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Morgan Moschetti @morganmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A StoryMap summarizing much of what is known about the Nepal landslide/glacial-collapse and subsequent flooding was put together by the Center for Land Surface Hazards. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f2b2...

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August 2026 Nepal Trishuli Flood

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you care about Earth science in the US, please sign up for the NSF GEO virtual office hour Sept 15 with GEO directorate head Joydip Kundu! NSF leadership needs to hear directly that people care and are concerned about GEO. Maxxing out their Zoom tier sends a message. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...

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NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences

Join directorate leadership for updates and information.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I just finished my run, looked up at the Moon and thought, "Huh, that's funny! It was full last night!". 😆

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QueenofNoirs @queenofnoirs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You know why trump hasn’t been selected yet? Because Satan read the unredacted Epstein files and refuses to let him in.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Top 100 m or so - this could be really important if it's as good as it looks. (Can't evaluate - DAS is effectively black magic as far as I'm concerned.)

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

⚒️ 🧪 A M6.8 earthquake struck Kyushu, Japan today. Large quakes in Japan are common and often pass without much notice, but this one is serious - instead of occurring offshore in the subduction zone, it is a shallow, strike-slip event near Kumamoto. Damage and deaths have already been reported.

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Southern Japan struck by deadly M6.8 earthquake

A reminder of the neighboring 2016 Kumamoto M7.0 earthquake

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here is the best take I have seen on what the Trump administration is doing to American science. It really is as simple as he says. www.science.org/content/blog...

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

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Catastrophic M7.5 earthquake strikes northern Venezuela

Severe damage; collapsed buildings; significant fatalities possible

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

NSF dramatically cuts science programs to fund the nascent and still undercooked bro science initiative.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/06/2026

I was struck when I corrected data for inflation and population growth. In no way is Trump policy a correction of some overreach. The Biden years were middling for science funding in the 21st century. This is retrenchment to a time before most Americans were born. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪

$A line graph titled "Cumulative NSF Funds Awarded Per Capita (2024 dollars) by Day of Fiscal Year" shows inflation-adjusted per-capita NSF funding from October to September. A color-coded legend groups lines by decade from the 1960s through the 2020s. A thick bright red line labeled "2026" runs far below all other years, reaching only about $3–4 per person by mid-June. Year-end labels on the right show FY2024 in teal at the top (around $23 per capita), FY2025 in dark red (around $17), and "1987" in green (around $15). A red dot marks the FY2027 President\'s Budget Request at roughly $11 per capita, with "1973" in gold labeled as the closest historical year-end value. "1969" in brown at the very bottom (around $5) marks the historical year most closely matching FY2026's current pace.$

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Proposed changes to federal grants are a pending disaster for US science. The linked article clearly explains why. Sorry if I come across as a Cassandra, but this is a big one. The public can comment on the proposed changes until July 13, so I think it's important to spread the word.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hello fellow scientists, I see a lot of conversation about this document, encourage you to read it, and would like to reinforce that it is open for Public Comment until July 13. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So after archiving the Earth Science postdoc program, we have the following half-baked, brand-new bro 'science' solicitation. It appears to have been posted before they were done writing it (see screen cap in comment). Just embarrassing - I don't know NSF ever recovers from this.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“What will happen is that NSF will essentially become a pass-through for implementing things in the domain of sciences and technology that the administration just wants to do,” said Stassun, the Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics at Vanderbilt University.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Everyone on the National Science Board, which advises NSF, has apparently been fired. Also, NSF currently has no director (just someone who is "acting"). Who is actually overseeing NSF now, and what is the endgame? democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Watching the splashdown and the astronauts being helped out of the capsule, it's like I'm five years old again.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Did you feel last night’s M4.6 earthquake in the Bay Area? If so, you’re not alone: more than 32,000 people have reported it so far. We explore the geology to try to figure out what fault ruptured, and what to expect. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m46-earthq... ⚒️ 🧪

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M4.6 earthquake strikes south of Bay Area

More than 32,000 people report shaking

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The M 9.1 Tohoku Japan earthquake was 15 years ago today. I had never seen this footage from the Sendai Airport until just now. It shows both the quake (eternal violent shaking) and the tsunami. There really are no words to convey how traumatic this must have been to those who experienced it.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

More geophysics fun at Carrizo Plain! This GPS station behind the visitor center had good signage on the basics of why & how GPS is used for measuring the station's precise position, to measure movement along the san andreas fault. Would have been better if they'd linked to the data, tho.

Photo of monitoring station from a different point of view, looking towards the San Andreas fault that runs along the base of the mountain range in the distance. The visitor center building is visible near the station.

Photo of educational sign: Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) to Study Fault Slip and Earthquakes

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I'm an earthquake scientist - really. I just keep posting Kilauea and mud volcanoes because the camera loves them! Episode 42 began just a few hours ago. volcanoes.usgs.gov/hans-public/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

YouTube video by USGS

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This NYT article discusses the busy earthquake swarm in San Ramon from the perspective of scientists and residents. It's pretty good! One quibble - the display of old equipment is not in Annemarie's office, it's in a hallway near the building entrance. Ungated link: archive.ph/J2Jcg

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I did not know that mud volcanoes did this. Wow!

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Just to be crystal clear, Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good and the US federal government is spreading lies about what happened.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Kilauea is at it again! Hopefully replacement Camera 3 won't be destroyed like its predecessor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

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[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

YouTube video by USGS

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I can only hope that this will be slow-walked until after the midterms. US science greatness has already been ceded to other countries, but maybe it will return in my lifetime if we get these parasites out of office.

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦

Photos of the 14 victims of the Montreal massacre:

Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte

and the rooms where they were killed.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This is a perfect allegory for what he's doing to the US Government and to our nation as a whole.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We needed a brass band like this on El Camino! 😍🎺

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings rally along El Camino Real in Mountain View CA.

Dangerous antifa boomer scaring the community with her rabble-rousing sign. No Kings rally, Mountain View CA Oct 18, 2025.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

1. A junior high school geology teacher, Steve Carlson. Yes, he arranged things so he taught mineralogy and geology to 7th and 8th graders and took us on field trips. In 8th grade I was his TA! (1/3)

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Using measurements of tsunami waves (two kinds) to infer source area and slip for Kamchatka earthquake. ❤️

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 18/09/2025

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Found the Tacoma USGS office.

Painted rocks in Tacoma's Proctor n'hood

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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Never gets old does it? ⚒️🧪🌋 Kilauea is at it again! Live webcam: www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Screenshot of live webcam of Kilauea eruption

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