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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Husband (not a scientist): what’s goin on? You’re smiling [takes deep breath to launch into an explanation about talking to a colleague about MATLAB matrices and questionable variable names]

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Every Damn Frame: A Podcast @everydamnframe.com · 28/07/2026

It begins! @jessev.bsky.social @lizshannonmiller.com and @asatait.bsky.social watch every damn frame of Paul W. S. Anderson’s “Resident Evil” and gain insight into names of all kinds, 3D maps, and graveyard sweaters. Plus the business of franchises! Ostensibly the premise of the show!

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Every Damn Frame of "Resident Evil"

Listen to Every Damn Frame of "Resident Evil" from Every Damn Frame wherever you get your podcasts!

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Off to #Goldschmidt2026 in Montréal! Also, I’m looking for a Masters student for 2027 - if you are an undergrad who is interested in exoplanets experiments, come find me!

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My window seat is just a blank bulkhead

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Blazing fluorescent lighting at the departure gate feels like a personal attack pre-5 am

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I made this for the homework post mortem in tomorrow's class 🫠

A Bernie Sanders meme where the text has been replaced to say "I am once again asking you to please complete all parts"

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A year ago today I found out I got an on-campus interview for my current job @unm.edu! It's incredible what a difference a year can make.

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You know you're a nerd when you're thrilled to find a hardcover edition of a book from the 1970s about geological phase diagrams #petrology @kaylaiacovino.com

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

12 years ago today I got my acceptance letter for @seseasu.bsky.social ASU! I can't believe it's been that long, but I also can't believe how much I've experienced and grown in this last decade+. Thank you to all the cheerleaders and angels along the way ❤️

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Pleased to be serviced by Alice Scooper and Taylor Drift

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#HWO “is exactly the kind of bold, forward-leaning science that only NASA can undertake,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “We […] intend to move with urgency, and expedite timelines to the greatest extent possible to bring these discoveries to the world.” www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission - NASA

NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept – the first mission

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First AAS and first conference as a professor! #AAS247

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🚨Attention prospective grad students🚨 Info for you is up on my website: karabrugman.com#students

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Things have been crazy as I finish up work at ASU, so I’ve been looking forward to this block of time I set aside to read my first #LettersToAPreScientist pen pal letter of the year! It’s always a thrill to see stickers that align with your interests (food) and to get some surprises 😍

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Greetings from the UTCT Basics of CT Data Visualization and Analysis for Geological Applications with ImageJ workshop! Thanks to Romy and Dave for all their help even before the workshop 🙌🏻 #GSA2025

The cover of a booklet that reads UTCT Basics of CT Data Visualization and Analysis for Geological Applications with ImageJ

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Tracing Rocky Exoplanet Compositions (TREC) workshop "Under the Atmospheric Hood: How Geochemical Cycles Affect Exoplanet Biosignatures" will be held at ASU in Tempe, AZ Jan. 12–14 (after the AAS meeting in Phoenix). Applications close 10/15 trec-nexss.org/workshop See the thread for more info!

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

For those anxiously awaiting it: the NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with a November 14 deadline for Geoscience applicants: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Now soliciting names for my new lab @unm.edu...do I go with a cool acronym or something simple but descriptive like "UNM High Pressure Lab" 🧐

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FORCE @forcehighp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The first FORCE Seminar of the semester is in two weeks! Read the abstract and speaker bio here: bit.ly/FORCEseminar_926_abstract #forceasu

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Everyone back home in the Midwest is just livid about this, I'm guessing (but in a polite, restrained, kind of way)

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Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

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Christy Till @ctill.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Coming this Fall, the EPIC lab's next EPIC adventure! We need your help to do important volcano science research & support some amazing graduate students in need of funding while you're at it: experiment.com/projects/wha... #volcano #science #magma #eruptions #funding

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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Ready to take a journey through time without ever leaving home? 🐡 ✨ 🌍 Colouring time is a collection of 12 original illustrations inspired by travel destinations though geological time (available to purchase or print yourself!) www.luciaperezdiaz.com/category/all... #Geology #SciArt

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The deadline is this Friday!

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FORCE @forcehighp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Mark your calendars! The 4th annual FORCE Winter Workshop will be held at Arizona State University on January 7–9, 2026. Stay tuned for more info including invited speakers and registration info. Join our mailing list (force.asu.edu/contact) to be the first to know more. #forceasu

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Next Friday 8/15 is the deadline to endorse #HabitableWorldsObservatory science cases. If you think it is important to consider whether a planet has the right geology in place to host life as we know it _before_ looking for life there, please endorse our case: bit.ly/GeochemHab_endorse #HWO25

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Dr Joanna Barstow @drjovian.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Now we have Kara Brugman talking about goechemical habitability. Volcanoes are a crust factory for planets and also a mechanism for transporting volatiles from the interior to the surface and therefore atmosphere. Geochemical context is therefore critical for interpreting biosignatures. #HWO25

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Today, come to my talk at 4:50 in the theater to hear about another factor to consider in finding eta-Earth #HWO25

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I’m excited to let y’all know that in January 2026 I will be joining the department of Earth & Planetary Sciences/Institute of Meteoritics @unm.edu as an Assistant Professor 🐺 ✨

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

For another parameter to add to the calculation of eta-Earth 😬 come see my SCDD talk on Geochemical Habitabilty Thursday afternoon in the theater 👀 #HWO25

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I’m at the very beginning of this video!

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Just using my lunch break to try to get the HWO Tier 1 and 2 stellar data converted and plotted now that it’s available on @hypatiacatalog.bsky.social 😅 #HWO25 #HWO2025

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Dr. Sean Peters @siprocks.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Please consider submitting an abstract to the session "T163. Exploring the Diversity of Volcanism in the Solar System" at GSA Connects 2025 in San Antonio, TX. We invite abstracts that present recent advances in understanding volcanism in the Solar System. Abstract deadline is August 5.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Bacteria from a Yellowstone hot spring do something no other organism has been found to do: breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time. 🧪 It's both aerobic and anaerobic, a beautiful freaky creature from a beautiful freaky place

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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Greetings from the Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory symposium! We’re gathered here to discuss the goals and technical needs of the next major space telescope project - one that will be designed to look for signs of life on #exoplanets. #HWO2025

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I just got so mad about some “science” in a movie that I ranted on two slacks (including one for a conference I’m attending next week), made my poor husband (who is not a scientist) listen to me go off, then called my best friend (a scientist @kaylaiacovino.com) on the drive home to complain 😅

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This awesome! But we should be doing our due diligence to pick stars with compositions that are most likely to host habitable exoplanets. Consider endorsing my science case doc about just this! (Link in thread)

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Come see our ✨Exoplanets✨ talks Thursday morning in South Hall 3B (02k-O1). Our keynote speaker is astronomer @nataliehinkel.bsky.social, here to give us an overview of the star-planet connection and a report on the future directions of exoplanet science 🪐 🔭 #goldschmidt2025 @geochemsoc.bsky.social

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hello #Goldschmidt2025! Today I will be on a lunchtime panel about setting up new labs with Paolo Sossi and Helen Williams @helenwcam.bsky.social @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @forcehighp.bsky.social #forceasu

1–2 pm: Setting up new laboratories. South Hall 1A (1st floor)

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My poster is up at #IAVCEI2025! Come through and get a free sticker while you learn about the US’s new IHPV #forceasu @forcehighp.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social

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Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

With a little suspense, but the Geneva volcano finally erupted #IAVCEI2025 🌋⚒️

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FORCE @forcehighp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We’re at #IAVCEI2025 this week to introduce our internally heated pressure vessel #IHPV to the international volcanology community. Check out @karabrug.bsky.social’s poster Tuesday, no. 128 ❤️🌋@iavcei.bsky.social #forceasu

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Kara B @karabrug.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I have just heard the terrible news about about Wes Hildreth and Judy Fierstein. My heart goes out to their loved ones and all who’ve had a chance to know them over the years. I wish Judy a quick recovery ❤️

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