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Ryan J Hollister

@phaneritic.bsky.social

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Earth & EnviroSci Educator, Central Valley equity/sustainability advocate, Hiker, Photographer, 2015 NAGT FW Outstanding Educator. 🌋 Tissue Box Maker. ❤️🏕⛰🏜 w/ @Xenolith & Z.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · May 22

I’m Ryan, an earth science educator & curriculum developer at two colleges in Central California. I’ve had a hand in some cool virtual field experience innovations, but lately I’m the “Volcano Tissue Box Guy”. I’m pinning my Etsy store link here for when I release batches.

phaneritic.etsy.com

Me, a white guy standing on Johnston Ridge in front of Mount Saint Helens on a partly cloudy day. The mountain is visible with lots of green growth on the landslide zone in the mid ground. I’m leaning on a stone wall with my butt holding a black tissue box cover holder that also looks like Mount Saint Helens.

Screenshot of science Fridays website that hosts my virtual field trip to columns of the Giants and Central California. It says science Friday in the top left-hand corner underneath which is a picture of the tallest pile at the columns of the Giants full of brown and black, the salt boulders with a few pine trees in the distance There is a hexagon with a light bulb as a page brake with a title underneath that says embark on a 360° geologic expedition.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/360-degree-expedition/

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 22m

For sure! Maybe a fall run too. Home life has just been hectic this semester.

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 30m

Old Twitter and BkueSky helped me connect to my geoscience and science peeps! Project collaborations have happened because of this, IRL friendships have been made and 600+ nerds found and bought my LiDAR-derived scale-model volcano tissue box covers. (Maybe I should print a new run soon).

3-D model of assault and sea mud volcano, erupting tissues from a cubic tissue box that is stored underneath. It is a combination of brown colors that says “salton sea mud volcanoes“

3-D model of Tahoma volcano, erupting tissues from a cubic tissue box that is stored underneath. It is a combination of quickly changing rainbow colors to make it look like in insar that says “Tahoma Mount Rainier“

3-D model of Lawetlat’la volcano, erupting tissues from a cubic tissue box that is stored underneath. It is a combination of silver colors that says “Lawetlat’la Mount St Helens“

3-D model of Stromboli volcano, erupting tissues from a cubic tissue box that is stored underneath. It is a combination of gold and purple colors that says “Stromboli Il Forno Del Mediterraneo“

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 57m

I love shitting on social media as much as the next guy, but Skype a Scientist was built directly from social media connections.

We've matched over 60,000 classrooms with scientists from it...

That's pretty great.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 6h

Likely

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 6h

Lol

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 13h

Wow. Thanks to investigative reporting by the @sacbee.com, it has come to light that our CA state assemblyman, Heath Flora, is a very questionable dude.
www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

• Flora does not live in the Central Valley home that is registered as his "legal domicile."
• Public documents show he collects taxpayer-funded per diem expenses during the legislative session despite apparently living full-time in Sacramento.
• Court records show he didn't pay child support to his wife until a court-initiated wage garnishment.
• While married, he had an affair with a lobbyist, who detailed to The Bee for the first time how her life has changed in the aftermath.
• Expense records show he spent over $600,000 given to his political campaign by special interest groups, with a significant portion going to travel, lodging and meals.
While Flora's actions do not appear to be illegal, the revelations make him an odd fit to lead a party that claims to represent family values and often bemoans Democrats'

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 14h

Meee toooo.

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 14h

I’m not trying to to be conspiratorial, so we’ll just see how it plays out, but I feel like I’m possibly watching a made-for-streaming mystery unfold.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 15h

Man, something weird is happening with the announcement of a certain thing that happened in a nearby community. The in-house announcement style, and lack of publicized news around the situation is, at the very least, odd. But it has my spidey sense wondering what is *really* going on?

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 16h

This would be a war crime if we did it in another country. But I guess doing it to priests in Chicago is just another day in Trump’s Gestapo regime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 1d

Do Coupled Megathrusts Rupture?

In our new preprint, Bar Oryan and I present
the first global analysis of the relationship between kinematic geodetic coupling and earthquake slip models across 12 subduction zones and 61 megathrust earthquakes.

eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 19h

Holy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that you need to actually have deposits to mine ore. And if you have an ore deposit it takes years of exploration and then years of planning and permitting before you can ever start digging. Mining takes long term planning and mistakes cost $$$, no one’s gonna be rushing things.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Burgum: "We have to get back to mining in our country. It's not just drill baby drill. It's mine baby mine with President Trump."

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Alessandro La Rosa @alarosa.bsky.social · 1d

Our new study on @egu.eu SE combines automatic fault mapping, geodesy and rock dating to reconstruct the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Afar rift during the last 4.5 Myrs. @sasbrune.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @derekkeir.bsky.social @gimmi-p.bsky.social @earth-science.bsky.social

Cross-scale strain analysis in the Afar rift (East Africa) from automatic fault mapping and geodesy

Abstract. The formation of continental rift systems is characterised by the interplay of magmatic and tectonic processes. Their evolution involves a wide range of timescales, from centennial scales of...

se.copernicus.org

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 23h

I just keep thinking every good year is just one more year closer to the bad year.

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 23h

Good news! Must have been a hectic night for your neighborhood.

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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 1d

Scary news for West Coast friends in my latest for @science.org. Disturbed ocean sediments off California suggest big earthquakes on the Cascadia fault can trigger big quakes on the San Andreas. The "Big One" could well become the "Big Two"...

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch

Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

www.science.org

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 1d

Alt text: Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren’t entitled to back pay

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 1d

This administration wants to punish federal workers. These threats are illegal point blank. We could be working together to end this Republican government shutdown but Russ Vought and POTUS would rather threaten and harass the federal workforce.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

I missed this! Good luck and keep up your always great work.

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

I do believe requiring people to work without pay is called slavery. Was that headline from 1850?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

Flight radar shows it had indeed just taken off from UCD Med. yeah, hopefully no patients on board yet.

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Tom Gill @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social · 1d

California's Teakettle Experimental Forest, with ~500 year old Jeffrey pine and sugar pine trees, effectively was completely wiped out by the Garnet Fire.
www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out

Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. I hope the folks are OK, and they injuries aren’t fatal. There is video of this helicopter coming down next to cars, but it looked fairly controlled before camera panned other way and the lane was engulfed in smoke.
www.kcra.com/article/heli...

Helicopter crash shuts down traffic on Highway 50, injuries reported

Crews are responding to a helicopter crash on Highway 50 on Monday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.

www.kcra.com

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