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Jascha Polet
@jascha.bsky.social
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Seismologist who joined the Great Resignation in academia & moved from CA to Italy. Still figuring out what’s next, but enjoying the process. #seismology #earthquake #geoscience #geophysics #photography #italy
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 8h
My iPhone browser says I have 446 open tabs 😱
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 10h
Finally I am part of the elite in something!
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 13h
How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 23h
Another beautiful sunrise this morning!
Red sunrise with small clouds above lake Como
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 2d
🪐 On this Day of Action to Save #NASA Science, we’re highlighting how space and Earth sciences go hand-in-hand. Scripps Oceanography researchers partner with NASA to study how our planet is changing from sea to space. Here’s an out-of-this-world roundup of some recent projects. 🧵⬇️
A color image of Earth taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope.
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 2d
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 2d
Nice day for a hike today. Lots of #mushrooms in the woods confirm that fall has arrived!
View of mountains with peaks covered in snow Red and white mushroom
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 5d
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
Opportunities matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 3d
At 200 mph: “Ferrari will invent mirrors one day, I hope”
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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 4d
Such an exciting sprint race! #motoGP is certainly getting more interesting to watch!
Winner of today’s sprint: Marco Bezzecchi at Misano last month leaning into a curve (photo by Jascha Polet)
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 5d
At least he still has the snark (on Ferrari mirrors)
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d
Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 5d
“The earthquake shook the N coast of Cebu, one of the country's most populous islands, on the night of 30 Sept, jolting many out of their sleep.
It killed at least 68 people and wounded more than 500 others, as homes, buildings and churches collapsed and roads cracked.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 6d
I’m sure the administration will offer you suggestions on how to reduce your workload using AI…
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 7d
As has been pointed out already in the thread, the most common way to discriminate nuclear tests from earthquakes is the relative lack of shear waves in the explosion and the initial motion of the P waves all being in the same direction for an explosion.
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 8d
They are called focal mechanisms or beach balls(!) and here is a video from IRIS to explain some basics (they have more videos on the topic):
youtu.be/MomVOkyDdLo?...
Focal Mechanisms Explained: What are those “beach balls”? (Educational)
YouTube video by IRIS Earthquake Science
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 8d
M6.9 #earthquake in the Philippines: shallow strike slip faulting with yellow PAGER alert for shaking related fatalities and economic losses.⚒️
Historic seismicity map of Philippines generated using GMT software by Jascha Polet
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 9d
I even prefer a video transcript to watching the actual video!
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 9d
Will do!
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 10d
Marc Marquez’ comeback story is pretty amazing!
(I’m not going to give up posting on #motoGP here, I’m stubborn like that.)
Marc Marquez at a curve at the San Marino motoGP (photo by Jascha Polet)
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 10d
Yes, that joke maybe works a bit too well nowadays..
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 10d
Yes, I’ve heard that many people don’t realize they are color blind until they take one of those tests!
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 10d
I have almost no sense of smell and didn’t know this for the longest time, which most people have a difficult time believing.
A test for sulfur in a geology lab, which produced a rotten egg smell for everyone else in the classroom was one of the biggest hints!
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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 10d
The proper summary of the RECOVER anosmia study is that a large %(×) of the population don't know they have smell impairment and that a history of covid increases the risk by *10%*.

(×) The percentage will depend on cohort selection and technique to ascertain the loss of smell.
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