Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Quite the quakeswarm in San Ramon this morning. Been going on for weeks now, but today is just a few more than normal. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026It is the night that we open enough bottles to keep us busy for the month of January. 6 currently open, one more to go. This one is a 2000. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 04/12/2025"Restoring native landscapes, even in areas where only small spaces are available such as hedgerows, roadsides, and backyards, has great potential for increasing the amount of suitable habitat for butterflies and other insects (30)." Native wildflowers are easy to sow and maintain, help fight weeds 031
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Predator odor avoidance test in the open field outside the building where we do our behavioral experiments. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 16/09/2025No need to worry about batteries with sodium nitrate concentrators. They're putting them up all over the Gobi desert / Hexi corridor (along areas that aren't very scenic and already have a highway and other things like wind farms). 050
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 30/08/2025It’s wild seeing how much energy infrastructure they’ve built out in the Gobi desert. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025What's that line up there in the sky? Is weather happening here in...August??? That's crazy! [I don't think it's smoke or else it'd be on the Cal Fire map.] 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Home, after 2 months of travel, means [more than this, but…] walking outside for a snack. Grapes will be ready to harvest at the end of the week. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Back from China, and whoa, yeah, what a trip it’s been! 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Vacation. It is upon us. [second part of vaca, first part had wildfires and storms and a broken down car and lack of internet between some spectacular hikes, but no photos of that here] 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Was over at the cowboy ranch lab most of the morning doing some Barnes maze stuff, come back to Trump v Musk. LOL! 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025The challenge today: septic tank / sewage pipe issues that'll take some doing to fix. Ah well. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Some days are challenging out here in cowboy science country, but then the Swainson's couple come by to say it's gonna be alright. They've been keeping an eye over me for the better part of a decade, every time they visit from S. America. 110
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Trying really hard to show MAGA that UCD is not woke. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Bird of paradise has been waiting all winter to bloom. One got done in December, 5 are out now with some more to follow. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Why yes, I do know exactly where my food comes from. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025As good a day as possible to #StandforScience in Sacramento! 040
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 02/03/2025So glad we don’t live in a place where spring starts in late April anymore. 020
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Jeebus. Did USGS change its map format to comply with the Gulf of America bullshit? [yes, I do check this map every day, it's just one of the silly things I do, even when there's no earthquakes] 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Folks, I found what appears to be the only place near the shores of the Great Gulf of America that serves Freedom Fries! 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025In an unexpected twist of bureaucratic fate, the office that I wanted to have will actually be mine. I swear, I did not elbow my way into this particular office with this particular view (downtown & Mt Diablo). It all just happened totally without my influence. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025It's still a little young to produce 25 pounds [first tree on the left], but let this be proof to the state of California that soon all of my avocados are in fact mine. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Since Trump solved the drone crisis, I’m going to assume these are Starlink satellites moving to a new location. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 18/01/2025as i age my wine consumption becomes more and more limited by inertia. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Did you notice that book lying around in the lobby? At least it wasn’t “Left Behind.” 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The little old lady at our neighbor's Chinese restaurant (she's not related to him, the restaurant is in Davis and he lives two houses down from us in Woodland) usually gives me two fortune cookies. This time the cookies really wanted me to never forget something about my character's motivation. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Raking the forest, even if Trump doesn’t believe we’re doing this in CA. This is probably what he meant back then. Controlled burns. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Why yes, I will open a 19 year old bottle tonight! 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A redwood forest is being restored. Good luck little guys! 032
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024And drink coffee to this. It's great now, but that rain was crazy. 020
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I make coffee to this (Central Valley covered in dense fog). 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024After 48 hours of uninterrupted heavy rain, my eyes open to this. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024oh hello bear [probably: bigger than dog but if so it was a young one] 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024There is, in fact, a view thanks to the SQF complex / castle fire. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024A cabin with a view. Hopefully sometime over the next week. 010
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Tomato season is pretty much done with this harvest tonight. Rainy season begins tomorrow. 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024It's finally published! Patrick and I started working on this during the first Obama administration. Then we added Chuck, my advisor in grad school (photo of me with hair during that time). And then we had to go through years of very tough reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 140
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Live posting this is not easy. But dog and humans have food 000
Heinrich Gompf @hgompf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Sauté shallots in rendered duck fat from breast. Sear figs in duck fat. Add wine to shallots, reduced completely. Then stock, demi glacé, figs that were halved and go! 010