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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Awesome! Lmk when you’re back, I’d love to chat!

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On this topic: I’m currently hunting for scientists in this realm who are willing to let me tag along for field/lab work next year. Are you breaking down plate tectonics? Mantle dynamics? Hot spot volcanism? Those giant blobs near the core? Diamonds, ophiolites, xenoliths or other things! Hit me up!

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BIG NEWS! I’m writing a book about the amazing processes of the deep Earth that shaped the surface as we know it. We’ll venture from the crust to the core, examining the surprising links that connect us to Earth’s deepest reaches. I’m so excited to dig in! ⚒️🧪🪨🌎🌋

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WORKS: THE HIDDEN MACHINE BENEATH OUR FEET, an adventure into the 12 geological processes that have turned this planet from a ball of rock into the most dynamic self-regulating system in the known universe, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, at auction, by Becky Sweren at Aevitas Creative Management (NA). Rights also to Sarah Rigby at Elliott & Thompson (UK). Rights:
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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So excited to share that I served as a subject matter expert for Crash Course's new Geology series! Helping lay out & shape these 25 episodes with an incredible team (and host Sage!) was a dream. 16 episodes are live right now—check them out! 🌋🪨⚒️🧪 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The host sage is show attempting to break a bundle of spaghetti in demonstrating earthquake magnitude

The host is show in black and white in film noir style, complete with stacks of paper, bankers lamp, a hat, and trench coat

The host is shown talking to a rock with googley eyes attached

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oooh awesome, thank you! It's helpful to see where it is (but also to know I wasn't just overlooking it on the page). I found some names said in lectures that scientists/teachers posted to YouTube... but for a few I'm just going to have to tell the host to make their best guess 😅

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hrmm that was where I went first and couldn’t find any guides. Am I just overlooking it? There is so much info on the mindat pages that’s entirely possible 🤦‍♀️ however, I was starting to think maybe the minerals I was looking for are too new or rare? For example: www.mindat.org/min-46637.html

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Haha thank you for that! I've spent the majority of the day stressing about offending mineralogists with my interpretations of how these minerals are named. For the last hour, I've been down a rabbit hole about where to put the emphasis in decagonite. 😂

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ooof, I'm starting to realize what a challenge this is going to be!

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Mineralogists out there - Help!! I'm writing a script for SciShow that has a ton of names of otherworldly minerals (things like Elaliite, Panguite, Changesite-Y) and I need to include a guide for pronunciations. I can't find any good sourcing online. Any suggestions on where to find this?? ⚒️🧪

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Diving into Aesthetic Space

ALT: Diving into Aesthetic Space

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Absolutely devastating story about a gene-editing trial that killed a 6-year-old girl in China. A Nature paper from the researchers glossed over the death, and the researchers responsible have fallen silent in the family's demands to take accountability. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sorry, I've been MIA. I've been a little preoccupied :) We're equal parts exhausted and enthralled with a new tiny human. She's full of spice, and I love her more than I knew I could. There will be more from me soon — I have new projects on the horizon that I can't wait to share with you!

Image of three hands holding one another. The smallest is an infant's tiny hand (you can also see the pink sleeve of her sweater). The mom's hand is cupped around the baby's, and the father's hand is cupped around both of the other two.

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

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U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow

Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Kīlauea episode 35 has arrived. The double fountain shot is from one of the HVO interns, Christina. All are taken from the public viewing areas.

Two lava fountains at night feeding a flow

A bright orange lava fountain with glowing clouds.

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🧪⚒️ Have you seen our latest paper in Journal of Anatomy? We trace the origin of air sacs in pterosaurs back to their Triassic forerunners. Using micro-CT on the pterosauromorph Venetoraptor, we show invasive air sacs were in place before true pterosaurs.

Artistic life reconstruction of the Triassic pterosauromorph Venetoraptor perched on a tree branch, holding a small reptile in its jaws. The animal has a long tail, slender body, and feather-like body covering, set against a forested background.

Micro-CT images of Venetoraptor vertebrae showing external morphology and internal pneumatic structures. Multiple views highlight pneumatic foramina and internal chambers, with a skeletal silhouette indicating vertebral positions and diagrams illustrating cross-sections.

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Question for geologists studying zircons: I remember hearing that zircons are sometimes picked using a brush that has a single hair. But I can't find where I noted this in my interviews. Can anyone verify that this is a real scientific practice or am I just crazy?? ⚒️🧪🙏

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Elon Musk's DOGE has spent the last several months dismantling the departments & agencies that regulate HIS businesses. Our report found that Musk has a direct business interest in over 70% of the agencies & departments DOGE targeted. The conflicts of interest are endless.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@aaup.bsky.social is leading the fight against the attacks of the Trump/Musk administration against science and free speech at Universities. if you are a faculty member, join them! I joined @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social in April! www.aaup.org

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Go for the science, stay for the worm BBQ. This is incredible!

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

**BIG NEWS in the geology world!** For the first time, scientists spotted an active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge!! They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪 My latest for @nytimes.com

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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article)

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Awe, thank you so much! I’m so glad she loves it. She sounds like a gal after my own heart — a large portion of my first rock collection was most definitely gravel! Let her know I approve of her methods 😅

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Oh! That makes sense. I think Dan Fornari (who is the second author on this study) was the one who i heard the term from while reporting the story 😅

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Shirley Siluk @ebishirl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It break my heart after reading a story like this today - such cool, exciting NSF research, and it's going to be lost. The world will be a much poorer place for it. Just imagine having fewer stories like this to read in the years to come: bsky.app/profile/maya...

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It is! Idk why it makes me chuckle. One of the researchers mentioned the term and I failed to work it in. Next time I guess! Haha

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I will never get over the term “worm barbecue” hahaha. I now need to write sometime that includes that precise phrase 😅

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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article)

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This short story packs in a lot: Conflicts over oil/gas drilling near sacred lands, debates about genetics and the US legal system, genetic research's dark past/exploitation of indigenous peoples, and the smallest Pueblo tribe fighting to get their voices heard. My latest for @science.org

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DNA traces Picuris Pueblo Tribe’s ancient ancestral ties to Chaco Canyon

The project could bolster tribal land rights and serve as a model for partnership between scientists and Indigenous communities

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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DNA traces Picuris Pueblo Tribe’s ancient ancestral ties to Chaco Canyon

The project could bolster tribal land rights and serve as a model for partnership between scientists and Indigenous communities

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Oooh interesting. That seems to be a third way to say it?! That's definitely not the same as May-fic and the alternate I had heard previously was more of a long a as if you were yelling "ahhh," so Mah-fic.

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Oh that's interesting! I was starting to think Mah-fic was a British pronunciation.

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Haha yeah, I hadn't either until recently. I guess there some tomato -- tom-ah-to going on here!

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I have a silly question — I've always pronounced Mafic like MAY-Fic, with the first part like the month MAY (As far as I can remember, all of my geo professors said it this way too?!) But I just saw that the Cambridge dictionary has the correct pronunciation as MAH-fic. Which way is right?? ⚒️

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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Are you planning to travel this year? Dreaming of the Caribbean? Sipping wine in Italy? Venturing around New Zealand? All these places (and many more tourist hotspots) are at risk of earthquakes. Check out my latest for @nytimes.com for tips on staying safe 🧪 ⚒️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/t...

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How to Stay Safe if You’re Traveling and an Earthquake Strikes

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 08/04/2025

Fellow intrepid travelers to earthquake places @mayaweihaas.bsky.social has ideas for readiness. It was fun share with her how I think about it. 🧪🥾 #travel #earthquake #adventure

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

What do you do if you’re in another country and you feel an earthquake? This concise, timely article from @mayaweihaas.bsky.social gives advice on how to be prepared for earthquakes when traveling. TL:DR - know before you go. ⚒️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/t...

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How to Stay Safe if You’re Traveling and an Earthquake Strikes

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Morgan Moschetti @morganmp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Even if you don’t live in “earthquake country,” the places you travel to for work or fun may have earthquake hazards. Learn more here…

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