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Caro Lynn

@geocaro.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, scientist, #UCLA professor, 🧶 crocheter. Work-life imbalance. Very long-distance commuter. Seismologist. Geophysicist. Geosciences. Planets. #ULiège alumnus

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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Southwest Airlines when the same flight is systemically delayed by over an hour, and most often more than 2, every week, perhaps it’s time to make a change. It happened every week last spring and now that I restarted flying again, it is happening again. Same day. Same timeframe.
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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Women: if you think men have a poor understanding of female anatomy, just you wait until AI replaces your gynecologist. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
bad AI illustration of a menstrual cup
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
*uncomfortable laughing*
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I have seen enough of these food delivery robots on campus stuck behind tree trunks or stop sign posts to never order food from them. And this past week I saw two of them having done kind of staring contest and not going anywhere 🤣
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I keep reading that Canvas is back online, but it's not back for me at UCLA...
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
That’s how early I got there 😆there is nobody apart from the guards
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On my way from Santa Monica to Pasadena for the Seismological Society of AmericaS meeting at an ungodly hour to beat traffic and have time to upload my slides before my 8am session!
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Eos @eos.org · 11/02/2026
Britney Schmidt, an Earth and planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., travels to some of Earth’s coldest places to learn about distant icy worlds. eos.org/features/bri...
eos.org
Britney Schmidt: Following the Ice - Eos
An Earth and planetary scientist is most at home in cold places that mimic the worlds of the outer solar system.
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
There's a conspicuous absence of states where "planetary scientist" is the highest paid gov job but that'll bother you less when you learn about the racism and other bigotry in science.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2026
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
en.wikipedia.org
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 17/01/2026
this is a level of casual, petty depravity that defies comprehension. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 18/12/2025
Join us for a critical conversation on the future of U.S. atmospheric science. UCAR President Antonio Busalacchi hosts this town hall on what’s at stake if NSF NCAR is dismantled. buff.ly/jR6tGwo
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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Really need other voices in this field carrying the water and doing the heavy lifting too. It can’t just be a few of us.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Five-byline alert: 🚨 #GoldenAge @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Literally gagging at this. Whether 15, 8, or 5, they are all CHILDREN. A 15-year-old is not "barely legal" - she is a CHILD. Not legal. Not OK. Pre-pubescent or post-pubescent, they are all children. Do not normalize this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🧶 cowgirl is done!
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
insidehighered.com
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
youtube.com
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
ag.ny.gov
Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
wow, which common vaccine was it?
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown
abc7.com
Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown
The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
nytimes.com
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Senator Roland Gutierrez THIS BULLSHIT TWEET BY ABBOTT I CANT KEEP QUIET ANYMORE
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/08/2025
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
officialjackwhite
"Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung

Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on
anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's
blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about
Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled
his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress,
his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at
distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the
Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with
poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing
to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise
and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear"
that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults.
How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a
real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion,
trump is masquerading as a human being.officialjackwhite
He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.
He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in
has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung
and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
"ample time on
at golf than
helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There
progress with him, only
smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your
concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any
money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot.
No intelligent person can defend this
low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka,
trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have
fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who
has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands,
this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and
voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman
leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain
who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves.
And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's
owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he
was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a
cheap grifter and a thief.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 19/08/2025
Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.
theconversation.com
Why does Australia have earthquakes? The whole continent is under stress from distant forces
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Jenna C. Hill @chillocean.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️
youtu.be
Early View of Tracy Arm Landslide Features
YouTube video by Alaska Earthquake Center
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
That's easy!
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Nothing like a second trip to the ER to make our vacation great again. #MOVGA. Did I get that one right?
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Rhyolite_Prof @edithrojas.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
US customs stopped me and put me in a room for questioning The woman didn’t like it when I told her I was on vacation Asked me if I was on drugs. Did drugs or had drugs on me? In my carryon or backpack. What was the issue? I traveled for 5+ weeks without checking a bag and how I could afford it. 1/2
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
New 🧶friend finished! Pattern from Hobbii’s Picapau 🐞
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Someone is having a tantrum again
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2025
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
muellershewrote.com
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. (Pssst - federally funded science saves lives) 🧪
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
That is just fantastic...
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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Did you know that part of the Apollo missions to our moon included seismic data collection? A new #BSSA study presents a new automated workflow for these data. ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Russia: Tsunami destroyed the Port of Severo-Kurilsk in Kamchatka following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Coasts all across the Pacific Ocean including Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, and even California are on tsunami alert.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Life expectancy for newborn children varies widely across the US. The difference is as high as 15 years! This is a mismatch of wealth and opportunity that I would be rather outraged about (and I am outraged about in the Australian context that I live in). Source: buff.ly/upNK8HD
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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Although large earthquakes generates strong shaking over a wide area, this is somewhat mitigated by the rupture being offshore. But if the rupture breaks the ocean floor, it generates destructive a tsunami that can spread across the ocean basin in the hours that follow.
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Footage of the #Kamchatka earthquake. Bricks falling off roofs is one of the reasons why you should not leave a building during an earthquake. Drop, cover, and hold on instead. www.earthquakecountry.org/step5/?fbcli...
earthquakecountry.org
Step 5: Drop, Cover, and Hold On
Drop, Cover, and Hold On or other recommended actions such as Lock (wheels), Cover, and Hold On – if you feel shaking or get an alert. Your past experience in earthquakes may give you a false
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Dr. Heather McFarlin @volcanoheather.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
For everyone paying attention to earthquake & tsunami info, a lot of funding for tsunami & earthquake monitoring comes from NOAA, but the fed gov is cutting their funding. Call your legislators, tell them to fund NOAA & USGS, who in turn funds regional network operators, like AK Earthquake Center
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Caro Lynn @geocaro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Tsunami watch vs advisory vs warning
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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
⚒️ 🧪 A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean. This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka
A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53? rdcu.be/eyrre
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I’m convening a session at a planetary science conference this fall and people keep withdrawing their presentations. So far every one has been withdrawn because of lack of travel support. It’s all folks coming from the US. This administration is killing scientific disciplines in big ways and small
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
and not just mental health. we're living under fascism; your family is plausibly in a position to get you deported, arrested, or targeted by the state right now. people need to protect themselves. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...
everythingishorrible.net
It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGA
Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them.
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