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UMD Geology @umdgeology.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

UMD Geologists Measuring Ground Vibration Near an Elephant Enclosure GEPS faculty used seismic monitoring to address a non-traditional challenge (i.e., not earthquakes): investigating ground vibrations around an amusement and safari park in New Jersey #worldelephantday go.umd.edu/2d8t

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Celebrating World Elephant Day, August 12: UMD Geologists Measuring Ground Vibration Near an Elephant Enclosure | Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences | University of Maryla...

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 20h

For the second fiscal year in a row, NASA awarded ~20% fewer grants than the recent historical average. That's about 500 fewer grants going out to scientists around the country.

Line chart showing the running sum of new grant awards in FY 2026 compared to the average between 2021-2025, which is about 20% higher.

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Eos @eos.org · 29/09/2026

NASA has ignored recommended funding levels for planetary research & analysis for 15 years, according to a new investigative report by Mark Sykes (@coop.planetary-research.org). And for FY2025, it hasn’t even spent 50% of what it budgeted for R&A. 🧪🪐🔭 eos.org/research-and...

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NASA has Underspent on Research and Analysis for 15 Years - Eos

Spending for NASA’s research and analysis programs has remained relatively flat for 15 years, ignoring recommendations from community-led decadal surveys and directives by Congress.

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

US GEO folks: Want to hear directly from the NSF program directors you know & love and have live questions answered? We’ve got you. Tune in to hear from us in Oceans (Oct 5) Earth (Oct 6) and Atmos/Geospce (Oct 27): www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

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NSF GEO Atmospheric and Geospace, Earth, and Ocean Sciences Programs Virtual Office Hours

Join Program Officers across the NSF Directorate for Geosciences for office hours covering the three programs under the directorate's funding opportunity, NSF…

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 22/09/2026

Planetary friends, the location for LPSC 2027 has been announced! **** *** It's the Woodlands, TX. Like it's been since 2009, and the same state since the meeting started in 1970.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22/09/2026

Anyone know if that spreadsheet of places recruiting planetary science grad students is up for this year?

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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/09/2026

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union's first associate member, saying closer ties with the continent would ensure no country could control Canada's markets or undermine its sovereignty. to.pbs.org/3T94dG8

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Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal as Trump pushes Canada closer to Europe

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union’s first associate member, saying closer ties with the continent would ensure no country...

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'll bite. No matter how many places I live, you can't take the Michigander out of me. Also, the only reason why Phoenix is number 3 is due to the high amount of MI transplants trading the snowy weather for 110F heat.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/09/2026

ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL CONFIRMED! 🎉🛰️ #BepiColombo telemetry shows the Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated from the spacecraft stack! ✅ First step of Mercury arrival phase - complete! 👏 Next stop: Mercury orbit insertion for MPO and Mio in November! @esa.int #JAXA #Mercury

First signal after seperation from BepiColombo

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/09/2026

⏳ The countdown is over. #BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module should have now separated from the spacecraft, a key step in the mission's journey towards orbiting #Mercury. 🛰️↔️🚀 Now expecting acquisition of signal confirming separation no earlier than 15:53 CEST. @esa.int #JAXA

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Borat Says 'Great Success!'

ALT: Borat Says 'Great Success!'

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

There is an update ! She gets to fly after all :) www.sierraspace.com/press-releas... #Dreamchaser

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🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Sieg der Ukraine🇺🇦 🇺🇦 F. Mosel 🇺🇦🇩🇪 @herbstwind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Der Katzenaugennebel (NGC 6543) ist einer der bekanntesten planetarischen Nebel am Himmel . Seine faszinierenden Symmetrien sind im Zentrum dieser beeindruckenden Falschfarbenaufnahme deutlich zu erkennen

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 28/08/2026

Everything you've ever wanted to know about the Goodyear Blimp! Construction, maintenance, operation, does it have a toilet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQn9...

A photo of the Goodyear Blimp with the text "Everything you ever wanted to know" overlaid.

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Emily Estes @moxnrox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Re-upping this! US NSF GEO office hour on Sept 15. Sign up, tune in, ask questions.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

US Science folks: I know there are a million questions about these new NSF solicitations and what’s happening generally through all of this [waves arms]. This might start to answer some Qs, and at the bottom please sign up for the Sept 15 Office Hours! www.nsf.gov/geo/updates/...

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A new funding opportunity for core geoscience research

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

how do i join the maquis

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Instead of the HOMES acronym we learned in school to help us remember the names of the Great Lakes, US students will now learn the new acronym SHAME. How fitting.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

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Ryan Ritter @ndtex.gamin4aven.org · 26/08/2026

I’m gonna watch this video over and over again. Be like Dolly.

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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bye Tim Curry. You made pollution weirdly sexy and confused a lot of millennial kids with that. Sleep well.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

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GAPHAZ - Glacier and Permafrost Hazards in Mountains @gaphaz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We are heartbroken 💔 to see the images and videos coming out of Nepal this morning. Initial footage suggests this was a hugely destructive event originating in glacierized terrain. Our thoughts are with all affected communities and emergency responders. #cryohazards #rasuwa #glaciers #hazards

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 20/08/2026

I think that cleans up nicely

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Ross @rosssalawitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jellyfish Cloud over College Park, MD on 25 Aug 2026 #SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This image shows some of the structure of the main plume. @capitalweather.com

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/08/2026

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU SLAM A ROCKET INTO THE MOON New images just dropped from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the crater formed by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage when it hit the Moon on 5 August 2026. The new crater is 18 m across and 3 m deep.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Pretty rock on Mars, seen by Perseverance yesterday... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/S Atkinson

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sitting on top of a giant landslide in Svalbard at 78N is a pretty fucking place to see the eclipse

Three men photographing the eclipse through glasses

A man covering his eyes during the eclipse

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

IT WORKED! Thousands of you wrote your senators, and the Senate passed a funding bill pausing the OMB rule that would hand political appointees control over science grants. But it's not over: the House's bill doesn't include the pause. Tell your Rep to back the Senate's language: planet.ly/cPbNu

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Friends in southern Arizona have taught me not to spend much time outside or walk the dog when dust from these storms reaches us in the north. The number of people and dogs I know with Valley Fever is troubling.

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I will then continue running at 5 am with these temps and humidity levels.

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I feel like I cheated on WMATA tonight with Lyft. I was totally planning on taking the metro back home but walking out of the airport at 8pm after a 9 hour flight from Europe and seeing that Lyft would shave an hour off my commute home..... I knew what the choice would be tonight.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/08/2026

#BepiColombo is approaching Mercury 🛰️🌑☀️ And we’re here for it! 🙌 On 3 September, the @esa.int / #JAXA mission will carry out its first arrival manoeuvre, kicking off the Mercury Arrival Phase. Want to watch live on 3 Sept? ️️Stay tuned here and on @science.esa.int for more details on 27 August 🗓️

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 03/08/2026

Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing 8,800 pounds is about to crash into the moon at 5,400 mph, releasing an amount of energy equivalent to about 3 tons of TNT. WOW! And, the event might be visible from the East Coast by telescope early Wednesday. More details: www.capitalweather.com/part-of-a-sp...

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026

this is my new favorite diagram

Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces
Assuming 50 kg (110 Ibs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site.
h = 14 m (45 ft)
Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J
Average impact force = 68,600 N

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We have acquired a new friend during our trip to Berlin.

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Jackie Clark @geojackjack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@macsquirelera.bsky.social I wasn't able to reply but thought I'd share when I visited Dachau and this lady kept taking selfies with her selfie-stick among the flowers around the area. Yes, please, take that beautiful photo of yourself next to the "showers".

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 23/07/2026

I think the word here is "cathartic." Eruptions heads into hiatus ... and my musings on where we are in science communication, education, research and life: eruptions.site/2026/07/23/t...

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The Volcano Show is on Hiatus for Retooling

So, as most of you know, it has been a rough few years in the realm of science, education and journalism. I won’t get into the big picture issues individually, but they are the backdrop for t…

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