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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Arrived in Christchurch, and in summer, for the IAG conference. Good vibes all around.

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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Nice Keynote to start day 2 of #ISC2026 from Prof Kyoto Kataoka using sediment cores from lakes and basins to study the volcanic activity from Japanese volcanoes. Looking at tephra, lahar and a range of volcanic erupt I’ve outputs - shows a much more complex and comprehensive volcanic history.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Fuji san upon arrival last Friday. 65x24 🗻

An airplane panoramic view of Mt Fuji and surrounding. The summit is coated in white snow.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Trichromatic de-icing with Trichromy from @heliographe.studio

A de icing machine sprays the wing of an aircraft

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Mass start at the Neues Palais in Potsdam

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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A new preprint, led by Bar Oryan, introduces the Coupling Cloud: a community database that curates, standardizes, documents, and disseminates published kinematic coupling models inverted from geodetic data. As of today it brings together 96 coupling datasets drawn from 55 publications spanning

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Frederik Tilmann has published an interesting post about the development of `latexdiff` since 2004 as version 1.4.0 is just released. Besides `latexdiff` Frederik also busies himself with being a professor of seismology. www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-r...

The regular expression to split text into tokens before identifying and grouping changes. By Frederik Tilmann.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

These cumulative energy release plots are always great visuals

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Jason "Jay" R. Patton @earthjay.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

#EarthquakeReport for 2025 Annual Year in #Earthquakes and #Tsunami See summaries and interpretive posters for 13 earthquakes from 2025 See cumulative energy release plots for M≥6.5 earthquakes from 2017-2025 earthjay.com?page_id=12459

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Fog streams. Mont Blanc in the top left.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Mt Blanc in late afternoon light from the Jura

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Fog streams. Mont Blanc in the top left.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Ho ho ho, Daisuke Ishimura @daisukeishimura.bsky.social has joined bluesky! 🎄 (pssst @earthjay.bsky.social )

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Realizing now that by traveling southwest from Berlin to Switzerland, I bought myself an extra 55 minutes of daylight on solstice day!

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

We'd have loved to share this at #AGU25 With marine terraces (4767 platforms 🖱️💪Nina!) spanning the last Myr we show that the faults of the Noto Peninsula EQ started slipping around 300 ka. A landscape evol. model explains the transient topography of the peninsula. 1/3 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Map of the Noto Peninsula and Sado Island in Central Japan

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Very impressive. Timelapse via #Copernicus Browser link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/xvxi

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Fortunately, the M7.6 earthquake struck at low tide, reducing the impact of the tsunami (itself smaller than feared, max 70cm observed). 1/2

screen shot of the Japan Meteorological Agency's tsunami advisory with added location of Kushiro and Ofunato

Tide gauge at Kushiro showing tsunami arrival at low tide. Tsunami is ca. 0.25 m.

Tide gauge at Ofunato showing tsunami arrival at low tide. Tsunami is ca. 0.3 m.

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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Also, you should really check out Kilauea right now! ⚒️🌋 www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

Current screenshot of Kilauea USGS webcam

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

North of the Bering Strait earlier today. First Northern Lights for me!

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

On Noto Peninsula where coseismic uplift was ~2m. Sequence pre-earthquake, EQ +3 months, EQ +23 months. I thought we would be able to monitor this nice flat surface for weathering efficiency over the years…

Noto coast in Nov. 2023.
Waves come all the way up to a concrete embankment protecting a cliff

Noto Coast after 2 m coseismic uplift.
100 m wide rock platform is now emerged

A road is now built on the bedrock platform, protected by a new sea wall

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Noto Earthquake and submarine landscape. After a loooong time looking for reviewers, we received good critical comments which led to notable revisions. Now back in review at GRL hoping that the 2nd round will be shorter than the 6 months of the first: doi.org/10.31223/X53...

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Landscape signature of seismogenic faults in the off- and onshore domains of the Noto Peninsula in Japan’s back-arc

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Kamil Ustaszewski @wukaimi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

@sumikotsuka.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc (2 yrs) to work w/ us at @uni-jena.de and LIAG Hannover on constraining exhumation rates in #Albania using calcite/dolomite thermoluminescence thermochronology. www.structures.uni-jena.de/en/1012/open.... @paleoseismicity.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Open Postdoc position

two-years full-time postdoc position open in our team, starting 1 January, 2026.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We'll try a 360º camera to document field sites google-streetview-style and to plunge it under our kayak looking for faults. In the meantime, enjoy this gimmicky autumnal snapshot @gfz.bsky.social .

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Researchers at Toyama and Kanazawa Universities deployed a ROV to document the earthquake scarp offshore of the Noto Peninsula, here is their video summary. Very cool images of underwater splay faults! youtu.be/QaIw5PgXZkc?...

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【令和６年能登半島地震】能登半島北部沿岸海域「海域活断層」の実態

YouTube video by TOYAMA BAY Lab

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

My resignation letter from CDC.

Dear Dr. Houry,

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested.

This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough.

While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people. This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles.

The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people. The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership. This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors. Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.

It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC. The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense. Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function. Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.

Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc.

I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again. I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season. Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.” We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources. At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him. To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information.

The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer. I believe in nutrition and exercise. I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability. Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.

The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.

For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics. I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision.

Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically.

Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution. If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It first seemed like Europe claimed to define itself in contrast to US funding cuts. But the drop in concurrence was just an opportunity to lower costs as well.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Thank you to our speakers, to our audience, and to my co-organizers!

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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🌍 Seismic site response isn't static!! Haendel et al. show that the high-frequency decay parameter κ₀ captures seasonal shifts that correlate with snow, freeze, and hydrological processes. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to study submarine faults "just offshore". The postdoc will participate in all steps of the research from the development of an autonomous kayak w/ sonar to the analysis of bathymetric data for active tectonics. 📆 22 June! www.gfz.de/en/career/jo...

Eastern Adriatic coast, with an outline of the large shallow water domain.

a map of Cephalonia showing active faults at shallow water depths

The kayak in the process of outfitting for autonomous surveys.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Just off the @weareseismica.bsky.social press: Annabel Händel & Co. on IDing seasonal variations in seismic site responses across Japan 🫨vs🌡️❄️🌧️. Very grateful to have been invited to join this puzzling investigation. And lots of work remain! doi.org/10.26443/sei...

(a) Location of the 188 KiK-net sites analyzed in this study (gray triangles) and the 13 sites with pronounced seasonal variation in ∆κ0 (highlighted triangles). The different colors indicate clusters of sites that respond differently to environmental change. (b) Zoom on the northeast corner of Hokkaido and (c) Honshu. The crosses indicate the locations of JMA
weather stations.

Stack of all 4626 ∆κ0 values observed in the pe-
riod 2004–2020 in one year for the Honshu site cluster (blue
triangles in Fig. 1). Gray dots: Mean ∆κ0 values for each day
of the year and for each of the Honshu sites. Black curve:
Mean curve computed from all gray dots, smoothed with a
Gaussian filter of 6 days width. Red: Daily mean tempera-
ture stacked to one year (red bars) and smoothed a Gaus-
sian filter of 6 days width (red curve).

Stack of all 1331 ∆κ0 values observed in the pe-
riod 2004–2020 into one year for the Hokkaido site cluster
(red triangles in Fig. 1). The data is plotted from July to July
to have the winter month in the middle. Gray dots: Mean
∆κ0 values for each day of the year and for each of the
Hokkaido sites. Black curve: Mean curve computed from all
gray dots, smoothed with a Gaussian filter of 6 days width.
(a) Orange: Daily minimum temperature stacked to one year
(bars) and smoothed with the same Gaussian filter (orange
curve). Red: Same for the daily maximum temperature. The
orange and red dashed lines mark the times where the mini-
mum and maximum daily temperatures start to be below or
above 0°C. (b) Blue: Total daily precipitation stacked to one
year (bars) and smoothed using a Gaussian filter of 6 days
width (blue curve). Green: Average depth of snow cover.

Stack of all 145 ∆κ0 values observed in the
period 2009–2014 at YMTH07 (green triangle in Fig. 1) into
one year. Gray dots: Mean ∆κ0 values for each day of the
year. Black curve: Mean curve computed from all gray dots,
smoothed with a Gaussian filter of 6 days width. (a) Blue
curve: Total daily precipitation stacked to one year (bars)
and smoothed with the same Gaussian filter (blue curve).
Green: Average depth of snow cover. (b) Olive curve: Same
as for (a) but for daily soil moisture content.

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Javier Escartín @jescartin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🧪⚒️ #NODSSUM cruise - L’Atalante is now on the way after leaving Brest. First AUV UlyX dive tuesday morning to test all the instruments - and water and sediment sampling to set in place procedures and train the teams.

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EGU Geomorphology @egu-gm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

What happens when a mountain falls on a glacier and buries it in 9 mio tonnes of debris?! The EGU GM, Hydro and Nat Hazard blog editors highlight the recent Swiss Blatten landslide & interview Christophe Lambiel: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm/2025/06/11/highlighting-the-blatten-landslide-in-switzerland/

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Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

An interview with Christophe Lambiel , a senior lecturer at University of Lausanne at the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics. His research focuses on high mountain geomorphology, with a special focus...

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Distribution of permafrost around and above the Birch glacier assembled with swisstopo's online tools. Satellite image from May 30th. s.geo.admin.ch/5yidukhr2udy And go check @stim3on.bsky.social 's great work to explore the geometry of this permafrost area in 3d!

Satellite image of the Blatten collapse with permafrost extent as overlay. The unstable north-facing slopes of the Kleines Nesthorn that collapsed on the Birch glacier are mapped as "extensive permafrost"

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Finally some precise numbers for the Blatten deposit! 👇 11 Mio m3 and up to 32 m thick ! 😱

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

In Lötschental: the Kleines Nesthorn remains unstable, rocks pile up on what remains of the Birchgletscher-> risk of further rock-ice avalanches. The Lonza flows across the entire deposit, dammed lake is monitored and stable. Deposit too weak for machinery. (source: Pomona and SRF, 📷 A. Amherd) 1/4

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead missions surveying nearshore active faults with an autonomous kayak!

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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

For our English speaking community: Many German language media report on the events in Switzerland where a gigantic rockfall onto a glacier triggered a catastrophic landslide. Even though we are cautious in attributing this directly to global warming, climate change most probably played a role 1/2

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

pfiuh, live interviews in German make me realize that i'm fluent.. but not THAT fluent 😓 On the other hand, the ZDF journalist reporting from Lötschental before my bit gave a very good overview of the situation!

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Swiss SURFACE3D Raster mono hillshade draped over #Copernicus #Sentinel2 False Colour highlights the villages, hamlets and trees taken out by the landslide. Hillshade via Swiss Geo Admin WMS #https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?VERSION=1.3.0, using QGIS

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

First drone flight today at Blatten! 🌊🎥 Water has made its path through the deposit! A spillover is currently not expected Slight lowering of upstream lake, which is currently not high enough to spill over the debris cone Several new lakes created on the deposit Source SRF 1/

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I had missed the info that the lake level stabilized overnight, meaning that the deposit can now indeed absorb the ca. 5m3/s discharge of the Lonza.

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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Water is slowly making its way across the deposits blocking the Lonza River without overtopping according to the Canton's Geologist Raphaël Mayoraz on RTS/SRF (good news). The deposit is very muddy and unsuitable for heavy machinery (pumping). 1/2 www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

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Bergsturz Blatten - Gestautes Wasser fliesst ab +++ Überschwappen nicht zu erwarten

Der See sei aktuell nicht hoch genug, dass er den Schuttkegel überschwemme, sagt der Kantonsgeologe.

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