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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Another great meeting with Senator Warner’s aide and another partner willing to #SaveNASAscience!!

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Really positive meeting today with Tyler Lucas! #SaveNASAscience

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🔭🧪 In addition to what Casey reports, this is happening as NASA has ended support of the community groups that have given formal and informal feedback to the agency for decades, and the process by which the space science community identifies NASA and NSF's scientific priorities is threatened.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was making a menu last night. I saw a recipe for salad lyonnaise. I bought the baguette, bacon, lettuce eggs. I came home and it isn’t in either cookbook I had out last night. Did I dream it?

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

And in tonight’s dinner menu, we are pretending that gnocchi is a vegetable, because I just can’t deal with more.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I like is. “Gravity skeptics” ROFLOL. It’s not gravity that kills, it’s the sudden stop by something hard at the end of the fall.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The aws outage and canvas. The gift that keeps on giving. Still getting requests to take the exam late (due last Monday night) because “canvas is glitching”. So I don’t have any reason to accept the “canvas is glitching” story as 95/100 people successfully submitted the exam.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

So canvas LMS. You’ve really, really screwed up with my classes exam due tonight. Fix this mess now. Less techbro posting and more work.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Getting a photo op with a truly great person

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Funky tie-check Water bottle-check Comfy shoes-check Time to go advocate for NASA science!

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

In Washington for the #SaveNASAScience day of action. Working with link minded Virginians

Group of people with SaveNASA science on a monitor in the background

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I dislike it that people can add things to my calendar that I can’t then modify. Even worse when they add something that causes the calendar to repeatedly crash. 😡🤬😡

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I swear. Two monkeys on a weekend cocane bender could have designed a more functional airport than Dulles

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I’m not sure what this is all about but saw it near the Helsinki cathedral.

Banner showing Mars with the text “Mars sota ja rauha”

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You know it is the week before the beginning of the term when you start getting emails from administrators you have never heard of before with yet another mandatory thing you have to do with no release of anything to make it possible to do it. Time to retire.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The debate over a science only education is not new. It has been going on for a long time. This is the thought of one of the premier scientists of his time. I found this version free of a paywall. jamieyorkacademy.com/wp-content/u...

jamieyorkacademy.com

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This is outstanding. tired of hearing about the drivel from this researcher but this is worth a read.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“Greetings from the flight deck my name is Morgan and I’m assisted by first officer Jim” — Own it. Your Captain Morgan. If your parents stuck you with that name this is your moment to shine. 🤪

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

As HHS Secretary Kennedy's speculations on autism take center stage, my column (still valid today) on likely causes: Autism spectrum disorder is determined before birth by combinations of factors, mostly genetic. Recognized more today, so more commonly reported. www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/o...

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Opinion | How to Think About the Risk of Autism (Published 2014)

Hard data can help parents keep a cool head.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

💯 this! #Science is a team sport - when under attack we urgently need to look out for each other, retain collegial networks and collaborations, and protect students and support staff. Merely finding new opportunities for the ‘big names’ will not do.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It’s Earth Day, and some of us have spent not just our careers but our whole lives loving + studying the Earth. It is not an easy time. But I hope you take a moment today to look at something beautiful, eat something delicious, squish someone you love, pet a dog, remember the nice parts. Yay Earth.

A nice part of Earth (in Canada). A flattish (glacially eroded) small island of granite sits on a still lake reflecting a blue sky dotted with clouds. Two people stand at either end, fishing.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/03/2025

Every part of this is senseless and destructive.

Article screenshot. Text reads:

"I faced political repression from the Chinese Communist Party for criticizing Xi Jinping and the CP's domestic and foreign policies, resulting in the loss of my teaching position and my freedom to teach, research, and express myself in China," Wang told the outlet.
"I never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation at New College in the United States," he added.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Apparently I’m giving up sleep for lent

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this or say this today. Aside from me. So here it is:

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There are very few things in this world I know for sure anymore. When I started teaching in January, the textbook I always use for my class was $160 on Amazon. Used was over $100. I have always felt that this book was “ the Bible” and every geophysicist should have a copy.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Woke up after a crappy night sleep. Decided what I needed was a cappuccino. Made myself a nice cup. Sat down. The milk was spoiled. How’s your day going?

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It never ceases to amaze me how many people seem to reply to all on things that very clearly don’t need to go to all. Doesn’t it require some extra effort to reply to all?

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Can’t they just use beet juice?

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I’ll play along. A single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack playing in your head.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Did not feel it here in Blacksburg

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Where are the good billionaires? 🙃

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Missed opportunity: on the church closing list today is “pathway to heaven worship center”. It should be “stairway to heaven…”. My mind is racing about all the opportunities for that.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My son wanted to know if the pastry I bought today was stolen. Nope. I said, “I paid for it.” 😂😂

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Some great ideas here. Not just for students.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Sad reminder. No good deed goes unpunished in academia.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Me: vegan lasagna soup for dinner. Ben: sounds like you’re gonna have leftovers.

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Scott King @geoplanetking.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’ll be running through Dulles today trying to catch a connection between the two furthest gates. Sigh. I probably won’t post again for a few days. Unless I don’t make my connection.

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