Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026That's why I like working and. Being visible in the community normally. But with growing ice presence in the area and lots of international and immigrant students, I'm worried more for their safety than anything. 120 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026If 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)linktr.ee@mplsmutualaid | LinktreeClearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors 010 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I'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? 120 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 25/01/2026It's showing a positive effect.phys.orgAdoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollutionWhen 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 ... 642285533 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Here'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 120 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Of 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? 001 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I 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. 000 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2025That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 16941298 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Submitting a microplastics proposal today. Hopefully some funders somewhere in the US still care about pollution. 010 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)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. 6249115 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Three 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. 010 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I'm going to try interacting on here again, though, like probably everyone else, my ability to focus is completely shattered. 020 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Got an ftir spectrometer and got it to successfully identify ldpe as ldpe. Am I a chemist now? 000 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Collapse of the Vallunaraju Glacier front (~5060 m asl, Cordillera Blanca, PER) yesterday! 😱🌊 🎥 Jose Forero www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/ 69040 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Who 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) 050 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025In 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) 3130 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I think the only thing keeping me grounded and not completely devastated right now is interacting with idealistic college students all the time. 120 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I'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. 080 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Tagging for the science/geo feeds since the war on science seems to only have just begun 🧪⚒️ 1319 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Tell the AGU what all of Donald Trump's illegal executive orders are doing to science and to scientists, staff, and students. 04422 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 02/02/2025That 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... 14377104 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Relentless and grim. It’s increasingly hard to see where any positives are going to arise in the next few months. Years, even. 75113 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 31/01/2025One 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.orgEarthquake warning system among projects threatened by NSF funding freezeSmall nonprofit that helps manage network could soon run out of money 321612884 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025My 8-year-old's hand drawn 'meme' operating with more sense than we'll ever see in the next 4 years. 1180 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Schrödinger’s funding freeze. 29320 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/01/2025The 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... 45555146 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 21/01/2025My 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.comLA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smokeFrom vaporized bicycles to political extortion: The complex impacts of urban wildfire 59432 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025It's definitely been helpful for us. The electric infrastructure in my state (Idaho) is severely lacking, for one. 110 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I've had a leaf since 2016, and its range works for my commute and around town but not much else (newer EVs would have more range though). We've got a plug-in hybrid for longer trips, which is great because it can also do short in town trips fully on electric. 130 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Went 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. 040 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025A 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. 010 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 09/01/2025From 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.comThe chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca SolnitThe current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting 02611 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Adrian Luckman @adrianluckman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Is 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! 02515 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024 Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey. ⚒️🧪 geology GISaeon.coMetamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can | Aeon EssaysMetamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth 14419 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Submitted grades and have officially finished this semester of curricular chaos. Now time to mentally prepare for all the upcoming non-curricular chaos. 030 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I know people have said it before, but wow AGU is way too big for me. I'm missing my quaint little GSA corners. 180 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The cognitive transition from this semester full of basically all curriculum crises immediately into AGU is really a lot. 010 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Am I excited for 1.5-2 hour curriculum meeting today? No, no I am not. 000 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Alaska tectonics, Idaho microplastics. I don't think anyone could tell the difference 130 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Curricular 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? 140 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Random student wandered into my office to talk about climate change and had their mind blown by the Keeling Curve. I'll take it. 090 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Working from home today, and I'm really catching some good squirrel dramas during meetings and grading. 010 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I'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. 040 0
Reposted by Rachel Headley (she/her)Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Hola - 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 🧪⚒️❄️🗻 248134 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Microplastics group at MCSR 2024! 000 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 31/10/2024Impressed that a student in Idaho from Florida got my favorite cryptid from my shirt (mothman). 020 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 22/10/2024I'm missing a big curriculum meeting to talk about river's, and I definitely made the comment/justification that microplastics will long outlive any curriculum, so kind of the same thing. 000 0
Rachel Headley (she/her) @geomorphrachel.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Realizing two years later that I've traded Wisconsin system chaos for small, private liberal arts school chaos. 230 0