nunnally - like Natalie but with an N instead of a T). She's an international student and hasn't been seen since Sept. 17/18. Please call UMD police with leads:
Non emergency line: 301-405-3555
Emergency line: 301-405-3333
Non emergency line: 301-405-3555
Emergency line: 301-405-3333
Please take a break from today’s doomscrolling.
MY ROBOT IS GOING TO THE MOON!!!!
MISSION UNCANCELLED!!!!!
@hankgreen.bsky.social Optimists finally get a win!
MY ROBOT IS GOING TO THE MOON!!!!
MISSION UNCANCELLED!!!!!
@hankgreen.bsky.social Optimists finally get a win!
NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole - NASA
As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an
www.nasa.gov
September 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Please take a break from today’s doomscrolling.
MY ROBOT IS GOING TO THE MOON!!!!
MISSION UNCANCELLED!!!!!
@hankgreen.bsky.social Optimists finally get a win!
MY ROBOT IS GOING TO THE MOON!!!!
MISSION UNCANCELLED!!!!!
@hankgreen.bsky.social Optimists finally get a win!
Hiding from society behind a bunch of rocks and craft cider
May 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hiding from society behind a bunch of rocks and craft cider
Reposted by Katie Gansler
This loop of the surface rupture is absolutely mesmerizing. I’ve spent the entire week so far watching the whole video repeatedly, and each time I discover something new. ⚒️ 🧪
May 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This loop of the surface rupture is absolutely mesmerizing. I’ve spent the entire week so far watching the whole video repeatedly, and each time I discover something new. ⚒️ 🧪
I would like to live in a timeline when I don’t feel the need to answer the phone with “what sweet Hell do you have for me today?”
a man is looking at his phone with a caption that says of all the timelines , this is clearly the darkest
ALT: a man is looking at his phone with a caption that says of all the timelines , this is clearly the darkest
media.tenor.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I would like to live in a timeline when I don’t feel the need to answer the phone with “what sweet Hell do you have for me today?”
MY LITTLE COUSIN WON MARCH MADNESS!!! I’m so proud of him!
(He’s one of the coaches- second from the bottom left corner)
(And thus ends my sportsball attention span)
(He’s one of the coaches- second from the bottom left corner)
(And thus ends my sportsball attention span)
April 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
MY LITTLE COUSIN WON MARCH MADNESS!!! I’m so proud of him!
(He’s one of the coaches- second from the bottom left corner)
(And thus ends my sportsball attention span)
(He’s one of the coaches- second from the bottom left corner)
(And thus ends my sportsball attention span)
The kind of story we need right now:
How a Giant Sculpture of Mars Rolled Around the Kennedy Center Grounds - Washingtonian
It was part of an exhibit of inflatable planets and got loose during yesterday's wind.
www.washingtonian.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The kind of story we need right now:
Reposted by Katie Gansler
Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:
Trump’s Jewish Cover Story
The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.
www.theatlantic.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:
@ahrensscience.bsky.social relevant to the Colloquium discussion… (GIA = guano islands act)
wrote a section on it for my phd - the 2015 US space mining law is erieely similar to the GIA
April 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@ahrensscience.bsky.social relevant to the Colloquium discussion… (GIA = guano islands act)
Well, then. I guess my burnout weeks curled in my bed full of overwhelm were well spent?
April 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Well, then. I guess my burnout weeks curled in my bed full of overwhelm were well spent?
Reposted by Katie Gansler
I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.
Breaking News: The Trump administration intends to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants for Brown University.
Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University
The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.
I made a critical mistake. I am the only one of my advisor’s students here. My advisor is doing the commentary.
I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate why this was a mistake 🫠
I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate why this was a mistake 🫠
Time for our semi-annual “bad geology” movie night, brought to you by the UMD Department of Geology with commentary by Dr. Nick Schmerr!
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I made a critical mistake. I am the only one of my advisor’s students here. My advisor is doing the commentary.
I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate why this was a mistake 🫠
I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate why this was a mistake 🫠
Time for our semi-annual “bad geology” movie night, brought to you by the UMD Department of Geology with commentary by Dr. Nick Schmerr!
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Time for our semi-annual “bad geology” movie night, brought to you by the UMD Department of Geology with commentary by Dr. Nick Schmerr!
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…
Still waiting on my “Apollo core rope memory” knitting pattern for a scarf
Men walked on the Moon - but women made the guidance computers that got them there and back. At the landing sites and command module crash sites the computers are evidence of a unique women's lunar heritage. 🧪🏺
The Apollo core rope memory and women's heritage on the Moon
Between 1969 and 1972 there were six Apollo human spaceflight missions to the Moon, each leaving a complex site behind. A common joke now is...
zoharesque.blogspot.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Still waiting on my “Apollo core rope memory” knitting pattern for a scarf
I recently stumbled into the “are sharks fish” debate that I didn’t know existed
For the last time:
“Elasmobranchs” are sharks, skates, and rays.
“Chondrichthyans” are sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
Stop using these terms interchangeably!
“Elasmobranchs” are sharks, skates, and rays.
“Chondrichthyans” are sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
Stop using these terms interchangeably!
April 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I recently stumbled into the “are sharks fish” debate that I didn’t know existed
Well, we have reached the “I have used this watershed monitoring site from the EPA as of 2pm but I would get that part of your assignment done first because we don’t know when it’ll get taken down” stage of teaching an environmental geology class
April 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Well, we have reached the “I have used this watershed monitoring site from the EPA as of 2pm but I would get that part of your assignment done first because we don’t know when it’ll get taken down” stage of teaching an environmental geology class
I can’t argue with that
I am responding to repeated public calls to get more scientists to run for office. It sounds like you are having a different conversation.
But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.
But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.
April 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I can’t argue with that
Reposted by Katie Gansler
I am responding to repeated public calls to get more scientists to run for office. It sounds like you are having a different conversation.
But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.
But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I am responding to repeated public calls to get more scientists to run for office. It sounds like you are having a different conversation.
But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.
But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social I disagree. my first degree is in political science. I went back to school for a science PhD to become an advisors. The general public doesn’t understand the scientific process well and thus a lot of science policy isn’t politically expedient when trying to get elected
Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome!
However:
I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”
However:
I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”
April 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social I disagree. my first degree is in political science. I went back to school for a science PhD to become an advisors. The general public doesn’t understand the scientific process well and thus a lot of science policy isn’t politically expedient when trying to get elected
I hope all seismologists talk to their students about how the political unrest in Myanmar worsens the earthquake’s fallout.
No central control, no trust in first responders/NGOs, justification for ethnic cleansing.
We need big quakes for science, but we stay siloed in seismology at our own peril.
No central control, no trust in first responders/NGOs, justification for ethnic cleansing.
We need big quakes for science, but we stay siloed in seismology at our own peril.
April 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I hope all seismologists talk to their students about how the political unrest in Myanmar worsens the earthquake’s fallout.
No central control, no trust in first responders/NGOs, justification for ethnic cleansing.
We need big quakes for science, but we stay siloed in seismology at our own peril.
No central control, no trust in first responders/NGOs, justification for ethnic cleansing.
We need big quakes for science, but we stay siloed in seismology at our own peril.
I show this video to my students every year. Mostly so I can laugh. And pick out the ones I have a shot at converting to a geology major 🤣
April 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I show this video to my students every year. Mostly so I can laugh. And pick out the ones I have a shot at converting to a geology major 🤣
I resent that. We have “On the Rheology of Cats”, thank you very much.
April 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I resent that. We have “On the Rheology of Cats”, thank you very much.
The Constitution was never designed to be a static document. The founding fathers knew that as more land got eaten and the population grew, new amendments would be needed. But also the big vs. small government fight started literally at the document’s signing so 🤷🏻♀️
Didn’t function well enough—
But I think some of those jobs like customs officers & light houses keepers & judges were there from the beginning.
Some things obvious had to be done.
Others they figured out..,
But I think some of those jobs like customs officers & light houses keepers & judges were there from the beginning.
Some things obvious had to be done.
Others they figured out..,
March 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The Constitution was never designed to be a static document. The founding fathers knew that as more land got eaten and the population grew, new amendments would be needed. But also the big vs. small government fight started literally at the document’s signing so 🤷🏻♀️