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Rachel Headley (she/her)

@geomorphrachel.bsky.social
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Professor of glaciers, geomorphology, & environmental science; living & biking in the Northwest; being depressed about climate change. Come for the pictures of rivers, stay for the cats and bikes

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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If you're looking for some Minneapolis/Minnesota-based mutual aid funds, here are some lists: linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid and www.standwithminnesota.com (there are definitely more, but this can get anyone started)
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@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'm trying to put together a faculty group at my school to try and figure out if having our students go out into the community for internships/field work/community work is still viable and safe in a growing ice presence. Any good advice?
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's showing a positive effect.
phys.org
Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution
When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, nitrogen ...
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Here's how things are going, by the way: www.idahopress.com/news/local/c... Any advice on shifting out of academia as a geomorphologist because I'm super tired?
idahopress.com
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Of all the impacts of government shutdowns, I know my classes are minor, but is anyone aware of links to energy infrastructure maps like the EIA Atlas, which apparently isn't accessible right now?
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I just did my first in class exams in over 5 years (mainly for LLM reasons), and I really did not anticipate how much better and well thought-out their responses are then when I would run a similar test on our LMS.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2025
That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Submitting a microplastics proposal today. Hopefully some funders somewhere in the US still care about pollution.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/09/2025
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Three weeks into the fall semester with newly outsourced IT at my campus; its going as a lot of us expected. Will the GIS license problem be solved by the spring semester so I can actually teach my GIS class? We have the license! I just don't have access to change the location for the application.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'm going to try interacting on here again, though, like probably everyone else, my ability to focus is completely shattered.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Got an ftir spectrometer and got it to successfully identify ldpe as ldpe. Am I a chemist now?
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Collapse of the Vallunaraju Glacier front (~5060 m asl, Cordillera Blanca, PER) yesterday! 😱🌊 🎥 Jose Forero www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Who knows if it will go anywhere with all the federal grant chaos, but I'm excited to potentially do some preliminary glacial research again this summer. (Also I do still exist on this platform, I promise)
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In some needed good news, I just got my tenure board-approved. (I had it at my old institution but academic is weird and you can't always get hired with it)
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I think the only thing keeping me grounded and not completely devastated right now is interacting with idealistic college students all the time.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm taking all the little victories I can get right now, so hurray for all my GIS students successfully making maps on day 2 of class.
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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Tagging for the science/geo feeds since the war on science seems to only have just begun 🧪⚒️
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Tell the AGU what all of Donald Trump's illegal executive orders are doing to science and to scientists, staff, and students.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
That NSF is combing through grants for keywords like gender, equity, scientific literacy, etc, in order to cancel those grants, is frustrating when you consider that Broader Impacts ARE A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING THE GRANT. In case you're not familiar, here are examples 🧪 new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...
NSF website describing appropriate examples of broader impacts for a grant
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Relentless and grim. It’s increasingly hard to see where any positives are going to arise in the next few months. Years, even.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 31/01/2025
One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.
science.org
Earthquake warning system among projects threatened by NSF funding freeze
Small nonprofit that helps manage network could soon run out of money
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My 8-year-old's hand drawn 'meme' operating with more sense than we'll ever see in the next 4 years.
a stick figure smiling with a small monster eating its head. Text says, 'people who don't worry about climate change' labeling the person and 'climate change' labeling the monster.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Schrödinger’s funding freeze.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/01/2025
The US just revoked an executive order aimed at making EV sales 50% by 2030. “The US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said. But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap. Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Four charts from Our World in Data comparing the share of EV car sales around the world, in the EU, China and the US. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 21/01/2025
My new post on The Climate Brink: LA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smoke. It talks about air pollution from wildfires, the connection to climate change, and Table 12.12 from the last IPCC report. www.theclimatebrink....
theclimatebrink.com
LA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smoke
From vaporized bicycles to political extortion: The complex impacts of urban wildfire
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Went night skiing with my family and got ditched by the 8 year old so he could ski black diamonds and tree terrain while I hang on the greens.
Bogus basin coach lift and ski runs lit up at night with a few people at the foot.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A sign of the times is reading texts/posts from friends dealing with major infrastructural issues due to the east coast snow storms and friends dealing with the devastation of the CA fires.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 09/01/2025
From the inimitable @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: "Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. Forgetting creates terrible vulnerabilities" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
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Adrian Luckman @adrianluckman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Is this the final death throes of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf? Let's hope that tomorrow's launch of #Sentinel-1C is successful and polar ice monitoring can get even better!
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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey. ⚒️🧪 geology GIS
aeon.co
Metamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can | Aeon Essays
Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Submitted grades and have officially finished this semester of curricular chaos. Now time to mentally prepare for all the upcoming non-curricular chaos.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I know people have said it before, but wow AGU is way too big for me. I'm missing my quaint little GSA corners.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The cognitive transition from this semester full of basically all curriculum crises immediately into AGU is really a lot.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Am I excited for 1.5-2 hour curriculum meeting today? No, no I am not.
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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Curricular change is 75% there and I finished grading one set of projects before the last ones roll in. Are there AGU elves who will write my talk for me before next week?
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Random student wandered into my office to talk about climate change and had their mind blown by the Keeling Curve. I'll take it.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Working from home today, and I'm really catching some good squirrel dramas during meetings and grading.
A tuxedo cat gazes at a large window at an oblivious squirrel sitting upright on a window box.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I've been teaching classes explicitly and implicitly centered around climate change for over a decade now, and I don't think I'll ever stop being exhausted by them toward the end of the semester.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hola - with all the new folx on here, I realized we didn't have a starter pack of glaciologists and people who like glaciers. PLEASE let me know if I've missed someone or an organization! go.bsky.app/HG2KgXZ 🧪⚒️❄️🗻
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Microplastics group at MCSR 2024!
Dr. Headley surrounded by her 4 student researchers at MCSR. Two students are holding up a globe and two students are holding a banner in front of the group that reads, 'Saving the planet through scientific research.'
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Impressed that a student in Idaho from Florida got my favorite cryptid from my shirt (mothman).
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Baklava when abound ground vs baklava being called bakmagma when below ground
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Realizing two years later that I've traded Wisconsin system chaos for small, private liberal arts school chaos.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/10/2024
The only hurricane conspiracy is the one trying to cover up how our addiction to fossil fuels is making them worse.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Quick microplastics related question: does anyone have a rough estimate for how much FTIR microscopes cost? Trying to finish out my startup and just want an idea if it might even be possible at all.
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
My college is about to do a massive curricular overall. My service load is about to explode because I though being on our curricular oversight committee would be "interesting."
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Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Sorry calcite lovers, but rhodochrosite absolutely dominated in the #mincup vote for my class.
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Let me walk through all the ways this essay in The Chronicle fails and the potential harm it can cause to an already marginalized group--students with disabilities. I'm not linking to it, because I don't want to drive more clicks. 🧵 1/x
Image of essay title: 

Do Colleges Provide Too Many Disability Accommodations?
Higher ed’s maximally inclusive approach hurts those it attempts to help.
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