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Grand Canyon Trust @grandcanyontrust.bsky.social · 1d

This Grand Canyon “bat cave” now ranks as one of the world’s longest known caves. www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/inside-...

Inside the Grand Canyon's Longest Known Cave | Grand Canyon Trust

The hidden world of a Grand Canyon cave and the researchers working to unravel the mysteries contained in strands of ancient DNA.

www.grandcanyontrust.org

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday evening I got up on the mountain to enjoy some nice fall color among the Aspens. We also got my son some great senior pictures.

View of fallen golden aspen leaves on the ground with fallen trees and other growth. Photo taken at about 9000 ft. elevation in the San Francisco Peaks of Northern Arizona in early October, 2025.

View of aspen trees as they shift from green to yellow/gold. Photo taken at about 9000 ft. elevation in the San Francisco Peaks of Northern Arizona in early October, 2025.

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 5d

When your kid has a soccer game at Grand Canyon HS, you stop and enjoy the view.

View of soccer field at Grand Canyon High School

View of Grand Canyon from Yavapai Point.

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 9d

This is so true... I fall squarely on one side of this divide.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 13d

In my previous career I used InSAR a lot. This mission has been a long time coming and it's very exciting to see it happen. This will be be a big deal in the InSAR world over the coming years. Even though I'm out of that game now, I look forward to seeing what it does.

Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 13d

Some good news from space, as the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission publishes its first synthetic aperture radar images of Earth. This spacecraft has a heckin' big antenna (a dish 12 meters across) for bouncing L- and S-band (25- and 10-cm) radio waves off the surface www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-is...

NASA-ISRO Satellite Sends First Radar Images of Earth’s Surface

Preliminary images from the most powerful Earth radar satellite ever launched offer a tantalizing glimpse of the science the mission will be able to deliver.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 13d

It's gettin real yall.

Tonight We Ride!

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13d

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).

The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?

(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

On a black and white game cam, three javelinas are browsing corn while a raccoon sits on one of their backs. The lighting produces laser-eyes in the raccoon, who is secretly one of the X-Men.

A raccoon knight on a javelina steed. "Onward, Pigasus! Let us show them the meaning of haste". Motion blurred, black and white game cam shot.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 16d

I'm totally here for the tide fights.

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 16d

Hey, it’s us, Canada here, just an internal battle about WHO HAS THE HIGHEST TIDE RANGE?

I live on the shore of Minas Basin, not too far from Burntcoat Head - I think I’m questioning these new measurements…. (It’s the trend to question evidence, right?)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whose tide is highest? Canadian towns battle it out over Guinness World Record title

For years Nova Scotia’s Burntcoat Head Park claimed the superior tidal height, but now a challenger from the far north is seeking the crown

www.theguardian.com

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 20d

Now I really want haggis pakoras and I could never have predicted that.

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 21d

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · 28d

This video really was so significant - it was something completely new when it broke into the mainstream. And this was a time when I began my day before school by turning on MTV to watch videos and then watched videos while doing homework after school.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29d

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today

“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 28

You want to see this new geologic map of the contiguous US that the USGS just released.

Cooperative National Geologic Map | NGMDB

Explore the Cooperative National Geologic Map, a unified view of our Nation's geology, with interactive layers and geologic data.

ngmdb.usgs.gov

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Aug 14

I grew up in Texas. I make my version of 'Texas chili'. I use beans and no meat (sometimes bacon for a nice smokey flavor). It is better.

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · Aug 14

As a Texan I must admit that "Texas chili WITH beans" is superior

all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · Aug 14

chili should have beans. do not listen to texans

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RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · Aug 13

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 20

Dbacks vs. Cardinals with the boy!

View of Chase Field with the AZ Diamondbacks playing the SL Cardinals.

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 17

As a child/teenager I always wanted to make snowmen like Calvin - but it didn't snow where I grew up. As an adult I moved to a place where it snowed, and I wanted to build these snowmen with my kids. I learned that it's really hard to make a snowman like that. I love those snowpeople.

Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · Jul 17

Last one(?) defector.com/calvin-and-h...

Calvin And Hobbes's Gruesome Snowmen Were A World All Their Own | Defector

There are only two pieces of media that have made me wistful for a small-town/suburban childhood I didn’t have: A Christmas Story, and Calvin And Hobbes. Before you accuse me of specifically longing f...

defector.com

Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 17

looks like I let mine die in mid-2017, so that sounds right.

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · Jul 17

Turns out that Meteor Crater and a major landslide in the Grand Canyon are the same age. Did the impact trigger the landslide? What great detective work.

Did a meteor impact trigger a landslide in the Grand Canyon?

The meteor impact that created one of Arizona's most recognizable landmarks and the wood and sediments found in a cave in the Grand Canyon are strikingly similar in age. A new study involving a U of A dendrochronologist suggests they could be related.

news.arizona.edu

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 16

I hear that it's World Snake Day, so here's a pic of a Diamondback Water Snake that my son found in Oklahoma last weekend.

Someone holding a Diamondback Water Snake in northeastern Oklahoma. Captured (and released) on a rainy night.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Jul 15

Fun bit of geochronology detective work, hypothesizing that the Meteor Crater Impact (Arizona) caused a landslide and paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon, and it all started with the discovery of driftwood in Stanton’s Cave in the 1980s pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka | Geology | GeoScienceWorld

pubs.geoscienceworld.org

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 10

Good morning from Paradise Hill, OK

View of Lake Tenkiller and surrounding hills from Paradise Hill, OK

Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 10

I live in the mountains our west. Nights are generally rather quite. So I forget how loud the night is in warm, humid places. The kids didn't believe me when I told them it's frogs.

Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 8

I had a neighbor a while back who called their network: "FBI Van No. 5"

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Jul 8

I don't know who you are, neighbor-network owner, but clearly I want to! 😍

Screencap of a computer menu showing the names of wireless networks one could try to connect to. Among ordinary names like "Vodafone-3772" the hovering mouse has highlighted a network named "You shall not password".

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 8

this is an article about a camp I went to several times as a kid. I've been following this tragedy with horror. I grew up in that part of Texas, I attended camps and did all sorts of recreation in the hill country. This is a long known issue and is a failure of local/regional governments.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 8

"The decision to leave added to the mounting accounts of how camps & residents in the area say they were left to make their own decisions in the absence of warnings or notifications from the county."

This is the result of allowing American hyper-individualism to influence how we govern—it's deadly.

Quick action by one Texas summer camp leads to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood

One local summer camp in the path of the disastrous flooding in central Texas was able to avoid any loss of life by closely monitoring weather reports.

apnews.com

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 7

Visited one of my favorite places in Arizona yesterday - Tonto Natural Bridge State Park. It's the world's largest travertine natural bridge and an amazing oasis.

View of Tonto Natural Bridge in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park just outside of Payson, Arizona. The foreground shows a nice pool of water in the 'tunnel' of the natural bridge.

View of Tonto Natural Bridge in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park just outside of Payson, Arizona. Water cascades from a spring pouring over the top of the bridge.

View of Tonto Natural Bridge in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park just outside of Payson, Arizona.

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Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jul 2

Apparently today is world porcupine day. So here's a few pics I took last month of one our resident porcupines at 'the office'

Ken @kenfergason.bsky.social · Jun 5

I was happily distracted today by this little guy.

North American Porcupine on the ground along a chain link fence outside of Flagstaff, AZ.

North American Porcupine climbing a Ponderosa Pine tree outside of Flagstaff, AZ.

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