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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Aug 5

I suspect that there was surficial distributed deformation too, but since I am not aware or knowledgeble about that area, I will wait for further research.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Aug 5

hi, @berndandeweg.bsky.social it was actually a shallow EQ for a subduction zone, so that is not the reason. I'm sure people will elaborate/investigate with data on why it did not produce a large tsunami, but several factors come to play, as the rupture itself and wave propagation mechanisms

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Jul 31

thank you!!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Jul 31

I hope you do!!! you will love it!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Jul 31

thank you!!! you need to travel to other places than Iceland now, I guess 😅

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Jul 31

thank you! and please do!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨I am very honored to announce that I’m starting as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Lisbon, funded by the European Commission 🚨. I am grateful to NCSU where I honed my skills in Quaternary Geochronology and all my USA colleagues who I work with in Earthquake Geology. ☺️🌍

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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌟FREE TO READ #KAMCHATKA #EARTHQUAKE PAPERS🌟As a service to researchers working on the 2025 M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake, we have curated a list of papers related to the region, free until until 22 August www.seismosoc.org/news/free-to... ⚒️🧪

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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · Jul 30

The aftershock zone of today’s M8.8 Kamchatka megathrust #earthquake is comparable to the rupture area of the 1952 rupture zone from Macinnes et al. (2010). At a rate of 8 cm/year, the accumulated slip of 6 m since 1952 matches with the preliminary rupture model of today’s earthquake pretty well. 🧪⚒️

Earthquake sequences of Kamchatka this month. Pink is M8.8 aftershock sequence.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

Incredible shrinking Cone of Uncertainty! Kartina 2005 vs Helene 2024. Dramatic improvement in hurricane forecasting due to expertise of NOAA scientists at NHC & AOML. Since 2005 forecast error on 5-day track has decreased by ~50%! We often take these accurate forecasts for granted but... 1/

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 16

I talked to a NOAA colleague yesterday who told me that 75% of the federal employees of his division have left and he’s worried about their ability to get work done even if Congress funds NOAA at some level. The devastation to science will be felt for generations.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · Jul 12

Bernie Sanders -
A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment. #cdnpoli

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 28

Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...

Properly staggering! 😮😱

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · May 24

Respect!!!

@harvard.edu 😍

The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · May 22

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · May 21

My latest @nature.com story shares the human stories behind the massive job loss and brain drain facing US science.

The quote I still can't get past: "We want to offer scientific asylum to our colleagues,” said Eric Berton, president of Aix-Marseille University in France.

#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

www.nature.com

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Bill Haneberg @haneberg.bsky.social · May 20

Excellent reporting of a tragic story. So many mishaps, not the least of which was the NC legislature’s decision to eliminate a crucial landslide mapping program for 7 years under pressure from real estate interests.

Jennifer Berry Hawes @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social · May 20

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As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene.

In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · May 17

thought the same thing when I listen to them. Climate change? where, no! Vaccines?? what ever for? and so on...

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · May 17

#MSH45 | May 17, 1980
"I own a piece of the rock." Spirit Lake property owners gather in Toutle, ready for a showdown with officials, but Gov. Dixy Lee Ray will grant their wish.

State Patrol Chief Robert Landon informs residents that everyone must sign liability waivers and be out by 6 p.m.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · May 17

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting.

Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · May 13

it looks like it!!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · May 13

this is great, thank you!

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · May 13

I found the coordinates (approximate) of the solar plant, but it is not making sense just yet, solar plant is quite recent, so we need recent imagery. I agree, it seems like a step-over and we lack more information.

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