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Nate Stevens

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Seismologist with a side of glacier mechanics | Geo-Badger PhD | PA transplant to the PNW | Dad (human & cat) | Bike commuter | Amateur photographer | Occasional forager | Thoughts are my own

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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Charmed to have SSA put the spotlight on me an my colleagues’ work, near and far!
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
icebergs in a glacial lake
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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Tiktaalik Copic Markers and colored pencil on Schoellershammer paper 11.8″ x 8.3″ (30 x 21 cm) www.esthervanhulsen.com #paleoart #SciArt #paleoillustration #animalart
Image of Tiktaalik swimming towards the viewer in murky water. Its mouth is open, showing rows of tiny teeth. It appears to be smiling
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alexandra @maniacalstar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.
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Journey to the Moon - NASA
Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This seems really handy!
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
First all grain brew in a long while. Saison in the works.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs ictnews.org/news/iditaro...
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IDITAROD 2026: A musher on a mission - ICT
Jody Potts-Joseph wants to encourage young Alaska Natives to travel the way of the ancestors
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A great pair of post doc opportunities in cryoseismology working with a top-notch scientist and human! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31560 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31559
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Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/College of Engineering
Job #AJO31560, Postdoctoral Associate, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Proud to have helped in a small way with this amazing study peering under the ice and back in time!
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I know Jack in the Box is a thing out here, but I honestly freeze every time I think to go. What’re the gems on (and off?) menu?
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Having just experienced transit in 15 North American cities over the past 7 weeks I can attest that at lot of transit agencies are leaving so much money on the table by not making merch out of this stuff.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild. Whitetail deer Tui Reindeer Sandhill crane Weddell seal
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
One of my favorite bike lane protests: 1) Clearly demonstrates the issue 2) Proposes a systemic solution 3) Creates content that can be spread and shared easily 4) Does so with humor and heart
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Good news!! The deadline to apply for this job has been extended to November 24. 🗓️ Get your applications in soon!
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Whose ear do I need to start bending to deal with the storm water ponding issues in the Seattle bike lanes?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
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This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Another unnecessary blow to public safety for the whole pacific 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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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com
xckd coming of a flowchart. The top reads "someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen?" A diamond-shape says "start" and one arrow leads to a box reading "NO" in very large letters, followed by "(there are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever DOES figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world's seismologists will not shut up about it. You won't need this flowchart."
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 08/11/2025
You can check if your ballot is valid here or if you need to fix it here. Most of the issues are related to a lack of signature or the signature being different than that on your driver's license: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
There’s your thunder on seismics, for the Seattle-area interested! Station UW.BRKS pnsn.org/seismogram/c...
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Want to play a role in making sure Katie wins? Sign up at the following link to help our team - make sure that every vote gets counted. docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
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Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson
Fills this form out if you want to help ballot chase!
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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 01/11/2025
Excellent thread
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Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
PNAS: Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth via our NSF COLDEX & US Antarctic Program. ❄️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Machine learning in my field: -does this wiggle match approximately wiggle from a known earthquake or is it from some other source? -does this receiver function meet a particular set of "good" receiver functions? Basically an advanced form of template matching.
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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A free, open-source piece of software, SeismicUnixGui, helps introduce interns to active-source seismology. Find out more in #SRL ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports #SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores! MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The.  Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
UCalgary is awesome! Check out these opportunities, Geo Sky! ⚒️ 🧪
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication. Here’s the column they wouldn't run. Please consider writing: barnes@dailymemphian.com mcashiola@dailymemphian.com Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
Poster showing various animals and their yeetability rating. For full rating, see the link in the reply. Intro text reads:

POCKET GUIDE TO RESPONSIBLE & SUSTAINABLE ANIMAL YEETING
by franzanth

In this context, YEETING is defined as the act of throwing a “projectile” at a slightly upward angle with low initial velocity. The goal here is relocation, not destruction. Therefore, YEETING is ideally performed toward soft surfaces like leaves to minimize downward acceleration that might result in said projectile's discomfort.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!
a brass bell shaped fire cover with a handle worked with pretty flowers
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Julie Elliott @julieelliott.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys is hiring a volcanologist who would work with the Alaska Volcano Observatory. A fantastic opportunity to work with great people and study very active volcanoes. Details in link below. Applications close on Oct. 1. ⚒️🌋🧪 bit.ly/3IkqN9n
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Job Bulletin
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amb @amb.fyi · 10/09/2025
This is deeply charming, and at a moment in which the rest of the internet feels full of dread and misery, you might need this little pick me up in which the next mayor of Seattle describes herself as “dumpy” and goes to Goodwill for a new wardrobe
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Please more transparency like this.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a canva graphic that says "How it works Step 1:  Go to SkypeAScientist.com
Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Scientist
              Sign Up Form”
Step 3: Tell us about yourself
Step 4: Get matched with a classroom
Step 5: Connect with the teacher
Step 6: Make a kid’s day 
isn't that great?
@SkypeAScientist"
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Nate Stevens @ntstevens.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A peek behind the curtain for ongoing analyses of the recent Mount Rainier seismic swarm by @pnsn1.bsky.social in partnership with the USGS CVO. …with a little nod to overtime 😂 www.pnsn.org/blog/2025/07...
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Mount Rainier earthquake swarm of July, 2025 | Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Since people are still doing it and I'm going to have time to kill until I figure out what to for the rest of a chaotic week that promises to have lots of little pockets of down time: 1 like = 1 opinion about subducting slabs.
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Free Rider Myth – Who Really Pays for the Roads? momentummag.com/free-rider-m...
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The Free Rider Myth - Who Really Pays for the Roads?
The idea that people riding bikes don't pay for the roads is pervasive, and completely untrue.
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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Fresh from the press, so to speak, a result of our #tsunami model based on the specifics of this earthquake (we will update it one we have more model runs). The color code is wave height in metres. The dotted line in the centre of the picture is the Hawaiian island chain.
Modelling results for the #Kamchatka tsunami from July 30, 2025. Pacific ocean in dark blue, red and yellow colors show the wave heights. In grey, the land masses of Eurasia (upper left), Australia (lower left) and the Americas (right).
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TJones (Formerly FightFor46) moving 🦋 @thundxrcloud.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Full video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/07/2025
A TSUNAMI ADVISORY has now been issued for Washington state. If you are on the coast, stay OUT OF THE WATER & AWAY FROM THE SHORE, which includes HARBORS and MARINAS due to strong currents & dangerous waves. Details here: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/... #wawx
Color graphic of the coastline of Washington State on the right with gray circles of seismic waves approaching from the left across the blue ocean. Black text on an orange background reads “There is a tsunami advisory for Washington State. Stay out of the water and away from the shore, including harbors and marinas. Dangerous waves and currents expected. More information at tsunami.gov.”
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/07/2025
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
On 7/8/25, the USGS & PNSN detected a swarm of earthquakes at Mount Rainier starting at 1:29AM PDT. Currently, there is no indication that the level of activity is cause for concern, alert level & color code for Mount Rainier remain at GREEN/NORMAL. CVO Statement: volcanoes.usgs.gov/hans-public/...
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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Introduction to the Special Section on Improving Measurements of Earthquake Source Parameters #BSSA ⚒️ Six years ago today, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Southern California town of Ridgecrest on the heels of a magnitude 6.4 foreshock that occurred two days prior. (1/n)
Schematic of earthquake source parameters. (a) Ideal, theoretical Brune (1970) source displacement spectra, for two magnitudes (3 and 5), two spectral stress drops (2 and 10 MPa), and K_0 of 0.03 s. Credit: Baltay et al., 2025, BSSA
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/06/2025
After 10 hours of debate, “vote-a-rama” (when senators can propose endless changes to a bill that their colleagues then need to vote on) will begin. Submit your ideas for amendments so Democrats can delay for as long as possible with a record-breaking vote-a-rama. 👇
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Propose an Amendment To Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill
Senate Republicans want to vote on their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching reconciliation bill this weekend, and that means a “vote-a-rama,” when senators can propose endless changes that their...
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Thomas Zauner @thomaszauner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Please enjoy this table of possible future scenarios from a 1990s paper in a peer-reviewed journal on how to deal with nuclear waste storage in underground repositories in New Mexico. I found it while doing research for an article on nuclear waste storage. "WIPP" means "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant".
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
PRELIM Earthquake: M3.1, 44.0 km NNE from Okanogan, WA at 2025/04/12 18:46 PDT www.pnsn.org/event/62082792 Did You Feel It?: zpr.io/h6MKdAkzQDkX
Map with a star marker for the magnitude 3.1 earthquake located 44.0 km NNE from Okanogan, WA
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