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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 2h

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Geophysicist: That's a large low-shear-velocity province. We're still working on resolving it better, and you shouldn't expect much agreement on its origin.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are still here :)

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 22h

Another massive flood caused by a landslide in Nepal - this one in the Budhi Gandaki valley. No decent cloud-free imagery from @planet.com yet but this is from @esa.int Sentinel2.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 21h

Note the right lateral offset of the yellow centerline of you look across the fault. (Traffic spotters had my back for this quick snap).

A road through the central coast of California, as viewed from the central line of the highway, looking off into the distance before the road turns. There’s mountains in the background and a few oak trees on the side of the road, but the important feature is at the bottom of the photo where there’s a rumble piece of asphalt that goes across the entire highway. That is the San Andreas fault and if you look across the rumble area, you can easily see the yellow center line has been offset to the right by a couple inches. this offset has happened within the last 10 years or so as they frequently repave this section.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know two words in French and they're both here

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2026

Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

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Jason "Jay" R. Patton @earthjay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#EarthquakeReport for M 7.6 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake en #Panama @USGS_Quakes model suggests high ground shaking Possibly crustal right-lateral strike-slip Tectonic setting in 2021 report earthjay.com?p=9976 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This earthquake in Panama is the 12th earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater this year. Is this an unusual number of large quakes? No. This graph shows M7+ earthquakes over the last 30 years. This year is very average.

This graph shows earthquakes of magnitude seven or greater since 1996.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Different backgrounds, different expertise, but one shared mission: help make Californians safer from earthquakes. @disastrouscomms.bsky.social @drlucyjones.bsky.social @samanthastanley.bsky.social

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Y'all denied her tenure

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Natural history museums are at an inflection point that started with the auctioning of dinosaurs. If Fort Hays State (Sternberg) or Drexel (Acad.Nat.Sci.) think they can monetize collections (i.e., sell natural history specimens); museums become safety deposit boxes instead of research institutes.

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no NSF leadership. They were removed and never replaced.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

science.org

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just picked up a copy at my library today! Looking forward to reading!

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i think it may be conscious

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...

David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember my dad pointing one of these out to me as a little kid, and then I spent HOURS giggling when he told me they were called butterbutts.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And congratz @mikamckinnon.bsky.social for another year of bringing a joyful month to our community! The real gem is the people behind the game. 🩵

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Woohoo! Quartz may seem basic to some, but I love how familiar it is. So many people have been blown away by a huge amethyst geode in a museum, bought a rose quartz crystal for their desk just because it's pretty, or had a little white sparkle from a rock catch their eye on a hike. Congratz, quartz!

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything in the world is hard right now. But a little bit of hope remains when FatBear 2019 is mother to the winning FatBear of 2026.

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On the one hand, conservatives deny climate change exists and oppose policies to address it. On the other hand, liberals haven’t convinced conservatives that climate change exists and haven’t offered pain-free solutions. Hence, it’s complicated.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It all comes down to this: cast your vote now! Quartz is narrowly in the lead (woohoo!) and only a few hours are left.

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s been driving me insane there are sooo many grad school romance plots you can have that are fun and cute and this is what we get, dating a professor 😬 idk what to expect from fanfic but irritating to watch this become a mainstream film when like every single one of us has been harassed by a prof

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It doesn't take much editing to make xkcd 2501 about #MinCup. marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...

Custom variant of xkcd comic 2501: Average Familiarity.

[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Minerals are second nature to us MinCup fans, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows graphite and halite.
Cueball: And quartz, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This one hits home. Like, literally my home. My dad studied at Fort Hays State and then spent a career working in the field of museum collections. He's been contacting his fellow alumni in the museum world to join him in writing letters to admin.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

our enemies are so well funded and organized, it physically pains me to think about it

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another museum in trouble

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you so much for the fun you bring to all of us! 🩵

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I spent all of my 20s without owning a car, then got one a year ago when I moved out of a big city. I turn on random radio stations when a trip is too short for podcasts. I can reliably sing along to basically every big hit of the last year, and basically none from the decade prior.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone is looking to better understand the horrific bigger picture around campus sexual violence, follow Dr. Bedera. I wish I could assign her book "On The Wrong Side" as homework to literally every single person in higher ed.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pleased to see I've gained a few more followers through my inclusion in a Bluesky starter pack, 'Scientists Who Write Science Books.' For my followers, check out this list & find your favorite scientist authors who you might not have known are here! go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

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